Floquet Driving of Enzymatic Reactions: Counting Statistics and Long-Time Currents
arXiv:2607.17072
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a constructive Floquet formalism for periodically driven continuous-time Markov processes: long-time behavior is controlled by the one-period propagator, its effective Floquet generator, and derivatives of the propagator with respect to a counting field. This transfers naturally to periodically switched neural-network optimization, where different optimizers, learning rates, losses, or parameter subsets are applied in alternating phases. The key asset is a stability criterion based on the spectral radius of the product of phase-wise Jacobians, rather than on the stability of either phase in isolation. High-frequency driving additionally yields an effective averaged update with commutator corrections, predicting when the order of optimizer phases matters.
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2026
Replace a stationary optimizer by a periodic two- or multi-phase schedule, such as alternating large and small learning rates, SGD and momentum, or gradients from different loss components. Stability is assessed over the complete period using the product of phase-wise linearized update maps, allowing a phase that is individually expansive to be safely combined with a contracting phase.
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