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Ab initio approaches in nuclear theory, such as the no-core shell model (NCSM), have been developed for approximately solving finite nuclei with realistic strong interactions. The NCSM and other approaches require an extrapolation of the…

Predicting nuclear masses is a longstanding challenge. One path forward is machine learning (ML) which trains on experimental data, but can suffer large errors when extrapolating toward neutron-rich species. In nature, such masses shape…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Mengke Li , Matthew Mumpower , Nicole Vassh , William Samuel Porter , Rebecca Surman

We discuss the accuracy of mass models for extrapolating to very asymmetric nuclei and the impact of such extrapolations on the predictions of isotopic observables in multifragmentation. We obtain improved mass predictions by incorporating…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 S. R. Souza , P. Danielewicz , S. Das Gupta , R. Donangelo , W. A. Friedman , W. G. Lynch , W. P. Tan , M. B. Tsang

Neural networks have become popular in many fields of science since they serve as promising, reliable and powerful tools. In this work, we study the effect of data augmentation on the predictive power of neural network models for nuclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Hüseyin Bahtiyar , Derya Soydaner , Esra Yüksel

Machine-learning models in chemistry - when based on descriptors of atoms embedded within molecules - face essential challenges in transferring the quality of predictions of local electronic structures and their associated properties across…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Frederik Ø. Kjeldal , Janus J. Eriksen

Machine learning of atomic-scale properties is revolutionizing molecular modelling, making it possible to evaluate inter-atomic potentials with first-principles accuracy, at a fraction of the costs. The accuracy, speed and reliability of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Giulio Imbalzano , Andrea Anelli , Daniele Giofr é , Sinja Klees , J örg Behler , Michele Ceriotti

Machine learning approaches to nuclear mass prediction have achieved remarkable accuracy, but typically rely on existing theoretical baselines or hand-crafted physics features. Here we demonstrate that these prerequisites can be supplanted…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Peiwen Zai , Wei Cheng , Feng-Shou Zhang

In recent years, several successful applications of the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have emerged in nuclear physics and high-energy physics, as well as in biology, chemistry, meteorology, and other fields of science. A major goal of…

The interpretation of observations of atomic and molecular tracers in the galactic and extragalactic interstellar medium (ISM) requires comparisons with state-of-the-art astrophysical models to infer some physical conditions. Usually, ISM…

Large-scale atomistic simulations rely on interatomic potentials providing an efficient representation of atomic energies and forces. Modern machine-learning (ML) potentials provide the most precise representation compared to electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 David Immel , Ralf Drautz , Godehard Sutmann

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is employed to investigate nuclear mass. By introducing the masses of neighboring nuclei and the paring effects at the input layer of the network, local features of the target nucleus are extracted to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Yanhua Lu , Tianshuai Shang , Pengxiang Du , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang , Zhongming Niu

Nuclear mass prediction is one of the core issues in nuclear physics research, yet it faces the challenge of small-sample datasets with high complexity. This study introduces the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) into the refinement of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Yanhua Lu , Tianshuai Shang , Pengxiang Du , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang

Predictions of nuclear properties far from measured data are inherently imprecise because of uncertainties in our knowledge of nuclear forces and in our treatment of quantum many-body effects in strongly-interacting systems. While the model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Rodrigo Navarro Perez , Nicolas Schunck

New global statistical models of nuclidic (atomic) masses based on multilayered feedforward networks are developed. One goal of such studies is to determine how well the existing data, and only the data, determines the mapping from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Athanassopoulos , E. Mavrommatis , K. A. Gernoth , J. W. Clark

Automated mathematical reasoning is a challenging problem that requires an agent to learn algebraic patterns that contain long-range dependencies. Two particular tasks that test this type of reasoning are (1) mathematical equation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Ankur Mali , Alexander Ororbia , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

In this work we explore the application of deep neural networks to the optimization of atomic layer deposition processes based on thickness values obtained at different points of an ALD reactor. We introduce a dataset designed to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Angel Yanguas-Gil , Jeffrey W. Elam

Bayesian neural network (BNN) approach is employed to improve the nuclear mass predictions of various models. It is found that the noise error in the likelihood function plays an important role in the predictive performance of the BNN…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-30 Z. M. Niu , H. Z. Liang

Simulations at the atomic scale provide a direct and effective way to understand the mechanical properties of materials. In the regime of classical mechanics, simulations for the thermodynamic properties of metals and alloys can be done by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Ka-Ming Tam , Nicholas Walker , Samuel Kellar , Mark Jarrell

We present a data-driven analysis of dipole strength functions across the nuclear chart, employing an artificial neural network to model and predict nuclear dipole responses. We train the network on a dataset of experimentally measured…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-05 Weiguang Jiang , Tim Egert , Sonia Bacca , Francesca Bonaiti , Peter von Neumann Cosel

Numerous phenomenological nuclear models have been proposed to describe specific observables within different regions of the nuclear chart. However, developing a unified model that describes the complex behavior of all nuclei remains an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-14 Jose M. Munoz , Silviu M. Udrescu , Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz