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In this paper, we propose a probabilistic physics-guided framework, termed Physics-guided Deep Markov Model (PgDMM). The framework targets the inference of the characteristics and latent structure of nonlinear dynamical systems from…

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Interpretable machine learning is rapidly becoming a crucial tool for scientific discovery. Among existing approaches, variational autoencoders (VAEs) have shown promise in extracting the hidden physical features of some input data, with no…

In the context of proxy modeling for process systems, traditional data-driven deep learning approaches frequently encounter significant challenges, such as substantial training costs induced by large amounts of data, and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Pengwei Liu , Zhongkai Hao , Xingyu Ren , Hangjie Yuan , Jiayang Ren , Dong Ni

To interpret deep models' predictions, attention-based visual cues are widely used in addressing \textit{why} deep models make such predictions. Beyond that, the current research community becomes more interested in reasoning \textit{how}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Wenxiao Xiao , Zhengming Ding , Hongfu Liu

World models enable agents to predict future dynamics conditioned on actions, making the choice of latent representation central to planning and control. Such representations are often either learned directly from pixels with limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Minghao Fu , Fan Feng , Nicklas Hansen , Biwei Huang

There is growing interest in using machine learning (ML) methods for structural metamodeling due to the substantial computational cost of traditional simulations. Purely data-driven strategies often face limitations in model robustness,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 R. Bailey Bond , Pu Ren , Jerome F. Hajjar , Hao Sun

Due largely to challenges associated with physical interpretability of machine learning (ML) methods, and because model interpretability is key to credibility in management applications, many scientists and practitioners are hesitant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuan-Heng Wang , Hoshin V. Gupta

Vision graph neural networks have emerged as a popular approach for modeling the global and spatial context for image recognition. However, a significant drawback of these methods is that they do not offer an inherent interpretation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ivica Obadic , Dmitry Kangin , Adrian Höhl , Dario Oliveira , Plamen P Angelov , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Object-centric world models (OCWM) aim to decompose visual scenes into object-level representations, providing structured abstractions that could improve compositional generalization and data efficiency in reinforcement learning. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Stefano Ferraro , Akihiro Nakano , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo

Unsupervised machine learning models build an internal representation of their training data without the need for explicit human guidance or feature engineering. This learned representation provides insights into which features of the data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Felix Frohnert , Evert van Nieuwenburg

The capability of imagining internally with a mental model of the world is vitally important for human cognition. If a machine intelligent agent can learn a world model to create a "dream" environment, it can then internally ask what-if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Minne Li , Mengyue Yang , Furui Liu , Xu Chen , Zhitang Chen , Jun Wang

To learn about real world phenomena, scientists have traditionally used models with clearly interpretable elements. However, modern machine learning (ML) models, while powerful predictors, lack this direct elementwise interpretability (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-16 Timo Freiesleben , Gunnar König , Christoph Molnar , Alvaro Tejero-Cantero

We introduce Latent Particle World Model (LPWM), a self-supervised object-centric world model scaled to real-world multi-object datasets and applicable in decision-making. LPWM autonomously discovers keypoints, bounding boxes, and object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Tal Daniel , Carl Qi , Dan Haramati , Amir Zadeh , Chuan Li , Aviv Tamar , Deepak Pathak , David Held

A structured understanding of our world in terms of objects, relations, and hierarchies is an important component of human cognition. Learning such a structured world model from raw sensory data remains a challenge. As a step towards this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-07 Thomas Kipf , Elise van der Pol , Max Welling

Training robot policies within a learned world model is trending due to the inefficiency of real-world interactions. The established image-based world models and policies have shown prior success, but lack robust geometric information that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Guanxing Lu , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Yixin Chen , Ziwei Wang , Yansong Tang , Siyuan Huang

We have recently seen great progress in learning interpretable music representations, ranging from basic factors, such as pitch and timbre, to high-level concepts, such as chord and texture. However, most methods rely heavily on music…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Xuanjie Liu , Daniel Chin , Yichen Huang , Gus Xia

We are delighted to see the recent development of physics-informed extreme learning machine (PIELM) for its higher computational efficiency and accuracy compared to other physics-informed machine learning (PIML) paradigms. Since a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 He Yang , Fei Ren , Francesco Calabro , Hai-Sui Yu , Xiaohui Chen , Pei-Zhi Zhuang

Physical motion models offer interpretable predictions for the motion of vehicles. However, some model parameters, such as those related to aero- and hydrodynamics, are expensive to measure and are often only roughly approximated reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Alexandra Baier , Zeyd Boukhers , Steffen Staab

Learned world models hold significant potential for robotic manipulation, as they can serve as simulator for real-world interactions. While extensive progress has been made in 2D video-based world models, these approaches often lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chuanrui Zhang , Zhengxian Wu , Guanxing Lu , Yansong Tang , Ziwei Wang

Machine-learning models have demonstrated a great ability to learn complex patterns and make predictions. In high-dimensional nonlinear problems of fluid dynamics, data representation often greatly affects the performance and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-29 Runze Li , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen