Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · October 29, 2026
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We introduce Mode Dynamics, a framework that connects coordinated parameter motion during neural network learning to changes in model outputs. Starting from a recorded parameter trajectory, we decompose its updates into collective modes and map each mode to its state-dependent output effect. The framework organizes this link through three mechanisms. Decomposition identifies collective modes in parameter motion and their time-varying amplitudes. Reconstruction tests whether the effects induced by those modes recover local and accumulated output change. Concentration quantifies how behavioral contribution is distributed across modes. Controlled scalar regression and next-token experiments directly test these mechanisms. They show that small sets of leading modes reconstruct behavior, induced effects depend on the training path, and modal complexity varies with task and data. We then evaluate the framework on held-out image and language-model outputs using CIFAR-100 autoencoding and a public Pythia-70M pretraining trajectory. Across these settings, the results connect compact modal subspaces of recorded parameter motion to evolving behavior.