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Ravi Kumar

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Bouba Beats Kiki, and Other Regularities in the Subjective Preferences of LLMs

Users engage with large language models on tasks that are purely objective ("When was Netflix founded?"), purely subjective ("What should I name my child?") or anywhere in-between. We have rich tools for evaluating model accuracy with respect to objective criteria. However, when it comes to subjective aspects of a task...

Katy Blumer, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar et al. · 0 citations

#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Asymptotic Behavior of Transformers

It is shown that even a three-token, single-layer attention-only transformer can fail to converge, and that, while each transformer has a temperature threshold, the supremum of this set is infinite, so there is no global minimal temperature that forces all transformers to converge.

Katy Blumer, Da-Cheng Juan, Jon M. Kleinberg et al. · 0 citations