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Transformers trained on natural language data have been shown to learn its hierarchical structure and generalize to sentences with unseen syntactic structures without explicitly encoding any structural bias. In this work, we investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kabir Ahuja , Vidhisha Balachandran , Madhur Panwar , Tianxing He , Noah A. Smith , Navin Goyal , Yulia Tsvetkov

Transformers have shown a remarkable ability for in-context learning (ICL), making predictions based on contextual examples. However, while theoretical analyses have explored this prediction capability, the nature of the inferred context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Fei Lu , Yue Yu

Graph neural networks have been extensively studied for learning with inter-connected data. Despite this, recent evidence has revealed GNNs' deficiencies related to over-squashing, heterophily, handling long-range dependencies, edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Qitian Wu , Wentao Zhao , Zenan Li , David Wipf , Junchi Yan

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and LLaMA-3 utilize the powerful in-context learning (ICL) capability of Transformer architecture to learn on the fly from limited examples. While ICL underpins many LLM applications, its full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xingxuan Zhang , Haoran Wang , Jiansheng Li , Yuan Xue , Shikai Guan , Renzhe Xu , Hao Zou , Han Yu , Peng Cui

The transformer is a neural network component that can be used to learn useful representations of sequences or sets of data-points. The transformer has driven recent advances in natural language processing, computer vision, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Richard E. Turner

Our capacity to learn representations from data is related to our ability to design filters that can leverage their coupling with the underlying domain. Graph filters are one such tool for network data and have been used in a myriad of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Bishwadeep Das , Elvin Isufi

Despite that going deep has proven successful in many neural architectures, the existing graph transformers are relatively shallow. In this work, we explore whether more layers are beneficial to graph transformers, and find that current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Haiteng Zhao , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Furu Wei

Transformers have become the dominant architecture for sequence modeling tasks such as natural language processing or audio processing, and they are now even considered for tasks that are not naturally sequential such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jorg Bornschein , Yazhe Li , Amal Rannen-Triki

Learning representations on large-sized graphs is a long-standing challenge due to the inter-dependence nature involved in massive data points. Transformers, as an emerging class of foundation encoders for graph-structured data, have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Qitian Wu , Wentao Zhao , Chenxiao Yang , Hengrui Zhang , Fan Nie , Haitian Jiang , Yatao Bian , Junchi Yan

One of the strongest signals for automated matching of knowledge graphs and ontologies are textual concept descriptions. With the rise of transformer-based language models, text comparison based on meaning (rather than lexical features) is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Sven Hertling , Jan Portisch , Heiko Paulheim

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in text understanding and have become an essential tool for building smart assistants. Originally focusing on text, they have been enhanced with multimodal capabilities in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Aaron Haag , Vlad Argatu , Oliver Lohse

Transformers demonstrate impressive performance on a range of reasoning benchmarks. To evaluate the degree to which these abilities are a result of actual reasoning, existing work has focused on developing sophisticated benchmarks for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jannik Brinkmann , Abhay Sheshadri , Victor Levoso , Paul Swoboda , Christian Bartelt

Transformer based large-language models (LLMs) display extreme proficiency with language yet a precise understanding of how they work remains elusive. One way of demystifying transformer predictions would be to describe how they depend on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Timothy Nguyen

Neural sequence models based on the transformer architecture have demonstrated remarkable \emph{in-context learning} (ICL) abilities, where they can perform new tasks when prompted with training and test examples, without any parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yu Bai , Fan Chen , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Song Mei

The success of deep learning algorithms generally depends on large-scale data, while humans appear to have inherent ability of knowledge transfer, by recognizing and applying relevant knowledge from previous learning experiences when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Junguang Jiang , Yang Shu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Understanding the inner workings of machine learning models like Transformers is vital for their safe and ethical use. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of a one-layer Transformer model trained to perform n-digit integer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Philip Quirke , Fazl Barez

Sequence modelling requires determining which past tokens are causally relevant from the context and their importance: a process inherent to the attention layers in transformers, yet whose underlying learned mechanisms remain poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Francesco D'Angelo , Nicolas Flammarion

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various natural language processing tasks. Recently, several LLMs-based pipelines have been developed to enhance learning on graphs with text attributes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kai Guo , Zewen Liu , Zhikai Chen , Hongzhi Wen , Wei Jin , Jiliang Tang , Yi Chang

Large Language Models demonstrate remarkable mathematical capabilities but at the same time struggle with abstract reasoning and planning. In this study, we explore whether Transformers can learn to abstract and generalize the rules…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mikhail Burtsev

Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered considerable interest within both academic and industrial. Yet, the application of LLMs to graph data remains under-explored. In this study, we evaluate the capabilities of four LLMs in addressing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Chang Liu , Bo Wu