Fractal Structures Emerge When Training Recurrent Transformers on Hard Tasks

A discussion revisits dynamical-systems approaches to combinatorial optimization linking problem hardness to transient chaos, while researcher wgilpin0 shows that training generic recurrent Transformers on any hard discrete task universally produces fractal structures.

2026-09-24 ~ 2026-09-24 · 2 related posts

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