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The continuous effort towards topological quantum devices calls for an efficient and non-invasive method to assess the conformity of components in different topological phases. Here, we show that machine learning paves the way towards…

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Machine-learning driven models have proven to be powerful tools for the identification of phases of matter. In particular, unsupervised methods hold the promise to help discover new phases of matter without the need for any prior…

The complete learning of an $n$-qubit quantum state requires samples exponentially in $n$. Several works consider subclasses of quantum states that can be learned in polynomial sample complexity such as stabilizer states or high-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Liming Zhao , Naixu Guo , Ming-Xing Luo , Patrick Rebentrost

Machine learning offers an unprecedented perspective for the problem of classifying phases in condensed matter physics. We employ neural-network machine learning techniques to distinguish finite-temperature phases of the strongly correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-12 Kelvin Ch'ng , Juan Carrasquilla , Roger G. Melko , Ehsan Khatami

Mechanistic interpretability (MI) aims to understand AI models by reverse-engineering the exact algorithms neural networks learn. Most works in MI so far have studied behaviors and capabilities that are trivial and token-aligned. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Satvik Golechha , James Dao

Discovering and classifying non-trivial mixed states and mixed state phase transitions are some of the most important current issues in condensed matter and quantum information. In this study, we investigate some non-trivial mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Yoshihito Kuno , Takahiro Orito , Ikuo Ichinose

As a critical component of coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (CDI), phase retrieval has been extensively applied in X-ray structural science to recover the 3D morphological information inside measured particles. Despite meeting all the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Longlong Wu , Shinjae Yoo , Ana F. Suzana , Tadesse A. Assefa , Jiecheng Diao , Ross J. Harder , Wonsuk Cha , Ian K. Robinson

The ability of machine learning (ML) algorithms to generalize well to unseen data has been studied through the lens of information theory, by bounding the generalization error with the input-output mutual information (MI), i.e., the MI…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-07 Kimia Nadjahi , Kristjan Greenewald , Rickard Brüel Gabrielsson , Justin Solomon

In this letter, we apply the artificial neural network in a supervised manner to map out the quantum phase diagram of disordered topological superconductor in class DIII. Given the disorder that keeps the discrete symmetries of the ensemble…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-05-16 Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Yutaka Akagi , Hosho Katsura

Understanding the computational complexity of learning efficient classical programs in various learning models has been a fundamental and important question in classical computational learning theory. In this work, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Taiga Hiroka , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Much attention has been devoted to the use of machine learning to approximate physical concepts. Yet, due to challenges in interpretability of machine learning techniques, the question of what physics machine learning models are able to…

Machine learning (ML) is a promising tool for the detection of phases of matter. However, ML models are also known for their black-box construction, which hinders understanding of what they learn from the data and makes their application to…

Learning representations that generalize under distribution shifts is critical for building robust machine learning models. However, despite significant efforts in recent years, algorithmic advances in this direction have been limited. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Tianren Zhang , Chujie Zhao , Guanyu Chen , Yizhou Jiang , Feng Chen

Integrating sensory inputs with prior beliefs from past experiences in unsupervised learning is a common and fundamental characteristic of brain or artificial neural computation. However, a quantitative role of prior knowledge in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-19 Tianqi Hou , Haiping Huang

Machine learning (ML) methods have become popular for parameter inference in cosmology, although their reliance on specific training data can cause difficulties when applied across different data sets. By reproducing and testing networks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-23 Kimeel Sooknunan , Emma Chapman , Luke Conaboy , Daniel Mortlock , Jonathan Pritchard

The estimation of mutual information (MI) or conditional mutual information (CMI) from a set of samples is a long-standing problem. A recent line of work in this area has leveraged the approximation power of artificial neural networks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Sina Molavipour , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

We provide an information-theoretic framework for studying the generalization properties of machine learning algorithms. Our framework ties together existing approaches, including uniform convergence bounds and recent methods for adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Thomas Steinke , Lydia Zakynthinou

For performing regression tasks involved in various physics problems, enhancing the precision or equivalently reducing the uncertainty of regression results is undoubtedly one of the central goals. Here, somewhat surprisingly, we find that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-09 Wei-Chen Guo , Liang He

Drawing the quantum phase diagram of a many-body system in the parameter space of its Hamiltonian can be seen as a learning problem, which implies labelling the corresponding ground states according to some classification criterium that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Mehran Khosrojerdi , Alessandro Cuccoli , Paola Verrucchi , Leonardo Banchi

Humans have the ability to accumulate knowledge of new tasks in varying conditions, but deep neural networks often suffer from catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowledge after learning a new task. Many recent methods focus on…