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Neural Networks Learn Generic Multi-Index Models Near Information-Theoretic Limit

Bohan Zhang, Zihao Wang, Hengyu Fu +1

In deep learning, a central issue is to understand how neural networks efficiently learn high-dimensional features. To this end, we explore the gradient descent learning of a gener…

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Quantitative Bounds for Length Generalization in Transformers

Zachary Izzo, Eshaan Nichani, Jason D. Lee

We study the problem of length generalization (LG) in transformers: the ability of a model trained on shorter sequences to maintain performance when evaluated on much longer, previ…

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On the Statistical Query Complexity of Learning Semiautomata: a Random Walk Approach

George Giapitzakis, Kimon Fountoulakis, Eshaan Nichani +1

Semiautomata form a rich class of sequence-processing algorithms with applications in natural language processing, robotics, computational biology, and data mining. We establish th…

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Learning Compositional Functions with Transformers from Easy-to-Hard Data

Zixuan Wang, Eshaan Nichani, Alberto Bietti +4

Transformer-based language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a range of complex reasoning tasks. Prior theoretical work exploring the expressive power of tran…

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Emergence and scaling laws in SGD learning of shallow neural networks

Yunwei Ren, Eshaan Nichani, Denny Wu +1

We study the complexity of online stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for learning a two-layer neural network with neurons on isotropic Gaussian data: $f_*(\boldsymbol{x}) = \sum…