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pith:2023:SA553PW7WULXGF76QUB2BXPHIO

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Eureka-Moments in Transformers: Multi-Step Tasks Reveal Softmax Induced Optimization Problems

David T. Hoffmann, Jelena Bratuli\'c, Nadine Behrmann, Simon Schrodi, Thomas Brox, Volker Fischer

arxiv:2310.12956 v2 · 2023-10-19 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CV

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arxiv: 2310.12956 · arxiv_version: 2310.12956v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.12956 · pith_short_12: SA553PW7WULX · pith_short_16: SA553PW7WULXGF76 · pith_short_8: SA553PW7

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SA553PW7WULXGF76QUB2BXPHIO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 903bddbedfb5177317fe8503a0dde743a17062938a06746432989c271b01a9e2

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