Logarithmic Aging Diffusion from a Multiplicative Event Clock: Rare Event Statistics, Ultraslow Transport, and Ensemble-Time Inequivalence
arXiv:2607.25374
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a constructive multiplicative event clock: event times satisfy T_n=t_0 exp(S_n), where S_n is a sum of iid logarithmic inter-event variables. Its transferable mechanism is a renewal process in logarithmic time, producing an update count whose mean and variance grow linearly with ln(t/t_0), together with broad rare-duration fluctuations and trajectory-level weak ergodicity breaking. A neural-network version can replace uniform wall-clock or iteration-based refinement with an event-triggered logarithmic clock for anytime inference, continual-learning updates, or recurrent refinement. The first falsifiable test is whether update counts and output-change statistics follow the predicted linear-in-log-time scaling and whether the measured slopes agree with the multiplier moments.
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2026
Use a multiplicative renewal clock to decide when a neural module is updated, rather than updating at every wall-clock tick or using a fixed iteration schedule. The resulting computation allocates many updates early and increasingly long intervals between later updates, while preserving a tunable stochastic distribution of update times; this is intended for anytime recurrent refinement, continual learning, or adaptive inference where late updates have diminishing marginal value.
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