cs.FL · 2026-08-16 · No. 86

Formal Languages and Automata Theory, 2026-08-16.

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    Algebraic Decomposition Theory for Transformer Length Generalization

    Andy Yang, Blerta Veseli, Corentin Barloy, Michaël Cadilhac, Andreas Krebs, Charles Paperman, Howard Straubing, Michael Hahn

    cs.FL · cs.AI

    Transformer-based language models are known to sometimes generalize to sequences longer than seen during training, but we lack a precise characterization of which tasks admit length generalization. It is not even known which regular languages transformers length-generalize on -- and this is a foundational class of languages. Our contributions are to establish the first complete characterization of which regular languages transformers...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.13433 · PDF

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