Measurable Matroids: Foundations and Min--Max Theorems
arXiv:2608.16464
2026
Architecture
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What the math gives to ML
The paper develops measure-theoretic matroid intersection and union, preserving rank-based min–max formulas on atomless spaces. The transferable asset is a principled way to combine several global independence, capacity, and diversity constraints while producing an explicit Hall-type deficiency certificate when they cannot all be satisfied. A practical neural adaptation is a constrained mixture-of-experts router that projects token-expert assignments onto token, expert, and hierarchical group capacities. This is adjacent to existing flow-based routing, so the experiment should target multi-constraint routing and compare both quality and routing overhead against top-k plus load balancing.
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2026
Replace independent top-k expert decisions by a global fractional routing problem that enforces token-side and expert-side capacities together with an additional diversity constraint represented by a partition or laminar matroid. Use the resulting Hall-type deficiency certificate to identify overloaded token subsets and penalize the actual structural cause of routing failure rather than relying only on an aggregate load-balancing loss.
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