Sharp Orlicz Endpoints for Spatial-Temporal Ergodic Averaging
arXiv:2608.03767
2026
Regularization
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a transferable local-stability principle for compositions of temporal and spatial averaging: pointwise temporal convergence becomes stable under shrinking spatial observation windows when the temporal maximal function has an integrable majorant. It also identifies sharp Orlicz thresholds, with regular-time averages requiring L log^(q+1) L and arbitrary sequences requiring L log^q L at normalization N Lambda_q(N). A neural-network analogue is to train representations or predictors whose temporal trajectories have controlled Orlicz moments and whose finite-horizon maximal fluctuation is bounded across local input neighborhoods. This gives a concrete robustness mechanism and predicts a logarithmic integrability transition rather than merely adding generic smoothness.
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2026
Regularize a neural predictor so that its temporal partial averages remain stable when evaluated over shrinking neighborhoods of nearby inputs. The paper's mechanism suggests controlling a temporal maximal envelope in an Orlicz space, rather than controlling only pointwise variance or an L2 norm; the expected threshold is logarithmic, with L log L for ordinary consecutive averages and L log^(q+1) L for q-logarithmically normalized averages.
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