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We propose a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) neural network using a quantum thermodynamics formalism and the maximization of entropy as the cost function for the optimization problem. We verify the possibility of using an entropy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-18 Roshawn Terrell , Eleanor Watson , Timofey Golubev

One of the biggest challenges for simulating the Boltzmann equation is the evaluation of fivefold collision integral. Given the recent successes of deep learning and the availability of efficient tools, it is an obvious idea to try to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

We develop a moment equation closure minimization method for the inexpensive approximation of the steady state statistical structure of nonlinear systems whose potential functions have bimodal shapes and which are subjected to correlated…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-08 Han Kyul Joo , Themistoklis P. Sapsis

Critical questions in dynamical neuroscience and machine learning are related to the study of continuous-time neural networks and their stability, robustness, and computational efficiency. These properties can be simultaneously established…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Alexander Davydov , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Francesco Bullo

In this paper, we construct an asymptotic-preserving neural networks (APNNs) [21] for the linearized Boltzmann equation in the acoustic scaling and with uncertain parameters. Utilizing the micro-macro decomposition, we design the loss…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Jiayu Wan , Liu Liu

Recent years have seen the rise of convolutional neural network techniques in exemplar-based image synthesis. These methods often rely on the minimization of some variational formulation on the image space for which the minimizers are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Valentin De Bortoli , Agnes Desolneux , Alain Durmus , Bruno Galerne , Arthur Leclaire

The training of modern machine learning models often consists in solving high-dimensional non-convex optimisation problems that are subject to large-scale data. In this context, momentum-based stochastic optimisation algorithms have become…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Kexin Jin , Jonas Latz , Chenguang Liu , Alessandro Scagliotti

In this paper, we develop the Asymptotic-Preserving Neural Networks (APNNs) approach to study the forward and inverse problem for the semiconductor Boltzmann equation. The goal of the neural network is to resolve the computational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Liu Liu , Yating Wang , Xueyu Zhu , Zhenyi Zhu

Entropy is a fundamental concept in the field of information theory. During measurement, conventional entropy measures are susceptible to length and amplitude changes in time series. A new entropy metric, neural network entropy (NNetEn),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Hanif Heidari , Andrei Velichko , Murugappan Murugappan , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

The analysis of structure-preserving numerical methods for the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) system has attracted growing interests in recent years. In this work, we provide an optimal rate convergence analysis and error estimate for finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Jie Ding , Cheng Wang , Shenggao Zhou

Stochastic dynamical systems often contain nonlinearities which make it hard to compute probability density functions or statistical moments of these systems. For the moment computations, nonlinearities in the dynamics lead to unclosed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Khem Raj Ghusinga , Mohammad Soltani , Andrew Lamperski , Sairaj Dhople , Abhyudai Singh

Progress of AI has led to very successful, but by no means humble models and tools, especially regarding (i) the huge and further exploding costs and resources they demand, and (ii) the over-confidence of these tools with the answers they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Davide Bassetti , Lukáš Pospíšil , Michael Groom , Terence J. O'Kane , Illia Horenko

Recent work emphasizes that the maximum entropy principle provides a bridge between statistical mechanics models for collective behavior in neural networks and experiments on networks of real neurons. Most of this work has focused on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Gasper Tkacik , Olivier Marre , Thierry Mora , Dario Amodei , Michael J. Berry , William Bialek

We present a novel approach that integrates unfitted finite element methods and neural networks to approximate partial differential equations on complex geometries. Easy-to-generate background meshes (e.g., a simple Cartesian mesh) that cut…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Wei Li , Alberto F. Martín , Santiago Badia

One of the most influential results in neural network theory is the universal approximation theorem [1, 2, 3] which states that continuous functions can be approximated to within arbitrary accuracy by single-hidden-layer feedforward neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Clemens Hutter , Recep Gül , Helmut Bölcskei

The pervasive presence spatial and size structure in biological populations challenges fundamental assumptions at the heart of continuum models of population dynamics based on mean densities (local or global) only. Individual-based models…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-02-29 Michael Raghib , Nicholas A. Hill , Ulf Dieckmann

We study the entropy solution for a class of systems of nonlocal conservation laws in which the convective flux is convoluted with a kernel in both spatial and temporal variables. This formulation models the flux dependence on the solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Aekta Aggarwal , Ganesh Vaidya

We trained deep neural networks (DNNs) as a function of the neutrino energy density, flux, and the fluid velocity to reproduce the Eddington tensor for neutrinos obtained in our first-principles core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Akira Harada , Shota Nishikawa , Shoichi Yamada

In many realistic systems, maximum entropy principle (MEP) analysis provides an effective characterization of the probability distribution of network states. However, to implement the MEP analysis, a sufficiently long-time data recording in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Zhi-Qin John Xu , Jennifer Crodelle , Douglas Zhou , David Cai

Understanding how network function constrains neural connectivity is a central challenge in neuroscience. An influential approach is to train neural networks with gradient descent on cognitive tasks and characterize the resulting…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-26 Ludwig Hruza , Srdjan Ostojic