Lost in Tokenization: Fundamental Trade-offs in Graph Tokenization for Transformers

arXiv:2605.22471 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-05-21

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Tokenization — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Related papers

• Polynomial-Augmented Neural Networks (PANNs) with Weak Orthogonality Constraints for Enhanced Function and PDE Approximation
• AIRL-S: Unifying Reinforcement Learning and Search-Based Test-Time Scaling via Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning
• Transformers as Bayesian In-Context Experimenters: Smoothness-Adaptive Efficient ATE Estimation
• Convergence issues in Relational Concept Analysis based on AOC-posets
• Beliefs Beyond Posteriors: The Predictive Cost of ELBO Binding
• Understanding Diffusion Models via Ratio-Based Function Approximation with SignReLU Networks