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Isotropic Yet Undecodable: The Sequential Content-Sufficiency Gap in Latent-Predictive Text Representations

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We study sequential content sufficiency by investigating whether a representation retains the ordered target information available in its input. An information-theoretic decomposition separates input ambiguity, representation loss, and readout mismatch. We construct recoverable views where perfect agreement and joint isotropic Gaussianity coexist with zero target information, and establish limits imposed by deterministic canonical anchors. Token log-loss provides a one-sided information-loss bound; a fixed-penalty ridge analysis shows why rank alone cannot determine prediction risk. These results motivate CANOPE, a nonautoregressive framework with ordered latent canvases, canonical-token supervision, and geometric regularization. On 40,000 validation sequences, latent-agreement (PL0) and token-grounded (PL2) have nearly identical pooled ranks but reach 13.5% and 98.8% positional Recall@1, respectively, under strong natural corruption when the correct target length is provided. On 3,930 LJSpeech validation utterances, frozen PL2 with a trained MatchaTTS readout yields 21.54% word error rate (WER) on corrupted text, versus 99.22% for frozen PL0, while end-to-end MatchaTTS reaches 10.93%. These results show that geometric regularity alone does not guarantee recoverable sequential content or effective downstream access in the text settings studied here.

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K. P. Santoso, N. Z. Fadil, F. P. Harsanti, R. V. H. Ginardi, G. N. Iyer. 2026-10-06. Isotropic Yet Undecodable: The Sequential Content-Sufficiency Gap in Latent-Predictive Text Representations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07906

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