@article{shatteredcompositionalitycounterintuitiv, title = {Shattered Compositionality: Counterintuitive Learning Dynamics of Transformers for Arithmetic}, author = {Xingyu Zhao and Darsh Sharma and Rheeya Uppaal and Yiqiao Zhong}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2601.22510}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22510}, }