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Training neural networks means solving a high-dimensional optimization problem. Normally the goal is to minimize a loss function that depends on what is called the network function, or in other words the function that gives the network…

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Learning with physical systems is an emerging paradigm that seeks to harness the intrinsic nonlinear dynamics of physical substrates for learning. The impetus for a paradigm shift in how hardware is used for computational intelligence stems…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prevailing tool for learning physical dynamics. However, they still encounter several challenges: 1) Physical laws abide by symmetry, which is a vital inductive bias accounting for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jiaqi Han , Wenbing Huang , Hengbo Ma , Jiachen Li , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

We examine a family of random firing-rate neural networks in which we enforce the neurobiological constraint of Dale's Law --- each neuron makes either excitatory or inhibitory connections onto its post-synaptic targets. We find that this…

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Physics informed neural networks (PINNs) have drawn attention in recent years in engineering problems due to their effectiveness and ability to tackle the problems without generating complex meshes. PINNs use automatic differentiation to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-20 Atakan Aygun , Ali Karakus

In the area of physical simulations, nearly all neural-network-based methods directly predict future states from the input states. However, many traditional simulation engines instead model the constraints of the system and select the state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yulia Rubanova , Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez , Tobias Pfaff , Peter Battaglia

Downward continuation is a critical task in potential field processing, including gravity and magnetic fields, which aims to transfer data from one observation surface to another that is closer to the source of the field. Its effectiveness…

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In this study, we propose a new numerical scheme for physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) that enables precise and inexpensive solution for partial differential equations (PDEs) in case of arbitrary geometries while strictly enforcing…

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Machine learning is playing an increasing role in the physical sciences and significant progress has been made towards embedding domain knowledge into models. Less explored is its use to discover interpretable physical laws from data. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Saaketh Desai , Alejandro Strachan

Continual learning of deep neural networks is a key requirement for scaling them up to more complex applicative scenarios and for achieving real lifelong learning of these architectures. Previous approaches to the problem have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Aurelio Uncini

Symmetry is present throughout nature and continues to play an increasingly central role in physics and machine learning. Fundamental symmetries, such as Poincar\'{e} invariance, allow physical laws discovered in laboratories on Earth to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Samuel E. Otto , Nicholas Zolman , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Partial differential equations and variational problems can be solved with physics informed neural networks (PINNs). The unknown field is approximated with neural networks. Minimizing the residuals of the static Maxwell equation at…

Deep learning models have proven enormously successful at using multiple layers of representation to learn relevant features of structured data. Encoding physical symmetries into these models can improve performance on difficult tasks, and…

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Woven fabrics play an essential role in everyday textiles for clothing/sportswear, water filtration, and retaining walls, to reinforcements in stiff composites for lightweight structures like aerospace, sporting, automotive, and marine…

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Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) present a transformative approach for smart grid modeling by integrating physical laws directly into learning frameworks, addressing critical challenges of data scarcity and physical consistency in…

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Overparameterized neural networks enjoy great representation power on complex data, and more importantly yield sufficiently smooth output, which is crucial to their generalization and robustness. Most existing function approximation…

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The efficient simulation of complex quantum systems remains a central challenge due to the exponential growth of Hilbert space with system size. Tensor network methods have long been established as powerful approximation schemes, and their…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Min Chen , Minzhao Liu , Changhun Oh , Liang Jiang , Yuri Alexeev , Junyu Liu

This paper presents Mechanistic Neural Networks, a neural network design for machine learning applications in the sciences. It incorporates a new Mechanistic Block in standard architectures to explicitly learn governing differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Adeel Pervez , Francesco Locatello , Efstratios Gavves

Neural network models and deep models are one of the leading and state of the art models in machine learning. Most successful deep neural models are the ones with many layers which highly increases their number of parameters. Training such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Soufiane Belharbi

Neural Networks (NN) has been used in many areas with great success. When a NN's structure (Model) is given, during the training steps, the parameters of the model are determined using an appropriate criterion and an optimization algorithm…

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