2025
Strassen Attention, Split VC Dimension and Compositionality in Transformers
Alexander Kozachinskiy, Felipe Urrutia, Hector Ignacio Jimenez Orellana, Tomasz Steifer, Germán Pizarro, Matías Daniel Fuentes Álvarez +3
NeurIPS 2025poster
We propose the first method to show theoretical limitations for one-layer softmax transformers with arbitrarily many precision bits (even infinite). We establish those limitations for three tasks that require advanced reasoning. The first task, Match 3 (Sanford et al., 2023), requires looking at al…