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Understanding the statistical behavior of the heat in stochastic systems gives us insight about the thermodynamics of such systems. Using the recently proposed Relativistic Stochastic Thermodynamics, we investigate the statistics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-11 Pedro V. Paraguassú , Welles A. M. Morgado

These lectures deal with the problem of inductive inference, that is, the problem of reasoning under conditions of incomplete information. Is there a general method for handling uncertainty? Or, at least, are there rules that could in…

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Equations of State model relations between thermodynamic variables and are ubiquitous in scientific modelling, appearing in modern day applications ranging from Astrophysics to Climate Science. The three desired properties of a general…

Autoregressive generative models -- including Transformers, recurrent neural networks, classical Kalman filters, state space models, and Mamba -- all generate sequences by sampling each output from a deterministic summary of the past,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-17 Takahiro Sagawa

Thermodynamics with internal variables is a common approach in continuum mechanics to model inelastic (i.e., non-equilibrium) material behavior. While this approach is computationally and theoretically attractive, it currently lacks a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-31 Weilun Qiu , Shenglin Huang , Celia Reina

The rising availability of large volume data, along with increasing computing power, has enabled a wide application of statistical Machine Learning (ML) algorithms in the domains of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Yongchao Huang , Hugh Miles , Pengfei Zhang

In analogy to Brownian computers we explicitly show how to construct stochastic models, which mimic the behaviour of a general purpose computer (a Turing machine). Our models are discrete state systems obeying a Markovian master equation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-13 Philipp Strasberg , Javier Cerrillo , Gernot Schaller , Tobias Brandes

The number of electrified powertrains is ever increasing today towards a more sustainable future; thus, it is essential that unwanted failures are prevented, and a reliable operation is secured. Monitoring the internal temperatures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Dinan Li , Panagiotis Kakosimos

Continual learning remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning, requiring models to learn from a stream of tasks without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. A major obstacle in this setting is catastrophic forgetting, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Xiaodi Li , Dingcheng Li , Rujun Gao , Mahmoud Zamani , Feng Mi , Latifur Khan

Gathering information about a system enables greater control over it. This principle lies at the core of information engines, which use measurement-based feedback to rectify thermal noise and convert information into work. Originating from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-24 Rémi Goerlich , Laura Hoek , Omer Chor , Saar Rahav , Yael Roichman

We pedagogically present the information theory as originally established, explaining its essential ideas and paying attention to the expression employed to measure the amount of information. Also we discussed relationships between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Wallas S. Nascimento , Marcos M. de Almeida , Frederico V. Prudente

There have been two distinct formalisms of thermodynamics of information: One is the measurement-feedback formalism, which concerns bipartite systems with measurement and feedback processes, and the other is the information reservoir…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-27 Naoto Shiraishi , Takumi Matsumoto , Takahiro Sagawa

Understanding the connections between information and thermodynamics has been among the most visible applications of stochastic thermodynamics. While recent theoretical advances have established that the second law of thermodynamics sets…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-22 Joseph N. E. Lucero , Jannik Ehrich , John Bechhoefer , David A. Sivak

We study nonequilibrium thermodynamics of complex information flows induced by interactions between multiple fluctuating systems. Characterizing nonequilibrium dynamics by causal networks (i.e., Bayesian networks), we obtain novel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-07 Sosuke Ito , Takahiro Sagawa

Machine learning has had an enormous impact in many scientific disciplines. Also in the field of low-temperature plasma modeling and simulation it has attracted significant interest within the past years. Whereas its application should be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Jan Trieschmann , Luca Vialetto , Tobias Gergs

In order to learn the complex features of large spatio-temporal data, models with large parameter sets are often required. However, estimating a large number of parameters is often infeasible due to the computational and memory costs of…

Computation · Statistics 2018-07-02 Matthew Edwards , Stefano Castruccio , Dorit Hammerling

Parameter learning is the technique for obtaining the probabilistic parameters in conditional probability tables in Bayesian networks from tables with (observed) data --- where it is assumed that the underlying graphical structure is known.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Bart Jacobs

The transfer entropy is a well-established measure of information flow, which quantifies directed influence between two stochastic time series and has been shown to be useful in a variety fields of science. Here we introduce the transfer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-23 Sosuke Ito

We introduce a statistical physics inspired supervised machine learning algorithm for classification and regression problems. The method is based on the invariances or stability of predicted results when known data is represented as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-19 Patrick Chao , Tahereh Mazaheri , Bo Sun , Nicholas B. Weingartner , Zohar Nussinov

We show that models of opinion formation and dissemination in a community of individuals can be framed within stochastic thermodynamics from which we can build a nonequilibrium thermodynamics of opinion dynamics. This is accomplished by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-12 Tânia Tomé , Carlos E. Fiore , Mário J. de Oliveira