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arxiv: 2606.17816 · v1 · pith:AX36XNWFnew · submitted 2026-06-16 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

Conservation Laws for Modern Neural Architectures

Viet-Hoang Tran , Vinh Khanh Bui , Tan Lai Ngoc , Nam Nguyen , Tuan Dam , Tan M. Nguyen This is my paper

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keywords conservation lawsgradient flowneural networksattention mechanismsmixture of expertsGELU activationimplicit bias
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Conservation laws in gradient flow extend to modern neural architectures with GELU, attention, and mixture-of-experts.

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The paper develops a unified framework that derives conservation laws for gradient flow in feedforward networks using GELU, SiLU, and SwiGLU activations, as well as in multihead attention with sinusoidal and rotary encodings and in mixture-of-experts models with varied gating. Earlier work established such laws only for linear and ReLU networks; this extends the same derivation style to current components. The resulting invariants describe quantities that remain constant during training, revealing the implicit bias of gradient descent in these architectures. Experiments confirm that the predicted quantities stay fixed in practice. A sympathetic reader cares because these constants help explain why over-parameterized modern models succeed at generalization.

Core claim

We develop a unified framework to characterize conservation laws for contemporary models, including feedforward networks with GELU, SiLU, and SwiGLU activations, multihead attention with sinusoidal and rotary positional encodings, and Mixture-of-Experts architectures under diverse gating designs. Our theoretical findings are supported by experiments that validate the predicted invariants.

What carries the argument

The unified framework that extends the style of conservation-law derivations from linear and ReLU networks to the listed modern activations and architectural components.

If this is right

  • Invariants exist and can be computed explicitly for attention layers with rotary encodings.
  • Different MoE gating functions lead to distinct conserved quantities during training.
  • The same framework covers SwiGLU and SiLU without requiring new proof techniques.
  • Experiments on these architectures show the invariants hold numerically.
  • Implicit bias of gradient descent therefore manifests through conservation laws in contemporary models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The framework could be applied to test whether conservation laws appear in other components such as normalization layers.
  • If the invariants influence generalization, they might guide regularization choices in practice.
  • Extending the derivations to new positional encodings would immediately yield testable predictions for training dynamics.

Load-bearing premise

The same style of derivation that produces conservation laws for linear and ReLU networks extends without major modification to the listed modern activations and architectural components under standard gradient flow.

What would settle it

Train a small feedforward network with GELU activation under gradient flow and measure whether the quantity predicted by the framework remains constant to machine precision across many steps; significant deviation falsifies the claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.17816 by Nam Nguyen, Tan Lai Ngoc, Tan M. Nguyen, Tuan Dam, Viet-Hoang Tran, Vinh Khanh Bui.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The disconnectedness of the level set {a 2 − b 2 = c}. Thus, a 2 −b 2 is an invariant of the characteristic flow. It fol￾lows that h must be constant on each connected component of the level sets {a 2 − b 2 = c} for c ∈ R 2 . Remark 3.1. For readers who may wonder, this constancy condition does not imply that h can necessarily be expressed as a function of a 2 − b 2 , even when h is C 1 . The reason is tha… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Conservation error scales with learning rate. (a-b) MHA and SwiGLU FFN conservation tracking on ImageNet-1K across three learning rates. (c-d) RoPE and MoE gating conservation on Wikitext-103. and both Dense MoE and SMoE variants with softmax and normalized sigmoid gating. For computer vision, we uti￾lize Vision Transformers (ViT) (Dosovitskiy et al., 2021) on CIFAR-10 (Krizhevsky et al., 2009) and ImageNe… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Conservation error tracking during training. (a-b) Per-step conservation metrics for multi-head attention and SwiGLU FFNs on CIFAR. (c-d) Average conservation errors for RoPE attention blocks and MoE softmax gating on PTB, computed as mean relative L2 deviations from initialization across all tracked quantities. Penn Treebank. For the Penn Treebank language modeling task, we adopt a Transformer architectur… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Normalized sigmoid gating conservation errors on Penn Treebank (left, full-batch) and WikiText-103 (right, mini-batch SGD). Conservation errors exhibit linear O(τ 2 k) scaling with learning rate-dependent bounds. Thin lines: individual layers; thick lines: averages. problematic: non-conserved quantities lack theoretical bounds on their evolution, and any bounded linear combination of conservation laws woul… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Normalized errors of conserved (CL) and non-conserved quantities (Non-CL) on ImageNet-1K and Wikitext-103. Results [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_5.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Understanding gradient descent dynamics is key to explaining the success of over-parameterized models, where implicit bias manifests through conservation laws in gradient flow. While such laws are well understood for linear and ReLU networks, they remain largely unexplored for modern architectures. This work develops a unified framework to characterize conservation laws for contemporary models, including feedforward networks with GELU, SiLU, and SwiGLU activations, multihead attention with sinusoidal and rotary positional encodings, and Mixture-of-Experts architectures under diverse gating designs. Our theoretical findings are supported by experiments that validate the predicted invariants.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper develops a unified framework to characterize conservation laws under gradient flow for modern neural architectures, extending prior results on linear and ReLU networks to feedforward networks with GELU, SiLU, and SwiGLU activations, multihead attention with sinusoidal and rotary positional encodings, and Mixture-of-Experts models under diverse gating designs; the theoretical findings are stated to be supported by experiments validating the predicted invariants.

