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Unverified 2026

Polynomial-expander feature mixer

Insert a fixed polynomial mixer before an MLP or retrieval index for tuples of discrete features. The mixer maps n+2 bounded scalar feature codes to one or several expanded scalar codes, and the paper's theorem guarantees that its image cannot collapse below order |A|^n when all coordinates come from a finite alphabet A. Use multiple independent permutations or coefficient choices to obtain a vector representation while retaining the deterministic algebraic structure.

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Paper: On polynomial expanders with many variables arXiv:2608.26349