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From just a glance, humans can make rich predictions about the future state of a wide range of physical systems. On the other hand, modern approaches from engineering, robotics, and graphics are often restricted to narrow domains and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Nicholas Watters , Andrea Tacchetti , Theophane Weber , Razvan Pascanu , Peter Battaglia , Daniel Zoran

We study the problem of learning physical object representations for robot manipulation. Understanding object physics is critical for successful object manipulation, but also challenging because physical object properties can rarely be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Zhenjia Xu , Jiajun Wu , Andy Zeng , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Shuran Song

Despite successful seminal works on passive systems in the literature, learning free-form physical laws for controlled dynamical systems given experimental data is still an open problem. For decades, symbolic mathematical equations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Carlos Magno C. O. Valle , Sami Haddadin

In many real-world settings, image observations of freely rotating 3D rigid bodies, such as satellites, may be available when low-dimensional measurements are not. However, the high-dimensionality of image data precludes the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Justice Mason , Christine Allen-Blanchette , Nicholas Zolman , Elizabeth Davison , Naomi Leonard

Conditional neural processes (CNPs) are a flexible and efficient family of models that learn to learn a stochastic process from data. They have seen particular application in contextual image completion - observing pixel values at some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Victor Prokhorov , Ivan Titov , N. Siddharth

We numerically show that a deep neural network (DNN) can learn macroscopic thermodynamic laws purely from microscopic data. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we generate the data of snapshot images of gas particles undergoing adiabatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-21 Hiroto Kuroyanagi , Tatsuro Yuge

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in extracting meaningful representations from complex datasets. This has propelled representation learning as a compelling area of research across diverse fields. One interesting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Philipp Schmidt , Florian Marquardt , Naeimeh Mohseni

Modeling and rendering of dynamic scenes is challenging, as natural scenes often contain complex phenomena such as thin structures, evolving topology, translucency, scattering, occlusion, and biological motion. Mesh-based reconstruction and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Stephen Lombardi , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Gabriel Schwartz , Andreas Lehrmann , Yaser Sheikh

We are interested in learning models of intuitive physics similar to the ones that animals use for navigation, manipulation and planning. In addition to learning general physical principles, however, we are also interested in learning ``on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Sébastien Ehrhardt , Aron Monszpart , Niloy J. Mitra , Andrea Vedaldi

Machine learning approaches to spatiotemporal physical systems have primarily focused on next-frame prediction, with the goal of learning an accurate emulator for the system's evolution in time. However, these emulators are computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Helen Qu , Rudy Morel , Michael McCabe , Alberto Bietti , François Lanusse , Shirley Ho , Yann LeCun

We present a novel approach to system identification (SI) using deep learning techniques. Focusing on parametric system identification (PSI), we use a supervised learning approach for estimating the parameters of discrete and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Connor James Stephens , Emmanuel Blazquez

This paper explores a simple question: can we model the internal transformations of a neural network using dynamical systems theory? We introduce Koopman autoencoders to capture how neural representations evolve through network layers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Nishant Suresh Aswani , Saif Eddin Jabari

Simulating particle dynamics with high fidelity is crucial for solving real-world interaction and control tasks involving liquids in design, graphics, and robotics. Recently, data-driven approaches, particularly those based on graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Niteesh Midlagajni , Constantin A. Rothkopf

Understanding real-world dynamical phenomena remains a challenging task. Across various scientific disciplines, machine learning has advanced as the go-to technology to analyze nonlinear dynamical systems, identify patterns in big data, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Kevin Linka , Amelie Schafer , Xuhui Meng , Zongren Zou , George Em Karniadakis , Ellen Kuhl

We propose a model that is able to perform unsupervised physical parameter estimation of systems from video, where the differential equations governing the scene dynamics are known, but labeled states or objects are not available. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Miguel Jaques , Michael Burke , Timothy Hospedales

In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene dynamics from multi-view videos. Unlike the majority of existing works which usually focus on the common task of novel view synthesis within the training time period, we propose to simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Bo Yang

Neural networks have emerged as a powerful way to approach many practical problems in quantum physics. In this work, we illustrate the power of deep learning to predict the dynamics of a quantum many-body system, where the training is…

The ability to recognize dynamical phenomena (e.g., dynamical phases) and dynamical processes in physical events from videos, then to abstract physical concepts and reveal physical laws, lies at the core of human intelligence. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Weidi Wang , Zeyuan Wang , Yinghui Zhang , Bo Sun , Ke Xia

This work introduces a neural architecture for learning forward models of stochastic environments. The task is achieved solely through learning from temporal unstructured observations in the form of images. Once trained, the model allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Marian Andrecki , Nicholas K. Taylor

Whilst the partial differential equations that govern the dynamics of our world have been studied in great depth for centuries, solving them for complex, high-dimensional conditions and domains still presents an incredibly large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Edward Small