Local Softmax and Global Weights in Non-Boolean Event Structures
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| contents | Softmax and related normalized response functions are widely used in choice theory, machine learning, and cognitive science. In non-Boolean event structures with overlapping contexts, however, local normalization does not automatically yield a global probability weight. We show that imposing single-valuedness on shared atoms -- equivalently, no-disturbance or consistent connectedness -- collapses generalized softmax rules to coordinate parametrizations of the strictly positive part of the admissible-weight polytope. Any strictly positive admissible weight can be represented in this way, while boundary weights arise as limits. Exotic weights that exceed classical or quantum bounds are therefore properties of the event structure and the chosen weight, not of the normalizing link. The resulting hierarchy separates local normalization, cross-context gluing, Cauchy--Gleason linearity, and physical or cognitive realizability. |
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| spellingShingle | Local Softmax and Global Weights in Non-Boolean Event Structures Svozil, Karl Quantum Physics Softmax and related normalized response functions are widely used in choice theory, machine learning, and cognitive science. In non-Boolean event structures with overlapping contexts, however, local normalization does not automatically yield a global probability weight. We show that imposing single-valuedness on shared atoms -- equivalently, no-disturbance or consistent connectedness -- collapses generalized softmax rules to coordinate parametrizations of the strictly positive part of the admissible-weight polytope. Any strictly positive admissible weight can be represented in this way, while boundary weights arise as limits. Exotic weights that exceed classical or quantum bounds are therefore properties of the event structure and the chosen weight, not of the normalizing link. The resulting hierarchy separates local normalization, cross-context gluing, Cauchy--Gleason linearity, and physical or cognitive realizability. |
| title | Local Softmax and Global Weights in Non-Boolean Event Structures |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16248 |