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The prevailing data-driven machine learning has been plagued by the absence of physics knowledge and the scarcity of data. We implement the physics-model informed prior into Bayesian machine learning to evaluate the energy dependence of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Jiaming Liu , Yang Su , N. C. Shu , Y. J. Chen , J. C. Pei

The majority of nuclear reactions in astrophysics involve unstable nuclei which are not fully accessible by experiments yet. Therefore, there is high demand for reliable predictions of cross sections and reaction rates by theoretical means.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 T. Rauscher , R. D. Hoffman , S. E. Woosley , F. -K. Thielemann

We describe Bayesian Layers, a module designed for fast experimentation with neural network uncertainty. It extends neural network libraries with drop-in replacements for common layers. This enables composition via a unified abstraction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Dustin Tran , Michael W. Dusenberry , Mark van der Wilk , Danijar Hafner

In order to obtain a good understanding of astrochemistry, it is crucial to better understand the key parameters that govern grain-surface chemistry. For many chemical networks, these crucial parameters are the binding energies of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-12 Johannes Heyl , Serena Viti , Gijs Vermariën

The region of heavy calcium isotopes forms the frontier of experimental and theoretical nuclear structure research where the basic concepts of nuclear physics are put to stringent test. The recent discovery of the extremely neutron-rich…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-17 Léo Neufcourt , Yuchen Cao , Witold Nazarewicz , Erik Olsen , Frederi Viens

Bayesian Networks (BN) provide robust probabilistic methods of reasoning under uncertainty, but despite their formal grounds are strictly based on the notion of conditional dependence, not much attention has been paid so far to their use in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Luigi Portinale , Andrea Bobbio

We formalized the nuclear mass problem in the inverse problem framework. This approach allows us to infer the underlying model parameters from experimental observation, rather than to predict the observations from the model parameters. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-29 S. Cht. Mavrodiev , M. A. Deliyergiyev

Bayesian field theory denotes a nonparametric Bayesian approach for learning functions from observational data. Based on the principles of Bayesian statistics, a particular Bayesian field theory is defined by combining two models: a…

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The favorable energy configurations of nuclei at magic numbers of ${N}$ neutrons and ${Z}$ protons are fundamental for understanding the evolution of nuclear structure. The ${Z=50}$ (tin) isotopic chain is a frontier for such studies, with…

Uncertainty quantification is an important task in machine learning - a task in which standardneural networks (NNs) have traditionally not excelled. This can be a limitation for safety-critical applications, where uncertainty-aware methods…

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We introduce a hierarchical framework that combines ab initio many-body calculations with a Bayesian neural network, developing emulators capable of accurately predicting nuclear properties across isotopic chains simultaneously and being…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Antoine Belley , Jose M. Munoz , Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz

Identifying the parameters of a model and rating competitive models based on measured data has been among the most important but challenging topics in modern science and engineering, with great potential of application in structural system…

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Recently, combinations of generative and Bayesian machine learning have been introduced in particle physics for both fast detector simulation and inference tasks. These neural networks aim to quantify the uncertainty on the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Sebastian Bieringer , Sascha Diefenbacher , Gregor Kasieczka , Mathias Trabs

Nuclear density functional theory provides a unified description of finite nuclei and bulk nuclear matter, and is widely used to model the neutron star equation of state. However, extrapolations to supra-saturation densities require a…

A central open problem in nuclear physics is the determination of a physically robust equation of state (EoS) for dense nuclear matter, which directly informs our understanding of the internal composition and macroscopic properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 I. Stergakis , Th. Diakonidis , Ch. C. Moustakidis

Accurate modeling of neutron-induced (n,p) reaction cross sections is essential for diverse applications in nuclear physics, including reactor design, nuclear astrophysics, and radionuclide production. However, experimental data are often…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Arunabha Saha , Songshaptak De

The remarkable generalization performance of large-scale models has been challenging the conventional wisdom of the statistical learning theory. Although recent theoretical studies have shed light on this behavior in linear models and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-18 Tomoya Wakayama

The equation of state (EOS) of dense nuclear matter is a key factor to determine the internal structure and properties of neutron stars. However, the EOS of high-density nuclear matter has great uncertainty mainly because the terrestrial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Zehan Wu , Dehua Wen

The framework of nuclear energy density functionals has been employed to describe nuclear structure phenomena for a wide range of nuclei. Recently, statistical properties of a given nuclear model, such as parameter confidence intervals and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 M. Imbrišak , K. Nomura

The Bayesian neural network (BNN) method is used to construct a predictive model for fragment prediction of proton induced spallation reactions with the guidance of a simplified EPAX formula. Compared to the experimental data, it is found…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-17 Peng Dan , Hui-Ling Wei , Xi-Xi Chen , Xiao-Bao Wei , Yu-Ting Wang , Jie Pu , Kai-Xuan Cheng , Chun-Wang Ma