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Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) is a novel multi-task learning framework useful for solving physical problems modeled using differential equations (DEs) by integrating the knowledge of physics and known constraints into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Shivprasad Kathane , Shyamprasad Karagadde

Capabilities of inference and prediction are significant components of visual systems. In this paper, we address an important and challenging task of them: visual path prediction. Its goal is to infer the future path for a visual object in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Siyu Huang , Xi Li , Zhongfei Zhang , Zhouzhou He , Fei Wu , Wei Liu , Jinhui Tang , Yueting Zhuang

The research in Artificial Intelligence methods with potential applications in science has become an essential task in the scientific community last years. Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) is one of this methods and represent a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Luis Medrano Navarro , Luis Martín Moreno , Sergio G Rodrigo

We present IntPhys 2, a video benchmark designed to evaluate the intuitive physics understanding of deep learning models. Building on the original IntPhys benchmark, IntPhys 2 focuses on four core principles related to macroscopic objects:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Florian Bordes , Quentin Garrido , Justine T Kao , Adina Williams , Michael Rabbat , Emmanuel Dupoux

We present a probabilistic approach for building, on the fly, 3-D models of unknown objects while being manipulated by a robot. We specifically consider manipulation tasks in piles of clutter that contain previously unseen objects. Most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Changkyu Song , Abdeslam Boularias

Students must learn effective problem solving strategies in order to develop expertise in physics. Effective problem solving strategies include a conceptual analysis of the problem followed by planning of the solution, and then…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-05-03 Andrew J. Mason , Chandralekha Singh

We address goal-based imitation learning, where the aim is to output the symbolic goal from a third-person video demonstration. This enables the robot to plan for execution and reproduce the same goal in a completely different environment.…

This document is a hands-on, comprehensive guide to deep learning in the realm of physical simulations. Rather than just theory, we emphasize practical application: every concept is paired with interactive Jupyter notebooks to get you up…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 N. Thuerey , B. Holzschuh , P. Holl , G. Kohl , M. Lino , Q. Liu , P. Schnell , F. Trost

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn complex robotic skills from raw sensory inputs, but have yet to achieve the kind of broad generalization and applicability demonstrated by deep learning methods in supervised domains. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Frederik Ebert , Chelsea Finn , Sudeep Dasari , Annie Xie , Alex Lee , Sergey Levine

Reasoning about objects, relations, and physics is central to human intelligence, and a key goal of artificial intelligence. Here we introduce the interaction network, a model which can reason about how objects in complex systems interact,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Peter W. Battaglia , Razvan Pascanu , Matthew Lai , Danilo Rezende , Koray Kavukcuoglu

When encountering novel objects, humans are able to infer a wide range of physical properties such as mass, friction and deformability by interacting with them in a goal driven way. This process of active interaction is in the same spirit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-21 Misha Denil , Pulkit Agrawal , Tejas D Kulkarni , Tom Erez , Peter Battaglia , Nando de Freitas

Humans are interactive agents driven to seek out situations with interesting physical dynamics. Here we formalize the functional form of physical intrinsic motivation. We first collect ratings of how interesting humans find a variety of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Julio Martinez , Felix Binder , Haoliang Wang , Nick Haber , Judith Fan , Daniel L. K. Yamins

We revisit the original approach of using deep learning and neural networks to solve differential equations by incorporating the knowledge of the equation. This is done by adding a dedicated term to the loss function during the optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Hubert Baty , Leo Baty

The large number of published articles in physics journals under the title "Comments on ..." and "Reply to ..." is indicative that the conceptual understanding of physical phenomena is very elusive and hard to grasp even to experts, but it…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-18 Sergio Rojas

Understanding causes and effects in mechanical systems is an essential component of reasoning in the physical world. This work poses a new problem of counterfactual learning of object mechanics from visual input. We develop the CoPhy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Fabien Baradel , Natalia Neverova , Julien Mille , Greg Mori , Christian Wolf

We consider the use of Deep Learning methods for modeling complex phenomena like those occurring in natural physical processes. With the large amount of data gathered on these phenomena the data intensive paradigm could begin to challenge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Emmanuel de Bezenac , Arthur Pajot , Patrick Gallinari

We study the problem of learning a navigation policy for a robot to actively search for an object of interest in an indoor environment solely from its visual inputs. While scene-driven visual navigation has been widely studied, prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Xin Ye , Zhe Lin , Haoxiang Li , Shibin Zheng , Yezhou Yang

Learned dynamics models combined with both planning and policy learning algorithms have shown promise in enabling artificial agents to learn to perform many diverse tasks with limited supervision. However, one of the fundamental challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Suraj Nair , Silvio Savarese , Chelsea Finn

Physics-based simulations are often used to model and understand complex physical systems and processes in domains like fluid dynamics. Such simulations, although used frequently, have many limitations which could arise either due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Nikhil Muralidhar , Jie Bu , Ze Cao , Long He , Naren Ramakrishnan , Danesh Tafti , Anuj Karpatne

We study the problem of experiment design to learn causal structures from interventional data. We consider an active learning setting in which the experimenter decides to intervene on one of the variables in the system in each step and uses…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Amir Amirinezhad , Saber Salehkaleybar , Matin Hashemi