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We explore the expressive power of Transformers by establishing precise approximation error upper and lower bounds for H\"{o}lder class. Specifically, a new approximation upper bound is derived for the standard Transformer architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xin He , Yuling Jiao , Xiliang Lu , Jerry Zhijian Yang

Understanding the transformer architecture and its workings is essential for machine learning (ML) engineers. However, truly understanding the transformer architecture can be demanding, even if you have a solid background in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

This paper considers the problem of rate function identification for multidimensional queueing models with feedback. A set of techniques are introduced which allow this identification when the model possesses certain structural properties.…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Rami Atar , Paul Dupuis

Pre-trained language models represented by the Transformer have been proven to possess strong base capabilities, and the representative self-attention mechanism in the Transformer has become a classic in sequence modeling architectures.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xin Lu , Yanyan Zhao , Si Wei , Shijin Wang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Transformer architecture has widespread applications, particularly in Natural Language Processing and computer vision. Recently Transformers have been employed in various aspects of time-series analysis. This tutorial provides an overview…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sabeen Ahmed , Ian E. Nielsen , Aakash Tripathi , Shamoon Siddiqui , Ghulam Rasool , Ravi P. Ramachandran

The classical approach in finance attempts to model the term structure of interest rates using specified stochastic processes and the no arbitrage argument. Up to now, no universally accepted theory has been obtained for the description of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jean Nuyts , Isabelle Platten

The widespread 'deeper is better' philosophy has driven the creation of architectures like ResNet and Transformer, which achieve high performance by stacking numerous layers. However, increasing model depth comes with challenges such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wei Wang , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

Transformer networks have achieved remarkable empirical success across a wide range of applications, yet their theoretical expressive power remains insufficiently understood. In this paper, we study the expressive capabilities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Linyan Gu , Lihua Yang , Feng Zhou

Increasing the size of a Transformer does not always lead to enhanced performance. This phenomenon cannot be explained by the empirical scaling laws. Furthermore, the model's enhanced performance is closely associated with its memorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xueyan Niu , Bo Bai , Lei Deng , Wei Han

Image generation has been successfully cast as an autoregressive sequence generation or transformation problem. Recent work has shown that self-attention is an effective way of modeling textual sequences. In this work, we generalize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Niki Parmar , Ashish Vaswani , Jakob Uszkoreit , Łukasz Kaiser , Noam Shazeer , Alexander Ku , Dustin Tran

Sequence labeling architectures use word embeddings for capturing similarity, but suffer when handling previously unseen or rare words. We investigate character-level extensions to such models and propose a novel architecture for combining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Marek Rei , Gamal K. O. Crichton , Sampo Pyysalo

A variety of network modeling problems begin by generating a degree sequence drawn from a given probability distribution. If the randomly generated sequence is not graphic, we give a new approach for generating a graphic approximation of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Brian Cloteaux

In pursuit of faster computation, Efficient Transformers demonstrate an impressive variety of approaches -- models attaining sub-quadratic attention complexity can utilize a notion of sparsity or a low-rank approximation of inputs to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Uladzislau Yorsh , Alexander Kovalenko

The tremendous success of Transformer models in fields such as large language models and computer vision necessitates a rigorous theoretical investigation. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first work proving that standard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-25 Yanming Lai , Defeng Sun

Transformers excel at discovering patterns in sequential data, yet their fundamental limitations and learning mechanisms remain crucial topics of investigation. In this paper, we study the ability of Transformers to learn pseudo-random…

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Quantum neural networks (QNNs) are an analog of classical neural networks in the world of quantum computing, which are represented by a unitary matrix with trainable parameters. Inspired by the universal approximation property of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Ariel Neufeld , Philipp Schmocker , Viet Khoa Tran

This paper investigates approximation-theoretic aspects of the in-context learning capability of the transformers in representing a family of noisy linear dynamical systems. Our first theoretical result establishes an upper bound on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Frank Cole , Yuxuan Zhao , Yulong Lu , Tianhao Zhang

Convolutional neural networks are the most widely used type of neural networks in applications. In mathematical analysis, however, mostly fully-connected networks are studied. In this paper, we establish a connection between both network…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Philipp Petersen , Felix Voigtlaender

Transformers process tokens in parallel but are temporally shallow: at position $t$, each layer attends to key-value pairs computed based on the previous layer, yielding a depth capped by the number of layers. Recurrent models offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Costin-Andrei Oncescu , Depen Morwani , Samy Jelassi , Alexandru Meterez , Mujin Kwun , Sham Kakade

Generative AI, in particular large transformer models, are increasingly driving HPC system design in science and industry. We analyze performance characteristics of such transformer models and discuss their sensitivity to the transformer…