Finite-Time Singularities of Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow with Quantitatively Precise Dynamics
arXiv:2607.03152
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper develops a constructive modulation analysis for a nonlinear parabolic flow near a family of shrinking desingularizations. Its transferable asset is the explicit separation of a rapidly evolving scale parameter from a perturbation, together with weighted norms that prevent the perturbation from overwhelming the shrinking core and spectral-rate conditions that determine admissible damping. A neural analogue is to give a scale-like network degree of freedom its own coordinate and update rule, while controlling the orthogonal residual in a geometry-aware weighted norm rather than letting ordinary Euclidean optimization mix the two dynamics. This is most plausibly useful for scale-sensitive residual networks, neural ODEs, or low-rank models where parameter norm and function scale evolve on very different time scales.
Ideas from this paper
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2026
Split the trainable state into an explicit scalar scale coordinate and a residual perturbation, then update them with separate time scales. Penalize residuals according to their distance from the scale-dependent core, so the optimizer cannot obtain apparent progress by destabilizing the scale mode. The method is a neural optimization analogue of the paper's modulation argument, not a direct consequence of the geometric singularity theorem.
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