Sharp Complete Modified Log-Sobolev Inequalities on Classical and Quantum Tori
arXiv:2608.23482
2026
Regularization
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The paper supplies a sharp modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality on the circle and extends it completely to positive matrix-valued functions, with tensorization to classical and quantum tori. The transferable asset is a dimension-independent entropy-to-dissipation guarantee that remains valid when each spatial or token location carries a coupled positive matrix rather than a scalar probability. A practical neural adaptation is to represent attention or routing distributions as positive matrix-valued fields over a periodic index, apply a controllable heat-semigroup smoothing step, and regularize the resulting BKM Fisher information. The predicted benefit is stable local smoothing with a mathematically calibrated time parameter instead of an arbitrary entropy penalty.
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2026
Replace scalar entropy penalties on attention maps with a matrix-valued heat-flow regularizer over a circular or periodic token coordinate. Each position stores a positive semidefinite matrix describing coupled heads, experts, or channels; heat smoothing is constrained by the sharp modified log-Sobolev and Bogoliubov–Kubo–Mori contraction rather than an arbitrary smoothing coefficient. This should suppress high-frequency routing noise while preserving positive matrix structure and reducing…
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