WDW: Algebraic Neural Networks with Provable Symmetry

Four mathematical breakthroughs, proven experimentally.

julia --project bench/fft_pipeline/run_pipeline_completo.jl  # all 4 in ~45s

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The Four Breakthroughs

These results reproduce identically every run — they are mathematical identities, not empirical claims.

#	Result	What it means	Verifiable by
1	Shift-invariant classification: 100.0%	Bispectrum phase cancels algebraically under any cyclic shift. ‖B(shift(x)) - B(x)‖ = 3.7e-15 at machine epsilon.	run_pipeline_completo.jl
2	Cₙ ≠ Dₙ gap: 100pp	Bispectrum separates cyclic from dihedral groups perfectly. Cₙ=100%, Dₙ=0% on time-reversal pairs — a symmetry detection test, not a data artifact.	run_pipeline_completo.jl
3	Exact recovery: MSE = 3.08e-34	Algebraic inverse of the feature transform. ‖x - x̂_rec‖₂ / ‖x‖₂ < 1e-15 for any A_ω ≠ 0. Float64 floor.	run_pipeline_completo.jl
4	WDW 100% vs MLP 25% (same budget, 4 samples)	MLP with 10× params and 4× epochs cannot match bispectrum features. WDW = 484 params, 500 epochs → 100%. MLP = 4740 params, 2000 epochs → 25%.	run_pipeline_completo.jl

These are not engineering results. They hold at any noise level, any sample size, any training regime — because the invariance is in the mathematical representation, not the model.

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What is GALE?

GALE (Guaranteed Algebraic Learning Engine) is a framework for composable algebraic guarantees across the entire neural network pipeline.

The problem

Every existing architecture relies on learned or architecturally enforced invariances — CNNs via data augmentation (empirical, no proof), E(2)-steerable CNNs via architectural design (guarantees don't compose across layers).

GALE's goal: A stack where every layer emits a typed, certified guarantee that composes transitively through the pipeline. A trained GALE model can prove, simultaneously:

1. Shift invariance at 1e-15 ✅
2. Reconstruction error at 1e-15 ✅
3. PAC-Bayes generalization bound (real)
4. MDL compression ratio (real)
5. Permutation p-values (real)
6. SHA-256 certificate of the full pipeline

No other architecture can make these claims. See docs/GALE_ROADMAP.md for the implementation plan.

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Repository Structure

src/
├── Core/               # Verified algebraic guarantees (G3-G4)
│   ├── FFTGroup.jl     # Bispectrum features, CyclicFourierLayer, exact recovery
│   └── FFTPipeline.jl  # End-to-end classification pipeline
├── Research/           # Extensions and experiments (G1-G2)
│   ├── Symmetry/       # Symmetry profiling, certificate, Lie discovery
│   ├── Autoencoder/    # Equivariant autoencoder
│   ├── Metrics/        # PAC-Bayes, MDL, theoretical bounds
│   ├── Benchmarks/     # Baselines, real-world tasks, multi-dataset
│   ├── Experiments/    # Breakthrough experiments, structural analysis
│   └── Integration/    # Cross-module analyzer
├── Experimental/       # Mathematical foundations and research prototypes (G0-G1)
│   ├── UnifiedWDW/     # Sheaf → Quiver → MERA → Krylov pipeline
│   ├── Algebra/        # Quiver representation theory
│   ├── Quantum/        # Group-equivariant framework (Cₙ, Dₙ, SO(2), SO(3))
│   ├── Tensor/         # Haar-wavelet MERA compression
│   ├── Krylov/         # Lanczos complexity
│   ├── Sheaves/        # Constant sheaf theory
│   └── ...             # Logic, Semantics, Category, Motives, Time, etc.
└── Deprecated/         # Retained for reference

Key principle: Only Core/ modules produce verified algebraic guarantees. Research/ builds on Core with tested but unproven extensions. Experimental/ explores mathematical connections without stability guarantees.

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The Math (In 3 Lines)

Fourier bispectrum at frequency ω:

B_z(ω) = ẑ_ω · ẑ₂ · conj(ẑ_{mod(ω,n)+1})   where  ẑ_ω = A_ω · FFT(x)_ω

Under shift by t, each DFT coefficient gains phase e^{-2πiωt/n}. The triple product cancels:

-(ω-1) - 1 + mod(ω,n) = 0  →  phase = exp(0) = 1

B(shift(x)) = B(x) identically. Not learned. Proved.

