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Biological synaptic transmission is unreliable, and this unreliability likely degrades neural circuit performance. While there are biophysical mechanisms that can increase reliability, for instance by increasing vesicle release probability,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-02 James Malkin , Cian O'Donnell , Conor Houghton , Laurence Aitchison

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are a newly emerging research frontier in machine learning, which incorporate certain physical laws that govern a given data set, e.g., those described by partial differential equations (PDEs), into…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Bo Wang , A. K. Qin , Sajjad Shafiei , Hussein Dia , Adriana-Simona Mihaita , Hanna Grzybowska

Biological neurons and their in-silico emulations for neuromorphic artificial intelligence (AI) use extraordinarily energy-efficient mechanisms, such as spike-based communication and local synaptic plasticity. It remains unclear whether…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Timoleon Moraitis , Abu Sebastian , Evangelos Eleftheriou

Data-driven, machine learning (ML) models of atomistic interactions are often based on flexible and non-physical functions that can relate nuanced aspects of atomic arrangements into predictions of energies and forces. As a result, these…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-15 Bartosz Barzdajn , Christopher P. Race

Biological systems have to build models from their sensory data that allow them to efficiently process previously unseen inputs. Here, we study a neural network learning a linearly separable rule using examples provided by a teacher. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Sebastian Goldt , Udo Seifert

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…

This paper presents a PINN training framework that employs (1) pre-training steps that accelerates and improve the robustness of the training of physics-informed neural network with auxiliary data stored in point clouds, (2) a net-to-net…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bahador Bahmani , WaiChing Sun

Prognostics and Health Management ensures the reliability, safety, and efficiency of complex engineered systems by enabling fault detection, anticipating equipment failures, and optimizing maintenance activities throughout an asset…

The Free-Energy-Principle (FEP) is an influential and controversial theory which postulates a deep and powerful connection between the stochastic thermodynamics of self-organization and learning through variational inference. Specifically,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Beren Millidge , Anil Seth , Christopher L Buckley

A system responding to a stochastic driving signal can be interpreted as computing, by means of its dynamics, an implicit model of the environmental variables. The system's state retains information about past environmental fluctuations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-09 Susanne Still , David A. Sivak , Anthony J. Bell , Gavin E. Crooks

Substitution of well-grounded theoretical models by data-driven predictions is not as simple in engineering and sciences as it is in social and economic fields. Scientific problems suffer most times from paucity of data, while they may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Jacobo Ayensa-Jiménez , Mohamed H. Doweidar , Jose Antonio Sanz-Herrera , Manuel Doblaré

Material identification is critical for understanding the relationship between mechanical properties and the associated mechanical functions. However, material identification is a challenging task, especially when the characteristic of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-29 Wensi Wu , Mitchell Daneker , Matthew A. Jolley , Kevin T. Turner , Lu Lu

This paper introduces, for the first time to our knowledge, physics-informed neural networks to accurately estimate the AC-OPF result and delivers rigorous guarantees about their performance. Power system operators, along with several other…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Rahul Nellikkath , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Parameter estimation remains a challenging task across many areas of engineering. Because data acquisition can often be costly, limited, or prone to inaccuracies (noise, uncertainty) it is crucial to identify sensor configurations that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-20 Georgios Venianakis , Constantinos Theodoropoulos , Michail Kavousanakis

Differential equations are indispensable to engineering and hence to innovation. In recent years, physics-informed neural networks (PINN) have emerged as a novel method for solving differential equations. PINN method has the advantage of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Mayank Raj , Pramod Kumbhar , Ratna Kumar Annabattula

Data analysis in science, e.g., high-energy particle physics, is often subject to an intractable likelihood if the observables and observations span a high-dimensional input space. Typically the problem is solved by reducing the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-01-14 Stefan Wunsch , Simon Jörger , Roger Wolf , Günter Quast

This work presents a physics-informed neural network (PINN) based framework to model the strain-rate and temperature dependence of the deformation fields in elastic-viscoplastic solids. To avoid unbalanced back-propagated gradients during…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Rajat Arora , Pratik Kakkar , Biswadip Dey , Amit Chakraborty

Learning is a physical process. Here, we aim to study a simple dynamical system composed of springs and sticks capable of arbitrarily approximating any continuous function. The main idea of our work is to use the sticks to mimic a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Luis Mantilla Calderón , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Scientific inference involves obtaining the unknown properties or behavior of a system in the light of what is known, typically, without changing the system. Here we propose an alternative to this approach: a system can be modified in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-11 Nathaniel Rupprecht , Dervis Vural

Autonomous physical science is revolutionizing materials science. In these systems, machine learning controls experiment design, execution, and analysis in a closed loop. Active learning, the machine learning field of optimal experiment…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Alex Wang , Haotong Liang , Austin McDannald , Ichiro Takeuchi , A. Gilad Kusne