@article{deaddirectionconditionersgaugeequivarian, title = {Dead-Direction Conditioners: Gauge-Equivariant Preconditioning for Deep Networks}, author = {Tejas Pradeep Shirodkar}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.29176}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29176}, }