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We show that training of generative adversarial network (GAN) may not have good generalization properties; e.g., training may appear successful but the trained distribution may be far from target distribution in standard metrics. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Yingyu Liang , Tengyu Ma , Yi Zhang

Oscillator networks represent a promising technology for unconventional computing and artificial intelligence. Thus far, these systems have primarily been demonstrated in small-scale implementations, such as Ising Machines for solving…

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Physical systems that naturally perform energy descent offer a direct route to accelerating machine learning. Oscillator Ising Machines (OIMs) exemplify this idea: their GHz-frequency dynamics mirror both the optimization of energy-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Alex Gower

Brain-like intelligent systems need brain-like learning methods. Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically plausible learning framework with strong potential for brain-inspired computing hardware. However, existing im-plementations of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhuo Liu , Tao Chen

Current quantum simulation experiments are starting to explore non-equilibrium many-body dynamics in previously inaccessible regimes in terms of system sizes and time scales. Therefore, the question emerges which observables are best suited…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-24 A. Bohrdt , S. Kim , A. Lukin , M. Rispoli , R. Schittko , M. Knap , M. Greiner , J. Léonard

Parameterized artificial neural networks (ANNs) can be very expressive ansatzes for variational algorithms, reaching state-of-the-art energies on many quantum many-body Hamiltonians. Nevertheless, the training of the ANN can be slow and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Conor Smith , Quinn T. Campbell , Tameem Albash

Neural networks are a promising tool for characterizing intermediate-scale quantum devices from limited amounts of measurement data. A challenging problem in this area is to learn the action of an unknown quantum process on an ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Yan Zhu , Ya-Dong Wu , Qiushi Liu , Yuexuan Wang , Giulio Chiribella

We introduce a robust, error-tolerant adaptive training algorithm for generalized learning paradigms in high-dimensional superposed quantum networks, or \emph{adaptive quantum networks}. The formalized procedure applies standard…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Christopher Altman , Romàn R. Zapatrin

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is an algorithm intrinsically adapted to the training of physical networks, thanks to the local updates of weights given by the internal dynamics of the system. However, the construction of such a hardware…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jérémie Laydevant , Maxence Ernoult , Damien Querlioz , Julie Grollier

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically inspired learning algorithm for convergent recurrent neural networks, i.e. RNNs that are fed by a static input x and settle to a steady state. Training convergent RNNs consists in adjusting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Maxence Ernoult , Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz , Yoshua Bengio , Benjamin Scellier

Equilibrium propagation (EP) is an alternative to backpropagation (BP) that allows the training of deep neural networks with local learning rules. It thus provides a compelling framework for training neuromorphic systems and understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Axel Laborieux , Friedemann Zenke

We use a combination of perturbation theory and numerical techniques to study the equilibration of two interacting fields which are initially at thermal equilibrium at different temperatures. Using standard rules of quantum field theory, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Vaz , M. E. Carrington , R. Kobes , G. Kunstatter

Equilibrium propagation (EP) is a compelling alternative to the backpropagation of error algorithm (BP) for computing gradients of neural networks on biological or analog neuromorphic substrates. Still, the algorithm requires weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Axel Laborieux , Friedemann Zenke

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically inspired alternative algorithm to backpropagation (BP) for training neural networks. It applies to RNNs fed by a static input x that settle to a steady state, such as Hopfield networks. EP is…

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

We liberate Equilibrium Propagation (EP) from the limit of infinitesimal perturbations by establishing a finite-nudge foundation for local credit assignment. By modeling network states as Gibbs-Boltzmann distributions rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Elon Litman

The circumstances under which a system reaches thermal equilibrium, and how to derive this from basic dynamical laws, has been a major question from the very beginning of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Despite considerable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Noah Linden , Sandu Popescu , Anthony J. Short , Andreas Winter

The response time of physical computational elements is finite, and neurons are no exception. In hierarchical models of cortical networks each layer thus introduces a response lag. This inherent property of physical dynamical systems…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-28 Paul Haider , Benjamin Ellenberger , Laura Kriener , Jakob Jordan , Walter Senn , Mihai A. Petrovici

We extend the Exchange Fluctuation Theorem for energy exchange between thermal quantum systems beyond the assumption of molecular chaos, and describe the non-equilibrium exchange dynamics of correlated quantum states. The relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Sania Jevtic , David Jennings , Terry Rudolph , Yuji Hirono , Shojun Nakayama , Mio Murao

Quantum teleportation, a fundamental protocol in quantum information science, enables the transfer of quantum states through entangled particle pairs and classical communication channels. While ideal quantum teleportation requires maximally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Xiaokun Yan , Zhihai Wang , Kun Zhang , Jin Wang

Ising machines, which are hardware implementations of the Ising model of coupled spins, have been influential in the development of unsupervised learning algorithms at the origins of Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, their application…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jérémie Laydevant , Danijela Markovic , Julie Grollier