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The universal quantum computer is a device capable of simulating any physical system and represents a major goal for the field of quantum information science. Algorithms performed on such a device are predicted to offer significant gains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 D. Hanneke , J. P. Home , J. D. Jost , J. M. Amini , D. Leibfried , D. J. Wineland

We study the sequence-to-sequence mapping capacity of transformers by relating them to finite transducers, and find that they can express surprisingly large classes of transductions. We do so using variants of RASP, a programming language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lena Strobl , Dana Angluin , David Chiang , Jonathan Rawski , Ashish Sabharwal

Detecting software vulnerabilities is critical to ensuring the security and reliability of modern computer systems. Deep neural networks have shown promising results on vulnerability detection, but they lack the capability to capture global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sameer Shaik , Zhen Huang , Daniela Stan Raicu , Jacob Furst

Determining whether a program terminates is a core challenge in program analysis with direct implications for correctness, verification, and security. We investigate whether transformer architectures can recognise termination patterns…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yoav Alon , Cristina David

The formidable accomplishment of Transformers in natural language processing has motivated the researchers in the computer vision community to build Vision Transformers. Compared with the Convolution Neural Networks (CNN), a Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tan Yu , Ping Li

We evaluated the capability of generative pre-trained transformers (GPT), to pass assessments in introductory and intermediate Python programming courses at the postsecondary level. Discussions of potential uses (e.g., exercise generation,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jaromir Savelka , Arav Agarwal , Christopher Bogart , Yifan Song , Majd Sakr

Chemputation reframes synthesis as the programmable execution of reaction code on a universally re-configurable hardware graph. Here we prove that a chemputer equipped with a finite, but extensible, set of reagents, catalysts and process…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Leroy Cronin , Sebastian Pagel , Abhishek Sharma

While transformers have proven enormously successful in a range of tasks, their fundamental properties as models of computation are not well understood. This paper contributes to the study of the expressive capacity of transformers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Lena Strobl , Dana Angluin , Robert Frank

The transfer learning toolkit wraps the codes of 17 transfer learning models and provides integrated interfaces, allowing users to use those models by calling a simple function. It is easy for primary researchers to use this toolkit and to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Fuzhen Zhuang , Keyu Duan , Tongjia Guo , Yongchun Zhu , Dongbo Xi , Zhiyuan Qi , Qing He

Transformers trained on huge text corpora exhibit a remarkable set of capabilities, e.g., performing basic arithmetic. Given the inherent compositional nature of language, one can expect the model to learn to compose these capabilities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Rahul Ramesh , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Mikail Khona , Robert P. Dick , Hidenori Tanaka

Using transformers over large generated datasets, we train models to learn mathematical properties of differential systems, such as local stability, behavior at infinity and controllability. We achieve near perfect prediction of qualitative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 François Charton , Amaury Hayat , Guillaume Lample

Transformer is the state-of-the-art model for many natural language processing, computer vision, and audio analysis problems. Transformer effectively combines information from the past input and output samples in auto-regressive manner so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

After their initial success in natural language processing, transformer architectures have rapidly gained traction in computer vision, providing state-of-the-art results for tasks such as image classification, detection, segmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Jakob Verbeek , Hervé Jégou

Transformers have achieved great success across a wide range of applications, yet the theoretical foundations underlying their success remain largely unexplored. To demystify the strong capacities of transformers applied to versatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chenyang Zhang , Qingyue Zhao , Quanquan Gu , Yuan Cao

The Universal Transformer (UT) is a variant of the Transformer that shares parameters across its layers. Empirical evidence shows that UTs have better compositional generalization than Vanilla Transformers (VTs) in formal language tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Shawn Tan , Yikang Shen , Zhenfang Chen , Aaron Courville , Chuang Gan

Simple memorizing tasks have been chosen such as a binary code on a matrix. After the establishment of an appropriate protocol, the codified matrices were individually presented to 150 university students who had to memorize them. A…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Alexandra C. Tsallis , Constantino Tsallis , Aglae C. N. de Magalhaes , Francisco A. Tamarit

Program transformation is an appealing technique which allows to improve run-time efficiency, space-consumption and more generally to optimize a given program. Essentially it consists of a sequence of syntactic program manipulations which…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-07-28 Maurizio Gabbrielli , Maria Chiara Meo , Paolo Tacchella

The Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) represents a notable breakthrough in the domain of natural language processing, which is propelling us toward the development of machines that can understand and communicate using language in a…

Transformer language models have demonstrated impressive generalization capabilities in natural language domains, yet we lack a fine-grained understanding of how such generalization arises. In this paper, we investigate length…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziyang Cai , Nayoung Lee , Avi Schwarzschild , Samet Oymak , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

A compact version of MACRO SPITBOL, a compiler/ interpreter for a variant of SNOBOL4, has been developed for use on microcomputer systems. The techniques for producing an implementation are largely automatic in order to preserve the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-08-29 Robert B. K. Dewar , Martin Charles Golumbic , Clinton F. Goss
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