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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 9, 2026
Raises a question worth testing. It does not answer one.
This is an unpeer-reviewed methodological preprint introducing Settling, an equilibrium-based inference operator to handle non-convex validity sets in machine learning. The authors demonstrate the algorithm's feasibility in a reproducible synthetic geometric diagnostic (99/100 success, vs. 0/100 for mean-seeking baseline) and a 1,200-run sensitivity study, but explicitly state that empirical validation on learned high-dimensional problems remains an open question and cross-domain applications are mechanism illustrations only.
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In 100-context geometric diagnostic: mean-seeking baseline 0/100 success, stochastic denoising 100/100, Settling 99/100 Sensitivity study yields 97-100% success across obstacle-jitter ranges up to 0.20 and 94-100% across initialization perturbations from 0.05 to 0.50 Settling produces substantially lower trajectory roughness compared to baselines in geometric diagnostic
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This is a methodological paper introducing a new algorithm (Settling) for a machine-learning problem; it demonstrates proof-of-concept in a geometric diagnostic but explicitly states that learned high-dimensional validation remains an open empirical test, with no clinical or real-world validation data.
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Many learning systems return a single point estimate even when admissible outputs form disconnected or non-convex sets. Under squared loss, an ambiguous conditional distribution can therefore have a Bayes-optimal conditional mean that is invalid. We formalize this failure as conditional mean collapse and introduce Settling, an equilibrium-based inference operator that separates proposal generation, consistency evaluation, and test-time equilibrium selection. The operator treats a mean-seeking proposal as an initialization and refines it toward a locally stable configuration; conditional on initialization, refinement is deterministic. We establish exact-gradient descent, local convergence, and an inexact-gradient robustness condition relevant to learned consistency critics. In a reproducible 100-context geometric diagnostic, the mean-seeking baseline succeeds in 0/100 contexts, stochastic denoising in 100/100, and Settling in 99/100 while producing substantially lower trajectory roughness. A 1,200-run sensitivity study yields 97-100% success across obstacle-jitter ranges up to 0.20 and 94-100% across one-time initialization perturbations from 0.05 to 0.50. Cross-domain panels remain mechanism illustrations; learned high-dimensional validation remains an open empirical test.
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