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We investigate the emergence of intuitive physics understanding in general-purpose deep neural network models trained to predict masked regions in natural videos. Leveraging the violation-of-expectation framework, we find that video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Quentin Garrido , Nicolas Ballas , Mahmoud Assran , Adrien Bardes , Laurent Najman , Michael Rabbat , Emmanuel Dupoux , Yann LeCun

The non-linear evolution of one-dimensional perturbations in a three-dimensional expanding Universe is considered. A general Lagrangian scheme is derived, and compared to two previously introduced approximate models. These models are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Erik Aurell , Duccio Fanelli

Deep learning architectures based on convolutional neural networks tend to rely on continuous, smooth features. While this characteristics provides significant robustness and proves useful in many real-world tasks, it is strikingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zuzanna Buchnajzer , Kacper Dobek , Stanisław Hapke , Daniel Jankowski , Krzysztof Krawiec

To take full advantage of fast-growing unlabeled networked data, this paper introduces a novel self-supervised strategy for graph representation learning by exploiting natural supervision provided by the data itself. Inspired by human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Zhen Peng , Yixiang Dong , Minnan Luo , Xiao-Ming Wu , Qinghua Zheng

The goal of this paper is to determine the laws of observed trajectories assuming that there is a mechanical system in the background and using these laws to continue the observed motion in a plausible way. The laws are represented by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Antal Jakovac , Marcell T. Kurbucz , Peter Posfay

Quantum particles co-propagating on disordered lattices develop complex non-classical correlations due to an interplay between quantum statistics, inter-particle interactions, and disorder. Here we present a deep learning algorithm based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Miri Kenig , Yoav Lahini

Inferring universal laws of the environment is an important ability of human intelligence as well as a symbol of general AI. In this paper, we take a step toward this goal such that we introduce a new challenging problem of inferring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Siyu Huang , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Xi Li , Xiao Wu , Zhongfei Zhang , Alexander Hauptmann

This article proposes a novel methodology to learn a stable robot control law driven by dynamical systems. The methodology requires a single demonstration and can deduce a stable dynamics in arbitrary high dimensions. The method relies on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Sthithpragya Gupta , Aradhana Nayak , Aude Billard

The process of cognition is analysed to adjust the set theory to physical description. Postulates and basic definitions are revised. The specific sets of predicates, called presets, corresponding to the physical objects identified by an…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey V. Novikov-Borodin

The fundamental laws of physics are intrinsically geometric, dictating the evolution of systems through principles of symmetry and conservation. While modern machine learning offers powerful tools for modeling complex dynamics from data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Amine Mohamed Aboussalah , Abdessalam Ed-dib

Physical networks, such as biological neural networks, can learn desired functions without a central processor, using local learning rules in space and time to learn in a fully distributed manner. Learning approaches such as equilibrium…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-17 Menachem Stern , Sam Dillavou , Marc Z. Miskin , Douglas J. Durian , Andrea J. Liu

In the context of the recently proposed formulation of quantum geometrodynamics in extended phase space we discuss the problem how the behavior of the Universe, initially managed by quantum laws, has become classical. In this version of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Shestakova

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

This paper gives an introduction to \textit{Cognidynamics}, that is to the dynamics of cognitive systems driven by optimal objectives imposed over time when they interact either with a defined virtual or with a real-world environment. The…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-26 Marco Gori

We present a novel self-taught framework for unsupervised metric learning, which alternates between predicting class-equivalence relations between data through a moving average of an embedding model and learning the model with the predicted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Sungyeon Kim , Dongwon Kim , Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak

While learning models of intuitive physics is an increasingly active area of research, current approaches still fall short of natural intelligences in one important regard: they require external supervision, such as explicit access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Sebastien Ehrhardt , Aron Monszpart , Niloy Mitra , Andrea Vedaldi

In many machine learning applications, labeled data is scarce and obtaining more labels is expensive. We introduce a new approach to supervising neural networks by specifying constraints that should hold over the output space, rather than…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Russell Stewart , Stefano Ermon

We present a unified geometric framework for modeling learning dynamics in physical, biological, and machine learning systems. The theory reveals three fundamental regimes, each emerging from the power-law relationship $g \propto…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Vitaly Vanchurin

While trade-offs between modeling effort and model accuracy remain a major concern with system identification, resorting to data-driven methods often leads to a complete disregard for physical plausibility. To address this issue, we propose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Oliver Schön , Ricarda-Samantha Götte , Julia Timmermann

We discuss phenomenology of quantum vacuum. Phenomenology of macroscopic systems has three sources: thermodynamics, topology and symmetry. Momentum space topology determines the universality classes of fermionic vacua. The vacuum in its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-08 G. E. Volovik