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Add a learned Riesz-transform branch that extracts normalized spatial gradients after diffusion by a positive parabolic operator. The diffusion branch carries smooth semantic content, while the Riesz branch represents boundaries, motion changes, and graph discontinuities. Resolvent smoothing makes the derivative branch less sensitive to feature noise than directly applying a finite difference.
Replace the standard plug-in KSD V-statistic with the positive-part square root of the unbiased pairwise U-statistic when evaluating or training a sampler against a fixed target score. The estimator uses off-diagonal cancellation and should approach the Hilbert–Schmidt fluctuation scale instead of the larger trace scale paid by the diagonal-including V-statistic.
Wrap a learned residual policy or neural world-model controller around a stabilizing LQR feedback law, and permit sampling-based action refinement only when its estimated Monte Carlo and temperature errors fit inside a Lyapunov perturbation budget. Increase the rollout sample count, reduce temperature, or fall back to the baseline LQR action when the budget is violated. The controller should therefore trade computation for a measurable reduction in unstable or unsafe rollouts.
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…
Augment a mesh or graph neural network with an explicit low-dimensional channel for topological circulation or flux modes. The network predicts a local gauge-fixed field u and global coefficients a, then reconstructs the physical field as y = u + Ha, so local message passing does not need to synthesize global modes through many layers.
Add a directional persistent cross-entropy loss between teacher and student activation persistence diagrams. The loss assigns high probability to teacher topological events that the student reproduces, while accumulating the probability of unmatched teacher events in an explicit unexplained-event mass. This penalizes missing teacher structure without requiring teacher and student diagrams to have the same number of points.
Use the observed label-availability indicator as an auxiliary supervision signal when labels are preferentially missing for uncertain or difficult examples. Train the classifier with a joint likelihood containing both the class-label likelihood for labeled examples and a missingness likelihood whose probability depends on the classifier's posterior uncertainty.