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Theorem 3.1 asserts that minimising L_total = L_rec + lambda * L_div is *formally
equivalent* to max_theta I(X;F') - lambda * TC(F').
The proof (App. A.1) decomposes into two independent claims, which we audit separately
to double precision, each with a control that relaxes the stated condition:
(A) Sufficiency. Under a Gaussian decoder p(X|F') = N(D(F'), sigma^2 I),
minimising the MSE maximises the Barber-Agakov variational lower bound
I_LB(X;F') = H(X) + E[log p(x|f')] on I(X;F').
-> check I_LB is an exact affine, strictly decreasing function of the MSE,
and that I_LB <= I(X;F') for a case where the true MI is known in closed form.
CONTROL: a Laplace decoder, where the affine MSE<->ELBO identity must fail.
(B) Independence. For Gaussian F',
TC(F') = 1/2 sum_i log(Sigma_ii) - 1/2 log det(Sigma).
The paper's L_div = -1/2 log det(I + d/(k eps^2) F'^T F') is claimed to be
"geometrically equivalent" to minimising TC.
-> check the Gaussian TC identity itself to double precision (exact),
and then measure how tightly L_div tracks TC.
CONTROL: non-Gaussian (uniform / heavy-tailed) latents, where the Gaussian
entropy formula and hence the TC identity must break.
This is a numerical audit, not a proof replacement; it needs no GPU.
"""
import json
import numpy as np
RNG = np.random.default_rng(0)
LOG2PI = np.log(2.0 * np.pi)
report = {}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------- (A) sufficiency
def gaussian_elbo(x, xhat, sigma2):
"""E[log p(x|f')] for p = N(xhat, sigma^2 I), in nats, per sample."""
d = x.shape[1]
sq = ((x - xhat) ** 2).sum(1)
return float((-0.5 * d * (LOG2PI + np.log(sigma2)) - sq / (2 * sigma2)).mean())
def part_a():
n, d, sigma2 = 20000, 6, 0.7
x = RNG.normal(size=(n, d))
out = {}
# A1: log-likelihood is exactly affine in the MSE, with negative slope
mses, elbos = [], []
for scale in np.linspace(0.0, 2.0, 25):
xhat = x + scale * RNG.normal(size=(n, d))
mse = float(((x - xhat) ** 2).mean()) # per-element MSE = L_rec
mses.append(mse)
elbos.append(gaussian_elbo(x, xhat, sigma2))
mses, elbos = np.array(mses), np.array(elbos)
slope = -d / (2 * sigma2) / d # d(ELBO)/d(mse_per_element)
pred = elbos[0] + slope * d * (mses - mses[0])
out["affine_max_abs_dev_nats"] = float(np.abs(pred - elbos).max())
out["slope_sign_negative"] = bool(slope < 0)
out["spearman_mse_vs_elbo"] = float(
np.corrcoef(np.argsort(np.argsort(mses)), np.argsort(np.argsort(elbos)))[0, 1])
# A2: I_LB <= I(X;F') on a jointly Gaussian pair with closed-form MI.
# X = F' + noise, F' ~ N(0, I), noise ~ N(0, s^2 I): I = d/2 log(1 + 1/s^2).
s2 = 0.5
f = RNG.normal(size=(n, d))
xg = f + np.sqrt(s2) * RNG.normal(size=(n, d))
true_mi = 0.5 * d * np.log(1 + 1.0 / s2)
hx = 0.5 * d * (LOG2PI + np.log(1 + s2) + 1) # differential entropy of X
# optimal Gaussian decoder E[X|F'] = F', residual variance s2
i_lb = hx + gaussian_elbo(xg, f, s2)
out["true_MI_nats"] = float(true_mi)
out["I_LB_at_optimal_decoder_nats"] = float(i_lb)
out["bound_holds_I_LB_le_MI"] = bool(i_lb <= true_mi + 1e-9)
out["bound_gap_nats"] = float(true_mi - i_lb)
# a deliberately worse decoder must give a looser bound
i_lb_bad = hx + gaussian_elbo(xg, 0.5 * f, s2)
out["I_LB_suboptimal_decoder_nats"] = float(i_lb_bad)
out["worse_decoder_is_looser"] = bool(i_lb_bad < i_lb)
# CONTROL: Laplace decoder -> the MSE<->log-likelihood identity must break
b = 0.6
lap_ll, lap_mse = [], []
for scale in np.linspace(0.05, 2.0, 25):
xhat = x + scale * RNG.normal(size=(n, d))
lap_mse.append(float(((x - xhat) ** 2).mean()))
lap_ll.append(float((-d * np.log(2 * b) - np.abs(x - xhat).sum(1) / b).mean()))
lap_mse, lap_ll = np.array(lap_mse), np.array(lap_ll)
A = np.vstack([lap_mse, np.ones_like(lap_mse)]).T
coef, *_ = np.linalg.lstsq(A, lap_ll, rcond=None)
out["control_laplace_affine_max_abs_dev_nats"] = float(
np.abs(A @ coef - lap_ll).max())
return out
# ------------------------------------------------------------- (B) independence
def gaussian_tc_closed_form(cov):
return float(0.5 * np.log(np.diag(cov)).sum() - 0.5 * np.linalg.slogdet(cov)[1])
def gaussian_tc_from_entropies(cov):
k = cov.shape[0]
h_marg = sum(0.5 * (LOG2PI + 1 + np.log(cov[i, i])) for i in range(k))
h_joint = 0.5 * (k * (LOG2PI + 1) + np.linalg.slogdet(cov)[1])
return float(h_marg - h_joint)
def tcr_loss(F, eps=0.5):
"""L_div of Eq. 3 for a single sample's token matrix F in R^{k x d}."""
