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Robust Reasoning as a Symmetry-Protected Topological Phase

7.83 2601.05240 · 2026-01-08

Authors

Ilmo Sung

Scores

9.8
Novelty
8.8
Technical
6.2
Transferability
5.0
Momentum
7.2
Evidence
8.5
Breakthrough

Rationale

This paper proposes a radical paradigm shift by framing logical robustness as a topological invariant rather than a statistical property, directly addressing critical bottlenecks like hallucination and length generalization (100x extrapolation). While the theoretical isomorphism to non-Abelian anyon braiding is highly novel, the approach diverges sharply from current Transformer-based scaling trends, resulting in low momentum alignment. The technical promise is immense for neuro-symbolic reasoning, but the transferability of 'Holonomic Networks' to messy, unstructured natural language data remains the primary risk factor.