GOAT proposes trainable priors for attention
Published on October 3, 2026, the paper frames standard attention as an entropic optimal transport problem with an implicit uniform prior and presents GOAT, which uses a continuous, trainable prior.
Source: GOAT adiciona priors treináveis à attention (arxiv.org). Text prepared with AI from this source.
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Published on October 3, 2026, the paper describes standard attention as an entropic optimal transport problem with an implicit uniform prior. It presents GOAT, which replaces that prior with a continuous, trainable one while remaining compatible with optimized kernels such as FlashAttention.
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