On the Trade-off Between Information Loss and Generalization in Sparse Attention

arXiv:2610.04424 · cs.LG, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-10-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-10-03

Updated: 2026-10-03

Terminology

• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
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