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
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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