A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.
SGD and weight decay encourage neural networks to learn low-rank weight matrices.
problem The bias of SGD towards low-rank weight matrices in neural networks.
method The study investigates the effect of SGD and weight decay on the rank of weight matrices in neural networks, both theoretically and empirically.
result Training with SGD and weight decay induces a bias towards rank minimization in weight matrices, which becomes more pronounced with smaller batch sizes and stronger weight decay.
We study minimal graphic functions on complete Riemannian manifolds $\Si$ with non-negative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature decay. We derive global bounds for the gradients for minimal graphic functions of linear growth only on one side. Then we can obtain a Liouville type theorem with …
We study minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds of non-negative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature decay at infinity. By comparison with capped spherical cones, we identify a precise borderline for the Ricci curvature decay. Above this value, no complete area-minimizing hypersurfaces exist. Be…
We prove a general asymptotic decay lemma which is applicable in various contexts. As an example, the general theorem is shown to give lower growth estimates for entire and exterior solutions of the minimal surface equation.
We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for f-minimal graphs in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds M. f-minimal hypersurfaces are natural generalizations of self-shrinkers which play a crucial role in the study of mean curvature flow. In the first part of this paper, we prove the existence of f-minimal graphs with pre…
We present an explicit example of a fast decaying solution to the modified Novikov--Veselov equation with a one-point singularity in the space-time. It is constructed by using the geometrical interpretation of the Moutard transformation of solutions to this equation and the Enneper minimal surface.
Kernel Density Estimation is a very popular technique of approximating a density function from samples. The accuracy is generally well-understood and depends, roughly speaking, on the kernel decay and local smoothness of the true density. However concrete statements in the literature are often invoked in very specific …
In this paper we prove a local removable singularity theorem for certain minimal laminations with isolated singularities in a Riemannian three-manifold. This removable singularity theorem is the key result used in our proof that a complete, embedded minimal surface in R3 with quadratic decay of curvature ha…
We consider complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with quadratically decaying lower Ricci curvature bounds and minimal volume growth. We first prove a rigidity result showing that ends with strongly minimal volume growth are isometric to warped product manifolds. Next we consider the almost rigid case in which manif…
Stochastic (sub)gradient methods require step size schedule tuning to perform well in practice. Classical tuning strategies decay the step size polynomially and lead to optimal sublinear rates on (strongly) convex problems. An alternative schedule, popular in nonconvex optimization, is called \emph{geometric step decay…
We consider a random walk on the mapping class group of a surface of finite type. We assume that the random walk is determined by a probability measure whose support is finite and generates a non-elementary subgroup H. We further assume that H is not consisting only of lifts with respect to any one covering. Then w…
We show that a complete Euclidean submanifold with minimal index of relative nullity ν0>0 and Ricci curvature with a certain controlled decay must be a ν0-cylinder. This is an extension of the classical Hartman cylindricity theorem.
This paper concerns some stability properties of higher dimensional catenoids in $\rr^{n+1}$ with n≥3. We prove that higher dimensional catenoids have index one. We use δ-stablity for minimal hypersurfaces and show that the catenoid is n2-stable and a complete n2-stable minimal hypersurface is a …
In a 2004 paper, Lindblad demonstrated that the minimal surface equation on Rl1,1 describing graphical time-like minimal surfaces embedded in R1,2 enjoy small data global existence for compactly supported initial data, using Christodoulou's conformal method. Here we give a different, geometr…
The paper connects neural collapse and low-rank bias in networks with L2 regularization.
problem Understanding the emergence of low-rank bias and neural collapse in L2-regularized networks.
method Unified theoretical framework linking TCV and rank of weight matrices, proving global optimality of DNC1, and establishing a benign landscape property.
result Zero TCV across intermediate layers minimizes representation cost under natural architectural constraints, and DNC1 is globally optimal.
We introduce a new weight-decay scaling rule to maintain sublayer gains across different widths in modern scale-invariant architectures.
problem In modern scale-invariant architectures, training quickly enters a steady state where normalization layers create backward scale sensitivity, degrading learning-rate transfer.
method We introduce a weight-decay scaling rule for AdamW that preserves sublayer gain across widths by equalizing the effective learning rate.
result Our empirical weight-decay scaling rule λ2∝d approximately keeps sublayer gains width invariant, enabling zero-shot transfer of learning rate and weight decay.
We study ends of an oriented, immersed, non-compact, complete Willmore surfaces, which are critical points of the integral of the square of the mean curvature, in asymptotically flat spaces of any dimension; assuming the surface has L2-bounded second fundamental form and satisfies a weak power growth on the area. We…
We prove structure theorems for complete manifolds satisfying both the Ricci curvature lower bound and the weighted Poincaré inequality. In the process, a sharp decay estimate for the minimal positive Green's function is obtained. This estimate only depends on the weight function of the Poincaré inequality, and yields …
We study dynamic hedging of counterparty risk for a portfolio of credit derivatives. Our empirically driven credit model consists of interacting default intensities which ramp up and then decay after the occurrence of credit events. Using the Galtchouk-Kunita-Watanabe decomposition of the counterparty risk price paymen…
In this paper we prove two theorems. The first one is a structure result that describes the extrinsic geometry of an embedded surface with constant mean curvature (possibly zero) in a homogeneously regular Riemannian three-manifold, in any small neighborhood of a point of large almost-maximal curvature. We next apply t…