Sharp Wasserstein Convergence Rates for Empirical Path Laws of Itô Processes
arXiv:2608.07879
2026
Architecture
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a constructive adaptive representation of continuous stochastic paths: recursively split a dyadic time interval only when its within-interval excursion exceeds a threshold. The transferable asset is the resulting data-dependent multiresolution partition, which concentrates computation around high-variation portions of a trajectory while retaining a uniform approximation guarantee. This can become an event-driven tokenizer or adaptive temporal attention scheme for trajectory transformers, diffusion models, and neural operators, with a maximum-depth fallback for deterministic implementation.
Ideas from this paper
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2026
Replace a uniformly sampled trajectory sequence by a binary temporal partition whose intervals are split only when the observed trajectory makes an excursion larger than a threshold. Encode one summary token per retained leaf, optionally including duration and endpoint displacement, so smooth trajectory regions receive fewer tokens while rapidly changing regions retain resolution.
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