Critical two-depth Journé packing for bi-parameter and Zygmund rectangles
arXiv:2608.22628
2026
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What the math gives to ML
The paper gives a critical overlap-control principle for incomparable dyadic rectangles. Although depth penalties in either coordinate alone are not summable, complementary exponents s and 1-s jointly yield bounded total mass and exponential integrability of the resulting overlap height. A transferable neural-network use is a congestion-aware router for sparse two-dimensional attention, where multiscale windows are selected subject to a theorem-inspired penalty on deeply embedded overlapping regions. The construction is especially relevant to vision and document transformers with learned rectangular attention patterns.
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2026
Represent candidate two-dimensional attention windows as dyadic rectangles and penalize local regions where many deeply embedded windows overlap. Use complementary horizontal and vertical depth exponents rather than independently penalizing one coordinate. The resulting router should reduce pathological concentration of sparse attention computation while preserving access to multiscale context.
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