Derangetropy Operators
arXiv:2607.24705
2026
Architecture
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What the math gives to ML
The paper defines density transformations whose multiplier depends only on the cumulative rank F(x), not on the numerical coordinate x. This gives an implementable monotone-coordinate-equivariant feature transform: estimate each scalar feature's CDF, apply a fixed interval map to its rank, and optionally map the result back to a standard marginal. The Type-III kernel is practical because it is nonnegative, normalized, analytically integrable, and concentrates transformed probability around central ranks. The most credible neural-network use is as a rank-based activation or normalization layer, with a soft empirical CDF during training and a frozen running CDF at inference.
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2026
Insert a distribution-free rank warp before selected MLP or attention projections. For each scalar activation, replace its empirical rank u by the cumulative interval map induced by the Type-III derangetropy kernel, optionally followed by Gaussian or affine output calibration. The transform is invariant to strictly increasing reparameterizations of the feature and contracts the marginal toward central ranks, potentially reducing sensitivity to heavy tails and outliers.
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