A Mathematical Explanation of Transformers

This paper proposes a novel continuous mathematical framework that rigorously interprets the Transformer architecture as a discretization of a structured integro-differential equation, thereby characterizing self-attention as a non-local integral operator and layer normalization as a time-dependent projection to provide a unified, operator-theoretic foundation for understanding and designing these models.

Xue-Cheng Tai, Hao Liu, Lingfeng Li, Raymond H. Chan2026-04-14🤖 cs.LG

A mathematical model for colloids deposition in porous media combined with a moving boundary at the microscale: Solvability and numerical simulation

This paper presents and analyzes a two-scale mathematical model for colloidal deposition in porous media with evolving microstructures, establishing weak solvability for the non-clogging regime and demonstrating through numerical simulations how local clogging impacts effective transport and storage properties.

Christos Nikolopoulos, Michael Eden, Adrian Muntean2026-04-14🔢 math

Inverse Obstacle Scattering from Multi-Frequency Near-Field Backscattering Data

This paper establishes a global uniqueness theorem for simultaneously reconstructing obstacle geometry and impedance boundary conditions from multi-frequency near-field backscattering data using high-frequency asymptotic expansions, and proposes a novel three-stage numerical framework that achieves robust and efficient reconstruction without solving the direct scattering problem.

Jialei Li, Xiaodong Liu2026-04-14🔢 math

Asymptotic and pre-asymptotic convergence of sparse grids for anisotropic kernel interpolation

This paper investigates the benefits of combining anisotropic and lengthscale-informed sparse grid constructions for kernel interpolation with separable Matérn kernels, demonstrating through theory and experiments that adapting to dimension-dependent regularity and lengthscale parameters improves both asymptotic and pre-asymptotic convergence rates.

Elliot J. Addy, Aretha L. Teckentrup2026-04-14🔢 math