arXiv:2606. 02596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The curvature exponent $\alpha$ in $h_k \propto \sigma_k^\alpha$ -- governing how Hessian eigenvalues scale with gradient singular values -- varies systematically across layer types ($\alpha \approx 2$ for convolutions, $\approx 1$ for transformer attention, $< 1$ for MLP up-projections).
By Anherutowa Calvo
arXiv:2606. 06329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating local mean curvature at each point of a high-dimensional dataset is a key ingredient of geometry-aware machine learning algorithms, such as the Mean Curvature Boundary Points (MCBP) method.
By Alexandre L. M. Levada
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:2607. 22931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Analytic Continual Learning (ACL) offers a computationally efficient alternative to gradient-based approaches.
By Quyen Tran, Hai Nguyen, Quan Dao, Zhuowei Li, Nam Le, Trung Le, Dimitris Metaxas
arXiv:2605. 07914v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sharpness-aware and gradient-alignment methods have been shown to improve generalization, however each family of methods targets a single geometric property of the loss landscape, while ignoring the other.
By Aristotelis Ballas, Christos Diou
arXiv:2607. 25624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Positive quadratic networks admit the low-rank representation f_U(x)=x^top UU^top x, where Uinmathbb{R}^{dtimes r} is identifiable only up to right orthogonal multiplication, representing a rank-r PSD matrix Q=UU^top.
By Pengcheng Cheng
arXiv:2606. 30523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Covariance matrices serve as compact descriptors of feature distributions in many machine-learning pipelines, including domain adaptation and Gaussian embeddings.
By Woojoo Na, Jennifer Dy
arXiv:2606. 00542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shampoo-style optimizers approximate gradient covariance matrices using Kronecker-factored structures.
By Bing Liu, Wenjie Zhou, Chengcheng Zhao
arXiv:2607. 17822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Root Mean Square Normalization has become the de facto standard for accelerating modern sequence models, its reliance on the quadratic accumulation of independent scalars ($\sum x^2$) inherently triggers outlier-induced numerical instability, gradient starvation, and anisotropic phase distortion.
By Sungwoo Goo, Hwi-yeol Yun, Sangkeun Jung
arXiv:2607. 24518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symmetric non-negative matrix factorization (SymNMF) recovers latent group structure from a dependence matrix, but its dense, quadratic-memory objective has confined prior work to moderate sizes.
By Lavinia Ghita, Dhruv Desai, Jake Goldberg, Roman Yokunda Enzmann
arXiv:2606. 05957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Singular learning theory and information geometry have studied the same parameter spaces in mostly separate vocabularies: the former computes Bayesian invariants in resolved coordinates, the latter works in original coordinates under a non-degeneracy assumption that overparameterised models routinely violate.
By Tejas Pradeep Shirodkar
arXiv:2606. 09077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Legendre-Fenchel (LF) transform is a fundamental tool in convex analysis and machine learning that maps lower semi-continuous functions to their convex conjugates.
By Basile Plus-Gourdon, Frank Nielsen