Uniform logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for the 2D Coulomb gas at the diffusive temperature scale
arXiv:2608.24863
2026
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What the math gives to ML
The paper proves a dimension-uniform logarithmic Sobolev inequality for a two-dimensional Coulomb gas whose quadratic confinement and logarithmic repulsion are scaled so that the interaction remains mean-field sized as the particle count grows. This gives a principled way to build particle banks, prototype sets, or mixture-component locations that resist collapse while retaining Langevin mixing behavior that should not deteriorate sharply with bank size. The most direct neural experiment is to use these particles for prototype-based routing or latent-variable initialization and compare their diversity, sampler mixing, and downstream accuracy against Gaussian initialization and ordinary repulsive regularization.
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2026
Represent a set of neural prototypes, mixture components, or latent particles by N points in R^2, and initialize or refresh them with Langevin dynamics targeting a quadratically confined logarithmic Coulomb gas. The logarithmic repulsion prevents particle collapse, while the paper's N-uniform logarithmic Sobolev inequality predicts that mixing need not degrade as the particle bank grows.
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