Statistical properties for irregular observables in slowly mixing hyperbolic systems

arXiv:2608.15569 2026 Training 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper provides a constructive blocking and cylinder-set approximation mechanism showing that highly irregular indicator observables can still satisfy strong statistical limit laws in slowly, polynomially mixing hyperbolic systems. Its transferable asset is not the billiard geometry itself, but a quantitative recipe for separating temporal blocks, replacing discontinuous events by finite-resolution measurable approximations, and controlling the almost-sure approximation error. A promising neural-network use is mixing-aware training and evaluation for recurrent, state-space, or world-model systems whose losses and diagnostics contain threshold events, where naive iid minibatch assumptions underestimate gradient variance and long-horizon uncertainty.

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Polynomial-Mixing Block Training

Use the paper's separated-block construction to train recurrent or state-space networks on trajectories with slowly decaying temporal correlations, rather than treating consecutive frames as independent minibatch samples. Thresholded events such as collision, failure, saturation, constraint violation, or reward exceedance are aggregated over blocks with empirically chosen gaps and optionally replaced by finite-resolution cylinder approximations. The method predicts a measurable power-law…

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Paper: Statistical properties for irregular observables in slowly mixing hyperbolic systems arXiv:2608.15569