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This research proposes a novel method to quantify scientific revolutions by analyzing geometric perturbations in document embedding spaces, effectively treating conceptual shifts as measurable structural changes. By validating the framework against historical milestones ranging from special relativity to modern transformer attention mechanisms, the study demonstrates how machine learning can objectively map the reorganization of knowledge across physics and mathematics. While the core methodology relies on advanced ML techniques like counterfactual ablation, the primary focus remains on the theoretical evolution of scientific paradigms rather than immediate product deployment or algorithmic optimization.
Geometric Signatures of Conceptual Reorganization: A Counterfactual Embedding Framework for Detecting Scientific Revolutions
arXiv:2609.14917v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce document embedding geometry as a quantitative observable of conceptual reorganization and develop a counterfactual ablation framework for measuring how individual concepts influence the organization of scientific knowledge, providing a quantitative framework for detecting scientific revolutions. The observable is defined by the geometric perturbation induced when removing documents associated with a candidate concept from the embedding space before and after its historical emergence. Statistical validation is performed using five historical case studies spanning physics, mathematics, and machine learning: special relativity, G\"odel's incompleteness theorems, the Higgs mechanism, deep learning, and the attention mechanism underlying transformer architectures. Across the historical case studies, the framework identifies measurable geometric signatures associated with conceptual reorganization, while the validation studies expose important limitations arising from document assignment and sparse historical data. These results establish embedding geometry as a medium for quantifying conceptual reorganization, providing a new approach for studying how scientific fields restructure over time.
Abstract:We introduce document embedding geometry as a quantitative observable of conceptual reorganization and develop a counterfactual ablation framework for measuring how individual concepts influence the organization of scientific knowledge, providing a quantitative framework for detecting scientific revolutions. The observable is defined by the geometric perturbation induced when removing documents associated with a candidate concept from the embedding space before and after its historical emergence. Statistical validation is performed using five historical case studies spanning physics, mathematics, and machine learning: special relativity, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, the Higgs mechanism, deep learning, and the attention mechanism underlying transformer architectures. Across the historical case studies, the framework identifies measurable geometric signatures associated with conceptual reorganization, while the validation studies expose important limitations arising from document assignment and sparse historical data. These results establish embedding geometry as a medium for quantifying conceptual reorganization, providing a new approach for studying how scientific fields restructure over time.
Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
arXiv:2609.14917 [cs.DL]
(or arXiv:2609.14917v1 [cs.DL] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.14917 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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