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In building management, usually static thermal setpoints are used to maintain the inside temperature of a building at a comfortable level irrespective of its occupancy. This strategy can cause a massive amount of energy wastage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Rakshitha Godahewa , Chang Deng , Arnaud Prouzeau , Christoph Bergmeir

In this work, deep neural networks made up of multiple hidden Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Feedforward layers are trained to predict the thermal behavior of the joint motors of robot manipulators. A model-free and scalable approach is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Trung Kien La , Eric Guiffo Kaigom

The melting temperature is important for materials design because of its relationship with thermal stability, synthesis, and processing conditions. Current empirical and computational melting point estimation techniques are limited in…

The lattice Boltzmann method, after close to thirty years of presence in computational fluid dynamics has turned into a versatile, efficient and quite popular numerical tool for fluid flow simulations. The lattice Boltzmann method owes its…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-18 S. A. Hosseini , P. Boivin , D. Thevenin , I. Karlin

This paper proposes a learning-based model predictive control (MPC) approach for the thermal control of a four-zone smart building. The objectives are to minimize energy consumption and maintain the residents' comfort. The proposed control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Roja Eini , Sherif Abdelwahed

Machine learning is playing an increasing role in the physical sciences and significant progress has been made towards embedding domain knowledge into models. Less explored is its use to discover interpretable physical laws from data. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Saaketh Desai , Alejandro Strachan

A properly designed controller can help improve the quality of experimental measurements or force a dynamical system to follow a completely new time-evolution path. Recent developments in deep reinforcement learning have made steep advances…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-26 Ruslan Mukhamadiarov

The Boltzmann equation is a powerful theoretical tool for modeling the collective dynamics of quantum many-body systems subject to external perturbations. Analysis of the equation gives access to linear response properties including…

The expansiveness of compositional phase space is too vast to fully search using current theoretical tools for many emergent problems in condensed matter physics. The reliance on a deep chemical understanding is one method to identify local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-26 Lazar Novakovic , Ashkan Salamat , Keith V. Lawler

Over the past years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool to tackle complex problems over a broad range of scientific disciplines. In particular, artificial neural networks have been successfully deployed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Juan Carrasquilla , Giacomo Torlai

Boltzmann sampling based on Metropolis algorithm has been extensively used for simulating a canonical ensemble. An estimate of a mechanical property, like energy, of an equilibrium system, can be made by averaging over a large number…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-04 K P N Murthy

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) offer a unified framework for solving both forward and inverse problems of differential equations, yet their performance and physical consistency strongly depend on how governing laws are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Guojie Li , Liu Hong

A theory explaining how deep learning works is yet to be developed. Previous work suggests that deep learning performs a coarse graining, similar in spirit to the renormalization group (RG). This idea has been explored in the setting of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Ellen de Melllo Koch , Anita de Mello Koch , Nicholas Kastanos , Ling Cheng

Thermal states play a fundamental role in various areas of physics, and they are becoming increasingly important in quantum information science, with applications related to semi-definite programming, quantum Boltzmann machine learning,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde

The restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is one of the fundamental building blocks of deep learning. RBM finds wide applications in dimensional reduction, feature extraction, and recommender systems via modeling the probability distributions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-07 Jing Chen , Song Cheng , Haidong Xie , Lei Wang , Tao Xiang

The accurate and precise extraction of information from a modern particle physics detector, such as an electromagnetic calorimeter, may be complicated and challenging. In order to overcome the difficulties we propose processing the detector…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-04 Elihu Sela , Shan Huang , David Horn

Data is scaling exponentially in fields ranging from genomics to neuroscience to economics. A central question is: can modern machine learning methods be applied to construct predictive models of natural systems like cells and brains based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-17 Audrey Huang , Benjamin Sheldan , David A. Sivak , Matt Thomson

Dynamical systems that evolve continuously over time are ubiquitous throughout science and engineering. Machine learning (ML) provides data-driven approaches to model and predict the dynamics of such systems. A core issue with this approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Aditi S. Krishnapriyan , Alejandro F. Queiruga , N. Benjamin Erichson , Michael W. Mahoney

We study the single-particle distributions of three-dimensional hard sphere gas described by the Boltzmann equation. We focus on the steady homogeneous isotropic solutions in thermodynamically open conditions, i.e. in the presence of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-10 Davide Proment , Sergey Nazarenko , Pietro Asinari , Miguel Onorato

Traditionally, weather predictions are performed with the help of large complex models of physics, which utilize different atmospheric conditions over a long period of time. These conditions are often unstable because of perturbations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 A H M Jakaria , Md Mosharaf Hossain , Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman