Power growth of mean-L-stable operators on Banach spaces
arXiv:2608.09694
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper supplies a constructive stability diagnostic for iterated linear dynamics: instead of requiring every power of an operator to remain bounded, it controls the density of time indices at which orbit norms exceed a threshold. The key transferable asset is robustness to rare transient spikes, which ordinary spectral-radius checks can miss in non-normal recurrent or state-space operators. A practical adaptation is to monitor and penalize empirical high-norm time density in recurrent states, while using the paper's power-growth bounds as a safety target rather than assuming strict contraction.
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2026
Replace a strict spectral-radius or per-step activation constraint in a linear recurrent/state-space transition with a density-of-spikes constraint. Penalize the fraction of rollout times whose hidden-state norm exceeds a threshold, making the model tolerant of occasional useful transients while suppressing persistent or frequent amplification.
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