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Finding self-similarity is a key step for understanding the governing law behind complex physical phenomena. Traditional methods for identifying self-similarity often rely on specific models, which can introduce significant bias. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-05 Ryota Watanabe , Takanori Ishii , Yuji Hirono , Hirokazu Maruoka

Deep artificial neural networks are powerful tools with many possible applications in nanophotonics. Here, we demonstrate how a deep neural network can be used as a fast, general purpose predictor of the full near-field and far-field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Peter R. Wiecha , Otto L. Muskens

This work concerns the application of physics-informed neural networks to the modeling and control of complex robotic systems. Achieving this goal required extending Physics Informed Neural Networks to handle non-conservative effects. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Jingyue Liu , Pablo Borja , Cosimo Della Santina

Algorithms based on deep network models are being used for many pattern recognition and decision-making tasks in robotics and AI. Training these models requires a large labeled dataset and considerable computational resources, which are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Mohan Sridharan , Tiago Mota

Rigid body interactions are fundamental to numerous scientific disciplines, but remain challenging to simulate due to their abrupt nonlinear nature and sensitivity to complex, often unknown environmental factors. These challenges call for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Amaury Wei , Olga Fink

Artificial neural networks have recently shown great results in many disciplines and a variety of applications, including natural language understanding, speech processing, games and image data generation. One particular application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Felix Altenberger , Claus Lenz

Neural networks are based on a simplified model of the brain. In this project, we wanted to relax the simplifying assumptions of a traditional neural network by making a model that more closely emulates the low level interactions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Jacob Beck , Zoe Papakipos

Reason and inference require process as well as memory skills by humans. Neural networks are able to process tasks like image recognition (better than humans) but in memory aspects are still limited (by attention mechanism, size). Recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Amit Sahu

A dynamical neural network consists of a set of interconnected neurons that interact over time continuously. It can exhibit computational properties in the sense that the dynamical system's evolution and/or limit points in the associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Tsung-Han Lin , Ping Tak Peter Tang

We propose a novel framework seamlessly providing key properties of both neural nets (learning) and symbolic logic (knowledge and reasoning). Every neuron has a meaning as a component of a formula in a weighted real-valued logic, yielding a…

We present a general class of machine learning algorithms called parametric matrix models. In contrast with most existing machine learning models that imitate the biology of neurons, parametric matrix models use matrix equations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Patrick Cook , Danny Jammooa , Morten Hjorth-Jensen , Daniel D. Lee , Dean Lee

We propose Neural Reasoner, a framework for neural network-based reasoning over natural language sentences. Given a question, Neural Reasoner can infer over multiple supporting facts and find an answer to the question in specific forms.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Baolin Peng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Kam-Fai Wong

Humans interact with the environment using a combination of perception - transforming sensory inputs from their environment into symbols, and cognition - mapping symbols to knowledge about the environment for supporting abstraction,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Amit Sheth , Kaushik Roy , Manas Gaur

Neural networks can emulate nonlinear physical systems with high accuracy, yet they may produce physically-inconsistent results when violating fundamental constraints. Here, we introduce a systematic way of enforcing nonlinear analytic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Tom Beucler , Michael Pritchard , Stephan Rasp , Jordan Ott , Pierre Baldi , Pierre Gentine

The concept of the cosmic web, viewing the Universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity, is deeply engrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about the most effective construction and the characteristics of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-14 B. C. Coutinho , Sungryong Hong , Kim Albrecht , Arjun Dey , Albert-László Barabási , Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

Machine learning presents a general, systematic framework for the generation of formal theoretical models for physical description and prediction. Tentatively standard linear modeling techniques are reviewed; followed by a brief discussion…

General Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Alexander Svozil , Karl Svozil

Differential equations are a ubiquitous tool to study dynamics, ranging from physical systems to complex systems, where a large number of agents interact through a graph with non-trivial topological features. Data-driven approximations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Vaiva Vasiliauskaite , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

Learning is traditionally studied in biological or computational systems. The power of learning frameworks in solving hard inverse-problems provides an appealing case for the development of `physical learning' in which physical systems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-29 Menachem Stern , Arvind Murugan

Situationally-aware artificial agents operating with competence in natural environments face several challenges: spatial awareness, object affordance detection, dynamic changes and unpredictability. A critical challenge is the agent's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mihai Pomarlan , Stefano De Giorgis , Rachel Ringe , Maria M. Hedblom , Nikolaos Tsiogkas

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state of the art method for image classification in the last ten years. Despite the fact that they achieve superhuman classification accuracy on many popular datasets, they often perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sebastian Stabinger , Peer David , Justus Piater , Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez