Emergent Manifolds
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Neural network optimizers frequently become trapped in suboptimal regions of high-dimensionalloss landscapes, struggling to explore data manifolds uniformly during training. We addressthis fundamental limitation by introducing a geometric monitoring framework based on Buliga’suniform idempotent right quasigroups (IRQs) and emergent algebra. Our approach treatsembedding spaces as Riemannian manifolds equipped with dilation structures, enabling detectionof optimizer pathologies through convergence variance—a measure quantifying how uniformlythe model explores semantic space. We prove that convergence variance σ2 < 10−6 indicatesmode collapse (identical outputs), while σ2 > 10−3 signals divergent exploration patterns.Through theoretical analysis grounded in differential geometry and empirical validation on languagemodel training, we demonstrate that emergent algebra provides early warning signals foroptimizer struggles 100× more sensitive than standard metrics. Our framework enables: (1)real-time detection of local minima entrapment during training, (2) geometric interventions toescape suboptimal regions, and (3) post-training validation that multiple model outputs occupydistinct semantic regions. Experimental results show 23% reduction in mode collapse eventsand 15% improvement in sample diversity across GRPO and standard training paradigms.
Authors: Brahim, Bibi, Shillington, Andrea
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7084036283
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