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The Geometry of Semantic Space: A Continuous Geometric Framework for the Transformer Architecture

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2026-07-19 v1 Computation and Language Machine Learning

Abstract

We present a continuous geometric framework that models the discrete algebraic operations of the Transformer architecture as an integro-differential equation (IDE) on a semantic fiber bundle \calE=\calM×Rd\calE = \calM \times \R^d. Beginning from a single geometric axiom -- that the token sequence forms a discrete 11-manifold equipped with a canonical measure lattice -- we translate every core component of the modern Transformer (RMSNorm, RoPE, Softmax Attention, FFN, Residual Stream, SGD, Weight Decay) into a cohesive vocabulary of differential geometry, measure theory, and stochastic calculus. The resulting framework yields quantitative predictions spanning entropic optimal transport (Attention as a Schr\"odinger bridge) and non-equilibrium thermodynamics (SGD as It\^{o} diffusion violating detailed balance). We conduct a six-part experimental campaign across five architectures (Qwen3, LLaMA\nobreakdash-3.1, Gemma\nobreakdash-3, GPT-2, Mistral) spanning 124124M to 88B parameters. The empirical observables are quantitatively consistent with the geometric predictions: the ϵ1/2\epsilon^{-1/2} Lipschitz scaling calibration at machine precision (R2=1.000R^2 = 1.000), the Lie--Trotter operator-splitting torsion, the symmetric ablation instability confirming the Dual-Law of Topological Stability, the \calO(1/k)\calO(1/\sqrt{k}) thermodynamic suppression of Poincar\'e recurrence on the RoPE torus, the thermodynamic context-limit phase transition, and the Non-Equilibrium Steady State parameter vortex -- verified across two optimizers (AdamW and Pure SGD) to exclude momentum artifacts. The results demonstrate that analyzing Transformers through the lens of continuous stochastic differential geometry provides a predictive descriptive vocabulary for the stability limits, context bounds, and optimization dynamics of Large Language Models.

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@article{arxiv.2607.17146,
  title  = {The Geometry of Semantic Space: A Continuous Geometric Framework for the Transformer Architecture},
  author = {Zhihua Liang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.17146},
  year   = {2026}
}