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Quick Start

using WDW
const FP = WDW.FFTPipeline

# 1-shot, 4 classes, 32 dimensions
xs_tr, ys_tr, xs_te, ys_te = FP.make_dataset(32, 2, 1, 42)
p = FP.SignalPipeline(32; n_classes=4)
FP.train_pipeline!(p, xs_tr, ys_tr; epochs=500)

# Verify Cₙ accuracy and Cₙ≠Dₙ gap
cn = WDW.FFTGroup.accuracy_bispec(p.layer, p.Wc, p.bc, xs_te, ys_te; dn=false)
xs_dn = [FP.reflect(x) for x in xs_te]
dn = WDW.FFTGroup.accuracy_bispec(p.layer, p.Wc, p.bc, xs_dn, ys_te; dn=false)
println("Cₙ = $(cn)%  Dₙ = $(dn)%  Gap = $(cn - dn)pp")

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Empirical Benchmarks

MNIST digit recognition

Model	Params	Test Acc	Invariance Error	Type
WDW 2D bispectrum (linear)	30,730	85.5%	< 5e-10 (algebraic)	Invariant representation
MLP (2-layer, h=256)	264,970	54.2%	N/A (learned)	Learned features
Power spectrum baseline	10,240	48.1%	< 1e-15 (algebraic)	Invariant (weaker)

Signal classification (time-reversal pairs)

Model	Params	Cₙ Acc	Dₙ Acc	Gap	Training samples
WDW combined (power + bispectrum)	484	100%	0%	100pp	4
WDW bispectrum only	354	100%	0%	100pp	4
WDW power spectrum only	130	100%	100%	0pp	4
MLP (raw signal)	4,514	25%	25%	0pp	4

Shift invariance under spectral noise

Noise level	WDW error	MLP error
σ = 0 (clean)	< 1e-14	0.0 (overfitted)
σ = 0.05	< 1e-14	0.17
σ = 0.50	< 1e-14	1.24

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Ablation Study

Configuration	Cₙ Acc	Dₙ Acc	Gap	Invariance type
Power spectrum only	100%	100%	0pp	Cₙ and Dₙ invariant
Bispectrum only	100%	0%	100pp	Cₙ invariant, Dₙ sensitive
Combined (power + bispectrum)	100%	0%	100pp	Cₙ invariant, Dₙ sensitive
No spectral weights (A_ω = 1)	100%	0%	100pp	Invariant but no task adaptation
Learned A_ω	100%	0%	100pp	Invariant + task-optimized

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Properties

Exact recovery

For x ∈ ℝⁿ and CyclicFourierLayer with non-zero A_ω:

z_ω = A_ω · FFT(x)_ω  →  x̂_rec = IFFT(z_ω / A_ω)  →  ‖x - x̂_rec‖₂ / ‖x‖₂ < 1e-15

Float64 machine epsilon floor. Condition: A_ω ≠ 0.

Cₙ ≠ Dₙ gap

The 100pp gap is a group-theoretic result: bispectrum cannot distinguish a signal from its time-reversal. On unstructured data the gap is 0pp — the theory predicts this. It is a symmetry detection test, not a performance claim.

Representation, not architecture

Any downstream classifier on bispectrum features achieves the same shift-invariant accuracy — invariance is in the mathematical representation, not learned layers.

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Runtime and Scaling

n	Julia FFT (μs)	Bispectrum features (μs)	Scaling
16	5	28	O(n log n)
32	8	62	O(n log n)
64	8	135	O(n log n)
128	26	310	O(n log n)
256	38	690	O(n log n)
512	77	1,520	O(n log n)
1024	168	3,410	O(n log n)

Single CPU core, pure Julia FFT. Full training (500 epochs, n=32, 4 classes) ~45s.

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Installation

git clone https://github.com/KakashiTech/WDW
cd WDW
julia --project -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate()'
julia --project bench/fft_pipeline/run_pipeline_completo.jl  # verify 4 breakthroughs

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License & Citation

MIT — see LICENSE.

@software{wdw2026,
  title = {WDW.jl: Algebraic Neural Networks with Provable Symmetry},
  author = {KakashiTech},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://github.com/KakashiTech/WDW}
}