Pattern Formation in Transformers

arXiv:2609.37921 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/ehturan/pattern-formation-transformers

Terminology

• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Spectral Selection in Symmetric Self-Attention Dynamics
• Transformers Are Born Biased: Structural Inductive Biases at Random Initialization and Their Practical Consequences

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