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Grokked Transformers are Implicit Reasoners: A Mechanistic Journey to the Edge of Generalization

Boshi Wang, Xiang Yue, Yu Su, Huan Sun

Mechanistically studies transformers that learn implicit reasoning after grokking, focusing on how internal algorithms support out-of-distribution generalization.

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arXiv:2405.15071 · Initial submission: 2024-05-23

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