k, d = F.shape
Fn = F / np.linalg.norm(F, axis=1, keepdims=True)
M = np.eye(k) + (d / (k * eps ** 2)) * (Fn @ Fn.T)
return float(-0.5 * np.linalg.slogdet(M)[1])
def random_cov(k, rho):
"""Equicorrelated covariance with unit marginals: TC grows monotonically with rho."""
return (1 - rho) * np.eye(k) + rho * np.ones((k, k))
def part_b():
out = {}
k = 8
# B1: the two Gaussian TC expressions (sum H(f_i) - H(F) vs Eq. 11) agree exactly
devs = []
for rho in np.linspace(0.0, 0.95, 40):
cov = random_cov(k, rho)
devs.append(abs(gaussian_tc_closed_form(cov) - gaussian_tc_from_entropies(cov)))
out["TC_identity_max_abs_dev_nats"] = float(max(devs))
# B2: TC = 0 iff the covariance is diagonal (Lemma 3.2 direction)
out["TC_at_rho_0"] = gaussian_tc_closed_form(random_cov(k, 0.0))
out["TC_at_rho_0.9"] = gaussian_tc_closed_form(random_cov(k, 0.9))
out["TC_monotone_in_rho"] = bool(
np.all(np.diff([gaussian_tc_closed_form(random_cov(k, r))
for r in np.linspace(0, 0.95, 40)]) > 0))
# B3: does the paper's L_div actually track TC? Sample token sets with a
# controlled correlation and compare the *ordering* and correlation of
# L_div against the true Gaussian TC of the token Gram/covariance.
d = 128
tcs, divs = [], []
for rho in np.linspace(0.0, 0.95, 40):
cov = random_cov(k, rho)
L = np.linalg.cholesky(cov)
F = L @ RNG.normal(size=(k, d)) # k tokens, correlation rho
emp = np.cov(F) # empirical k x k covariance
tcs.append(gaussian_tc_closed_form(emp))
divs.append(tcr_loss(F))
tcs, divs = np.array(tcs), np.array(divs)
out["pearson_Ldiv_vs_TC"] = float(np.corrcoef(divs, tcs)[0, 1])
