arXiv:2604.09614cs.AIcs.IT2026-04被引 1

从模糊认知到概率确定,揭示知识收敛的数学机制

The Geometry of Knowing: From Possibilistic Ignorance to Probabilistic Certainty -- A Measure-Theoretic Framework for Epistemic Convergence

  • 用测度论构建可能性到概率的演化框架,明确收敛条件
  • 实证显示两种方法精度相同但哲学基础迥异
  • 适合关注不确定性建模与推理可信性的研究者

本文建立了一个测度论框架,阐明不完全知识的可能性表示如何收缩为内在随机性的概率表示。认知不确定性由可能度分布及其对偶必要性度量编码,定义一个包含所有与现有证据一致的概率测度的信念集。随着证据积累,该信念集收缩。当满足“认知坍缩”条件时,Choquet积分收敛至唯一极限密度上的Lebesgue积分。我们严格证明了这一结论(定理4.5),并完整处理了非共鸣情形。引入聚合认知宽度W,确立其公理性质,提供规范归一化,并给出可行在线代理,解决了先前形式中的循环问题。第7节发展了认知收缩动力学:证据引发相容性,相容性执行证伪,后验可能度为先验可能度与相容性之最小交集,且可信度导向流控制支持几何收缩。这并非信念更新,而是知识收缩。概率论是该过程的极限几何。UKF和ESPF以不同机制解决不同问题:UKF最小化均方误差,主张真理,需有效生成模型;ESPF最小化最大熵,揭示未被证据排除的内容。当世界服从高斯分布且模型有效时,两者通过完全不同的路径达到相同估计——收敛最优性,而非层次包含。我们证明了这一点(定理9.1),并在一个持续2天、877步的轨道跟踪场景中对比二者。两者均实现1米精度。UKF准确但认知沉默,ESPF准确且认知诚实。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper develops a measure-theoretic framework establishing when and how a possibilistic representation of incomplete knowledge contracts into a probabilistic representation of intrinsic stochastic variability. Epistemic uncertainty is encoded by a possibility distribution and its dual necessity measure, defining a credal set bounding all probability measures consistent with current evidence. As evidence accumulates, the credal set contracts. The epistemic collapse condition marks the transition: the Choquet integral converges to the Lebesgue integral over the unique limiting density. We prove this rigorously (Theorem 4.5), with all assumptions explicit and a full treatment of the non-consonant case. We introduce the aggregate epistemic width W, establish its axiomatic properties, provide a canonical normalization, and give a feasible online proxy resolving a circularity in prior formulations. Section 7 develops the dynamics of epistemic contraction: evidence induces compatibility, compatibility performs falsification, posterior possibility is the min-intersection of prior possibility and compatibility, and a credibility-directed flow governs support geometry contraction. This is not belief updating. It is knowledge contraction. Probability theory is the limiting geometry of that process. The UKF and ESPF solve different problems by different mechanisms. The UKF minimizes MSE, asserts truth, and requires a valid generative model. The ESPF minimizes maximum entropy and surfaces what evidence has not ruled out. When the world is Gaussian and the model valid, both reach the same estimate by entirely different routes -- convergent optimality, not hierarchical containment. We prove this (Theorem 9.1) and compare both on a 2-day, 877-step orbital tracking scenario. Both achieve 1-meter accuracy. The UKF is accurate but epistemically silent. The ESPF is accurate and epistemically honest.

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