2026
Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible
Giorgos Nikolaou, Tommaso Mencattini, Donato Crisostomi, Andrea Santilli, Yannis Panagakis, Emanuele Rodolà
ICLR 2026poster
Transformer components such as non-linear activations and normalization are inherently non-injective, suggesting that different inputs could map to the same output and prevent exact recovery of the input from a model’s representations. In this paper, we challenge this view. First, we prove mathemati…