MinMax Recurrent Neural Cascades

arXiv:2605.06384v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce MinMax Recurrent Neural Cascades (MinMax RNCs), a class of recurrent neural networks built from a novel form of recurrence over the MinMax algebra. We show that MinMax RNCs enjoy key properties that are difficult to obtain simultaneously: strong formal expressivity, efficient evaluation, stable dynamics, and non-vanishing state gradients. First, their formal expressivity corresponds to the regular languages, arguably the maximal expressivity for finite-memory systems. Second, in addition to evaluation in recurrent form, they also admit parallel-scan evaluation with logarithmic depth and linear work in the input length. Third, their states and activations are uniformly bounded for all sequence lengths. Fourth, their loss gradients exist almost everywhere and are uniformly bounded for all sequence lengths. Fifth, they do not exhibit vanishing state gradients: the gradient of a state with respect to a past state can retain norm one independently of the temporal distance between the states. Empirically, we find that these theoretical properties translate into strong practical performance. MinMax RNCs solve the considered synthetic tasks perfectly, generalise to long sequences, and outperform the recurrent baselines considered in our experiments. We also train a 112M-parameter MinMax RNC for next-token prediction, obtaining competitive performance for its size and providing initial evidence that MinMax recurrence can scale to real-world sequence-modelling tasks.

arXiv:2605.06384 (cs)

Abstract:We introduce MinMax Recurrent Neural Cascades (MinMax RNCs), a class of recurrent neural networks built from a novel form of recurrence over the MinMax algebra. We show that MinMax RNCs enjoy key properties that are difficult to obtain simultaneously: strong formal expressivity, efficient evaluation, stable dynamics, and non-vanishing state gradients. First, their formal expressivity corresponds to the regular languages, arguably the maximal expressivity for finite-memory systems. Second, in addition to evaluation in recurrent form, they also admit parallel-scan evaluation with logarithmic depth and linear work in the input length. Third, their states and activations are uniformly bounded for all sequence lengths. Fourth, their loss gradients exist almost everywhere and are uniformly bounded for all sequence lengths. Fifth, they do not exhibit vanishing state gradients: the gradient of a state with respect to a past state can retain norm one independently of the temporal distance between the states. Empirically, we find that these theoretical properties translate into strong practical performance. MinMax RNCs solve the considered synthetic tasks perfectly, generalise to long sequences, and outperform the recurrent baselines considered in our experiments. We also train a 112M-parameter MinMax RNC for next-token prediction, obtaining competitive performance for its size and providing initial evidence that MinMax recurrence can scale to real-world sequence-modelling tasks.

Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)

arXiv:2605.06384 [cs.LG]

(or arXiv:2605.06384v3 [cs.LG] for this version)

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