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The Initialization Determines Whether In-Context Learning Is Gradient Descent

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Main Authors:	Xie, Shifeng, Yuan, Rui, Rossi, Simone, Hannagan, Thomas
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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