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Although there has been a rapid development of practical applications, theoretical explanations of deep learning are in their infancy. Deep learning performs a sophisticated coarse graining. Since coarse graining is a key ingredient of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ellen de Mello Koch , Robert de Mello Koch , Ling Cheng

At low energies, the microscopic characteristics and changes of physical systems as viewed at different distance scales are described by universal scale invariant properties investigated by the Renormalization Group (RG) apparatus, an…

General Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Eric Howard

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

Renormalization of complex networks requires principled criteria for assessing whether a coarse-graining preserves dynamical content. We prove that discrete harmonic morphisms -- surjective maps preserving harmonic functions -- provide the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Francesco Maria Guadagnuolo , Marco Nurisso , Federica Galluzzi , Antoine Allard , Giovanni Petri

The graph Laplacian regularization term is usually used in semi-supervised representation learning to provide graph structure information for a model $f(X)$. However, with the recent popularity of graph neural networks (GNNs), directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Han Yang , Kaili Ma , James Cheng

Generic deep learning (DL) networks for image restoration like denoising and interpolation lack mathematical interpretability, require voluminous training data to tune a large parameter set, and are fragile in the face of covariate shift.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Jianghe Cai , Gene Cheung , Fei Chen

We show that artificial neural networks (ANNs) can, to high accuracy, determine the topological invariant of a disordered system given its two-dimensional real-space Hamiltonian. Furthermore, we describe a "renormalization-group" (RG)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-22 Gilad Margalit , Omri Lesser , T. Pereg-Barnea , Yuval Oreg

Scalability of graph neural networks remains one of the major challenges in graph machine learning. Since the representation of a node is computed by recursively aggregating and transforming representation vectors of its neighboring nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zengfeng Huang , Shengzhong Zhang , Chong Xi , Tang Liu , Min Zhou

We derive the determinant of the Laplacian for the Hanoi networks and use it to determine their number of spanning trees (or graph complexity) asymptotically. While spanning trees generally proliferate with increasing average degree, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-08 Stefan Boettcher , Shanshan Li

We present a computer-assisted approach to coarse-graining the evolutionary dynamics of a system of nonidentical oscillators coupled through a (fixed) network structure. The existence of a spectral gap for the coupling network graph…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Karthikeyan Rajendran , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

We propose a structure-preserving model-reduction methodology for large-scale dynamic networks with tightly-connected components. First, the coherent groups are identified by a spectral clustering algorithm on the graph Laplacian matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Hancheng Min , Enrique Mallada

As large-scale graphs become increasingly more prevalent, it poses significant computational challenges to process, extract and analyze large graph data. Graph coarsening is one popular technique to reduce the size of a graph while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Chen Cai , Dingkang Wang , Yusu Wang

We present a variational renormalization group (RG) approach using a deep generative model based on normalizing flows. The model performs hierarchical change-of-variables transformations from the physical space to a latent space with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-31 Shuo-Hui Li , Lei Wang

Complex networks have acquired a great popularity in recent years, since the graph representation of many natural, social and technological systems is often very helpful to characterize and model their phenomenology. Additionally, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-02-06 Filippo Radicchi , Alain Barrat , Santo Fortunato , Jose J. Ramasco

We present a renormalization group (RG) procedure which works naturally on a wide class of interacting one-dimension models based on perturbed (possibly strongly) continuum conformal and integrable models. This procedure integrates Kenneth…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-05 Robert M. Konik , Yury Adamov

Heterogeneous and complex networks represent intertwined interactions between real-world elements or agents. Determining the multi-scale mesoscopic organization of clusters and intertwined structures is still a fundamental and open problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-20 Pablo Villegas , Andrea Gabrielli , Anna Poggialini , Tommaso Gili

Identifying the relevant coarse-grained degrees of freedom in a complex physical system is a key stage in developing powerful effective theories in and out of equilibrium. The celebrated renormalization group provides a framework for this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-27 Doruk Efe Gökmen , Zohar Ringel , Sebastian D. Huber , Maciej Koch-Janusz

We propose a novel model-reduction methodology for large-scale dynamic networks with tightly-connected components. First, the coherent groups are identified by a spectral clustering algorithm on the graph Laplacian matrix that models the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Hancheng Min , Enrique Mallada

We develop a renormalization group (RG) procedure that includes important system-specific features. The key ingredient is to systematize the coarse graining procedure that generates the RG flow. The coarse graining technology comes from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 David E. Reynolds

The renormalization group (RG) is an essential technique in statistical physics and quantum field theory, which considers scale-invariant properties of physical theories and how these theories' parameters change with scaling. Deep learning…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Kelsie Taylor