Pulse Graphs: Prime-Activated Boolean Dynamics on Directed Graphs

arXiv:2607.10453 2026 Architecture 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 30, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper gives an explicit construction of sparse Boolean recurrent systems whose state evolution contains a maximal-length affine feedback register, producing periods exponential in the number of state bits. The transferable asset is not primality itself but the compilation of prime-count tests into copy, XNOR, XOR, NAND, and NOT gates using a few permanently active control vertices. This yields a fixed recurrent feature map with bounded in-degree, linear edge count, and deterministic long-range state diversity. The most credible ML use is a cheap long-memory reservoir or binary state-space layer, trained only through an input projection and readout and compared against random Boolean reservoirs, ESNs, and small GRUs.

Ideas from this paper

Unverified 2026

Prime-Gated Maximal-Length Binary Reservoir

Replace a learned recurrent transition with a sparse binary reservoir compiled from prime-count gates. Three permanently active control vertices implement copy and XNOR transitions, allowing the signal state to realize an affine feedback register over \(\mathbb F_2\) with period \(2^m-1\) using only \(O(m)\) edges and bounded in-degree. Train only an input projection and readout, or use straight-through estimators if end-to-end adaptation is required.

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Paper: Pulse Graphs: Prime-Activated Boolean Dynamics on Directed Graphs arXiv:2607.10453