Ratio and limiting zero distribution asymptotics for symmetric multiple orthogonal polynomials
arXiv:2609.02801
2026
Dynamics
2 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 3, 2026
What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a constructive family of sparse delayed recurrences whose characteristic polynomials have exact (r+1)-fold rotational symmetry and whose eigenvalues lie on an (r+1)-ray star. This structure can be transferred into neural state-space or polynomial-filter layers as a parameter-efficient alternative to unconstrained deep recurrence: periodic positive coefficients impose predictable spectral geometry while reducing the number of learned parameters. A second transferable tool is diagonal similarity scaling of the associated Hessenberg operator, which gives a cheap way to control non-normal amplification through an induced infinity-norm bound. The strongest first experiments are small recurrent layers and graph polynomial filters, comparing stability and accuracy against untied delayed residual blocks at equal parameter count.
Ideas from this paper
Unverified
2026
Replace an untied stack of recurrent or polynomial-filter blocks with a delayed recurrence whose coefficients repeat with period r and whose characteristic polynomial has exact (r+1)-fold rotational symmetry. The resulting layer couples the current state to a state r steps back, producing a structured spectrum rather than arbitrary eigenvalues and potentially improving long-horizon propagation with fewer parameters.
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Unverified
2026
Use diagonal similarity scaling to reduce the induced infinity norm of a sparse recurrent transition or companion operator before or during training. Similarity preserves eigenvalues while changing coordinate-wise amplification, so the method can suppress non-normal transient growth without changing the represented linear dynamics.
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