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Standard convolutional neural networks assume a grid structured input is available and exploit discrete convolutions as their fundamental building blocks. This limits their applicability to many real-world applications. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Shenlong Wang , Simon Suo , Wei-Chiu Ma , Andrei Pokrovsky , Raquel Urtasun

A robust theoretical framework that can describe and predict the generalization ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) in general circumstances remains elusive. Classical attempts have produced complexity metrics that rely heavily on global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Marelie H. Davel , Marthinus W. Theunissen , Arnold M. Pretorius , Etienne Barnard

Sharpness-aware and gradient-alignment methods have been shown to improve generalization, however each family of methods targets a single geometric property of the loss landscape, while ignoring the other. In this paper, we show that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aristotelis Ballas , Christos Diou

We introduce a classical field theory based on a concept of extended causality that mimics the causality of a point-particle Classical Mechanics by imposing constraints that are equivalent to a particle initial position and velocity. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoelito M. de Souza

Many theoretical results in deep learning can be traced to symmetry or equivariance of neural networks under parameter transformations. However, existing analyses are typically problem-specific and focus on first-order consequences such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yongyi Yang , Liu Ziyin

Locally exact integrators preserve linearization of the original system at every point. We construct energy-preserving locally exact discrete gradient schemes for arbitrary multidimensional canonical Hamiltonian systems by modifying…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Jan L. Cieśliński

This paper is devoted to studying the first-order variational analysis of non-convex and non-differentiable functions that may not be subdifferentially regular. To achieve this goal, we entirely rely on two concepts of directional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Ashkan Mohammadi

Bayesian inference plays an important role in advancing machine learning, but faces computational challenges when applied to complex models such as deep neural networks. Variational inference circumvents these challenges by formulating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-03 Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Didrik Nielsen

The class of ordinary linear constant coefficient differential equations is naturally embedded into a wider class by associating differential equations to algebraic curves.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Vakhtang Lomadze

An algorithm for embedding finite dimensional Lie algebras into Lie algebras of vector fields (and Lie superalgebras into Lie superalgebras of vector fields) is offered in a way applicable over ground fields of any characteristic. The…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Irina Shchepochkina

We introduce a method to construct conservation laws for a large class of linear partial differential equations. In contrast to the classical result of Noether, the conserved currents are generated by any symmetry of the operator, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-05 Anthony C. L Ashton

We introduce a machine-learning approach for identifying hidden structural features of open quantum dynamics under restricted experimental access. Unlike most existing data-driven methods which focus on detection or prediction of dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Alexander Teretenkov , Sergey Kuznetsov , Alexander Pechen

Neural Networks sequentially build high-level features through their successive layers. We propose here a new neural network model where each layer is associated with a set of candidate mappings. When an input is processed, at each layer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-03 Ludovic Denoyer , Patrick Gallinari

There are many evolution partial differential equations which can be cast into Hamiltonian form. Conservation laws of these equations are related to one-parameter Hamiltonian symmetries admitted by the PDEs. The same result holds for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roman Kozlov

Decision Trees (DTs) are commonly used for many machine learning tasks due to their high degree of interpretability. However, learning a DT from data is a difficult optimization problem, as it is non-convex and non-differentiable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Sascha Marton , Stefan Lüdtke , Christian Bartelt , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

A novel Neural Network architecture is proposed using the mathematically and physically rich idea of vector fields as hidden layers to perform nonlinear transformations in the data. The data points are interpreted as particles moving along…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Daniel Vieira , Fabio Rangel , Fabricio Firmino , Joao Paixao

We use machine learning to classify rational two-dimensional conformal field theories. We first use the energy spectra of these minimal models to train a supervised learning algorithm. We find that the machine is able to correctly predict…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-13 En-Jui Kuo , Alireza Seif , Rex Lundgren , Seth Whitsitt , Mohammad Hafezi

We extend the Cauchy residue theorem to a large class of domains including differential chains that represent, via canonical embedding into a space of currents, divergence free vector fields and non-Lipschitz curves. That is, while the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Jenny Harrison , Harrison Pugh

We introduce a new class of deep neural networks (DNNs) with multilayered tree-like architectures. The architectures are codified using numbers from the ring of integers of non-Archimdean local fields. These rings have a natural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

In this paper we form a general conservation law that unifies a class of physics field theories. For this we first introduce the notion of a general field as a formal sum differential forms on a Minkowski manifold. Thereafter, we employ the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Lauri Kettunen , Sanna Mönkölä , Jouni Parkkonen , Tuomo Rossi