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Beyond Means: Topological Causal Effects under Persistent-Homology Ignorability

arXiv:2603. 14169v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Average treatment effects (ATE) and conditional average treatment effects (CATE) are foundational causal estimands, but they target changes in expected outcomes and can miss treatment-induced changes in the shape of outcome distributions.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

Infinitesimal Causality

This paper introduces a categorical account of infinitesimal causality in Frobenius Markov categories equipped with tangent-bundle semantics. IDC captures the infinitesimal layer in which interventions act as tangent deformations of copy/discard structure.

arXiv AI
Jun 24

Infinitesimal Causality

arXiv:2606. 24621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces a categorical account of infinitesimal causality in Frobenius Markov categories equipped with tangent-bundle semantics.

By Sridhar Mahadevan
arXiv AI
Sep 16

HoloAegis: Frozen Representation, Topological Inference --- Minimally Parametric Safety Manifolds and Their Capability Boundaries for LLM Guardrails

HoloAegis is a minimally parametric topological inference framework that uses frozen representations to map text onto the unit sphere and makes decisions via Gibbs‑Boltzmann free‑energy differences over pre‑computed anchor centroids. On a frozen three‑benchmark protocol, it matches WildGuard‑7B on toxicity, outperforms it on harmful behaviors, but underperforms on oversafety detection, while ShieldGemma‑2B fails on indirect harms. The study demonstrates that geometric guardrails can substitute for LLM judges in some cases and must defer to them in others, with anchor banks reducing score variance and boundary displacement.

By Tak Ho Alex Li, Kaijie Liu, Lik-Hang Lee, Kin Chung Ho, Ping Shum, Michael K. Ng
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Persistent Magnitude Homology for Quantitative Equational Theories

The paper introduces persistent magnitude homology as a functorial invariant for quantitative equational theories, providing a barcode that captures the metric structure of the free algebra generated by a metric space of generators. It shows how this invariant combines graded magnitude homology with persistence, yielding stability estimates and a method to compare barcodes when theories are extended. Four concrete examples illustrate the theory in each homological degree.

By Luciano Melodia
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

A New Non-archimedean Metric on Persistent Homology

The article introduces a new non‑archimedean metric, the cophenetic metric, defined on persistent homology classes of all degrees. It demonstrates that zeroth persistent homology combined with this metric and various hierarchical clustering algorithms yields statistically verifiable, commensurate topological information on multiple datasets. The resulting clusters, evaluated by silhouette score and Rand index, perform well, and the metric enables visualization of inter‑relations among persistent homology classes across all degrees via rooted trees.

By \.Ismail G\"uzel, Atabey Kaygun
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 2

ZX-Calculus:Trace-Indexed Dependent Types and Epistemic Semantics

We propose ZX-Calculus (Knowledge Evolution Calculus), a conservative extension of Martin-Lof Dependent Type Theory (MLTT) integrating trace-indexed types, presheaf non-monotone semantics, and constructive AGM belief revision. A Coq mechanisation accompanies the paper (34 complete proofs; zero admits for the two central results).

arXiv AI
Sep 15

Positive Topology and Feasible Refinement: Forcing Matrices, Positivity, and Information

The paper introduces Positive Topology, a framework built on a basic relation between points (or models) and observable properties. It identifies two complementary structures: universal refinement and cover, and positivity and witnessed existence, showing that each can reconstruct the underlying relation. The authors present both information‑theoretic and game‑theoretic interpretations, and discuss how resource constraints can be integrated, illustrating applications in medical diagnosis, legal reasoning, and AI.

By Mirco A. Mannucci, Giovanni Sambin