Directions That Don't Drift: Stiefel Manifold Routing for Transformer Attention
Four propositions prove steepest descent in the embedded metric, gradient-scale independence, well-conditioning, well-conditioning, and exact $\mathrm{O}(d)$-equivariance; two five-seed grokking studies confirm the constrained arm does not grok better than the baseline and the weight-decay exemption has no grokking con...