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Cauchy-characteristic evolution (CCE) is a powerful method for accurately extracting gravitational waves at future null infinity. In this work, we extend the previously implemented CCE system within the numerical relativity code SpECTRE by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-12 Sizheng Ma , Kyle C. Nelli , Jordan Moxon , Mark A. Scheel , Nils Deppe , Lawrence E. Kidder , William Throwe , Nils L. Vu

Intrinsic Motivation (IM) aims to train agents without external rewards, enabling useful behavior to emerge from the agent's interaction with its environment alone. However, the dominant IM approaches rely on information-theoretic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tristan Shah , Stas Tiomkin

Information is physical but information is also processed in finite time. Where computing protocols are concerned, finite-time processing in the quantum regime can dynamically generate coherence. Here we show that this can have significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Harry J. D. Miller , Giacomo Guarnieri , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold

Human cognition spans perception, memory, intuitive judgment, deliberative reasoning, action selection, and social inference, yet these capacities are often explained through distinct computational theories. Here we present a unified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Laha Ale

Complex spatiotemporal dynamics of physicochemical processes are often modeled at a microscopic level (through e.g. atomistic, agent-based or lattice models) based on first principles. Some of these processes can also be successfully…

We introduce a framework for generating, organizing, and reasoning with computational knowledge. It is motivated by the observation that most problems in Computational Sciences and Engineering (CSE) can be formulated as that of completing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-31 Houman Owhadi

Limitation of computational resources is considered as a universal principle that for simulation is as fundamental as physical laws are. It claims that all experimentally verifiable implications of physical laws can be simulated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri I. Ozhigov

We develop a deterministic large-time mechanism yielding Ces{\`a}ro asymptotic observability inequalities from moving localized observations for conservative evolutions. On each observation interval, exact convexification on a compact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Maarten V. de Hoop , Antti Kykkänen , Emmanuel Trélat

Starting from Landauer's slogan "information is physical," we revise and modify Landauer's principle stating that the erasure of information has a minimal price in the form of a certain quantity of free energy. We establish a direct link…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Ämin Baumeler , Stefan Wolf

Although synthetic data is widely promoted as a remedy, its prevailing production paradigm -- one optimizing for statistical smoothness -- systematically removes the long-tail, cognitively grounded irregularities that characterize human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Zhongjie Jiang

In this paper we present a new unified theoretical framework that describes the full dynamics of quantum computation. Our formulation allows any questions pertaining to the physical behavior of a quantum computer to be framed, and in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerald Gilbert , Michael Hamrick , F. Javier Thayer

While significant progress has been made in specifying neural networks capable of representing uncertainty, deep networks still often suffer from overconfidence and misaligned predictive distributions. Existing approaches for measuring this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Spencer Young , Riley Sinema , Cole Edgren , Andrew Hall , Nathan Dong , Porter Jenkins

This paper presents an information theoretic approach to the concept of intelligence in the computational sense. We introduce a probabilistic framework from which computational intelligence is shown to be an entropy minimizing process at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Daniel Kovach

Collective behavior, both in real biological systems as well as in theoretical models, often displays a rich combination of different kinds of order. A clear-cut and unique definition of "phase" based on the standard concept of order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-30 Andrea Cavagna , Paul M. Chaikin , Dov Levine , Stefano Martiniani , Andrea Puglisi , Massimiliano Viale

The ability to discover abstract physical concepts and understand how they work in the world through observing lies at the core of human intelligence. The acquisition of this ability is based on compositionally perceiving the environment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Qu Tang , XiangYu Zhu , Zhen Lei , ZhaoXiang Zhang

We present Mass-Conserving Evolution (MaCE), a general method for implementing mass conservation in Cellular Automata (CA). MaCE is a simple evolution rule that can be easily 'attached' to existing CAs to make them mass-conserving, which…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-17 Vassilis Papadopoulos , Etienne Guichard

Ensemble calculations are essential for systems with uncertain data but require substantial increase in computational resources. This increase severely limits ensemble size. To reach beyond current limits, we present a first-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Joseph A. Fiordilino , Michael McLaughlin

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly used in ethically sensitive domains such as education, healthcare, and transportation, balancing accuracy and interpretability has become a central concern. Coarse ethics (CE)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Takashi Izumo

A numerical framework is proposed and analyzed for computing the ground state of Bose--Einstein condensates. A gradient flow approach is developed, incorporating both a Lagrange multiplier to enforce the $L^2$ conservation and a free energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Jing Guo , Cheng Wang , Dong Wang

Irreversible information processing cannot be carried out without some inevitable thermodynamical work cost. This fundamental restriction, known as Landauer's principle, is increasingly relevant today, as the energy dissipation of computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Philippe Faist , Frédéric Dupuis , Jonathan Oppenheim , Renato Renner