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The concept of replica symmetry breaking found in the solution of the mean-field Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin-glass model has been applied to a variety of problems in science ranging from biological to computational and even financial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-03-25 Helmut G. Katzgraber , Alexander K. Hartmann , A. P. Young

Machine learning, with its remarkable ability for retrieving information and identifying patterns from data, has emerged as a powerful tool for discovering governing equations. It has been increasingly informed by physics, and more recently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-12 Shenglin Huang , Zequn He , Nicolas Dirr , Johannes Zimmer , Celia Reina

Attempts to apply Neural Networks (NN) to a wide range of research problems have been ubiquitous and plentiful in recent literature. Particularly, the use of deep NNs for understanding complex physical and chemical phenomena has opened a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Arijit Sehanobish , Hector H. Corzo , Onur Kara , David van Dijk

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) present a transformative approach for smart grid modeling by integrating physical laws directly into learning frameworks, addressing critical challenges of data scarcity and physical consistency in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Julen Cestero , Carmine Delle Femine , Kenji S. Muro , Marco Quartulli , Marcello Restelli

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) often represent conflicts between features, arising naturally during training as the network learns to integrate diverse and potentially disagreeing inputs to better predict the target variable. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Adam Dejl , Dekai Zhang , Hamed Ayoobi , Matthew Williams , Francesca Toni

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have gained significant popularity thanks to their ability to learn using the well-known backpropagation algorithm. Conversely, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), despite having broader capabilities than ANNs,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sergio Davies , Andrew Gait , Andrew Rowley , Alessandro Di Nuovo

Visual object recognition -- the behavioral ability to rapidly and accurately categorize many visually encountered objects -- is core to primate cognition. This behavioral capability is algorithmically impressive because of the myriad…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-12 Kohitij Kar , James J DiCarlo

We show that in addition to providing effective and competitive closures, when analysed in terms of dynamics and physically-relevant diagnostics, artificial neural networks (ANNs) can be both interpretable and provide useful insights in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Gavin D. Portwood , Balasubramanya T. Nadiga , Juan A. Saenz , Daniel Livescu

Machine Learning methods and, in particular, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in material constitutive modeling. One of the main drawbacks of such approaches is the lack of a rigorous frame based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Filippo Masi , Ioannis Stefanou , Paolo Vannucci , Victor Maffi-Berthier

We present a formal measure-theoretical theory of neural networks (NN) built on probability coupling theory. Our main contributions are summarized as follows. * Built on the formalism of probability coupling theory, we derive an algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Shuai Li

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) were inspired by the architecture and functions of the human brain and have revolutionised the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Inspired by studies on the latent geometry of the brain, in this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-04 Alexander Joseph , Nathan Francis , Meijke Balay

Ising models with pairwise interactions are the least structured, or maximum-entropy, probability distributions that exactly reproduce measured pairwise correlations between spins. Here we use this equivalence to construct Ising models that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-12-31 Gasper Tkacik , Elad Schneidman , Michael J. Berry , William Bialek

The study of spin-glass dynamics, long considered the paradigmatic complex system, has reached important milestones. The availability of single crystals has allowed the experimental measurement of spin-glass coherence lengths of almost…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are biology-inspired artificial neural networks (ANNs) that comprise of spiking neurons to process asynchronous discrete signals. While more efficient in power consumption and inference speed on the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Shikuang Deng , Shi Gu

Deep 'Analog Artificial Neural Networks' (ANNs) perform complex classification problems with remarkably high accuracy. However, they rely on humongous amount of power to perform the calculations, veiling the accuracy benefits. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Parami Wijesinghe , Aayush Ankit , Abhronil Sengupta , Kaushik Roy

Neuropathies are gaining higher relevance in clinical settings, as they risk permanently jeopardizing a person's life. To support the recovery of patients, the use of fully implanted devices is emerging as one of the most promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Antonio Coviello , Francesco Linsalata , Umberto Spagnolini , Maurizio Magarini

In our invited talk at the AI Evaluation Workshop of the University of Bristol back in June 2022 we argued that, despite claims about successful modeling of the visual brain using ANNs, the problem is far from being solved (even for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-14 Jorge Vila-Tomás , Pablo Hernández-Cámara , Qiang Li , Valero Laparra , Jesús Malo

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) is an emerging category of neural networks which can be trained to solve supervised learning tasks while taking into consideration given laws of physics described by general nonlinear partial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Solon Falas , Charalambos Konstantinou , Maria K. Michael

In this work a series of artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been developed with the capacity to estimate an obstacle's size and location obstructing the flow in a pipe. The ANNs learn the size and location of the obstacle by reading the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-12 Mauricio Carrillo , Ulices Que , José A. González , Carlos López

Glass transition where viscosity of liquids increases dramatically upon decrease of temperature without any major change in structural properties, remains one of the most challenging problems in condensed matter physics (Cavagna, 2009;…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-29 Smarajit Karmakar , Giorgio Parisi