VC Dimension and Expressivity of Real-Valued Transformers

arXiv:2609.31999 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• Transformer — 125× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• VC Dimension — 42× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 10× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generalization Bounds — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics — 1× in this paper
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Sample Complexity — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes

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