An Optimal Control Approach To Transformer Training

arXiv:2603.09571 · cs.LG, math.OC · Submitted 2026-03-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, math.OC

Submitted: 2026-03-10

Updated: 2026-10-21

Terminology

• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Markov Decision Process (MDP) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Structural Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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