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Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) have become the standard for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to their ability to encode relative positions through geometric rotation. However, we identify a significant limitation we term ''Spectral…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Kanishk Awadhiya

Traditional models of wormlike chains in shear flows at finite temperature approximate the equation of motion via finite difference discretization (bead and rod models). We introduce here a new method based on a spectral representation in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris H. Wiggins , Alberto Montesi , Matteo Pasquali

Rapidly developing machine learning methods has stimulated research interest in computationally reconstructing differential equations (DEs) from observational data which may provide additional insight into underlying causative mechanisms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mingtao Xia , Xiangting Li , Qijing Shen , Tom Chou

Neural networks trained with gradient-based methods exhibit a strong simplicity bias: they learn simpler statistical features of their data before moving to more complex features. Previous analyses of this phenomenon have largely focused on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Fabiola Ricci , Claudia Merger , Sebastian Goldt

While implicit regularization facilitates benign overfitting in low-noise regimes, recent theoretical work predicts a sharp phase transition to harmful overfitting as the noise-to-signal ratio increases. We experimentally isolate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zice Wang

Neural networks trained to solve modular arithmetic tasks exhibit grokking, a phenomenon where the test accuracy starts improving long after the model achieves 100% training accuracy in the training process. It is often taken as an example…

We discuss two solvable grokking (generalisation beyond overfitting) models in a rule learning scenario. We show that grokking is a phase transition and find exact analytic expressions for the critical exponents, grokking probability, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-28 Bojan Žunkovič , Enej Ilievski

Periodically driven quantum systems can exhibit subharmonic response, usually characterized through physical observables and often discussed in interacting settings. Here we show that a sharp subharmonic signature already appears in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Rishabh Jha

We examine learning dynamics in deep recurrent networks, focusing on the behavior near the boundary in the depth-width plane separating under- from over-parametrized networks, known as the interpolation transition. The training data are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-22 John Hertz , Joanna Tyrcha

The spiking activity of single neurons can be well described by a nonlinear integrate-and-fire model that includes somatic adaptation. When exposed to fluctuating inputs sparsely coupled populations of these model neurons exhibit stochastic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-20 Moritz Augustin , Josef Ladenbauer , Fabian Baumann , Klaus Obermayer

Positional encodings enable Transformers to incorporate sequential information, yet their theoretical understanding remains limited to two properties: distance attenuation and translation invariance. Because natural language lacks purely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zihan Gu , Ruoyu Chen , Han Zhang , Hua Zhang , Yue Hu

Deep neural networks have revolutionized machine learning, yet their training dynamics remain theoretically unclear-we develop a continuous-time, matrix-valued stochastic differential equation (SDE) framework that rigorously connects the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Brian Richard Olsen , Sam Fatehmanesh , Frank Xiao , Adarsh Kumarappan , Anirudh Gajula

In some settings neural networks exhibit a phenomenon known as \textit{grokking}, where they achieve perfect or near-perfect accuracy on the validation set long after the same performance has been achieved on the training set. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jack Miller , Charles O'Neill , Thang Bui

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a fundamental tool for training deep neural networks across a variety of tasks. In self-supervised learning, different input categories map to distinct manifolds in the embedded neural state space.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-04 Guanming Zhang , Stefano Martiniani

Autoencoders are the simplest neural network for unsupervised learning, and thus an ideal framework for studying feature learning. While a detailed understanding of the dynamics of linear autoencoders has recently been obtained, the study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-01 Maria Refinetti , Sebastian Goldt

Current sparse autoencoder (SAE) approaches to neural network interpretability assume that activations can be decomposed through linear superposition into sparse, interpretable features. Despite high reconstruction fidelity, SAEs…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 Omar Claflin

We present a mathematical and computational framework for the problem of learning a dynamical system from noisy observations of a few trajectories and subject to side information. Side information is any knowledge we might have about the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Bachir El Khadir

We study grokking, the onset of generalization long after overfitting, in a classical ridge regression setting. We prove end-to-end grokking results for learning over-parameterized linear regression models using gradient descent with weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mingyue Xu , Gal Vardi , Itay Safran

Empirical power--law scaling has been widely observed across modern deep learning systems, yet its theoretical origins and scope of validity remain incompletely understood. The Generalized Resolution--Shell Dynamics (GRSD) framework models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yizhou Zhang

Wave scattering structures with amplification and dissipation can be modelled by non-Hermitian systems, opening new ways to control waves at small length scales. In this work, we study the phenomenon of topologically protected edge states…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen