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Under review as a conference paper at ICLR 2027

h+1 heads express more than h heads

Abstract

We prove the existence of the following hierarchy: for each there exists a decision problem which can be solved by a one layer transformer with heads but not with only heads. The result holds for a standard transformer architecture, which includes both attention and feed-forward blocks.

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