Analytic inverse problems with finitely many random measurements

arXiv:2608.14324 2026 Architecture 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper establishes a dimension-counting identifiability principle for analytic finite-dimensional model classes: if an infinite-data forward map is injective on a d-dimensional analytic class, then 2d+1 independent random scalar measurements identify every member almost surely. The transferable asset is a constructive randomized measurement bottleneck for high-dimensional structured outputs, including severely ill-posed maps where deterministic designs may require exponentially many measurements. In neural networks, this can reduce input bandwidth and activation memory, but practical noisy recovery requires oversampling beyond the theorem's exact-identifiability threshold and monitoring the projected Jacobian's conditioning.

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Analytic Gaussian Measurement Bottleneck

For a neural model whose outputs lie on a d-dimensional analytic family in a very high-dimensional space, replace the full output vector by 2d+1 or a modestly oversampled number of fixed Gaussian scalar measurements. The paper's theorem predicts almost-sure injectivity in the noiseless setting, so an inverse network or decoder can recover the same latent instance without processing the full observation. Because the theorem does not provide a noise-stability constant, use M=4d+8 or M=8d in the…

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Paper: Analytic inverse problems with finitely many random measurements arXiv:2608.14324