Solow system driven by $α$-stable Lévy process

arXiv:2607.20997 2026 Dynamics 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 30, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper's transferable mechanism is an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck-like mean-reverting state driven by symmetric alpha-stable Lévy jumps, producing discontinuous heavy-tailed fluctuations with infinite variance while retaining an analytically characterized stationary law. The key asset for neural networks is a jump-noise optimizer or parameter perturbation process whose restoring drift gives a quantitative contraction condition, while alpha-stable shocks enable occasional large basin escapes without relying on Gaussian variance estimates. A practical transfer is to add a mean-reverting parameter-anchor drift and symmetric stable jumps to SGD, and test both the predicted contraction boundary and the stationary characteristic function before measuring task performance.

Ideas from this paper

Mechanism confirmed, baseline not beaten 2026

Mean-Reverting Levy-Jump Optimizer

Replace purely Gaussian optimizer noise with symmetric alpha-stable jumps and add a restoring drift toward an exponential-moving-average parameter anchor. The drift prevents persistent parameter diffusion, while heavy-tailed jumps provide rare, large excursions that can cross sharp basin barriers and remain effective when gradient-noise variance is undefined.

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Paper: Solow system driven by $α$-stable Lévy process arXiv:2607.20997