Entanglement Mpemba Effect
arXiv:2608.07465
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper identifies an entanglement Mpemba effect: under the same dissipative semigroup, a state that initially has less of the target resource can later overtake a more favorable state because it has a smaller projection onto slow relaxation modes. The transferable mechanism is spectral initial-state engineering rather than changing the dynamics. In neural-network training, one can construct an initialization with worse initial loss but reduced projection onto slow local training modes, producing a predictable loss-order reversal and potentially faster convergence.
Ideas from this paper
△ Mechanism confirmed, baseline not beaten
2026
Choose an initialization that may have worse initial loss but has a smaller projection onto the slow modes of the subsequent training dynamics. Under the same optimizer, data order, and learning rate, this initialization should overtake a lower-loss baseline after a predictable crossing time, analogous to the paper's reversal of relaxation ordering.
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