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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>How Far Can Transformers Reason? The Globality Barrier and Inductive Scratchpad · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2406.06467/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2406.06467/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>How Far Can Transformers Reason? The Globality Barrier and Inductive Scratchpad — mentioned by Chance-Device</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649090</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2406.06467:47649090</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:12:44 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Let’s see, I think these pretty much map out a little chronology of the research: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00114 https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06467 https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15758 https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12777 First that scratchpads matter, then why they matter, then that they don’t even need to be meaningful tokens, then a conceptual framework for the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2406.06467/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>How Far Can Transformers Reason? The Globality Barrier and Inductive Scratchpad — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40795244</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2406.06467:40795244</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:32:33 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;How Far Can Transformers Reason? The Locality Barrier and Inductive Scratchpad&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;6 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2406.06467/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item></channel></rss>
