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Saleh Nikooroo, Thomas Engel

A framework combining structured transformations with adaptive correction paths, called Physics-Guided Neural Networks (PGNNs), demonstrates how architectural design can systematically shape learning dynamics. This approach improves gradient flow, ensures stable internal representations, and achieves competitive performance with reduced variance and enhanced robustness in deep learning models.

Key insights

• Architectural structure, specifically through a shaping operator, can systematically regularize the spectral properties of layer transformations, leading to better-conditioned gradient norms and more stable learning.
• An adaptive corrective pathway preserves model expressivity and adaptively absorbs residual errors, forming a stable two-way system that implicitly converges to structured representations over training.
• This compositional framework provides a theoretical basis for improved generalization bounds and guarantees stable fixed-point convergence for recursive architectural designs, offering a principled approach to architectural design.

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