2025
Transformers Struggle to Learn to Search
Abulhair Saparov, Srushti Ajay Pawar, Shreyas Pimpalgaonkar, Nitish Joshi, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Vishakh Padmakumar +3
ICLR 2025poster
Search is an ability foundational in many important tasks, and recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) struggle to perform search robustly. It is unknown whether this inability is due to a lack of data, insufficient model parameters, or fundamental limitations of the transformer…