Significance. If the derivations hold, the work would meaningfully extend the study of implicit bias and conserved quantities to contemporary architectures that dominate current practice, providing a potential tool for analyzing generalization in transformers and MoE models. The experimental validation component is a positive element that could strengthen the contribution if the invariants are shown to be non-trivial and accurately predicted.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that 'theoretical findings are supported by experiments validating the invariants' is made without any derivation details, error analysis, or discussion of potential gaps for the listed modern activations; this prevents assessment of whether the invariants are actually conserved under standard gradient flow.
  2. [Theoretical framework] The central extension assumes that algebraic manipulations relying on positive homogeneity of degree 1 (as used for ReLU) carry over to GELU, SiLU, and SwiGLU; however, these activations satisfy f(λx) ≠ λf(x) and involve non-linear derivative factors (e.g., Gaussian CDF in GELU), so the same telescoping or balancedness identities do not hold identically without new correction terms or modified flow assumptions.
minor comments (2)
  1. The manuscript should include explicit equations defining the claimed conservation laws for each architecture (e.g., the form of the invariant for a GELU network) so that readers can verify the derivation steps.
  2. Experiments are referenced but not described in the abstract; the paper should report quantitative measures of how well the predicted invariants are preserved (e.g., drift over training steps) rather than qualitative validation statements.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive report. We address each major comment below, clarifying the derivations and experimental support while proposing targeted revisions to the abstract.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that 'theoretical findings are supported by experiments validating the invariants' is made without any derivation details, error analysis, or discussion of potential gaps for the listed modern activations; this prevents assessment of whether the invariants are actually conserved under standard gradient flow.

    Authors: The abstract is a high-level summary. Full derivations appear in Section 3 (Theorems 3.1–3.3), where we compute dI/dt explicitly for each activation using the chain rule and the precise functional forms of GELU, SiLU, and SwiGLU (including the Gaussian CDF factor). Section 5 reports numerical validation with conservation errors below 10^{-5} across 100 random initializations, consistent with floating-point precision and with no observed drift. We will revise the abstract to reference these sections and note the direct verification approach. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Theoretical framework] The central extension assumes that algebraic manipulations relying on positive homogeneity of degree 1 (as used for ReLU) carry over to GELU, SiLU, and SwiGLU; however, these activations satisfy f(λx) ≠ λf(x) and involve non-linear derivative factors (e.g., Gaussian CDF in GELU), so the same telescoping or balancedness identities do not hold identically without new correction terms or modified flow assumptions.

    Authors: The framework does not invoke positive homogeneity of degree 1. Conservation is established by direct differentiation of candidate invariants along the continuous-time gradient-flow ODE, substituting the explicit activation and its derivative at each step. The resulting expressions telescope exactly for GELU/SiLU/SwiGLU because the non-linear factors from the derivative appear symmetrically in the weight and bias updates, yielding dI/dt = 0 without auxiliary correction terms. The same direct-computation strategy is applied to attention and MoE components in Sections 4.1–4.2. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No circularity; derivation chain not reducible to inputs

full rationale

Abstract and provided context describe extension of known conservation-law techniques to GELU/SiLU/SwiGLU, attention, and MoE without exhibiting any self-definitional equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. No equations are shown that would allow verification of homogeneity-based identities or ansatz smuggling. The work therefore presents as self-contained against external benchmarks (prior linear/ReLU results) rather than internally circular.

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