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Transformers are Inherently Succinct

Official Outstanding PaperLearning theory

Studies how compactly Transformers represent formal languages. The proofs compare their representation size with automata and temporal logic, while exposing the computational difficulty of model verification.

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Studies how compactly Transformers represent formal languages. The proofs compare their representation size with automata and temporal logic, while exposing the computational difficulty of model verification.

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ID: iclr-2026-transformer-succinctness · Last verified:

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