English
Related papers

Related papers: Thermodynamic AI and the fluctuation frontier

200 papers

While the unsustainable energy cost of artificial intelligence necessitates physics-driven computing, its performance superiority over full-precision GPUs remains a challenge. We bridge this gap by repurposing the Joule-heating relaxation…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jingli Liu , Huannan Zheng , Bohao Zou , Kezhou Yang

This work will elaborate the fundamental principles of physical artificial intelligence (Physical AI) from a scientific and systemic perspective. The aim is to create a theoretical foundation that describes the physical embodiment, sensory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Vahid Salehi

The major goal of the present paper is to find out the manifestation of the boundedness of fluctuations. Two different subjects are considered: (i) an ergodic Markovian process associated with a new type of large scaled fluctuations at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria K. Koleva , Valery C. Covachev

The training algorithms for AI systems all introduce far-from-equilibrium dynamical processes, and understanding the irreversibility of these algorithms is a fundamental step towards understanding the learning dynamics of modern AI systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-22 Liu Ziyin , Yuanjie Ren , Adam Levine , Isaac Chuang

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), it is foreseeable that the accuracy and efficiency of dynamic analysis for future power system will be greatly improved by the integration of dynamic simulators and AI. To explore…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Tannan Xiao , Ying Chen , Jianquan Wang , Shaowei Huang , Weilin Tong , Tirui He

The increasing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads across diverse computing environments has driven the need for more efficient data management strategies. Traditional cloud-based architectures struggle to handle the sheer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Alex Barceló , Sebastián A. Cajas Ordoñez , Jaydeep Samanta , Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo , Romila Ghosh , Ricardo Simón Carbajo , Anna Queralt

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly deployed in real-time and energy-constrained environments, driving demand for hardware platforms that can deliver high performance and power efficiency. While central processing units (CPUs) and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Aybars Yunusoglu , Talha Coskun , Hiruna Vishwamith , Murat Isik , I. Can Dikmen

A fundamental principle of chaotic quantum dynamics is that local subsystems eventually approach a thermal equilibrium state. Large subsystems thermalize slower: their approach to equilibrium is limited by the hydrodynamic build-up of…

Algorithmic entropy can be seen as a special case of entropy as studied in statistical mechanics. This viewpoint allows us to apply many techniques developed for use in thermodynamics to the subject of algorithmic information theory. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 John C. Baez , Mike Stay

Microscopic thermal machines promise to play an important role in future quantum technologies. Making such devices widely applicable will require effective strategies to channel their output into easily accessible storage systems like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-02 Joshua Eglinton , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky , Kay Brandner

We report the first systematic evidence of hallucination in AI models of fluid dynamics, demonstrated in the canonical problem of hydrodynamically unstable transport known as viscous fingering. AI-based modeling of flow with instabilities…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-23 Ramdhan Wibawa , Birendra Jha

Microscopic heat engines operate in regimes where thermodynamic quantities fluctuate strongly, making stochastic effects an essential aspect of their performance. However, existing geometric formulations of finite-time thermodynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Gentaro Watanabe , Guo-Hua Xu , Yuki Minami

We introduce Teleodynamic Learning, a new paradigm for machine learning in which learning is not the minimization of a fixed objective, but the emergence and stabilization of functional organization under constraint. Inspired by living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Enrique ter Horst , Juan Diego Zambrano

The past twenty years have seen a resurgence of interest in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, thanks to advances in the theory of stochastic processes and in their thermodynamic interpretation. Fluctuation theorems provide fundamental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-16 Robert Marsland , Jeremy England

Quantum Diffusion Models (QDMs) are an emerging paradigm in Generative AI that aims to use quantum properties to improve the performances of their classical counterparts. However, existing algorithms are not easily scalable due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Marco Parigi , Stefano Martina , Francesco Aldo Venturelli , Filippo Caruso

Data is scaling exponentially in fields ranging from genomics to neuroscience to economics. A central question is: can modern machine learning methods be applied to construct predictive models of natural systems like cells and brains based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-17 Audrey Huang , Benjamin Sheldan , David A. Sivak , Matt Thomson

A new class of energy-efficient digital microprocessor is being developed which is susceptible to thermal noise and consequently operates in probabilistic rather than conventional deterministic mode. Hybrid computing systems which combine…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-17 T. N. Palmer , M. O'Shea

Complex physical systems, from supersonic turbulence to the macroscopic structure of the universe, are governed by continuous multiscale dynamics. While modern machine learning architectures excel at mapping the high-dimensional observables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Mengke Zhao , Guang-Xing Li , Duo Xu , Keping Qiu

Advances in manufacturing and characterization of complex molecular systems have created a need for new methods for design at molecular length scales. Emerging approaches are increasingly relying on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI),…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-17 Dan Mendels , Fabian Byléhn , Timothy W. Sirk , Juan J. de Pablo

The proliferation of probabilistic AI has prompted proposals for specialized stochastic computers. Despite promising efficiency gains, these proposals have failed to gain traction because they rely on fundamentally limited modeling…