Transformer architecture has shown impressive performance in multiple research domains
and has become the backbone of many neural network models. However, there is limited …

Attention mechanism is a central component of the transformer architecture which led to the
phenomenal success of large language models. However, the theoretical principles …

Attention layers---which map a sequence of inputs to a sequence of outputs---are core
building blocks of the Transformer architecture which has achieved significant …

In this paper, we contend that the objective of representation learning is to compress and
transform the distribution of the data, say sets of tokens, towards a mixture of low …

Prompt-tuning is an emerging strategy to adapt large language models (LLM) to
downstream tasks by learning a (soft-) prompt parameter from data. Despite its success in …

Since its inception in" Attention Is All You Need", transformer architecture has led to
revolutionary advancements in NLP. The attention layer within the transformer admits a …

Transformers have recently revolutionized many domains in modern machine learning and
one salient discovery is their remarkable in-context learning capability, where models can …

This paper provides a theoretical understanding of deep Q-Network (DQN) with the
$\varepsilon $-greedy exploration in deep reinforcement learning. Despite the tremendous …

We propose Joint MLP/Attention (JoMA) dynamics, a novel mathematical framework to
understand the training procedure of multilayer Transformer architectures. This is achieved …