arXiv:2508. 17821v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper investigates the limitations of the normalization in attention mechanisms.
By Timur Mudarisov, Mikhail Burtsev, Tatiana Petrova, Radu State
arXiv:2607. 22781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High task performance does not show whether a model retains prediction-relevant structural information in its internal representation.
By Minwoo Yu, Young-guk Ha
arXiv:2512. 11784v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Softmax attention is a central component of transformer architectures, yet its nonlinear structure poses significant challenges for theoretical analysis.
By Etienne Boursier, Claire Boyer
arXiv:2602. 03681v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The quadratic computational complexity of softmax transformers has become a bottleneck in long-context scenarios.
By Difan Deng, Andreas Bentzen Winje, Lukas Fehring, Marius Lindauer
arXiv:2510. 13554v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The reasoning pattern of Large language models (LLMs) remains opaque, and reinforcement learning (RL) typically applies uniform credit across an entire generation, blurring the distinction between pivotal and routine steps.
By Yang Li, Zhichen Dong, Yuhan Sun, Weixun Wang, Shaopan Xiong, Yijia Luo, Jiashun Liu, Han Lu, Jiamang Wang, Wenbo Su, Bo Zheng, Junchi Yan
arXiv:2608. 09558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How expressive is prompting a transformer?
By Alexander Hsu, Rongjie Lai