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The Neural Network Field Theory correspondence (NNFT) is a mapping from neural network (NN) architectures into the space of statistical field theories (SFTs). The Bayesian renormalization group (BRG) is an information-theoretic coarse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Jessica N. Howard , Marc S. Klinger , Anindita Maiti , Alexander G. Stapleton

We study regularization for the deep linear network (DLN) using the entropy formula introduced in arXiv:2509.09088. The equilibria and gradient flow of the free energy on the Riemannian manifold of end-to-end maps of the DLN are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alan Chen , Tejas Kotwal , Govind Menon

Hierarchical structures, which include multiple levels, are prevalent in statistical and machine-learning models as well as physical systems. Extending the foundational result that the maximum entropy distribution under mean constraints is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Amir R. Asadi

We show with several examples that renormalization group (RG) theory can be used to understand singular and reductive perturbation methods in a unified fashion. Amplitude equations describing slow motion dynamics in nonequilibrium phenomena…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lin-Yuan Chen , Nigel Goldenfeld , Y. Oono

Recently, information theoretic analysis has become a popular framework for understanding the generalization behavior of deep neural networks. It allows a direct analysis for stochastic gradient/Langevin descent (SGD/SGLD) learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-03 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Hong Chen , Chen Li

We analyze the effect of decoherence, modelled by local quantum channels, on quantum critical states and we find universal properties of the resulting mixed state's entanglement, both between system and environment and within the system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Yijian Zou , Shengqi Sang , Timothy H. Hsieh

In this paper, we present a new approach to interpret deep learning models. By coupling mutual information with network science, we explore how information flows through feedforward networks. We show that efficiently approximating mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Brian Davis , Umang Bhatt , Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Radu Marculescu , José M. F. Moura

We introduce a "renormalized entanglement entropy" which is intrinsically UV finite and is most sensitive to the degrees of freedom at the scale of the size R of the entangled region. We illustrated the power of this construction by showing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Hong Liu , Mark Mezei

It has been shown \citep{broeck90:physicalreview,patarnello87:europhys} that feedforward Boolean networks can learn to perform specific simple tasks and generalize well if only a subset of the learning examples is provided for learning.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Alireza Goudarzi , Christof Teuscher , Natali Gulbahce , Thimo Rohlf

Here, the entanglement entropy is calculated at the quantum multicritical point of the random transverse-field Ising model (RTIM). We use an efficient implementation of the strong disorder renormalization group method in two and three…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-22 István Kovács

Four decades after its first postulation by Bekenstein, black hole entropy remains mysterious. It has long been suggested that the entanglement entropy of quantum fields on the black hole gravitational background should represent at least…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-17 Alejandro Satz , Ted Jacobson

We study the critical properties of the weakly disordered two-dimensional Ising and Baxter models in terms of the renormalization group (RG) theory generalized to take into account the replica symmetry breaking (RSB) effects. Recently it…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. E. Feldman , A. V. Izyumov , Viktor Dotsenko

We introduce hardness in relative entropy, a new notion of hardness for search problems which on the one hand is satisfied by all one-way functions and on the other hand implies both next-block pseudoentropy and inaccessible entropy, two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Rohit Agrawal , Yi-Hsiu Chen , Thibaut Horel , Salil Vadhan

Neural networks have dramatically increased our capacity to learn from large, high-dimensional datasets across innumerable disciplines. However, their decisions are not easily interpretable, their computational costs are high, and building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Mackenzie J. Meni , Ryan T. White , Michael Mayo , Kevin Pilkiewicz

The random matrix ensembles (RME), especially Gaussian random matrix ensembles GRME and Ginibre random matrix ensembles, are applied to following quantum systems: nuclear systems, molecular systems, and two-dimensional electron systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

Random matrix ensembles (RME) of quantum statistical Hamiltonian operators, {\em e.g.} Gaussian random matrix ensembles (GRME) and Ginibre random matrix ensembles (Ginibre RME), found applications in literature in study of following quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

We explore how minimal neural networks can invert the renormalization group (RG) coarse-graining procedure in the two-dimensional Ising model, effectively ``dreaming up'' microscopic configurations from coarse-grained states. This task -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-08 Adam Rançon , Ulysse Rançon , Tomislav Ivek , Ivan Balog

Recently, a rigorous yet concise formula has been derived to evaluate the information flow, and hence the causality in a quantitative sense, between time series. To assess the importance of a resulting causality, it needs to be normalized.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-08-26 X. San Liang

In this Thesis, several results in quantum information theory are collected, most of which use entropy as the main mathematical tool. *While a direct generalization of the Shannon entropy to density matrices, the von Neumann entropy behaves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Christian Majenz

A method is provided for designing and training noise-driven recurrent neural networks as models of stochastic processes. The method unifies and generalizes two known separate modeling approaches, Echo State Networks (ESN) and Linear…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-04-14 Mathieu N. Galtier , Camille Marini , Gilles Wainrib , Herbert Jaeger