FourierQK: Filter Shape, Admissibility and the Leakage-Coverage Law

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arXiv:2610.00009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frequency-collapse attention [Zeris, 2026e] achieves large gains over standard dot-product attention by replacing the Q/K dot product with a bandpass-filtered inner product at a learned frequency. A natural follow-up question is: which filter shape works best, and why? We test five hypotheses about filter properties -- DC suppression, Nyquist suppression, bandwidth, centre frequency, and multi-scale coverage -- using a controlled ablation on charac