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We document a remarkably universal scaling form for the generalization gap of pretrained transformers across architecture, data domain, and tokenizer choice. Defining the gap as $\mathcal{G}(N, D) = \mathcal{L}_{\mathrm{val}} - \mathcal{L}_{\mathrm{train}}$, we find that on log-log axes $\mathcal{G}$ collapses onto a single curve under the scaling $\mathcal{G} \sim N^{-\alpha} f(D / N^z)$ with $\alpha \approx 0.

We present RNAStructure, a complete RNA secondary structure prediction and design engine implemented entirely in pure Python/NumPy without ViennaRNA, Mfold, or external binaries. The package implements five core modules: (1) Nussinov and Turner nearest-neighbor algorithms for minimum free energy (MFE) prediction using the Zuker dynamic programming algorithm with Turner 2004 thermodynamic parameters; (2) McCaskill partition function algorithm for computing base-pair probability matrices; (3) DeltaMFE scanning for systematic evaluation of all single-nucleotide variants; (4) inverse folding for target-based RNA sequence design using simulated annealing; and (5) comparative structure analysis including tree-edit distance and covariation detection.

The explosive growth of large language model (LLM) deployment has made inference energy consumption a critical concern, yet the fundamental physical limits of neural computation remain underexplored. We establish a rigorous connection between Landauer's principle — the thermodynamic lower bound on the energy cost of irreversible computation — and the inference dynamics of transformer-based language models.