arXiv AI By Valeria Ruscio, Umberto Nanni, Fabrizio Silvestri

Where does Absolute Position come from in decoder-only Transformers?

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arXiv:2606. 06160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RoPE-trained transformers distinguish absolute position in their attention patterns, even though RoPE encodes only relative offsets in the inner product.

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A Controlled Study of Attention-Only Transformers

arXiv:2607. 18363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feed-forward networks hold two thirds of a transformer's non-embedding parameters, yet the architecture has not received a necessity test that controls parameters, compute, and depth at once.

By Henry Ndubuaku, Karen Mosoyan, Jakub Mroz, Noah Cylich, Satyajit Kumar, Parkirat Sandhu, Roman Shemet, Justin H Lee