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Neural network field theory (NN-FT) formulates field theory in terms of a network architecture and a density on its parameters. We derive Schwinger--Dyson equations and Ward identities in NN-FT and utilize them to study anomalies. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Christian Ferko , Samuel Frank , James Halverson , Vishnu Jejjala

We introduce Thurstonian Boltzmann Machines (TBM), a unified architecture that can naturally incorporate a wide range of data inputs at the same time. Our motivation rests in the Thurstonian view that many discrete data types can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-04 Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

Boltzmann machines are energy-based models that have been shown to provide an accurate statistical description of domains of evolutionary-related protein and RNA families. They are parametrized in terms of local biases accounting for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-03 Anna Paola Muntoni , Andrea Pagnani , Martin Weigt , Francesco Zamponi

Neural network field theory formulates field theory as a statistical ensemble of fields defined by a network architecture and a density on its parameters. We extend the construction to topological settings via the inclusion of discrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-06 Christian Ferko , James Halverson , Vishnu Jejjala , Brandon Robinson

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be represented as graphs whose links and vertices iteratively process data and solve tasks sub-optimally. Complex Network Theory (CNT), merging statistical physics with graph theory, provides a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Emanuele La Malfa , Gabriele La Malfa , Giuseppe Nicosia , Vito Latora

One of the fundamental problems in machine learning is the estimation of a probability distribution from data. Many techniques have been proposed to study the structure of data, most often building around the assumption that observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-22 Oren Rippel , Ryan Prescott Adams

Nonnegative Boltzmann machines (NNBMs) are recurrent probabilistic neural network models that can describe multi-modal nonnegative data. NNBMs form rectified Gaussian distributions that appear in biological neural network models, positive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-09 Muneki Yasuda

We present a layered Boltzmann machine (BM) that can better exploit the advantages of a distributed representation. It is widely believed that deep BMs (DBMs) have far greater representational power than its shallow counterpart, restricted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Taichi Kiwaki

Stochastic neural networks are a prototypical computational device able to build a probabilistic representation of an ensemble of external stimuli. Building on the relationship between inference and learning, we derive a synaptic plasticity…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-23 Luca Saglietti , Federica Gerace , Alessandro Ingrosso , Carlo Baldassi , Riccardo Zecchina

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

Motivation: Several different threads of research have been proposed for modeling and mining temporal data. On the one hand, approaches such as dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) provide a formal probabilistic basis to model relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-04-15 Debprakash Patnaik , Srivatsan Laxman , Naren Ramakrishnan

Deep neural networks are widely used in various domains. However, the nature of computations at each layer of the deep networks is far from being well understood. Increasing the interpretability of deep neural networks is thus important.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Haiping Huang

The brain is often studied from a network perspective, where functional activity is assessed using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to estimate connectivity between predefined neuronal regions. Functional connectivity can be…

Applications · Statistics 2025-07-22 Olivier Bisson , Yanis Aeschlimann , Samuel Deslauriers-Gauthier , Xavier Pennec

We develop a constructive approach to generate artificial neural networks representing the exact ground states of a large class of many-body lattice Hamiltonians. It is based on the deep Boltzmann machine architecture, in which two layers…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-12-18 Giuseppe Carleo , Yusuke Nomura , Masatoshi Imada

Deep Learning has the hierarchical network architecture to represent the complicated features of input patterns. Such architecture is well known to represent higher learning capability compared with some conventional models if the best set…

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In this paper, we present an improved framework of the spectral-based Discrete Dislocation Dynamics (DDD) approach introduced in [1,2], that establishes a direct connection with the continuum Field Dislocation Mechanics (FDM) approach. To…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Nicolas Bertin

We present a tree-tensor-network-based method to study strongly correlated systems with nonlocal interactions in higher dimensions. Although the momentum-space and quantum-chemistry versions of the density matrix renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-08 Valentin Murg , Örs Legeza , Reinhard M. Noack , Frank Verstraete

Energy-based models (EBMs) are flexible generative architectures inspired by statistical physics, but their learning and generative properties remain poorly understood. Here, we analyze a solvable EBM in the high-dimensional limit: the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Thomas Tulinski , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson , Jorge Fernandez-De-Cossio-Diaz

Combination of deep learning and ab initio calculation has shown great promise in revolutionizing future scientific research, but how to design neural network models incorporating a priori knowledge and symmetry requirements is a key…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Xiaoxun Gong , He Li , Nianlong Zou , Runzhang Xu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

We study the mixtures of factorizing probability distributions represented as visible marginal distributions in stochastic layered networks. We take the perspective of kernel transitions of distributions, which gives a unified picture of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-11-06 Guido F. Montufar , Jason Morton