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Podcast: Arxiv Papers
Episode: What Happens During the Loss Plateau? Understanding Abrupt Learning in Transformers
Description: This study explores abrupt learning in shallow Transformers, revealing a performance plateau characterized by repetition bias and representation collapse, with attention map learning as a critical bottleneck.https://arxiv.org/abs//2506.13688YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArxivPapersTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@arxiv_papersApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arxiv-papers/id1692476016Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arxiv-papers