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Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe

As of 7 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 37 of 37 outbound references and 5 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.09628.

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This paper cites Clustering in pure-attention hardmax transformers and its role in sentiment analysis.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Clustering in pure-attention hardmax transformers and its role in sentiment analysis

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This paper cites Why do LLMs attend to the first token?.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Why do LLMs attend to the first token?

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Observation 8de2b951-47f2-426e-a1ed-49426cd7aad4 · outbound

This paper cites What Does BERT Look At? An Analysis of BERT's Attention.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe What Does BERT Look At? An Analysis of BERT's Attention

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This paper cites Quantitative Clustering in Mean-Field Transformer Models.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Quantitative Clustering in Mean-Field Transformer Models

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This paper cites Geometric Dynamics of Signal Propagation Predict Trainability of Transformers.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Geometric Dynamics of Signal Propagation Predict Trainability of Transformers

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This paper cites Synchronization on circles and spheres with non- linear interactions.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Synchronization on circles and spheres with non- linear interactions

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This paper cites Setting the Record Straight on Transformer Oversmoothing.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Setting the Record Straight on Transformer Oversmoothing

Reference 13

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This paper cites HashAttention: Semantic Sparsity for Faster Inference.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe HashAttention: Semantic Sparsity for Faster Inference

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This paper cites Large-time asymptotics in deep learning.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Large-time asymptotics in deep learning

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This paper cites Dynamic metastability in the self-attention model.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Dynamic metastability in the self-attention model

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This paper cites When Attention Sink Emerges in Language Models: An Empirical View.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe When Attention Sink Emerges in Language Models: An Empirical View

Reference 19

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This paper cites Measure-to-measure interpolation using Transformers.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Measure-to-measure interpolation using Transformers

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Observation 8d0bf044-d43e-460e-b9cd-56f0bcf44e83 · outbound

This paper cites On the num- ber of modes of Gaussian kernel density estimators.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe On the num- ber of modes of Gaussian kernel density estimators

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This paper cites OT-Transformer: A Continuous-time Transformer Architecture with Optimal Transport Regularization.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe OT-Transformer: A Continuous-time Transformer Architecture with Optimal Transport Regularization

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This paper cites Convergence Rate of Frank-Wolfe for Non-Convex Objectives.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Convergence Rate of Frank-Wolfe for Non-Convex Objectives

Reference 24

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This paper cites The Sparse Frontier: Sparse Attention Trade-offs in Transformer LLMs.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe The Sparse Frontier: Sparse Attention Trade-offs in Transformer LLMs

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This paper cites Revisiting Over-smoothing in BERT from the Perspective of Graph.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Revisiting Over-smoothing in BERT from the Perspective of Graph

Reference 29

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This paper cites Exploiting Sparsity for Long Context Inference: Million Token Contexts on Commodity GPUs.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Exploiting Sparsity for Long Context Inference: Million Token Contexts on Commodity GPUs

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This paper cites Prefixing Attention Sinks can Mitigate Activation Outliers for Large Language Model Quantization.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Prefixing Attention Sinks can Mitigate Activation Outliers for Large Language Model Quantization

Reference 31

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This paper cites Solutions of stationary McKean-Vlasov equation on a high-dimensional sphere and other Riemannian manifolds.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Solutions of stationary McKean-Vlasov equation on a high-dimensional sphere and other Riemannian manifolds

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This paper cites Residual connections and normalization can provably pre- vent oversmoothing in gnns.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Residual connections and normalization can provably pre- vent oversmoothing in gnns

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This paper cites Recurrent self-attention dy- namics: An energy-agnostic perspective from Jacobians.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Recurrent self-attention dy- namics: An energy-agnostic perspective from Jacobians

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This paper cites Transformer-based Causal Language Models Perform Clustering.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Transformer-based Causal Language Models Perform Clustering

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This paper cites Learning Gaussian Mixture Models via Transformer Mea- sure Flows.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Learning Gaussian Mixture Models via Transformer Mea- sure Flows

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Observation 371ea7a7-c3d8-4c64-9fd8-d0eb67aa8408 · outbound

This paper cites Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting In LoRA via Mean-Field Attention Dynamics.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting In LoRA via Mean-Field Attention Dynamics

Reference 1973

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This paper cites Finding Clustering Algorithms in the Transformer Architecture.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Finding Clustering Algorithms in the Transformer Architecture

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This paper cites Two failure modes of deep transformers and how to avoid them: a unified theory of signal propagation at initialisation.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Two failure modes of deep transformers and how to avoid them: a unified theory of signal propagation at initialisation

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This paper cites Self-attention Networks Localize When QK-eigenspectrum Concentrates.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Self-attention Networks Localize When QK-eigenspectrum Concentrates

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Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Synchronization of mean-field models on the circle

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This paper cites Towards understanding how attention mechanism works in deep learning.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Towards understanding how attention mechanism works in deep learning

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This paper cites The Geometry of Tokens in Internal Representations of Large Language Models.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe The Geometry of Tokens in Internal Representations of Large Language Models

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Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Understanding and Improving Transformer From a Multi-Particle Dynamic System Point of View

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Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Continuum attention for neural operators

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Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe DeepSeekMoE: Towards Ultimate Expert Specialization in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

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This paper cites A Unified Perspective on the Dynamics of Deep Transformers.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe A Unified Perspective on the Dynamics of Deep Transformers

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Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Only Large Weights (And Not Skip Connections) Can Prevent the Perils of Rank Collapse

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This paper cites Breaking BERT: Evaluating and Optimizing Sparsified Attention.

Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe Breaking BERT: Evaluating and Optimizing Sparsified Attention

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Physics- and geometry-aware spatio-spectral graph neural operator for time-independent and time-dependent PDEs cites this paper.

Physics- and geometry-aware spatio-spectral graph neural operator for time-independent and time-dependent PDEs Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe

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Perceptrons and localization of attention's mean-field landscape cites this paper.

Perceptrons and localization of attention's mean-field landscape Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe

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Quantifying Concentration Phenomena of Mean-Field Transformers in the Low-Temperature Regime cites this paper.

Quantifying Concentration Phenomena of Mean-Field Transformers in the Low-Temperature Regime Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe

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Propagation of Chaos in Contextual Flow Maps cites this paper.

Propagation of Chaos in Contextual Flow Maps Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe

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On the Diverse Dynamical Behaviors Arising in Deep Linear Transformers cites this paper.

On the Diverse Dynamical Behaviors Arising in Deep Linear Transformers Attention's forward pass and Frank-Wolfe

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