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Replace independent architecture generation with a diffusion mutation kernel that starts from a known valid neural architecture, re-noises it for only a fraction of the diffusion horizon, and denoises it conditionally toward a new architecture. The resulting candidates should remain closer to the parent and retain validity at low mutation strength, while larger re-noising fractions should produce greater novelty and access to distinct architectural basins.
Add a per-feature or per-token state that accumulates recent stimulation and decays when stimulation is absent, then use a nonlinear decreasing gain to suppress repeatedly activated features. This creates short-term adaptation without changing the core transformer or recurrent weights: familiar inputs are processed with reduced gain, while novel inputs recover their full response.
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…
Estimate an expensive fine-model trace or quadratic-form quantity using a telescoping sum over cheap-to-expensive neural approximations. Allocate many probes to cheap levels and only a few probes to the expensive level, exploiting strong correlation between adjacent levels to reduce variance at fixed compute. Candidate levels include truncated Transformer depth, reduced width, low-rank curvature, coarser graph resolution, or progressively tighter implicit-solver tolerances.
Remove a latent relay or hub token from an attention or graph layer and replace its two-hop influence by direct effective edges between retained tokens. The correction is a normalized rank-one update, so it can preserve hub-mediated communication while reducing the number of stored and processed states.
Replace an independently generated discrete latent sequence or redundancy stream with a symmetric two-state Markov source whose transition probability is tuned or learned. Train the downstream transformer to reconstruct the semantic target after random insertions, while using the paper's insertion-capacity expression to select the latent rate and redundancy budget. The representation should preserve information under timing drift, repeated tokens, and inserted distractors better than iid token…