Remainders of generalised Taylor expansions and a priori bounds for rough differential equations

arXiv:2607.18635 2026 Dynamics 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 30, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper develops a constructive, tree-indexed generalized Taylor calculus for rough differential equations, with remainder formulas expressed through products of gradients of elementary differentials. Its transferable asset is the organization of noncommutative vector-field compositions into planar binary trees together with cancellation-aware remainder control under Lipschitz assumptions on elementary differentials. A promising neural application is a rough-signature or neural-CDE block that replaces Euler updates by an adaptively truncated tree expansion, improving accuracy and stability on irregularly sampled or highly oscillatory streams at a controlled number of Jacobian-vector products.

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Cancellation-Aware Tree Neural CDE Step

Implement a neural controlled differential equation update using a truncated planar-binary-tree expansion rather than a first-order Euler step. Select the truncation order from driver regularity and the observed magnitudes of elementary differentials, while using a cancellation-aware remainder monitor to avoid computing unnecessarily high-order terms.

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Paper: Remainders of generalised Taylor expansions and a priori bounds for rough differential equations arXiv:2607.18635