Yang-Mills-Higgs: A Geometric Theory of Binary Labels on Non-Contractible Spaces
arXiv:2607.00999
2026
Geometry
2 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 30, 2026
What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a concrete way to treat binary labels as sections of a possibly twisted Z2 bundle rather than as a globally defined sign function. Its transferable asset is the separation between local label compatibility and global monodromy: cycle products can encode unavoidable parity obstructions on periodic or graph-structured data, while gauge-equivalent choices of reference paths represent the same classifier. A practical neural implementation is a topology-aware graph or sequence head that learns binary edge transports and predicts logits in a twisted local frame, with explicit cycle-consistency and covariant-smoothness losses. A second, more exploratory transfer is to interpret antisymmetric attention interactions as a discrete curvature and regularize their Yang-Mills energy.
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Replace a globally signed classifier by local logits connected through learnable plus-or-minus-one transports on the data graph. The model can represent XOR-like or periodic labelings that are inconsistent with any globally continuous sign function, while an explicit cycle penalty prevents arbitrary edge-sign memorization.
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Interpret antisymmetric token-to-token interactions as a discrete connection curvature and penalize excessive curvature rather than smoothing all attention logits. This preserves directional priority patterns while discouraging unstable, rapidly changing attention fields.
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