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On the Expressive Power of Transformers for Maxout Networks and Continuous Piecewise Linear Functions

Transformer networks have achieved remarkable empirical success across a wide range of applications, yet their theoretical expressive power remains insufficiently understood. In this paper, we study...

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  • According to Hugging Face Daily Papers: Transformer networks have achieved remarkable empirical success across a wide range of applications, yet their theoretical expressive power remains insufficiently understood. In this paper, we study the expressive capabilities of Transformer architectures. We first establish an explicit approximation of maxout networks by Transformer networks while preserving comparable model complexity. As a consequence, Transformers inherit the universal approximation capability of ReLU networks under similar
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On the Expressive Power of Transformers for Maxout Networks and Continuous Piecewise Linear Functions

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Transformer networks have achieved remarkable empirical success across a wide range of applications, yet their theoretical expressive power remains insufficiently understood. In this paper, we study...

2-Minute Brief
  • According to Hugging Face Daily Papers: Transformer networks have achieved remarkable empirical success across a wide range of applications, yet their theoretical expressive power remains insufficiently understood. In this paper, we study the expressive capabilities of Transformer architectures. We first establish an explicit approximation of maxout networks by Transformer networks while preserving comparable model complexity. As a consequence, Transformers inherit the universal approximation capability of ReLU networks under similar
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