Sharp constants for weak estimates of Riesz Potentials when $0<s<\min\{n,2\}$

arXiv:2608.31043 2026 Architecture 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper supplies an explicit sharp $L^1\to L^{q,\infty}$ control for the fractional nonlocal operator $I_s$, with $q=n/(n-s)$ and $0<s<\min\{n,2\}$. The transferable asset is not merely a fractional convolution, but a principled normalization and tail guarantee: bounded input mass implies a dimension- and order-dependent bound on the measure of large responses. A practical neural analogue is a fixed or learnable Riesz aggregation layer for image or point-grid features, combined with weak-norm monitoring or regularization to prevent rare, spatially diffuse activation explosions.

Ideas from this paper

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Weak-Bounded Riesz Attention

Replace one local spatial aggregation in a CNN or vision transformer with a discretized Riesz potential whose kernel is proportional to $\|x-y\|^{-(n-s)}$. Normalize the layer using the paper's sharp weak-type constant and penalize empirical violations of the resulting tail bound, encouraging nonlocal context without allowing a small set of pixels or tokens to generate arbitrarily large responses.

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Paper: Sharp constants for weak estimates of Riesz Potentials when $0<s<\min\{n,2\}$ arXiv:2608.31043