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LISA: Laplacian In-context Spectral Analysis

Machine Learning 2026-02-06 v1

Abstract

We propose Laplacian In-context Spectral Analysis (LISA), a method for inference-time adaptation of Laplacian-based time-series models using only an observed prefix. LISA combines delay-coordinate embeddings and Laplacian spectral learning to produce diffusion-coordinate state representations, together with a frozen nonlinear decoder for one-step prediction. We introduce lightweight latent-space residual adapters based on either Gaussian-process regression or an attention-like Markov operator over context windows. Across forecasting and autoregressive rollout experiments, LISA improves over the frozen baseline and is often most beneficial under changing dynamics. This work links in-context adaptation to nonparametric spectral methods for dynamical systems.

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@article{arxiv.2602.04906,
  title  = {LISA: Laplacian In-context Spectral Analysis},
  author = {Julio Candanedo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.04906},
  year   = {2026}
}
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