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Calculating bounds of properties of many-body quantum systems is of paramount importance, since they guide our understanding of emergent quantum phenomena and complement the insights obtained from estimation methods. Recent semidefinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Luke Mortimer , Leonardo Zambrano , Antonio Acín , Donato Farina

Machine learning has made important headway in helping to improve the treatment of quantum many-body systems. A domain of particular relevance are correlated inhomogeneous systems. What has been missing so far is a general, scalable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Alex Blania , Sandro Herbig , Fabian Dechent , Evert van Nieuwenburg , Florian Marquardt

The mechanism by which thermodynamics sets the direction of time's arrow has long fascinated scientists. Here, we show that a machine learning algorithm can learn to discern the direction of time's arrow when provided with a system's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-30 Alireza Seif , Mohammad Hafezi , Christopher Jarzynski

Symmetries play a pivotal role in our understanding of the properties of quantum many-body systems. While there are theorems and a well-established toolbox for systems in thermal equilibrium, much less is known about the role of symmetries…

Many-body localization (MBL) describes a quantum phase where an isolated interacting system subject to sufficient disorder displays non-ergodic behavior, evading thermal equilibrium that occurs under its own dynamics. Previously, the…

Even simplified models of quantum many-body systems can be difficult to analyse. However, taking inspiration from the foundations of physics, one may wonder whether there are practical advantages to constructing alternative beyond-quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sahar Atallah , Peter Carrekmor , Michael Garn , Yukuan Tao , Shashank Virmani

We introduce a method to efficiently study the dynamical properties of many-body localized systems in the regime of strong disorder and weak interactions. Our method reproduces qualitatively and quantitatively the real-time evolution with a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-03 Giuseppe De Tomasi , Frank Pollmann , Markus Heyl

A key element in transfer learning is representation learning; if representations can be developed that expose the relevant factors underlying the data, then new tasks and domains can be learned readily based on mappings of these salient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Yujia Li , Kevin Swersky , Richard Zemel

Nonlinear models and optimization methods have successfully tackled a rapidly growing set of problems in recent years. Indeed, a relatively small toolbox of such models and methods can provide sufficient performance across a large landscape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Akshunna S. Dogra

We introduce an extension of the multi-instance learning problem where examples are organized as nested bags of instances (e.g., a document could be represented as a bag of sentences, which in turn are bags of words). This framework can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alessandro Tibo , Manfred Jaeger , Paolo Frasconi

We present a mathematical and computational framework for the problem of learning a dynamical system from noisy observations of a few trajectories and subject to side information. Side information is any knowledge we might have about the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Bachir El Khadir

We propose to make the physical characteristics of a robot oscillate while it learns to improve its behavioral performance. We consider quantities such as mass, actuator strength, and size that are usually fixed in a robot, and show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Fabien C. Y. Benureau , Jun Tani

Learning unknown dynamics under environmental (or external) constraints is fundamental to many fields (e.g., modern robotics), particularly challenging when constraint information is only locally available and uncertain. Existing approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Dongzhe Zheng , Wenjie Mei

We establish that there are properties of quantum many-body dynamics which are efficiently learnable if we are given access to out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), but which require exponentially many operations in the system size if we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Jordan Cotler , Thomas Schuster , Masoud Mohseni

Visual attributes, from simple objects (e.g., backpacks, hats) to soft-biometrics (e.g., gender, height, clothing) have proven to be a powerful representational approach for many applications such as image description and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Theodore Giannakopoulos , Christophoros Nikou , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Data science and artificial intelligence are playing an increasingly important role in the physical sciences. Unfortunately, in the field of energetic materials data scarcity limits the accuracy and even applicability of ML tools. To…

We are perceiving and communicating with the world in a multisensory manner, where different information sources are sophisticatedly processed and interpreted by separate parts of the human brain to constitute a complex, yet harmonious and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ye Zhu , Yu Wu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

I present a strategy for unsupervised manifold learning on local atomic environments in molecular simulations based on simple rotation- and permutation-invariant three-body features. These features are highly descriptive, generalize to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-03 Wesley F. Reinhart

Humans have impressive generalization capabilities when it comes to manipulating objects and tools in completely novel environments. These capabilities are, at least partially, a result of humans having internal models of their bodies and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sarah Bechtle , Neha Das , Franziska Meier

Interacting many-body physical systems ranging from neural networks in the brain to folding proteins to self-modifying electrical circuits can learn to perform diverse tasks. This learning, both in nature and in engineered systems, can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-22 Menachem Stern , Andrea J. Liu , Vijay Balasubramanian