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Learning without training: The implicit dynamics of in-context learning
8 minutes Posted Jul 28, 2025 at 4:12 pm.
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In this episode, we discuss Learning without training: The implicit dynamics of in-context learning by Benoit Dherin, Michael Munn, Hanna Mazzawi, Michael Wunder, Javier Gonzalvo. The paper investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) can learn new patterns during inference without weight updates, a phenomenon called in-context learning. It proposes that the interaction between self-attention and MLP layers in transformer blocks enables implicit, context-dependent weight modifications. Through theoretical analysis and experiments, the authors show that this mechanism effectively produces low-rank weight updates, explaining the model's ability to learn from prompts alone.