Add ReducedHamiltonianLoss: fit a decoder to states and reduced-Hamiltonian gradients

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Adds ReducedHamiltonianLoss(H; λ = 1, h = 1e-4), a NetworkLoss for decoders. For latent points $z$ (input) with target states $x^\ast$ and target gradients $g^\ast$ of the reduced Hamiltonian (output, stacked as vcat(x, g)):

$$L = \frac{\lVert\Psi^\mathrm{dec}(z) - x^\ast\rVert}{\lVert x^\ast\rVert} + \lambda\,\frac{\lVert\nabla_z(H\circ\Psi^\mathrm{dec})(z) - g^\ast\rVert}{\lVert g^\ast\rVert},$$

with H a user-supplied Hamiltonian on the full space (a function of a matrix of states, one per column).

Why. For a symplectic decoder the reduced vector field is $\mathbb{J}\nabla_z(H\circ\Psi^\mathrm{dec})$, so the second term fits the reduced dynamics directly: their orbits are the level sets of $H\circ\Psi^\mathrm{dec}$, and its critical points and separatrices are what a fit of the states alone does not control, especially where $H\circ\Psi^\mathrm{dec}$ is steep. The motivating case is fitting an SAE decoder to a known symplectic decoder whose reduced dynamics have a prescribed separatrix.

How. The gradient in $z$ is taken by central differences (step h, $4n+1$ decoder evaluations per batch for a $2n$-dimensional latent space), so the parameter gradient is an ordinary Zygote pass without nested AD. The loss accepts matrices and the 3-tensors a DataLoader(input, output) produces, so it works with Optimizer(...)(nn, dl, batch, n_epochs, loss).

Tests (test/loss/reduced_hamiltonian_loss.jl, core): central differences agree with Zygote (rtol 1e-6); a batch whose target gradients all vanish gives a finite loss (the term falls back to the absolute error there); a decoder has a vanishing loss on its own targets; λ weighs the gradient term only; the Zygote gradient exists; and training one SymplecticAutoencoder decoder on another's targets halves the loss within 200 epochs. Locally: these 7 tests, Aqua (14), the exports test, the doctests and docs_make_checks_references.jl pass (Julia 1.13.0). Docstring with a doctest; listed in losses.md; CHANGELOG entry.

Not yet: GPU arrays (the shift vector is built on the host).

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• New Features
  • Added ReducedHamiltonianLoss to train models by matching target states and Hamiltonian gradients. It supports matrix and 3D array data, with configurable gradient weighting and finite-difference step size. Zero target gradients are handled with an absolute error.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on the loss and its relationship to reduced dynamics.

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This change adds and exports ReducedHamiltonianLoss. The loss combines state error with weighted gradient error based on central differences of the Hamiltonian composed with a decoder. It supports matrix and 3D-array inputs. Tests and documentation are added.

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Reduced Hamiltonian Loss

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Loss definition and input methods src/loss/reduced_hamiltonian_loss.jl	Adds ReducedHamiltonianLoss, its central-difference gradient helper, and loss methods for matrix and 3D-array inputs.
Public API and documentation src/GeometricMachineLearning.jl, docs/src/reduced_order_modeling/losses.md, CHANGELOG.md	Loads and exports the loss. Documents its objective and adds a changelog entry.
Behavior tests test/loss/reduced_hamiltonian_loss.jl, test/runtests.jl	Tests gradient agreement, target consistency, weighting, parameter gradients, training loss reduction, and zero-target behavior. Registers the test file in the core test group.

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Training can receive a non-finite objective when the new loss is configured with a zero step. Validate the step to prevent this configuration from silently breaking training.

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• observed — Modified behavior in docs/src/reduced_order_modeling/losses.md: Adds a description of ReducedHamiltonianLoss covering its state-and-gradient fitting objective and the symplectic-decoder relationship between the gradient and reduced vector field.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/src/reduced_order_modeling/losses.md: Adds ReducedHamiltonianLoss to the @docs list of library functions.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/GeometricMachineLearning.jl: The exported loss list adds ReducedHamiltonianLoss.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/GeometricMachineLearning.jl: The module now includes loss/reduced_hamiltonian_loss.jl.

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🟡 Minor · Reject a zero or non-finite finite-difference step. · reduced_hamiltonian_loss.jl:63-65

src/loss/reduced_hamiltonian_loss.jl:63-65
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Reject a zero or non-finite finite-difference step.

The constructor accepts h = 0, but _reduced_hamiltonian_gradient divides by 2h at Line 81. This produces a non-finite loss and prevents optimizer training. Reject non-finite or nonpositive values before constructing the loss.

Proposed fix

 function ReducedHamiltonianLoss(hamiltonian; λ::Real = 1, h::Real = 1e-4)
     T = float(promote_type(typeof(λ), typeof(h)))
-    ReducedHamiltonianLoss(hamiltonian, T(λ), T(h))
+    step = T(h)
+    isfinite(step) && step > zero(T) ||
+        throw(ArgumentError("h must be finite and positive"))
+    ReducedHamiltonianLoss(hamiltonian, T(λ), step)
 end

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