arXiv Machine Learning

Chain-of-Thought Shows the Path to a Tree: Realizing Branching Complexity

arXiv:2608. 11716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain of Thought (CoT) lifts the expressive ceiling of bounded-depth Transformers, with characterizations tying the number of CoT steps to circuit complexity classes.

arXiv AI
Jun 19

Efficiently Representing Algorithms With Chain-of-Thought Transformers

arXiv:2606. 19697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing popularity of \emph{reasoning} models -- language models that output a series of reasoning or thought tokens before producing an answer -- is justified, in part, by theoretical results showing that chain-of-thought (CoT) transformers can simulate Turing machines, and thus perform arbitrary computation.

By Yanhong Li, Anej Svete, Ashish Sabharwal, William Merrill
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Compact Geometric Representations of Hierarchies

arXiv:2606. 18520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computing geometric representations of data is a cornerstone of modern machine learning, typically achieved by training dual encoders which map queries and documents into a shared embedding space.

By Prashant Gokhale, Piotr Indyk, Yuhao Liu, Sandeep Silwal, Tony Chang Wang, Haike Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Instruction Set and Language for Hypergraphs

arXiv:2607. 10194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present IsalHG, a method for representing the structure of any finite, connected hypergraph of bounded hyperedge arity as a string over a compact instruction alphabet $\Sigma_{\mathrm{HG}}$.

By Mario Pascual-Gonzalez, Ezequiel Lopez-Rubio
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

Separating quantum circuits from classical LLMs

Modern large language models - transformers and diffusion language models - are built around two canonical algorithmic tasks: prediction and generation. We prove unconditional separations between low-depth quantum computation and the corresponding bounded-resource classical language-model architectures in both regimes.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Why Are Linear RNNs More Parallelizable?

arXiv:2603. 03612v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The community is increasingly exploring linear RNNs (LRNNs) as language models, motivated by their expressive power and parallelizability.

By William Merrill, Hongjian Jiang, Yanhong Li, Anthony Lin, Ashish Sabharwal
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Higher-Order Token Interactions via Quantum Attention

arXiv:2606. 11673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard dot-product self-attention computes, in a single layer, only pairwise (order-2) interactions between tokens; representing a generic order-$k$ interaction is known to require either super-quadratic resources in one layer or composition across depth.

By Jian Xu, Chao Li, Delu Zeng, John Paisley, Qibin Zhao
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Cost Accounting for Reactive Computational Graphs: Exhaustive Sweeps, Sequential Mutation, and the Backward-Locality Gap

arXiv:2607. 18323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exhaustive site-by-site interventions on a neural network's computational graph -- activation-patching sweeps, circuit-discovery searches, systematic ablation studies -- mutate the graph at every candidate site, and their cost is dominated by recomputation after each mutation.

By Abdallah Khemais (ISITCOM, University of Sousse)