On Generalized Hyperbolicity, Stability, and Shadowing for Linear Operators
arXiv:2608.17021
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper gives a constructive pseudo-hyperbolic decomposition for invertible linear dynamics: a bounded projection separates directions that contract forward in time from directions whose inverse dynamics contract forward. This condition implies strong Lipschitz structural stability and shadowing, so bounded trajectory perturbations remain close to an exact trajectory. The transferable neural mechanism is a recurrent or state-space layer with explicitly controlled stable-forward and stable-backward channels. Its value is falsifiable: shadowing error should remain proportional to perturbation size below a spectral margin and should deteriorate sharply when either contraction bound reaches one.
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Replace an unconstrained recurrent transition with two coupled channels: one contracts under forward iteration and the other contracts under inverse iteration. Enforcing this structure should prevent long-horizon amplification of state, numerical, and teacher-forcing perturbations while retaining nontrivial memory through the backward-stable channel.
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