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Feature Resemblance: Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Analogical Reasoning in Transformers

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Main Authors:	Xu, Ruichen, Yan, Wenjing, Zhang, Ying-Jun Angela
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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