Mechanism confirmed, baseline not beaten
2026
Lyapunov-Calibrated Multiplicative Noise
Use measured local Jacobian growth to set the variance of dropout, feature noise, or stochastic-depth perturbations, implementing the paper's fluctuation-response idea that multiplicative noise is tied to the positive scrambling or Lyapunov rate. The controller maintains a target growth regime instead of applying a fixed noise schedule throughout training. It predicts a stability transition when the estimated growth rate crosses zero and a variance-growth proportionality that can be tested…
Paper: Effective Field Theory of Operator Scrambling from Strong-to-Weak Symmetry Breaking
arXiv:2607.24925