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Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are now being used to automate the discovery of physics principles and governing equations from measurement data alone. However, positing a universal physical law from data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Brian M. de Silva , David M. Higdon , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

Discovering interpretable physical laws from high-dimensional data is a fundamental challenge in scientific research. Traditional methods, such as symbolic regression, often produce complex, unphysical formulas when searching a vast space…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Yifeng Guan , Chuyi Liu , Dongzhan Zhou , Lei Bai , Wan-jian Yin , Jingyuan Li , Mao Su

Using well known Lagrangean techniques for uncovering the gauge symmetries of a Lagrangean, we derive the transformation laws for the phase space variables corresponding to local symmetries of the Hamilton equations of motion. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Heinz J. Rothe

Embedding non-restrictive prior knowledge, such as energy conservation laws, into learning methods is a key motive to construct physically consistent dynamics models from limited data, relevant for, e.g., model-based control. Recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jan-Hendrik Ewering , Robin E. Herrmann , Niklas Wahlström , Thomas B. Schön , Thomas Seel

Experimental data bases are typically very large and high dimensional. To learn from them requires to recognize important features (a pattern), often present at scales different to that of the recorded data. Following the experience…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-01-21 Francisco Chinesta , Elias Cueto , Miroslav Grmela , Beatriz Moya , Michal Pavelka , Martin Sipka

We introduce a generalizable framework for learning to identify effective Hamiltonians directly from experimental data in solid-state quantum systems. Our approach is based on a physics-informed neural network architecture that embeds…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Jarosław Pawłowski , Mateusz Krawczyk

The modeling of dynamical systems is a pervasive concern for not only describing but also predicting and controlling natural phenomena and engineered systems. Current data-driven approaches often assume prior knowledge of the relevant state…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Félix Chavelli , Zi-Yu Khoo , Dawen Wu , Jonathan Sze Choong Low , Stéphane Bressan

Concise, accurate descriptions of physical systems through their conserved quantities abound in the natural sciences. In data science, however, current research often focuses on regression problems, without routinely incorporating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Tom Bertalan , Felix Dietrich , Igor Mezić , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

We apply recent ideas about complexity and randomness to the philosophy of laws and chances. We develop two ways to use algorithmic randomness to characterize probabilistic laws of nature. The first, a generative chance* law, employs a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jeffrey A. Barrett , Eddy Keming Chen

In an earlier work by a subset of the present authors, the method of the so-called neural deflation was introduced towards identifying a complete set of functionally independent conservation laws of a nonlinear dynamical system. Here, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-10 Shaoxuan Chen , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Hong-Kun Zhang , Wei Zhu

The aim of this work is to show that particle mechanics, both classical and quantum, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian, can be derived from few simple physical assumptions. Assuming deterministic and reversible time evolution will give us a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Gabriele Carcassi , Christine A. Aidala , David J. Baker , Lydia Bieri

We present a method for unsupervised learning of equations of motion for objects in raw and optionally distorted unlabeled video. We first train an autoencoder that maps each video frame into a low-dimensional latent space where the laws of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Silviu-Marian Udrescu , Max Tegmark

An activity fundamental to science is building mathematical models. These models are used to both predict the results of future experiments and gain insight into the structure of the system under study. We present an algorithm that…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-04 D. J. A. Hills , A. M. Grütter , J. J. Hudson

We develop a method to learn physical systems from data that employs feedforward neural networks and whose predictions comply with the first and second principles of thermodynamics. The method employs a minimum amount of data by enforcing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Quercus Hernández , Alberto Badias , David Gonzalez , Francisco Chinesta , Elias Cueto

The modern machine learning methods allow one to obtain the data-driven models in various ways. However, the more complex the model is, the harder it is to interpret. In the paper, we describe the algorithm for the mathematical equations…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Alexander Hvatov , Mikhail Maslyaev

This paper proposes to build a bridge between microscopic descriptions of matter with internal energy, composed of many fast interacting particles inside an environment, and their port-Hamiltonian (PH) descriptions at macroscopic scale. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Judy Najnudel , Thomas Hélie , David Roze , Rémy Muller

We derive the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics directly, without reference to Lagrangian mechanics. We start from the definition of states in terms of labels used to identify them, and show how, under a deterministic and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-10-02 Gabriele Carcassi

An isolated system of interacting quantum particles is described by a Hamiltonian operator. Hamiltonian models underpin the study and analysis of physical and chemical processes throughout science and industry, so it is crucial they are…

We put forth the idea that Hamilton's equations coincide with deterministic and reversible evolution. We explore the idea from five different perspectives (mathematics, measurements, thermodynamics, information theory and state mapping) and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-08-05 Gabriele Carcassi

Conservation laws are an inherent feature in many systems modeling real world phenomena, in particular, those modeling biological and chemical systems. If the form of the underlying dynamical system is known, linear algebra and algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Tracey Oellerich , Maria Emelianenko