English
Related papers

Related papers: Combining Machine Learning and Physics to Understa…

200 papers

Glass transitions are widely observed in various types of soft matter systems. However, the physical mechanism of these transitions remains {elusive}, despite years of ambitious research. In particular, an important unanswered question is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-20 Norihiro Oyama , Shihori Koyama , Takeshi Kawasaki

Based on deep neural networks (DNNs), deep learning has been successfully applied to many problems, but its mechanism is still not well understood -- especially the reason why over-parametrized DNNs can generalize. A recent statistical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-10 Gang Huang , Lai Shun Chan , Hajime Yoshino , Ge Zhang , Yuliang Jin

Physics-constrained machine learning (PCML) combines physical models with data-driven approaches to improve reliability, generalizability, and interpretability. Although PCML has shown significant benefits in diverse scientific and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Angan Mukherjee , Victor M. Zavala

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

Conventional wisdom of materials modelling stipulates that both chemical composition and crystal structure are integral in the prediction of physical properties. However, recent developments challenge this by reporting accurate…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-29 Siyu Isaac Parker Tian , Aron Walsh , Zekun Ren , Qianxiao Li , Tonio Buonassisi

Deep learning has generated diverse perspectives in astronomy, with ongoing discussions between proponents and skeptics motivating this review. We examine how neural networks complement classical statistics, extending our data analytical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yuan-Sen Ting

Diverse many-body systems, from soap bubbles to suspensions to polymers, learn and remember patterns in the drives that push them far from equilibrium. This learning may be leveraged for computation, memory, and engineering. Until now,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-26 Weishun Zhong , Jacob M. Gold , Sarah Marzen , Jeremy L. England , Nicole Yunger Halpern

The dynamics of supercooled liquids slow down and become increasingly heterogeneous as they are cooled. Recently, local structural variables identified using machine learning, such as "softness", have emerged as predictors of local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-11 Sean A. Ridout , Andrea J. Liu

Glasses at low temperature fluctuate around their inherent states; glassy anomalies reflect the structure of these states. Recently there have been numerous observations of long-range stress correlations in glassy materials, from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-09-12 E. DeGiuli

This paper reviews recent advances in the field of metallic glasses, focusing on the development of novel experimental techniques and in silico models. We discuss progress in experimental characterization, additive manufacturing, multiscale…

Given that observational and numerical climate data are being produced at ever more prodigious rates, increasingly sophisticated and automated analysis techniques have become essential. Deep learning is quickly becoming a standard approach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-12 A. Rupe , J. P. Crutchfield , K. Kashinath , Prabhat

Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no qualitative change upon vitrifying from a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Patrick Royall , Stephen R. Williams

The transition of a fluid to a rigid glass upon cooling is a common route of transformation from liquid to solid that embodies the most poorly understood features of both phases1,2,3. From the liquid perspective, the puzzle is to understand…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-23 Asaph Widmer-Cooper , Heidi Perry , Peter Harrowell , David R. Reichman

Determining the stability of molecules and condensed phases is the cornerstone of atomistic modelling, underpinning our understanding of chemical and materials properties and transformations. Here we show that a machine learning model,…

Modern machine learning tools offer exciting possibilities to qualitatively change the paradigm for new particle searches. In particular, new methods can broaden the search program by gaining sensitivity to unforeseen scenarios by learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Benjamin Nachman

Most problems in Earth sciences aim to do inferences about the system, where accurate predictions are just a tiny part of the whole problem. Inferences mean understanding variables relations, deriving models that are physically…

The convergence of statistical learning and molecular physics is transforming our approach to modeling biomolecular systems. Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) offers a systematic framework that integrates data-driven inference with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-11 Aaryesh Deshpande

We develop a transferable machine learning model which predicts structural relaxation from amorphous supercooled liquid structures. The trained networks are able to predict dynamic heterogeneity across a broad range of temperatures and time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Gerhard Jung , Giulio Biroli , Ludovic Berthier

Crystal-graph attention networks have emerged recently as remarkable tools for the prediction of thermodynamic stability and materials properties from unrelaxed crystal structures. Previous networks trained on two million materials…

While the uptake of data-driven approaches for materials science and chemistry is at an exciting, early stage, to realise the true potential of machine learning models for successful scientific discovery, they must have qualities beyond…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-28 Felipe Oviedo , Juan Lavista Ferres , Tonio Buonassisi , Keith Butler