Distributional results for the shortest distance between trajectories of different dynamics

arXiv:2606.30998 2026 Geometry 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 29, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper introduces a co-dimension for several invariant measures that quantifies how rapidly their local mass neighborhoods overlap as the radius shrinks. This is transferable as a geometric compatibility statistic for latent distributions produced by different augmentations, environments, model branches, or learned dynamics. A practical adaptation is a multiscale overlap regularizer computed on embeddings, paired with variance and covariance constraints to prevent the trivial collapsed solution. The extracted material does not include the paper's extremal-index formula, so the proposed transfer uses the constructive co-dimension definition.

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Multiscale Cross-Branch Co-Dimension Regularizer

Measure the local geometric compatibility of q latent distributions produced by different views, augmentations, environments, or trajectory models using the paper's co-dimension. Penalize excessive cross-branch co-dimension over a range of radii while preserving per-branch variance and covariance rank to prevent representation collapse.

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Paper: Distributional results for the shortest distance between trajectories of different dynamics arXiv:2606.30998