How Does Attention Help? Insights from Random Matrices on Signal Recovery from Sequence Models
2026-05-11T07:23:55Z•376de2ef3fd1b845a68b3adedf65c93e988d1d40b2c2128283adbab803d9edf5
Bayesian-methodsLLM-evaluationMMDPAC-learningattentioncausal-inferenceconformal-predictiondiffusion-modelsepistemic-neural-networksinstrumental-variablesitem-response-theorykernel-selectionmachine-learningmax-affinemodel-selectionneural-operatorso-minimal-structurespartial-order-inferencepiecewise-linear-regressionprobabilistic-conditioningrandom-matricessignal-recoverystatistical-learningtheorytransport-alignment
What happened
Collection of newly announced arXiv stat.ML papers (May 11, 2026) covering theoretical and methodological advances across sequence models, inference, testing, and evaluation. Highlights include: spectral analysis of pooled attention representations with random-matrix limiting spectra and BBP-type phase transitions for signal recovery; amortized conditioning via neural operators with approximation guarantees; Complexity-Penalized MMD (CP-MMD) for data-driven, grid-free kernel selection with Type-I validity; a parametric DoMA representation and ABGD algorithm for piecewise-linear regression with
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- arxiv_stat_ml
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- 376de2ef3fd1b845a68b3adedf65c93e988d1d40b2c2128283adbab803d9edf5
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- 2026-05-11T07:23:55Z
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- Yes
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