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Although learning has found wide application in multi-agent systems, its effects on the temporal evolution of a system are far from understood. This paper focuses on the dynamics of Q-learning in large-scale multi-agent systems modeled as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shuyue Hu , Chin-Wing Leung , Ho-fung Leung , Harold Soh

A new molecular dynamics model in which the point charges on atomic sites are allowed to fluctuate in response to the environment is developed and applied to water. The idea for treating charges as variables is based on the concept of…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-22 Steven W. Rick , Steven J. Stuart , B. J. Berne

The principle of optimism in the face of uncertainty underpins many theoretically successful reinforcement learning algorithms. In this paper we provide a general framework for designing, analyzing and implementing such algorithms in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Gergely Neu , Ciara Pike-Burke

The beauty of physics is that there is usually a conserved quantity in an always-changing system, known as the constant of motion. Finding the constant of motion is important in understanding the dynamics of the system, but typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Muhammad Firmansyah Kasim , Yi Heng Lim

Incorporating a priori physics knowledge into machine learning leads to more robust and interpretable algorithms. In this work, we combine deep learning techniques and classic numerical methods for differential equations to address two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Caitlin Ho , Andrea Arnold

Recently, neural operators have emerged as powerful tools for learning mappings between function spaces, enabling data-driven simulations of complex dynamics. Despite their successes, a deeper understanding of their learning mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Wenhan Gao , Jian Luo , Fang Wan , Ruichen Xu , Xiang Liu , Haipeng Xing , Yi Liu

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

The notion of duality -- that a given physical system can have two different mathematical descriptions -- is a key idea in modern theoretical physics. Establishing a duality in lattice statistical mechanics models requires the construction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-08 Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Prateek Gupta , Nabil Iqbal

Accurate models of the world are built upon notions of its underlying symmetries. In physics, these symmetries correspond to conservation laws, such as for energy and momentum. Yet even though neural network models see increasing use in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Miles Cranmer , Sam Greydanus , Stephan Hoyer , Peter Battaglia , David Spergel , Shirley Ho

Starting from the Fermat's principle of least action, which governs classical and quantum mechanics and from the theory of exterior differential forms, which governs the geometry of curved manifolds, we show how to derive the equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Jean Thierry-Mieg

A unified simulator that can model diverse physical phenomena without solver-specific redesign is a long-standing goal across simulation science. We present a learning-based particle simulator built on a single transformer architecture to…

Transport properties of concentrated electrolytes have been analyzed using classical molecular dynamics simulations with the algorithms and parameters typical of simulations describing complex electrokinetic phenomena. The electrical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 Carles Calero , Jordi Faraudo , Marcel Aguilella-Arzo

A central challenge in materials science is characterizing chemical processes that are elusive to direct measurement, particularly in functional materials operating under realistic conditions. Here, we demonstrate that mechanical strain…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-04 Royal C. Ihuaenyi , Hongbo Zhao , Ruqing Fang , Ruobing Bai , Martin Z. Bazant , Juner Zhu

Most physical systems are modelled by an ordinary or a partial differential equation, like the n-body problem in celestial mechanics. In some cases, for example when studying the long term behaviour of the solar system or for complex…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Jacky Cresson , Sébastien Darses

In the present work an attempt has been made to study the dynamics of a diatomic molecule N2 in water. The proposed model consists of Langevin stochastic differential equation whose solution is obtained through Euler's method. The proposed…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Nitin Sharma , Madhvi Shakya

Molecular representations fundamentally shape how machine learning systems reason about molecular structure and physical properties. Most existing approaches adopt a discrete pipeline: molecules are encoded as sequences, graphs, or point…

The applicability of computational and dynamical systems models to organisms is scrutinized, using examples from developmental biology and cognition. Developmental morphogenesis is dependent on the inherent material properties of developing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-24 Stuart A. Newman

We study the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of a system of freely moving particles, in which binary encounters lead either to an elastic collision or to the disappearance of the pair. Such a system of {\em ballistic annihilation}…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. I. Garcia de Soria , P. Maynar , G. Schehr , A. Barrat , E. Trizac

We show that learning can be improved by using loss functions that evolve cyclically during training to emphasize one class at a time. In underparameterized networks, such dynamical loss functions can lead to successful training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Miguel Ruiz-Garcia , Ge Zhang , Samuel S. Schoenholz , Andrea J. Liu

Molecular dynamics simulations use statistical mechanics at the atomistic scale to enable both the elucidation of fundamental mechanisms and the engineering of matter for desired tasks. The behavior of molecular systems at the microscale is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Wujie Wang , Simon Axelrod , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli