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We elaborate on a previous proposal by Hartman and Maldacena on a tensor network which accounts for the scaling of the entanglement entropy in a system at a finite temperature. In this construction, the ordinary entanglement renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-04 Javier Molina-Vilaplana , Javier Prior

In this thesis I develop a formalism whereby a tensor network may be understood in terms of a unitary braided tensor category, and represented in a particularly efficient manner corresponding to the exploitation of this mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-13 Robert N. C. Pfeifer

Neural networks transform high-dimensional data into compact, structured representations, often modeled as elements of a lower dimensional latent space. In this paper, we present an alternative interpretation of neural models as dynamical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Marco Fumero , Luca Moschella , Emanuele Rodolà , Francesco Locatello

Existing tensor network models of holography are limited to representing the geometry of constant time slices of static spacetimes. We study the possibility of describing the geometry of a dynamic spacetime using tensor networks. We find it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-24 Alex May

We show that networks of quantum frames of reference, in which one frame may be used to produce multiple other frames that in their turn prepare systems which may interact with one another, have counterintuitive properties that make…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Daniel Collins , Carolina Moreira Ferrera , Ismael L. Paiva , Sandu Popescu

We introduce the pro-tensor network, a categorification of the tensor network, as a fully rigorous yet graphically transparent framework for studying the collection of many many-body theories, which we dub many-many-body theory. We provide…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Gen Yue , Ansi Bai , Linqian Wu , Tian Lan

Tensor networks are a very powerful data structure tool originating from quantum system simulations. In recent years, they have seen increased use in machine learning, mostly in trainings with gradient-based techniques, due to their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Sergi Masot-Llima , Artur Garcia-Saez

For simulations where the forward and the inverse directions have a physics meaning, invertible neural networks are especially useful. A conditional INN can invert a detector simulation in terms of high-level observables, specifically for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Marco Bellagente , Anja Butter , Gregor Kasieczka , Tilman Plehn , Armand Rousselot , Ramon Winterhalder , Lynton Ardizzone , Ullrich Köthe

We show that deep neural networks, including transformers and RNNs, pretrained as usual on next-token prediction, intrinsically discover and represent beliefs over 'quantum' and 'post-quantum' low-dimensional generative models of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Paul M. Riechers , Thomas J. Elliott , Adam S. Shai

Tensor network algorithms seek to minimize correlations to compress the classical data representing quantum states. Tensor network algorithms and similar tools---called tensor network methods---form the backbone of modern numerical methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Andrey Kardashin , Alexey Uvarov , Jacob Biamonte

Machine learning-based methods have achieved successful applications in machinery fault diagnosis. However, the main limitation that exists for these methods is that they operate as a black box and are generally not interpretable. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Gang Chen , Yu Lu , Rong Su , Zhaodan Kong

Tensor networks are a central tool in condensed matter physics. In this paper, we study the task of tensor network non-zero testing (TNZ): Given a tensor network T, does T represent a non-zero vector? We show that TNZ is not in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Sevag Gharibian , Zeph Landau , Seung Woo Shin , Guoming Wang

ITensor is a system for programming tensor network calculations with an interface modeled on tensor diagram notation, which allows users to focus on the connectivity of a tensor network without manually bookkeeping tensor indices. The…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Matthew Fishman , Steven R. White , E. Miles Stoudenmire

Despite the growing use of transformer models in computer vision, a mechanistic understanding of these networks is still needed. This work introduces a method to reverse-engineer Vision Transformers trained to solve image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Martina G. Vilas , Timothy Schaumlöffel , Gemma Roig

High-dimensional data arise naturally in many areas of science and engineering, including machine learning, signal processing, computational physics, and statistics. Such data are often represented as tensors, multi-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Beheshteh T. Rakhshan , Guillaume Rabusseau

Classically simulating quantum circuits is crucial when developing or testing quantum algorithms. Due to the underlying exponential complexity, efficient data structures are key for performing such simulations. To this end, tensor networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Lukas Burgholzer , Alexander Ploier , Robert Wille

We propose a new statistical model suitable for machine learning of systems with long distance correlations such as natural languages. The model is based on directed acyclic graph decorated by multi-linear tensor maps in the vertices and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Vasily Pestun , Yiannis Vlassopoulos

Machine learning is a promising application of quantum computing, but challenges remain as near-term devices will have a limited number of physical qubits and high error rates. Motivated by the usefulness of tensor networks for machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 William Huggins , Piyush Patel , K. Birgitta Whaley , E. Miles Stoudenmire

We apply tensor networks to counting statistics for the stochastic particle transport in an out-of-equilibrium diffusive system. This system is composed of a one-dimensional channel in contact with two particle reservoirs at the ends. Two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-14 Jiayin Gu , Fan Zhang

Complex systems can be effectively modeled via graphs that encode networked interactions, where relations between entities or nodes are often quantified by signed edge weights, e.g., promotion/inhibition in gene regulatory networks, or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Anqi Dong , Can Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou