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A Simplified View of the Jacobian Conjecture

The full conjecture is stated over abstract fields, but the counterexample is a concrete 3D function that we can explain and visualize using familiar geometric ideas and a little algebra. The post A Simplified View of the Jacobian Conjecture appeared first on Towards Data Science .

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Generalization in Nonlinear Least Squares via Learned Feature Geometry

arXiv:2606. 08799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the generalization of ridge-regularized nonlinear least-squares models via on-average algorithmic stability, deriving error bounds for local minimizers in terms of a data-dependent effective dimension that reflects the geometry of the gradient model at the trained parameters, through the empirical Jacobian Gram matrix and a residual--curvature term.

By Ayub Kharel, Ilja Kuzborski, Patrick Rebeschini, Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

The Reverse Telescoping Coordinate System for Positive Definite Matrices: Geometry, Computation, and Generative Modeling

arXiv:2606. 15442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We design a new unconstrained coordinate system where a $p\times p$ symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix $\Theta$ is represented by a reverse telescoping map $\Theta(x)=\rm{RT}(x)$, with $x=(v,d,r)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^{(p-1)}\times\mathbb{R}^{p(p-1)/2}$, representing respectively the log volume or log determinant; and the shape, as encoded by log relative diagonal scales and partial covariances among the nodes.

By Anindya Bhadra
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Iso-Riemannian Optimization on Learned Data Manifolds

arXiv:2510. 21033v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a theory of iso-Riemannian optimization for problems constrained to learned data manifolds, a setting in which classical Riemannian optimization - and Riemannian gradient descent in particular - can be poorly suited.

By Willem Diepeveen, Melanie Weber
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Minimal surfaces, Knots, and Neural Networks

arXiv:2605. 26234v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A recent conjecture by Joel Fine posits a relationship between the coefficients of the HOMFLY polynomial of a knot $K$ in the 3-sphere $S^3$, and the signed count of minimal surfaces in hyperbolic 4-space $\mathrm{H}^4$ meeting the sphere at infinity at $K$, with prescribed genus and self-intersection number.

By Tancredi Schettini Gherardini, Marco Usula