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Patrick Lutz

3 accepted papers

2026

Symmetry Reveals the In-Context Classifier: Transformers Implement Mean-Shift Dynamics

ICML 2026spotlight

Transformers can perform in-context classification from a few labeled examples, yet the inference-time algorithm remains opaque. We study multi-class linear classification in the hard no-margin regime and make the computation identifiable by enforcing feature- and label-permutation equivariance at e…

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2025

Linear Transformers Implicitly Discover Unified Numerical Algorithms

NeurIPS 2025poster

A transformer is merely a stack of learned data–to–data maps—yet those maps can hide rich algorithms. We train a linear, attention-only transformer on millions of masked-block completion tasks: each prompt is a masked low-rank matrix whose missing block may be (i) a scalar prediction target or (ii)…

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