Training-Induced Escape from Token Clustering in a Mean-Field Formulation of Transformers

arXiv:2605.07772 · cs.LG, math.AP, math.DS, math.OC · Submitted 2026-05-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, math.AP, math.DS, math.OC

Submitted: 2026-05-08

Updated: 2026-10-16

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• Transformers — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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