Transformer Approximations from ReLUs

We provide a systematic recipe for translating ReLU approximation results to softmax attention mechanism. This recipe covers many common approximation targets. Importantly, it yields target-specific, economic resource bounds beyond universal approximation statements. We showcase the recipe on multiplication, reciprocal computation, and min/max primitives. These results provide new analytical tools for analyzing softmax transformer models.

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