Quantifying Power to Voltage and Frequency Dynamics for Oscillation Propagation Assessment

arXiv:2609.03929 2026 Dynamics 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 4, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper provides a frequency-domain sensitivity mechanism: linearizing a multi-timescale dynamical system yields transfer matrices from perturbation inputs to observable outputs, and frequency-dependent gains quantify where oscillations are amplified and propagated. The transferable asset is a resolvent-based diagnostic and regularizer for recurrent networks, state-space models, and neural ODE discretizations, where large gains of (j omega I - A)^(-1) identify frequencies at which hidden-state or gradient dynamics are vulnerable. A practical adaptation is to penalize resolvent peaks over a prescribed frequency band while preserving task performance, with a falsifiable prediction that reducing peak sensitivity also reduces long-horizon error growth and gradient amplification near the corresponding frequencies.

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Frequency-Response Regularization for Neural Dynamics

Treat the hidden-state update of an RNN, SSM, or neural ODE as a linearized input-output system and penalize its frequency-response peaks. The regularizer targets amplification caused by nonnormal state matrices, which may be large even when all eigenvalues are stable, and therefore controls transient oscillations and long-horizon sensitivity more directly than an eigenvalue-radius penalty.

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Paper: Quantifying Power to Voltage and Frequency Dynamics for Oscillation Propagation Assessment arXiv:2609.03929