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Multi-layer Cross-attention is Provably Optimal for Multi-modal In-context Learning
Nicholas Barnfield, Subhabrata Sen, Pragya Sur
Recent progress has rapidly advanced our understanding of the mechanisms underlying in-context learning in modern attention-based neural networks. However, existing results focus e…
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Sharp Capacity Thresholds in Linear Associative Memory: From Top-1 Retrieval to Tail-Average Learning
Nicholas Barnfield, Juno Kim, Eshaan Nichani +2
How many key-value associations can a linear memory store? The answer depends not only on the degrees of freedom in the memory matrix, but also on the retrieval c…