Allen AI researcher defends state-tracking paper: a fuller theory, not just measuring oil-water mixing
jowenpetty · x · 2026-11-04
Responding to criticism, an Allen AI researcher argues their state-tracking work goes beyond "measuring how much oil and water don't mix": it (a) provides a more complete theory of the oil-water mixture, (b) yields new proofs about where different tasks fall on the mixing spectrum, and (c) empirically validates that theory. Part of an academic thread on Transformer vs. linear RNN state-tracking capabilities.
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