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The dynamics of physical systems is often constrained to lower dimensional sub-spaces due to the presence of conserved quantities. Here we propose a method to learn and exploit such symmetry constraints building upon Hamiltonian Neural…

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Local gauge symmetry underlies fundamental interactions and strongly correlated quantum matter, yet existing machine-learning approaches lack a general, principled framework for learning under site-dependent symmetries, particularly for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Ali Rayat , Yaohang Li , Gia-Wei Chern

The ability to rapidly identify symmetry and anti-symmetry is an essential attribute of intelligence. Symmetry perception is a central process in human vision and may be key to human 3D visualization. While previous work in understanding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-11 Jonathan K. George , Cesare Soci , Volker J. Sorger

Spatial networks are networks whose graph topology is constrained by their embedded spatial space. Understanding the coupled spatial-graph properties is crucial for extracting powerful representations from spatial networks. Therefore,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Zheng Zhang , Sirui Li , Jingcheng Zhou , Junxiang Wang , Abhinav Angirekula , Allen Zhang , Liang Zhao

Plasticity, the ability of a neural network to quickly change its predictions in response to new information, is essential for the adaptability and robustness of deep reinforcement learning systems. Deep neural networks are known to lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Clare Lyle , Zeyu Zheng , Evgenii Nikishin , Bernardo Avila Pires , Razvan Pascanu , Will Dabney

A well-known combinatorial algorithm can decide generic rigidity in the plane by determining if the graph is of Pollaczek-Geiringer-Laman type. Methods from matroid theory have been used to prove other interesting results, again under the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Andrew Frohmader , Alexander Heaton

Symmetry plays a crucial role in understanding the properties of mathematical structures and optimization problems. Recent work has explored this phenomenon in the context of neural networks, where the loss function is invariant under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Irmi Schneider

Deep clustering has increasingly been demonstrating superiority over conventional shallow clustering algorithms. Deep clustering algorithms usually combine representation learning with deep neural networks to achieve this performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Ryan McConville , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Robert J Piechocki , Ian Craddock

Topological invariants allow to characterize Hamiltonians, predicting the existence of topologically protected in-gap modes. Those invariants can be computed by tracing the evolution of the occupied wavefunctions under twisted boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 D. Carvalho , N. A. Garcia-Martinez , J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

In certain situations, neural networks are trained upon data that obey underlying symmetries. However, the predictions do not respect the symmetries exactly unless embedded in the network structure. In this work, we introduce architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Anwesh Bhattacharya , Marios Mattheakis , Pavlos Protopapas

Neural networks are a central technique in machine learning. Recent years have seen a wave of interest in applying neural networks to physical systems for which the governing dynamics are known and expressed through differential equations.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Mattheakis , P. Protopapas , D. Sondak , M. Di Giovanni , E. Kaxiras

Symmetry -- invariance to certain operators -- is a fundamental concept in many branches of physics. We propose ways to measure symmetric properties of vertices, and their surroundings, in networks. To be stable to the randomness inherent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-06-29 Petter Holme

This work develops the global equations of neural networks through stacked piecewise manifolds, fixed-point theory, and boundary-conditioned iteration. Once fixed coordinates and operators are removed, a neural network appears as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Max Y. Ma , Gen-Hua Shi

Supervised learning in a binary perceptron is able to classify an extensive number of random patterns by a proper assignment of binary synaptic weights. However, to find such assignments in practice, is quite a nontrivial task. The relation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-19 Haiping Huang , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Symmetry is a key feature observed in nature (from flowers and leaves, to butterflies and birds) and in human-made objects (from paintings and sculptures, to manufactured objects and architectural design). Rotational, translational, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Felice De Luca , Md Iqbal Hossain , Stephen Kobourov

When neural networks are trained to classify a dataset, one finds a set of weights from which the network produces a label for each data point. We study the algorithmic complexity of finding a collision in a single-layer neural net, where a…

We introduce a flexible setup allowing for a neural network to learn both its size and topology during the course of a standard gradient-based training. The resulting network has the structure of a graph tailored to the particular learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Romuald A. Janik , Aleksandra Nowak

Texture is a visual attribute largely used in many problems of image analysis. Currently, many methods that use learning techniques have been proposed for texture discrimination, achieving improved performance over previous handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Lucas C. Ribas , Leonardo F. S. Scabini , Jarbas Joaci de Mesquita Sá Junior , Odemir M. Bruno

Geometry can be used to explain many properties commonly observed in real networks. It is therefore often assumed that real networks, especially those with high average local clustering, live in an underlying hidden geometric space.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-11 J. van der Kolk , M. Á. Serrano , M. Boguñá

Neural networks have been successfully used for classification tasks in a rapidly growing number of practical applications. Despite their popularity and widespread use, there are still many aspects of training and classification that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Ewout van den Berg