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Brain encoding and decoding aims to understand the relationship between external stimuli and brain activities, and is a fundamental problem in neuroscience. In this article, we study latent embedding alignment for brain encoding and…

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In applications of dynamical systems, situations can arise where it is desired to predict the onset of synchronization as it can lead to characteristic and significant changes in the system performance and behaviors, for better or worse. In…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-30 Huawei Fan , Ling-Wei Kong , Ying-Cheng Lai , Xingang Wang

Self-supervision can dramatically cut back the amount of manually-labelled data required to train deep neural networks. While self-supervision has usually been considered for tasks such as image classification, in this paper we aim at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 David Novotny , Samuel Albanie , Diane Larlus , Andrea Vedaldi

We study bi-directional associative neural networks that, exposed to noisy examples of an extensive number of random archetypes, learn the latter (with or without the presence of a teacher) when the supplied information is enough: in this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-18 Martino Salomone Centonze , Ido Kanter , Adriano Barra

The notion of concept drift refers to the phenomenon that the data generating distribution changes over time; as a consequence machine learning models may become inaccurate and need adjustment. In this paper we consider the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Fabian Hinder , André Artelt , Valerie Vaquet , Barbara Hammer

In this paper, we consider the use of prior knowledge within neural networks. In particular, we investigate the effect of a known transform within the mapping from input data space to the output domain. We demonstrate that use of known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Andreas Maier , Frank Schebesch , Christopher Syben , Tobias Würfl , Stefan Steidl , Jang-Hwan Choi , Rebecca Fahrig

Bayesian inversion is central to the quantification of uncertainty within problems arising from numerous applications in science and engineering. To formulate the approach, four ingredients are required: a forward model mapping the unknown…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-15 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Mark Girolami , Andrew M. Stuart , Arnaud Vadeboncoeur

Data-driven control algorithms use observations of system dynamics to construct an implicit model for the purpose of control. However, in practice, data-driven techniques often require excessive sample sizes, which may be infeasible in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Adam J. Thorpe , Cyrus Neary , Franck Djeumou , Meeko M. K. Oishi , Ufuk Topcu

Artificial neural networks, trained to perform cognitive tasks, have recently been used as models for neural recordings from animals performing these tasks. While some progress has been made in performing such comparisons, the evolution of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-03 Chen Beer , Omri Barak

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in statistical mechanics primarily occurs during phase transitions at the thermodynamic limit where the Hamiltonian preserves inversion symmetry, yet the low-temperature free energy exhibits reduced symmetry.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Shalom Rosner , Ronit D. Gross , Ella Koresh , Ido Kanter

A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kyle Hsu , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

The remarkable capability of over-parameterised neural networks to generalise effectively has been explained by invoking a ``simplicity bias'': neural networks prevent overfitting by initially learning simple classifiers before progressing…

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Symmetries play a central role in physics, organizing dynamics, constraining interactions, and determining the effective number of physical degrees of freedom. In parallel, modern artificial intelligence methods have demonstrated a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Veronica Sanz

The characterization of diffusion processes is a keystone in our understanding of a variety of physical phenomena. Many of these deviate from Brownian motion, giving rise to anomalous diffusion. Various theoretical models exists nowadays to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-15 Gorka Muñoz-Gil , Guillem Guigó i Corominas , Maciej Lewenstein

A new general framework is presented for implementing complex a priori knowledge, having in mind especially situations where the number of available training data is small compared to the complexity of the learning task. A priori…

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Accuracy and generalization capabilities are key objectives when learning dynamical system models. To obtain such models from limited data, current works exploit prior knowledge and assumptions about the system. However, the fusion of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-22 Björn Volkmann , Jan-Hendrik Ewering , Michael Meindl , Simon F. G. Ehlers , Thomas Seel

Deep neural networks often struggle to learn robust representations in the presence of dataset biases, leading to suboptimal generalization on unbiased datasets. This limitation arises because the models heavily depend on peripheral and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Enzo Tartaglione , Marco Grangetto

In the context of artificial neural networks, subliminal learning refers to the transfer of task-relevant knowledge or unintended biases from teacher to student models through distillation on task-unrelated input$\unicode{x2013}$output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Vincent C. Brockers , Roman D. Ventzke , Valentin Neuhaus , Belén Hidalgo-Ogalde , Viola Priesemann

Self-supervised learning has become an increasingly important paradigm in the domain of machine intelligence. Furthermore, evidence for self-supervised adaptation, such as contrastive formulations, has emerged in recent computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Alexander Ororbia , Karl Friston , Rajesh P. N. Rao

Statistical inference, a central tool of science, revolves around the study and the usage of statistical estimators: functions that map finite samples to predictions about unknown distribution parameters. In the frequentist framework,…

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