Continuous pointwise ergodicity for semigroup actions on locally compact spaces
arXiv:2608.14175
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a transferable equivalence between continuity of a state-to-invariant-measure map and mean ergodicity of the Koopman representation, including trajectories that escape to infinity. Its useful neural-network asset is a state-dependent asymptotic projection: features can be decomposed into invariant components and transient coboundary components without requiring a predetermined averaging scheme. This suggests a recurrent or world-model regularizer that learns continuous invariant summaries of trajectories, explicitly distinguishing convergence to an attractor from escape or instability.
Ideas from this paper
Unverified
2026
Given a learned recurrent dynamics map, estimate a state-dependent invariant measure from each trajectory and use integration against that measure as a projection onto long-term invariant features. Penalize discontinuities of this projection between nearby states and assign zero mass to trajectories whose feature norms escape, producing a principled distinction between convergent attractors and divergent rollouts.
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