Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.
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What I Read: Transformers, Variable Binding, Symbolic.
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https://variablescope.org/experiment
How Do Transformers Learn Variable Binding in Symbolic Programs?
Yiwei Wu, Atticus Geiger, Raphaël Millière
30 May 2025
“We seek to understand whether and how variable binding mechanisms might emerge in Transformer architectures in a controlled setting.”