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With the growth of machine learning techniques, privacy of data of users has become a major concern. Most of the machine learning algorithms rely heavily on large amount of data which may be collected from various sources. Collecting these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Mahfuzur Rahman Chowdhury , Muhammad Ibrahim

In this work we show that Evolution Strategies (ES) are a viable method for learning non-differentiable parameters of large supervised models. ES are black-box optimization algorithms that estimate distributions of model parameters; however…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Karel Lenc , Erich Elsen , Tom Schaul , Karen Simonyan

In this work, we propose a new training method for finding minimum weight norm solutions in over-parameterized neural networks (NNs). This method seeks to improve training speed and generalization performance by framing NN training as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-22 Yamini Bansal , Madhu Advani , David D Cox , Andrew M Saxe

Machine unlearning is a complex process that necessitates the model to diminish the influence of the training data while keeping the loss of accuracy to a minimum. Despite the numerous studies on machine unlearning in recent years, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zixin Wang , Kongyang Chen

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a learning algorithm that bridges Machine Learning and Neuroscience, by computing gradients closely matching those of Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT), but with a learning rule local in space. Given an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Maxence Ernoult , Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz , Yoshua Bengio , Benjamin Scellier

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically-inspired counterpart of Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) which, owing to its strong theoretical guarantees and the locality in space of its learning rule, fosters the design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Axel Laborieux , Maxence Ernoult , Benjamin Scellier , Yoshua Bengio , Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz

Quantum annealing is a novel type of analog computation that aims to use quantum mechanical fluctuations to search for optimal solutions of Ising problems. Quantum annealing in the transverse field Ising model, implemented on D-Wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Elijah Pelofske

We introduce an unsupervised machine learning method based on Siamese Neural Networks (SNN) to detect phase boundaries. This method is applied to Monte-Carlo simulations of Ising-type systems and Rydberg atom arrays. In both cases the SNN…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Zakaria Patel , Ejaaz Merali , Sebastian J. Wetzel

In Deep Learning, a well-known approach for training a Deep Neural Network starts by training a generative Deep Belief Network model, typically using Contrastive Divergence (CD), then fine-tuning the weights using backpropagation or other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Steven H. Adachi , Maxwell P. Henderson

As powerful as machine learning (ML) techniques are in solving problems involving data with large dimensionality, explaining the results from the fitted parameters remains a challenging task of utmost importance, especially in physics…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-15 Roberto C. Alamino

The wide application of machine learning (ML) techniques in statistics physics has presented new avenues for research in this field. In this paper, we introduce a semi-supervised learning method based on Siamese Neural Networks (SNN),…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Jianmin Shen , Shiyang Chen , Feiyi Liu , Wei Li , Youju Liu

Non-equilibrium systems lack an explicit characterisation of their steady state like the Boltzmann distribution for equilibrium systems. This has drastic consequences for the inference of parameters of a model when its dynamics lacks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-15 Simon L. Dettmer , H. Chau Nguyen , Johannes Berg

Arguably the biggest challenge in applying neural networks is tuning the hyperparameters, in particular the learning rate. The sensitivity to the learning rate is due to the reliance on backpropagation to train the network. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-08 Francois Fagan , Garud Iyengar

The demand for artificial intelligence has grown significantly over the last decade and this growth has been fueled by advances in machine learning techniques and the ability to leverage hardware acceleration. However, in order to increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Joost Verbraeken , Matthijs Wolting , Jonathan Katzy , Jeroen Kloppenburg , Tim Verbelen , Jan S. Rellermeyer

Sampling Boltzmann probability distributions plays a key role in machine learning and optimization, motivating the design of hardware accelerators such as Ising machines. While the Ising model can in principle encode arbitrary optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Corentin Delacour , M Mahmudul Hasan Sajeeb , Joao P. Hespanha , Kerem Y. Camsari

Ising machines are purported to be better at solving large-scale combinatorial optimisation problems better than conventional von Neumann computers. However, these Ising machines are widely believed to be heuristics, whose promise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Sayantan Pramanik , Sourav Chatterjee , Harshkumar Oza

The ever-growing popularity and rapid improving of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised rethinking on the evolution of wireless networks. Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a natural platform for AI applications since it provides rich…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Shanfeng Huang , Shuai Wang , Rui Wang , Miaowen Wen , Kaibin Huang

Equilibrium propagation has been proposed as a biologically plausible alternative to the backpropagation algorithm. The local nature of gradient computations, combined with the use of convergent RNNs to reach equilibrium states, make this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sankar Vinayak Elayedam , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan

We investigate opportunities and challenges for improving unsupervised machine learning using four common strategies with a long history in physics: divide-and-conquer, Occam's razor, unification and lifelong learning. Instead of using one…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Tailin Wu , Max Tegmark

Quantum Machine Learning(QML) is developed by combining quantum mechanics principles with classical machine learning techniques in a hybrid framework that can give faster, exponential, more efficient power of quantum computing with the data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Pallab Biswas , Tamal Maity