The Global Empirical NTK: Self-Referential Bias and Dimensionality of Gradient Descent Learning

arXiv:2605.08746 · cs.LG, math.DS, math.OC · Submitted 2026-05-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, math.DS, math.OC

Submitted: 2026-05-09

Updated: 2026-10-26

Terminology

• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Effective Rank — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Global Empirical Neural Tangent Kernel — 1× in this paper
• Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformers — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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