Some Reverse Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev Type Inequalities

arXiv:2608.11818 2026 Regularization 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper supplies a sharp reverse inequality: a Riesz potential cannot have arbitrarily small output norm relative to the input mass and sub-unit L^q quasi-norm. This is useful as an anti-collapse certificate for nonnegative feature distributions, routing probabilities, or learned particle sets, because it penalizes representations whose potential becomes degenerate. The transferable asset is the explicit interpolation exponent and the threshold q>n/alpha, together with the half-space analogue for boundary-supported data. A practical adaptation is a differentiable hinge loss enforcing the reverse-HLS lower bound on minibatch feature densities.

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Reverse-HLS anti-collapse regularizer

Treat a minibatch of nonnegative neural features as a smoothed density f in an embedding space and compute its Riesz potential E_alpha f. Add a hinge penalty whenever the observed potential norm falls below the reverse-HLS lower bound determined by the batch mass and its L^q quasi-norm. This directly discourages feature collapse while preserving the theorem's scale-sensitive interpolation structure.

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Paper: Some Reverse Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev Type Inequalities arXiv:2608.11818