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Symmetry Reveals Layerwise Dynamics: How Transformers Perform In-Context Classification

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arXiv:2604. 11613v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformers can perform in-context classification from a few labeled examples, yet the inference-time algorithm remains opaque.

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