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The characterisation of information processing is an important task in complex systems science. Information dynamics is a quantitative methodology for modelling the intrinsic information processing conducted by a process represented as a…

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Identifying the dynamics of physical systems requires a machine learning model that can assimilate observational data, but also incorporate the laws of physics. Neural Networks based on physical principles such as the Hamiltonian or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 Jonas Eichelsdörfer , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

Entanglement is central both to the foundations of quantum theory and, as a novel resource, to quantum information science. The theory of entanglement establishes basic laws, such as the non-increase of entanglement under local operations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-04 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Martin B. Plenio

We introduce a methodology for seeking conservation laws within a Hamiltonian dynamical system, which we term ``neural deflation''. Inspired by deflation methods for steady states of dynamical systems, we propose to {iteratively} train a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-03-29 Wei Zhu , Hong-Kun Zhang , P. G. Kevrekidis

We develop a thermodynamic theory of algorithmic catalysis within the watts-per-intelligence framework, identifying reusable computational structures that reduce irreversible operations for a task class while satisfying bounded restoration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Elija Perrier

Transformer-based language models are trained on large datasets to predict the next token given an input sequence. Despite this simple training objective, they have led to revolutionary advances in natural language processing. Underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yingcong Li , Yixiao Huang , M. Emrullah Ildiz , Ankit Singh Rawat , Samet Oymak

The link between information and energy introduces the observer and their knowledge into the understanding of a fundamental quantity of physics. Two approaches compete to account for this link, Brillouin's negentropy law of information and…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Didier Lairez

In this letter, motivated by the question that whether the empirical fitting of data by neural network can yield the same structure of physical laws, we apply the neural network to a simple quantum mechanical two-body scattering problem…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yadong Wu , Pengfei Zhang , Huitao Shen , Hui Zhai

A general information-theoretic framework for deriving physical laws is presented and a principle of informational physics is enunciated within its context. Existing approaches intended to derive physical laws from information-theoretic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-02-23 Nisheeth Srivastava

While current AI-driven methods excel at deriving empirical models from individual experiments, a significant challenge remains in uncovering the common fundamental physics that underlie these models -- a task at which human physicists are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 You-Le Fang , Dong-Shan Jian , Xiang Li , Yan-Qing Ma

Understanding the geometric properties of gradient descent dynamics is a key ingredient in deciphering the recent success of very large machine learning models. A striking observation is that trained over-parameterized models retain some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Sibylle Marcotte , Rémi Gribonval , Gabriel Peyré

We propose Next Concept Prediction (NCP), a generative pretraining paradigm built on top of Next Token Prediction (NTP). NCP predicts discrete concepts that span multiple tokens, thereby forming a more challenging pretraining objective. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuliang Liu , Yunchong Song , Yixuan Wang , Kewen Ge , Alex Lamb , Qipeng Guo , Kai Chen , Bowen Zhou , Zhouhan Lin

Using a recent published formula for the number of information N that results from Landauer's principle we obtain an expression for the cosmological constant Lambda. Next, assuming the universe as a system of mass M satisfying Landauer's…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ioannis Gkigkitzis , Ioannis Haranas , Samantha Kirk

In this paper I apply newly-proposed information-theoretic principles to thermodynamic work extraction. I show that if it is possible to extract work deterministically from a physical system prepared in any one of a set of states, then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Chiara Marletto

Learning diverse and high-fidelity traffic simulations from human driving demonstrations is crucial for autonomous driving evaluation. The recent next-token prediction (NTP) paradigm, widely adopted in large language models (LLMs), has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ziyan Wang , Peng Chen , Ding Li , Chiwei Li , Qichao Zhang , Zhongpu Xia , Guizhen Yu

This work consists in the theorical development on the analysis of the Thermodynamic Laws and thermodynamic systems in relative motion, according to the laws of Classical Mechanics. The difference of this work for many of the literature is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Wendel Macedo Mendes , Bruno Poti e Silva

We review and investigate the general theory of thermodynamics of computation, and derive the fundamental inequalities that set the lower bounds of the work requirement and the heat emission during a computation. These inequalities…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takahiro Sagawa

We describe a simple framework for teaching the principles that underlie the dynamical laws of transport: Fick's law of diffusion, Fourier's law of heat flow, the Newtonian viscosity law, and mass-action laws of chemical kinetics. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Kingshuk Ghosh , Ken Dill , Mandar M. Inamdar , Effrosyni Seitaridou , Rob Phillips

Many complex physical systems admit natural decomposition into an exactly solvable component and a perturbative correction. Rather than training neural networks to learn complete trajectories from scratch, we introduce Neural Network…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Zhenhao Chen , Mutian Shen , Boris Fain , Zohar Nussinov

We consider the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics in the light of quantum information theory, in particular information erasure and Landauer's principle (namely, that erasure of information produces at least the equivalent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 David D. Song , Elizabeth Winstanley
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