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Transformer Heads Looking for Order

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 22, 2026 · UTC

In this note, we show that the problem of checking, whether a sequence of bits is ordered, is not doable by 1-head 1-layer transformers but is doable by a 2-head 1-layer transformer. Unlike similar previous results, our results assume the model where transformers have an output MLP.

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First collected: 2026-09-23T04:21:13.910Z. This is not the publication date.