Unverified 2026

Cyclic Power-Consistent Replica Block

Implementation & benchmark of arXiv:2607.25960 — Quantum Steenrod powers and Hamiltonian maps

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Source paper: Quantum Steenrod powers and Hamiltonian maps arXiv:2607.25960 ⓘ · analyzed Aug 31, 2026

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Idea description

Construct p shared neural replicas of the same token or feature set, quotient their outputs by the cyclic group C_p, and train a power head to agree with the representation obtained from a jointly processed p-fold input. Add a filtration score whose value is nondecreasing under the power map and strictly increases on deliberately nontrivial replica combinations. The experiment tests whether this algebraically structured consistency signal is better than ordinary pairwise augmentation consistency.

Formulas

$$\widehat{{\it FSt}}_{p}:\widehat{CF(H;\Lambda_{0}^{\rm univ})^{\otimes p}_{{\mathbb Z}/p}}\to\widehat{CF}_{{\mathbb Z}/p}(H^{(p)};\Lambda_{0,{\mathcal K}_{p}}^{\rm univ})$$

$${\it FSt}_{p,x}^{\rm loc}(\overline{x})=c_x t^\alpha\overline{x}^{(p)},\qquad 0\leq\alpha\leq n(p-1),\quad 0\neq c_x\in{\mathbb F}_p$$

$${\mathcal A}_{H^{(p)}}(\widetilde{P}^{\rm loc}(a))\geq {\mathcal A}_{H}^{\otimes p}(a),\qquad {\mathcal A}_{H^{(p)}}(\widetilde{P}^{\rm big}(a))\geq {\mathcal A}_{H}^{\otimes p}(a)+\epsilon_H$$

$$z_i=f_\theta(T^i x),\quad \bar z=\frac{1}{p}\sum_{i=0}^{p-1}z_i,\quad z_{\rm pow}=P_\psi([z_0,\ldots,z_{p-1}]_{C_p}),\quad A^{\otimes p}=\sum_{i=0}^{p-1}s_\eta(z_i),\quad L_{\rm filt}=\max\!\left(0,\,A^{\otimes p}+\epsilon-s_\eta(z_{\rm pow})\right)$$

Mathematical statement

The paper constructs an equivariant power map from a p-fold cyclic tensor product to a complex associated with the p-th iterate, written as $\widehat{{\it FSt}}_{p}:\widehat{CF(H;\Lambda_{0}^{\rm univ})^{\otimes p}_{{\mathbb Z}/p}}\to\widehat{CF}_{{\mathbb Z}/p}(H^{(p)};\Lambda_{0,{\mathcal K}_{p}}^{\rm univ})$, and proves that it is a chain homotopy equivalence. Here p is an odd prime, $CF(H)$ is the base complex, $CF(H)^{\otimes p}_{{\mathbb Z}/p}$ is its p-fold tensor product made equivariant under cyclic permutation, and $H^{(p)}$ is the p-th iterate. The local map satisfies ${\it FSt}_{p,x}^{\rm loc}(\overline{x})=c_x t^\alpha\overline{x}^{(p)}$, where $\overline{x}$ is a capped local generator, $\overline{x}^{(p)}$ is its p-fold counterpart, $c_x\in{\mathbb F}_p\setminus\{0\}$, and $0\leq\alpha\leq n(p-1)$. The directly transferable filtration result is ${\mathcal A}_{H^{(p)}}(\widetilde{P}^{\rm loc}(a))\geq {\mathcal A}_{H}^{\otimes p}(a)$, while the big component obeys ${\mathcal A}_{H^{(p)}}(\widetilde{P}^{\rm big}(a))\geq {\mathcal A}_{H}^{\otimes p}(a)+\epsilon_H$ for some $\epsilon_H>0$. In the neural adaptation, $f_\theta$ is a shared encoder, $P_\psi$ is a power head, $s_\eta$ is a learned scalar filtration score, and $A^{\otimes p}$ is the sum of per-replica scores. Because the exact Floer action is unavailable, the inequality becomes a soft hinge loss.

Implementation notes

(1) Integration point: insert the module after a transformer encoder block, before the task head. For each training example x, generate p cyclic views $T^i x$ by rotating a selected token group, rotating image patches, or applying p deterministic augmentations. Use the same encoder weights for all views. The power head receives the ordered replica tensor and must be invariant to cyclic shifts; implement this by averaging outputs over all p cyclic shifts or by using a cyclic relative-position encoding. (2) Pseudocode: z=[]; for i in range(p): z.append(encoder(T_i(x))); zpow=power_head(cyclic_pool(z)); target=stopgrad(project(mean(z))); Lpow=MSE(zpow,target); base_score=sum(score_head(v) for v in z); zbad=power_head(cyclic_pool([encoder(T_i(x_bad)) for i in range(p)])); Lfilt=relu(base_score_bad + epsilon - score_head(zbad)); loss=Ltask + lambda_cons*Lpow + lambda_filt*Lfilt. Use p=3 or 5. (3) Mathematics versus estimation: the cyclic quotient and replica power construction come from the paper's ${\mathbb Z}/p$ tensor structure. The action inequality is adapted as a hinge constraint; $s_\eta$ is a learned proxy for action, and $\epsilon$ is empirically chosen rather than theoretically known. Normalize scores with a running mean and standard deviation, initialize $\epsilon=0.1$ normalized units, and sweep {0.03, 0.1, 0.3}. Stop gradients through the target branch and add variance regularization on $z_{\rm pow}$ to prevent collapse. (4) First experiment: train a 6-layer, 256-dimensional ViT on CIFAR-100 or a small transformer on a 10M-token language subset. Compare p=3 against standard pairwise augmentation consistency with the same number of encoder evaluations and against no auxiliary loss. Measure validation accuracy or perplexity at equal steps and FLOPs, calibration error, representation collapse, and robustness to cyclic shifts. A positive result is at least 1 percentage point better accuracy at equal compute, faster early loss descent, or lower cyclic-shift error without reduced clean accuracy.

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