Fluctuation--response relations from an emergent $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry in the rotating stochastic Landau model
arXiv:2608.26468
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper derives fluctuation–response Ward identities from an emergent \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) symmetry of a coarse-grained stochastic action, without assuming detailed balance or thermal equilibrium. Its transferable asset is a practical distinction between response relations fixed by stochastic dynamics and the additional Einstein relation needed to determine the absolute noise scale. In neural-network training, this suggests an online noise-calibration controller that measures how parameter statistics respond to small perturbations and adjusts minibatch noise or injected Langevin noise toward a target fluctuation–response relation, while allowing nonequilibrium circulating dynamics rather than forcing reversible optimization.
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Treat a slowly varying block of neural-network parameters as a coarse-grained stochastic process and continuously estimate both its covariance spectrum and its linear response to small artificial perturbations. Use the fluctuation–response mismatch as a feedback signal to tune injected parameter noise or minibatch size; the thermal Einstein relation is imposed only when a calibrated equilibrium-like regime is desired, while antisymmetric response components are retained as admissible…
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