Continuity of measure-theoretic entropy for stochastic differential equations
arXiv:2608.00370
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a transferable robustness mechanism: for stochastic flows, measure-theoretic entropy is related to exponential volume growth along stable submanifolds, and under an integrability condition entropy is upper semicontinuous under smooth perturbations of the SDE coefficients. In a neural-network setting, this suggests treating noisy training or inference as a random dynamical system and controlling the positive volume-expansion rate of its state or parameter Jacobians. The practical construction is an entropy-growth monitor or regularizer based on log singular values of minibatch-update Jacobians, with the prediction that sufficiently small perturbations of optimizer noise or model coefficients cannot cause an upward entropy jump when the required log-moment condition is satisfied.
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2026
Model stochastic training or recurrent inference as a random dynamical system and penalize the exponential growth of volumes transported by its Jacobian. This converts the paper's entropy and volume-growth relation into a computable regularizer that discourages chaotic sensitivity while retaining directions needed for fitting.
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