Sharp homogeneous Gagliardo--Nirenberg inequalities with applications to normalized solutions for a generalized MMT-type equation
arXiv:2608.08686
2026
Regularization
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What the math gives to ML
The paper supplies an explicit scale-consistent coupling between low-order fractional variation, an Lp amplitude norm, and high-order fractional energy through a sharp homogeneous Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality. The transferable asset is not merely a Sobolev penalty, but a dimension- and derivative-order-aware ratio whose scaling is neutralized by the exponent determined from the interpolation relation. A neural-network version can regularize spatial feature maps or continuous neural fields by penalizing violations of this interpolation envelope, rather than independently tuning amplitude, smoothness, and high-frequency penalties. The optimizer-existence result suggests that the ratio has well-behaved normalized minimization targets, although the sharp constant must be estimated empirically on the chosen tensor domain.
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2026
Add a scale-invariant Gagliardo–Nirenberg ratio penalty to intermediate CNN or spatial neural-network feature maps. The penalty discourages representations with unusually large low-order fractional gradients relative to their amplitude and high-order energy, providing a single mathematically coupled constraint instead of separately weighted total-variation and Sobolev penalties. Apply it only to selected layers and estimate the reference sharp constant from clean baseline activations.
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