Anisotropic Higher-Order Semiregularity of Degenerate Generalized Equations

arXiv:2607.29114 2026 Geometry 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 31, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper develops a graded notion of output perturbation for degenerate maps: target block Y_i is treated as reachable at scale t^i, rather than every direction being measured linearly. Its transferable asset is the anisotropic gauge q_p, together with a fixed-base inverse estimate that converts blockwise residual magnitudes into a source-space displacement bound. This suggests an inverse-network or implicit-layer training rule that normalizes residuals according to their local order of controllability instead of forcing all output coordinates into a Euclidean loss. The most direct test is on synthetic and small real inverse problems with rank-deficient Jacobians, where the method should improve stability and recovery of higher-order-controlled output directions.

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Graded residual geometry for degenerate inverse networks

Partition the network output into blocks according to their estimated local controllability order and replace the ordinary residual norm by the anisotropic gauge q_p(r) = max_i ||r_i||^(1/i). Train an inverse network or unrolled solver with blockwise target tolerances ||r_i|| approximately less than or equal to rho^i, so directions reachable only through higher-order changes are not incorrectly treated as equally first-order errors.

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Paper: Anisotropic Higher-Order Semiregularity of Degenerate Generalized Equations arXiv:2607.29114