Ananke: Contractive Torus Attractor Networks
We introduce Ananke, a representation-learning framework that scaffolds latent representations onto a structured product-torus prior, and its flagship visual backbone realization, Contractive Torus Attractor Networks (CTAN). By factorizing high-dimensional latent spaces into an orthogonal direct sum of two-dimensional phase planes ($\bigoplus_{k=1}^K \R^2$), Ananke coordinates feature updates via a decoupled dual-phase continuous flow: skew-symmetric Hamiltonian transport moves features tangentially along energy level sets to preserve semantic phase invariants, while signed gradient dissipation contracts transverse perturbations normally toward target invariant manifolds. For circular pot...
| Authors | Zhongping Ji |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 21 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 21 September 2026 |
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