Intrinsic Redundancy and Local Robustness in Finite $β$-Expansion Systems
arXiv:2607.08795
2026
Memory
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a concrete finite-state representation scheme in which local rewrite identities preserve numerical meaning while canonical language constraints expose some storage faults. Its most transferable asset is the separation between semantic equivalence, canonical admissibility, and actual error recovery: a canonical code can detect structural violations but cannot recover arbitrary single-digit errors without external redundancy. This suggests a fault-aware quantization format for binary or low-bit neural weights and activations, using a beta-expansion code with local canonicalization before storage and explicit detection metadata when correction is required. The approach is most relevant to compressed or unreliable memory systems rather than ordinary floating-point training.
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2026
Store quantized magnitudes as finite golden-ratio digit strings satisfying the no-adjacent-ones constraint, rather than as unconstrained binary words. A local rewrite pass converts equivalent but invalid patterns such as 011 into 100, making illegal adjacent-one patterns detectable after memory faults while preserving the represented scalar. This is a storage-integrity and decoding scheme, not a claim that canonicalization alone can correct arbitrary bit flips.
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