Stability for boundary actions of cocompact lattices in Euclidean buildings
arXiv:2607.14668
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper’s transferable mechanism is a robust symbolic coder built from nested geometric regions: each admissible transition maps the successor region strictly inside the predecessor region, so every infinite path defines a nonempty intersection and, when diameters shrink, a unique coded point. This nesting yields stability of the boundary action under sufficiently small perturbations through a semi-conjugacy rather than requiring exact trajectory matching. A neural analogue is a latent-state architecture whose transitions preserve nested uncertainty or cone regions, with an explicit inclusion/contraction regularizer and a certified perturbation margin. The key falsifiable prediction is that representation drift under parameter or input perturbations is bounded geometrically and undergoes a sharp failure when the inclusion margin vanishes.
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2026
Augment an RNN or state-space model with a region-valued latent state, such as an ellipsoid or polytope, rather than propagating only a point estimate. Train every transition to map the successor region inside the predecessor-compatible region with a positive margin; this creates a neural version of the paper’s nested coder and makes long-horizon predictions robust to small parameter and input perturbations. A point prediction is decoded from the intersection of the propagated regions, while…
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