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Yue M. Lu

7 accepted papers

2026

High-Dimensional Analysis of Single-Layer Attention for Sparse-Token Classification

ICLR 2026poster

When and how can an attention mechanism learn to selectively attend to informative tokens, thereby enabling detection of weak, rare, and sparsely located features? We address these questions theoretically in a sparse-token classification model in which positive samples embed a weak signal vector in…

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2026

Pretrain–Test Task Alignment Governs Generalization in In-Context Learning

ICLR 2026poster

In-context learning (ICL) is a central capability of Transformer models, but the structures in data that enable its emergence and govern its robustness remain poorly understood. In this work, we study how the structure of pretraining tasks governs generalization in ICL. Using a solvable model for IC…

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2016

Prosparse denoise: Prony's based sparse pattern recovery in the presence of noise

ICASSP 2016accepted

We present a novel algorithm - ProSparse Denoise - that can solve the sparsity recovery problem in the presence of noise when the dictionary is the union of Fourier and identity matrices. The algorithm is based on a proper use of Cadzow routine and Prony's method and exploits the duality of Fourier…

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