3 papers
cs.AI2025
Mechanisms of Symbol Processing for In-Context Learning in Transformer Networks
Paul Smolensky, Roland Fernandez, Zhenghao Herbert Zhou +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive abilities in symbol processing through in-context learning (ICL). This success flies in the face of decades of critiques a…
cs.LG2025
TRA: Better Length Generalisation with Threshold Relative Attention
Mattia Opper, Roland Fernandez, Paul Smolensky +1
Transformers struggle with length generalisation, displaying poor performance even on basic tasks. We test whether these limitations can be explained through two key failures of th…
cs.AI2024
Compositional Generalization Across Distributional Shifts with Sparse Tree Operations
Paul Soulos, Henry Conklin, Mattia Opper +3
Neural networks continue to struggle with compositional generalization, and this issue is exacerbated by a lack of massive pre-training. One successful approach for developing neur…