Mixed Poincaré and Fefferman--Phong inequalities for measure potentials on $2$-PI spaces

arXiv:2607.17315 2026 Regularization 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 30, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper gives a constructive way to control an arbitrary positive measure potential by a first-order energy plus a reciprocal-scale multiplier, without assuming that the potential measure is doubling or absolutely continuous. This is transferable to neural fields and graph-based networks trained on highly singular, clustered, or unequal-weight sample measures: a potential term concentrated on difficult regions can be stabilized by an ambient smoothness energy and a locally computed critical-scale penalty. The most practical adaptation is a capacity-inspired Sobolev regularizer whose multiplier is determined by local sample mass rather than by a globally chosen weight decay. The expected benefit is improved stability and robustness when supervision or collocation points are concentrated on lower-dimensional sets.

Ideas from this paper

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Capacity-controlled singular-measure regularization

Add a mixed regularizer to a neural field or graph neural network that separates smooth ambient variation from fitting a potentially singular training measure. The training-measure term is weighted by a local reciprocal critical radius, so dense or lower-dimensional regions receive controlled regularization instead of causing unstable gradients or overfitting.

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Paper: Mixed Poincaré and Fefferman--Phong inequalities for measure potentials on $2$-PI spaces arXiv:2607.17315