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Success of machine learning (ML) in the modern world is largely determined by abundance of data. However at many industrial and scientific problems, amount of data is limited. Application of ML methods to data-scarce scientific problems can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-13 I. Schurov , D. Alforov , M. Katsnelson , A. Bagrov , A. Itin

We examine the optical properties of a system of nano and micro particles of varying size, shape, and material (including metals and dielectrics, and sub-wavelength and super-wavelength regimes). Training data is generated by numerically…

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly follow neural scaling laws that tie performance gains to rapidly expanding computational budgets, raising concerns about the sustainability of frontier-scale training. Existing carbon-estimation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lei Jiang , Fan Chen

Representation learning that leverages large-scale labelled datasets, is central to recent progress in machine learning. Access to task relevant labels at scale is often scarce or expensive, motivating the need to learn from unlabelled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Arna Ghosh , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Kumar Krishna Agrawal , Blake Richards

High-dimensional data must be highly structured to be learnable. Although the compositional and hierarchical nature of data is often put forward to explain learnability, quantitative measurements establishing these properties are scarce.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Antonio Sclocchi , Alessandro Favero , Noam Itzhak Levi , Matthieu Wyart

A key algorithm for understanding the world is material segmentation, which assigns a label (metal, glass, etc.) to each pixel. We find that a model trained on existing data underperforms in some settings and propose to address this with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Paul Upchurch , Ransen Niu

Physical phenomena in the real world are often described by energy-based modeling theories, such as Hamiltonian mechanics or the Landau theory, which yield various physical laws. Recent developments in neural networks have enabled the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Takashi Matsubara , Ai Ishikawa , Takaharu Yaguchi

Recently, computational modeling has shifted towards the use of deep learning, and other data-driven modeling frameworks. Although this shift in modeling holds promise in many applications like design optimization and real-time control by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-11 Suraj Pawar , Omer San , Prakash Vedula , Adil Rasheed , Trond Kvamsdal

We evaluate analytically and numerically the size of the frozen core and various scaling laws for critical Boolean networks that have a power-law in- and/or out-degree distribution. To this purpose, we generalize an efficient method that…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-12 Marco Möller , Barbara Drossel

Hyperparameter optimization is an important subfield of machine learning that focuses on tuning the hyperparameters of a chosen algorithm to achieve peak performance. Recently, there has been a stream of methods that tackle the issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Arlind Kadra , Maciej Janowski , Martin Wistuba , Josif Grabocka

Imposing known physical constraints, such as conservation laws, during neural network training introduces an inductive bias that can improve accuracy, reliability, convergence, and data efficiency for modeling physical dynamics. While such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Nithin Chalapathi , Yiheng Du , Aditi Krishnapriyan

Supervised machine learning is emerging as a powerful computational tool to predict the properties of complex quantum systems at a limited computational cost. In this article, we quantify how accurately deep neural networks can learn the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 N. Saraceni , S. Cantori , S. Pilati

As AI model size grows, neural scaling laws have become a crucial tool to predict the improvements of large models when increasing capacity and the size of original (human or natural) training data. Yet, the widespread use of popular models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Elvis Dohmatob , Yunzhen Feng , Pu Yang , Francois Charton , Julia Kempe

We present a novel deep learning (DL) approach to produce highly accurate predictions of macroscopic physical properties of solid solution binary alloys and magnetic systems. The major idea is to make use of the correlations between…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Ying Wai Li , Junqi Yin , Jiaxin Zhang , Kipton Barros , Markus Eisenbach

Code Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing software engineering. However, scaling laws that guide the efficient training are predominantly analyzed on Natural Language (NL). Given the fundamental differences like strict syntax…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xianzhen Luo , Wenzhen Zheng , Qingfu Zhu , Rongyi Zhang , Houyi Li , Siming Huang , YuanTao Fan , Wanxiang Che

In this letter, motivated by the question that whether the empirical fitting of data by neural network can yield the same structure of physical laws, we apply the neural network to a simple quantum mechanical two-body scattering problem…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yadong Wu , Pengfei Zhang , Huitao Shen , Hui Zhai

For a biological agent operating under environmental pressure, energy consumption and reaction times are of critical importance. Similarly, engineered systems are optimized for short time-to-solution and low energy-to-solution…

Deep learning (DL) relies heavily on data, and the quality of data influences its performance significantly. However, obtaining high-quality, well-annotated datasets can be challenging or even impossible in many real-world applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jinshuai Bai , Laith Alzubaidi , Qingxia Wang , Ellen Kuhl , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yuantong Gu

Deep learning has generated diverse perspectives in astronomy, with ongoing discussions between proponents and skeptics motivating this review. We examine how neural networks complement classical statistics, extending our data analytical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yuan-Sen Ting

Machine learning techniques paired with the availability of massive datasets dramatically enhance our ability to explore the chemical compound space by providing fast and accurate predictions of molecular properties. However, learning on…