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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 17, 2026
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We study reconstruction in autoencoders that apply the same forward map before and after setting the observed coordinates to zero. For equal odd input and hidden dimensions $d\geq 3$, among orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms whose Jacobian singular values lie in $[m,M]$, we show that the least uniform reconstruction-derivative error is $\max\{1-M(M-m)/2,0\}$, with affine maps attaining this sharp bound at every prescribed depth. A translated radial rotation can nevertheless reconstruct any prescribed ball exactly with singular values arbitrarily close to one, motivating additional conditions for a finite-data bound. We test this prediction on a 798,452-point terrestrial LiDAR forest scan. At input scale $0.05$, the mean theoretical bound is $0.155$, about $84\%$ of the mean normalized training error $0.185$ across four spatial regions, two depths, and three seeds. At this scale, adding one hidden coordinate reduces the mean reconstruction error below $6\times10^{-6}$.