Addendum to "Factoring non-negative operator valued trigonometric polynomials in two variables"
arXiv:2608.23073
2026
Architecture
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What the math gives to ML
The paper establishes a multivariate Fejer-Riesz theorem: every positive-semidefinite bivariate matrix Laurent polynomial on the torus admits an analytic polynomial Gram factorization A = B*B. This can parameterize multi-channel convolutional operators whose Fourier response is positive semidefinite at every spatial frequency, avoiding sampled spectral penalties or post-hoc eigenvalue projections. The most direct transfer is a constrained CNN or diffusion-like residual block implemented as a learned filter bank followed by its adjoint.
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2026
Parameterize a multi-channel two-dimensional convolutional operator through a learned filter bank B, then use the composed operator B*B as the layer response. Its Fourier response is positive semidefinite exactly at every spatial frequency, enabling stable smoothing or diffusion-like residual updates without frequency-grid penalty terms.
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