Architecture ideas

Attention variants, state-space and recurrent cells, normalization and token-mixing schemes — each tested against the standard block it replaces.

△ Mechanism confirmed, baseline not beaten 2026

Tolerance-controlled adaptive low-rank layers

Replace selected dense neural-network operators by low-rank factors whose rank is selected by a randomized residual test at a user-specified tolerance. Construct candidate bases in large blocks for efficient matrix operations, then prune the block to the smallest rank that passes the residual criterion instead of treating the block size as the final rank.

Useful7/10
Difficulty5/10
Novelty6/10
Paper: Adaptive, Matrix-Free Low-Rank Approximation arXiv:2607.06758
Unverified 2026

Orientation-consistent adaptive tetrahedral neural field

Represent a 3D neural field using high-order polynomial coefficients attached to an adaptively refined tetrahedral mesh, with a small MLP predicting residual corrections from local coordinates. Refine only tetrahedra whose prediction, rendering, or PDE residual is large, and use globally ordered vertices so neighboring tetrahedra share identical face and edge coefficients without hanging-node constraint solves.

Useful6/10
Difficulty6/10
Novelty7/10
Paper: An $h$-adaptive Tetrahedral Spectral Element Method with Applications to Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory arXiv:2608.14006
Unverified 2026

Two-chart refinement cell

Build a recurrent ReLU module that evaluates a binary refinement cascade using a fixed-dimensional state and shared cell weights. Replace hard binary digit selection with two overlapping circle coordinates; switch between their affine state updates only at points where the two candidate updates agree, so the switch is an exact continuous piecewise-linear ReLU operation rather than a multiplicative gate.

Useful6/10
Difficulty6/10
Novelty7/10
Paper: Neural network realization of binary refinement iterates via a two-chart atlas selector arXiv:2608.02624
Unverified 2026

WKB-Stokes Sparse Mixer

Replace a dense channel-mixing matrix in a sequence layer with alternating diagonal propagation and sparse unipotent Stokes jumps. The diagonal part carries independently controlled exponential phases, while the unipotent factors implement cheap residual-like mode conversion without changing determinant or requiring a dense matrix multiply. Constrain the phase magnitudes and jump coefficients during training to obtain a reversible, norm-monitorable mixer.

Useful5/10
Difficulty4/10
Novelty7/10
Paper: Holonomy Asymptotics along Quartic Differential Rays arXiv:2608.04729
Unverified 2026

Branching-Fanout Sparse MoE

Replace a fixed top-k expert count with a stochastic, token-specific fanout generated by a supercritical binary branching process stopped at a geometric time. The resulting number of active experts has finite mean but a power-law tail with log-periodic modulation, allowing most tokens to use little compute while reserving larger computation for difficult or ambiguous tokens.

Useful5/10
Difficulty6/10
Novelty8/10
Paper: Power-law and log-periodic degree tails for a family of probability generating function equations arising in evolving networks arXiv:2607.12564