Asymptotics for Beta-Splitting Trees via Homogeneous Fragmentations and Meromorphic Potential Theory
arXiv:2608.18320
2026
Architecture
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What the math gives to ML
The paper develops an explicit stochastic hierarchy by embedding beta-splitting trees into homogeneous fragmentations. Its transferable asset is a tunable distribution over multiscale partitions together with a quantitative prediction for the maximum hierarchy depth, namely approximately 2 log(n) / phi_beta(1). This suggests a sparse hierarchical-attention architecture in which tokens communicate locally and through learned summaries instead of using all-pairs attention. The strongest initial test is whether beta-controlled trees preserve accuracy while reducing attention FLOPs, memory, and depth variance relative to full attention and fixed balanced hierarchies.
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2026
Build a binary hierarchy over tokens by recursively splitting each active block with a beta-splitting rule, then perform dense attention only inside small leaf blocks and communicate between leaves through learned summaries at internal nodes. The beta parameter controls how balanced the partition is, while the paper's maximum-depth asymptotic supplies a principled depth budget and a way to detect pathological trees.
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