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Induced Metric from Loss Embedding

The pullback metric G=γI+ξ ∇L ∇L⊤G = \gamma I + \xi\, \nabla L\, \nabla L^\topG=γI+ξ∇L∇L⊤ on parameter space, obtained by embedding θ↦(θ,L(θ))\theta \mapsto (\theta, L(\theta))θ↦(θ,L(θ)) into RN+1\mathbb{R}^{N+1}RN+1 with block-diagonal ambient metric diag(γIN,ξ)\mathrm{diag}(\gamma I_N, \xi)diag(γIN​,ξ). The Sherman-Morrison inverse gives a Riemannian gradient flow θ˙=−∇L/(γ+ξ∥∇L∥2)\dot\theta = -\nabla L / (\gamma + \xi \|\nabla L\|^2)θ˙=−∇L/(γ+ξ∥∇L∥2), which is a smoothed variant of gradient clipping. This is the base construction underlying the learnable, off-diagonal, Newton-target, and output-embedding (Gauss-Newton / KFAC) variants tracked in the rest of the project.

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Published
Mar 27, 2026
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Jun 3, 2026

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definitiondifferential-geometryinduced-metricoptimizationpreconditioningRiemannian-geometry