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PublishedJuly 22, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Relative Positions Generalize, Absolute Positions Memorize: An Implicit-Bias Account of Length Generalization in Attention
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arXiv:2607.18759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers with relative positional encodings often extrapolate to sequences longer than those seen during training, whereas transformers with learned absolute encodings typically do not. This is a robust empirical regularity, and the explanations of
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