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We develop a novel data-driven approach to the inverse problem of classical statistical mechanics: given experimental data on the collective motion of a classical many-body system, how does one characterise the free energy landscape of that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-01 Peter Yatsyshin , Serafim Kalliadasis , Andrew B. Duncan

Discovering symbolic differential equations from data uncovers fundamental dynamical laws underlying complex systems. However, existing methods often struggle with the vast search space of equations and may produce equations that violate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jianke Yang , Manu Bhat , Bryan Hu , Yadi Cao , Nima Dehmamy , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

In order to derive a large set of Hamiltonian dynamical systems, but with only first order Lagrangian, we resort to the formulation in terms of Lagrange-Souriau 2-form formalism. A wide class of systems derived in different phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Luigi Martina

Extracting governing physical laws from computational or experimental data is crucial across various fields such as fluid dynamics and plasma physics. Many of those physical laws are dissipative due to fluid viscosity or plasma collisions.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yubin Lu , Xiaofan Li , Chun Liu , Qi Tang , Yiwei Wang

New, gauge-independent, second-order Lagrangian for the motion of classical, charged test particles is used to derive the corresponding Hamiltonian formulation. For this purpose a Hamiltonian description of the theories derived from the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Chruscinski , J. Kijowski

For many interesting tasks, such as medical diagnosis and web page classification, a learner only has access to some positively labeled examples and many unlabeled examples. Learning from this type of data requires making assumptions about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jessa Bekker , Jesse Davis

In purely non-dissipative systems, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian reduction have proven to be powerful tools for deriving physical models with exact conservation laws. We have discovered a hint that an analogous reduction method exists also for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Eero Hirvijoki , Joshua W. Burby

We present a machine learning based method for learning first integrals of systems of ordinary differential equations from given trajectory data. The method is model-agnostic in that it does not require explicit knowledge of the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Shivam Arora , Alex Bihlo , Rüdiger Brecht , Pavel Holba

A new form of governing equations is derived from Hamilton's principle of least action for a constrained Lagrangian, depending on conserved quantities and their derivatives with respect to the time-space. This form yields conservation laws…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-16 Sergey Gavrilyuk , Henri Gouin

Accurately learning the temporal behavior of dynamical systems requires models with well-chosen learning biases. Recent innovations embed the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms into neural networks and demonstrate a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shaan Desai , Marios Mattheakis , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas , Stephen Roberts

Discovering nonlinear differential equations that describe system dynamics from empirical data is a fundamental challenge in contemporary science. Here, we propose a methodology to identify dynamical laws by integrating denoising techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Kevin Egan , Weizhen Li , Rui Carvalho

Despite the fact that experimental neural scaling laws have substantially guided empirical progress in large-scale machine learning, no existing theory can quantitatively predict the exponents of these important laws for any modern LLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Francesco Cagnetta , Allan Raventós , Surya Ganguli , Matthieu Wyart

A Bayesian nonparametric method of James, Lijoi \& Prunster (2009) used to predict future values of observations from normalized random measures with independent increments is modified to a class of models based on negative binomial…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-20 Robert C. Griffiths , Ross A. Maller , Soudabeh Shemehsavar

This paper describes an algorithm for selecting a consistent set within the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics and investigates its properties. The algorithm select from among the consistent sets formed by projections…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jim McElwaine

What do data tell us about physics-and what don't they tell us? There has been a surge of interest in using machine learning models to discover governing physical laws such as differential equations from data, but current methods lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Steven Atkinson

The discovery of conservation laws is a cornerstone of scientific progress. However, identifying these invariants from observational data remains a significant challenge. We propose a hybrid framework to automate the discovery of conserved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Vivan Doshi

Identifying the underlying dynamics of physical systems can be challenging when only provided with observational data. In this work, we consider systems that can be modelled as first-order ordinary differential equations. By assuming a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Sigurd Holmsen , Sølve Eidnes , Signe Riemer-Sørensen

Equation discovery, also known as symbolic regression, is a type of automated modeling that discovers scientific laws, expressed in the form of equations, from observed data and expert knowledge. Deterministic grammars, such as context-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jure Brence , Ljupčo Todorovski , Sašo Džeroski

Hamilton's principle of stationary action lies at the foundation of theoretical physics and is applied in many other disciplines from pure mathematics to economics. Despite its utility, Hamilton's principle has a subtle pitfall that often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Chad R. Galley

The Gestalt laws of perceptual organization, which describe how visual elements in an image are grouped and interpreted, have traditionally been thought of as innate despite their ecological validity. We use deep-learning methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Been Kim , Emily Reif , Martin Wattenberg , Samy Bengio , Michael C. Mozer