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Scale-Consistent State-Space Dynamics via Fractal of Stationary Transformations

Machine Learning 2026-01-28 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Recent deep learning models increasingly rely on depth without structural guarantees on the validity of intermediate representations, rendering early stopping and adaptive computation ill-posed. We address this limitation by formulating a structural requirement for state-space model's scale-consistent latent dynamics across iterative refinement, and derive Fractal of Stationary Transformations (FROST), which enforces a self-similar representation manifold through a fractal inductive bias. Under this geometry, intermediate states correspond to different resolutions of a shared representation, and we provide a geometric analysis establishing contraction and stable convergence across iterations. As a consequence of this scale-consistent structure, halting naturally admits a ranking-based formulation driven by intrinsic feature quality rather than extrinsic objectives. Controlled experiments on ImageNet-100 empirically verify the predicted scale-consistent behavior, showing that adaptive efficiency emerges from the aligned latent geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2601.19551,
  title  = {Scale-Consistent State-Space Dynamics via Fractal of Stationary Transformations},
  author = {Geunhyeok Yu and Hyoseok Hwang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.19551},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

8 pages (excluding 2 pages of references), 3 tables, 2 figures. Appendix: 4 pages