Characterizing the Expressivity of Fixed-Precision Transformer Language Models

NeurIPSSpotlight2025

Authors
Jiaoda Li, Ryan Cotterell
Venue
NeurIPS 2025
Track
Spotlight

TL;DR

Transformer-based language models (LMs) have achieved widespread empirical success, but their theoretical expressive power remains only partially understood…

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Topics

language model transformer

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