Saddle Escape Efficiency

A metric for how optimizers leave saddle points in non-convex landscapes, and why the number depends on the escape criterion.

• Accepted to IEEE INDISCON 2026 and ICCAI 2026.
• Represented India at ICYS 2026: bronze oral, 2nd place poster.
• Indian utility patent filed (No. 202621067166) on runtime optimizer switching from loss-landscape geometry.
• Flagship independent research project; paper and code released publicly.

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