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| author | Candanedo, Julio |
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| contents | Transformers, diffusion-maps, and magnetic Laplacians are usually treated as separate tools; we show they are all different regimes of a single Markov geometry built from pre-softmax query-scores. We define a QK "bidivergence" whose exponentiated and normalized forms yield attention, diffusion-maps, and magnetic diffusion. And use product of experts and Schrödinger-bridges to connect and organize them into equilibrium, nonequilibrium steady-state, and driven dynamics. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | The Diffusion-Attention Connection Candanedo, Julio Machine Learning Transformers, diffusion-maps, and magnetic Laplacians are usually treated as separate tools; we show they are all different regimes of a single Markov geometry built from pre-softmax query-scores. We define a QK "bidivergence" whose exponentiated and normalized forms yield attention, diffusion-maps, and magnetic diffusion. And use product of experts and Schrödinger-bridges to connect and organize them into equilibrium, nonequilibrium steady-state, and driven dynamics. |
| title | The Diffusion-Attention Connection |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09560 |