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The self-attention mechanism has significantly advanced the field of natural language processing, facilitating the development of advanced language-learning machines. Although its utility is widely acknowledged, the precise mechanisms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tal Halevi , Yarden Tzach , Ronit D. Gross , Shalom Rosner , Ido Kanter

We study the ferromagnetic phase transition in a randomly layered Heisenberg magnet using large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations. Our results provide numerical evidence for the infinite-randomness scenario recently predicted within a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Fawaz Hrahsheh , Hatem Barghathi , Thomas Vojta

This paper considers random access in deadline-constrained broadcasting with frame-synchronized traffic. To enhance the maximum achievable timely delivery ratio (TDR), we define a dynamic control scheme that allows each active node to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Aoyu Gong , Lei Deng , Fang Liu , Yijin Zhang

We numerically study the entanglement dynamics of free fermions on a cubic lattice with potential disorder following a quantum quench. We focus, in particular, on the metal-insulator transition at a critical disorder strength and compare…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-20 Y. Zhao , D. Feng , Y. Hu , S. Guo , J. Sirker

A new extension of the attractive Hubbard model is constructed to study the critical behavior near a finite temperature superconducting phase transition in two dimensions using the recently developed meron-cluster algorithm. Unlike previous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Shailesh Chandrasekharan , James C. Osborn

Vision Transformers have achieved impressive performance in video classification, while suffering from the quadratic complexity caused by the Softmax attention mechanism. Some studies alleviate the computational costs by reducing the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Kaiyue Lu , Zexiang Liu , Jianyuan Wang , Weixuan Sun , Zhen Qin , Dong Li , Xuyang Shen , Hui Deng , Xiaodong Han , Yuchao Dai , Yiran Zhong

Text-to-image generation models, especially Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiT), have shown remarkable progress in generating high-quality images. However, these models often face significant computational bottlenecks, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hanling Zhang , Rundong Su , Zhihang Yuan , Pengtao Chen , Mingzhu Shen Yibo Fan , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

We employ the numerical linked-cluster expansion to study finite-temperature properties of the uniform cubic lattice Hubbard model in the thermodynamic limit for a wide range of interaction strengths and densities. We carry out the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-13 Ehsan Khatami

This paper tackles the growing issue of excessive data transmission in networks. With increasing traffic, backhaul links and core networks are under significant traffic, leading to the investigation of caching solutions at edge routers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Farnaz Niknia , Ping Wang , Zixu Wang , Aakash Agarwal , Adib S. Rezaei

Transformers and deep state space models (SSMs) sit at opposite ends of a basic design choice: attention routes each query through a growing key-value (KV) cache by content-based matching at quadratic cost, while deep SSMs compress context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Naoki Kiyohara , Harrison Bo Hua Zhu , Riccardo El Hassanin , Zhuo Sun , Wenlong Chen , Samir Bhatt , Yingzhen Li

We studied the lock-in transition of charge-density waves of one-dimensional conductors. Though this phenomenon has been known for decades, there are still discrepancies between the theories and the experiments. We focused on the pioneering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-15 Katsuhiko Inagaki , Keiji Nakatsugawa , Satoshi Tanda

In this paper, Thermofield Dynamics (TFD) is applied to map a quantum optics nonlinear master equation into a Schrodinger-like equation for any arbitrary initial condition. This formalism provides a more efficient way for solving open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Urjjarani Patel , KVS Shiv Chaitanya

Understanding whether attention mechanisms converge to the kernel regime is foundational to the validity of influence functions for transformer accountability. Exact NTK characterization of softmax attention is precluded by its exponential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jose Marie Antonio Miñoza , Paulo Mario P. Medina , Sebastian C. Ibañez

Recent papers have shown that the Frank-Wolfe algorithm (FW) with open-loop step-sizes exhibits rates of convergence faster than the iconic $\mathcal{O}(t^{-1})$ rate. In particular, when the minimizer of a strongly convex function over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Elias Wirth , Javier Pena , Sebastian Pokutta

We study theoretically the influence of the temperature and disorder on the spin wave spectrum of the magnonic crystal Fe$_{1-c}$Co$_{c}$. Our formalism is based on the analysis of a Heisenberg Hamiltonian by means of the wave vector and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-06 Sebastian Paischer , Paweł A. Buczek , Nadine Buczek , David Eilmsteiner , Arthur Ernst

Self-attention mechanisms have revolutionised deep learning architectures, yet their core mathematical structures remain incompletely understood. In this work, we develop a category-theoretic framework focusing on the linear components of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Charles O'Neill

Despite their power, Transformers face challenges with long sequences due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. To address this limitation, methods like $k$-Nearest-Neighbor ($k$NN) attention have been introduced [Roy, Saffar,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Themistoklis Haris

We explore the structures of light cone and Regge limit singularities of $n$-point Virasoro conformal blocks in $c>1$ two-dimensional conformal field theories with no chiral primaries, using fusion matrix approach. These CFTs include not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Yuya Kusuki , Masamichi Miyaji

When a learning algorithm reshapes the data distribution it trains on, the long-run behavior depends on the joint evolution of the policy, the value estimate, and the data distribution. We study finite-state actor-critic mean dynamics on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Vladyslav Prytula

The vortex dynamics in a low temperature superconductor deposited on top of a rectangular array of micrometer size permalloy triangles is investigated experimentally. The rectangular unit cell is such that neighboring triangles physically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Van de Vondel , A. V. Silhanek , V. Metlushko , P. Vavassori , B. Ilic , V. V. Moshchalkov