# is the relation an *exact* identity, or only a monotone surrogate?
A = np.vstack([tcs, np.ones_like(tcs)]).T
coef, *_ = np.linalg.lstsq(A, divs, rcond=None)
out["affine_fit_Ldiv_vs_TC_slope"] = float(coef[0])
out["affine_fit_Ldiv_vs_TC_max_abs_resid_nats"] = float(np.abs(A @ coef - divs).max())
out["Ldiv_range_nats"] = float(divs.max() - divs.min())
out["spearman_Ldiv_vs_TC"] = float(np.corrcoef(
np.argsort(np.argsort(divs)), np.argsort(np.argsort(tcs)))[0, 1])
out["Ldiv_at_rho_0"] = float(divs[0])
out["Ldiv_at_rho_0.95"] = float(divs[-1])
out["Ldiv_increases_with_redundancy"] = bool(divs[-1] > divs[0])
# L_div is minimised by orthogonal tokens (Lemma 3.2)
Q = np.linalg.qr(RNG.normal(size=(d, k)))[0].T # k orthonormal rows
out["Ldiv_orthogonal_tokens"] = tcr_loss(Q)
dup = np.repeat(Q[:1], k, axis=0) + 1e-6 * RNG.normal(size=(k, d))
out["Ldiv_collapsed_tokens"] = tcr_loss(dup)
out["orthogonal_is_the_minimiser"] = bool(
out["Ldiv_orthogonal_tokens"] < out["Ldiv_collapsed_tokens"])
rand_devs = [tcr_loss(RNG.normal(size=(k, d))) for _ in range(200)]
out["Ldiv_random_tokens_mean"] = float(np.mean(rand_devs))
out["orthogonal_beats_random"] = bool(
out["Ldiv_orthogonal_tokens"] <= min(rand_devs))
# B4: Sylvester check - the d x d form in Eq. 3 and the k x k Gram form agree
F = RNG.normal(size=(k, d))
Fn = F / np.linalg.norm(F, axis=1, keepdims=True)
c = d / (k * 0.5 ** 2)
lhs = np.linalg.slogdet(np.eye(d) + c * (Fn.T @ Fn))[1]
rhs = np.linalg.slogdet(np.eye(k) + c * (Fn @ Fn.T))[1]
out["sylvester_abs_dev"] = float(abs(lhs - rhs))
# CONTROL: non-Gaussian latents -> the Gaussian entropy formula (and hence the
# claimed TC identity) is no longer valid. We compare the Gaussian-formula TC
# against a k-NN (Kozachenko-Leonenko) estimate of the true TC.
def kl_entropy(samples):
from scipy.spatial import cKDTree
from scipy.special import digamma, gammaln
n, dd = samples.shape
tree = cKDTree(samples)
eps_ = tree.query(samples, k=4)[0][:, 3]
eps_ = np.maximum(eps_, 1e-12)
log_vol = dd / 2 * np.log(np.pi) - gammaln(dd / 2 + 1)
return float(digamma(n) - digamma(3) + log_vol + dd * np.mean(np.log(eps_)))
def true_tc(samples):
h_joint = kl_entropy(samples)
h_marg = sum(kl_entropy(samples[:, [i]]) for i in range(samples.shape[1]))
return h_marg - h_joint
n, kk, rho = 40000, 3, 0.7
cov = random_cov(kk, rho)
L = np.linalg.cholesky(cov)
zg = RNG.normal(size=(n, kk)) @ L.T
# matched-covariance uniform (platykurtic) and Student-t (heavy-tailed) latents
u = (RNG.uniform(-np.sqrt(3), np.sqrt(3), size=(n, kk))) @ L.T
t = (RNG.standard_t(3, size=(n, kk)) / np.sqrt(3.0)) @ L.T
for nm, z in (("gaussian", zg), ("uniform", u), ("student_t3", t)):
emp = np.cov(z.T)
out[f"control_{nm}_TC_gauss_formula"] = gaussian_tc_closed_form(emp)
out[f"control_{nm}_TC_knn_estimate"] = float(true_tc(z))
out[f"control_{nm}_abs_error"] = abs(
out[f"control_{nm}_TC_gauss_formula"] - out[f"control_{nm}_TC_knn_estimate"])
return out
if __name__ == "__main__":
report["A_sufficiency"] = part_a()
report["B_independence"] = part_b()
print(json.dumps(report, indent=2))
with open("results/theorem31_audit.json", "w") as fh:
json.dump(report, fh, indent=2)
a, b = report["A_sufficiency"], report["B_independence"]
print("\n---- verdict ----")
print(f"A. MSE <-> Gaussian ELBO affine identity: max dev "
f"{a['affine_max_abs_dev_nats']:.3e} nats "
f"(Laplace control: {a['control_laplace_affine_max_abs_dev_nats']:.3f} nats)")
print(f"A. I_LB <= I(X;F'): {a['bound_holds_I_LB_le_MI']} "
f"(gap {a['bound_gap_nats']:.3e} nats at the optimal decoder)")
print(f"B. Gaussian TC identity: max dev {b['TC_identity_max_abs_dev_nats']:.3e} nats")
print(f"B. Sylvester d x d == k x k: {b['sylvester_abs_dev']:.3e}")
print(f"B. corr(L_div, TC) = {b['pearson_Ldiv_vs_TC']:.4f} "
f"(Spearman {b['spearman_Ldiv_vs_TC']:.4f})")
print(f"B. L_div(orthogonal) = {b['Ldiv_orthogonal_tokens']:.3f} < "
f"L_div(collapsed) = {b['Ldiv_collapsed_tokens']:.3f}")
print("B. control (Gaussian formula vs kNN TC): " + ", ".join(
f"{nm} err {b[f'control_{nm}_abs_error']:.3f}"
for nm in ("gaussian", "uniform", "student_t3")))
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