The anisotropic Michael-Simon inequality
arXiv:2608.31164
2026
Regularization
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What the math gives to ML
The paper proves a quantitative mass-versus-first-variation inequality for rectifiable anisotropic varifolds in arbitrary codimension. Its transferable asset is a geometric feasibility certificate: a surface with substantial mass cannot have arbitrarily small anisotropic force, provided the anisotropy is sufficiently close to isotropic. A practical neural-network adaptation is to use the inequality as a scale-aware regularizer for neural implicit surfaces or differentiable mesh generators, discouraging large-area, weakly-curved, unstable geometric solutions. The key validation is not merely improved reconstruction error, but the predicted relationship between surface mass, anisotropic force, and dimension.
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2026
Add a Michael-Simon-inspired penalty to a neural implicit surface, neural renderer, or differentiable mesh generator. The penalty suppresses large-area sheets whose anisotropic first variation is small, which should reduce spurious folds, floating components, and geometrically unstable solutions while preserving surfaces required by the task loss.
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