On the Existence of Geometrically Attracting Measures for Iterated Function Systems with Varying Sets of Transformations
arXiv:2608.29022
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper develops geometric-attraction criteria for iterated function systems whose transformation families and selection probabilities change with time. Its transferable mechanism is a quantitative contraction condition on products of time-dependent random-map gains, guaranteeing that state distributions forget their initialization at a geometric rate in bounded-Lipschitz distance. A direct neural-network use is a stochastic recurrent or state-space architecture with time-varying candidate layers, where the candidate Jacobian gains and routing probabilities are constrained so that their cumulative expected gain decays geometrically. The central falsifiable prediction is that the initialization-distance decay rate is controlled by the accumulated logarithmic contraction exponent.
Ideas from this paper
✗ Failed on benchmark
2026
Replace a recurrent update by a time-inhomogeneous random choice among candidate maps, and regulate the candidate Jacobian gains so that the expected product of gains contracts geometrically. This should make hidden-state distributions forget their initial state even when the map family and selection probabilities vary over time, improving long-horizon stability without requiring every individual candidate map to be strongly contractive.
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