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Large language models have demonstrated an impressive ability to perform factual recall. Prior work has found that transformers trained on factual recall tasks can store information at a rate proportional to their parameter count. In our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Eshaan Nichani , Jason D. Lee , Alberto Bietti

We study a six matrix model with global $SO(3)\times SO(3)$ symmetry containing at most quartic powers of the matrices. This theory exhibits a phase transition from a geometrical phase at low temperature to a Yang-Mills matrix phase with no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-26 Badis Ydri , Ramda Khaled , Rouag Ahlam

We show that memory can be encoded in a model amorphous solid subjected to athermal oscillatory shear deformations, and in an analogous spin model with disordered interactions, sharing the feature of a deformable energy landscape. When…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-17 D. Fiocco , G. Foffi , S. Sastry

We consider a coupled linear system describing a thermoviscoelastic plate with hereditary effects. The system consists of a hyperbolic integrodifferential equation, governing the temperature, which is linearly coupled with the partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-10 Maurizio Grasselli , Jaime E. Munoz Rivera , Marco Squassina

A cascade of phase transitions from square to hexagonal lattice is studied in 2D system of particles interacting via core-softened potential. Due to the presence of two length-scales of repulsion, different local configurations with four,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-14 N. P. Kryuchkov , S. O. Yurchenko , Yu. D. Fomin , E. N. Tsiok , V. N. Ryzhov

Using two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) kinetic simulations, we examine the impact of simulation dimensionality on the laser-driven electron acceleration and the emission of collimated $\gamma$-ray beams from hollow…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Tao Wang , David Blackman , Katherine Chin , Alexey Arefiev

A fundamental cognitive process is the ability to map value and identity onto objects as we learn about them. Exactly how such mental constructs emerge and what kind of space best embeds this mapping remains incompletely understood. Here we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-31 Evelyn Tang , Marcelo G. Mattar , Chad Giusti , Sharon L. Thompson-Schill , Danielle S. Bassett

When a blood vessel ruptures or gets inflamed, the human body responds by rapidly forming a clot to restrict the loss of blood. Platelets aggregation at the injury site of the blood vessel occurring via platelet-platelet adhesion, tethering…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-18 Ziheng Wu , Zhiliang Xu , Oleg Kim , Mark Alber

In this paper we introduce 1-$D$ and 2-$D$ discrete models for the dynamic granular matter formation process in the form of a system of difference equations. This approach allows us to differentiate between the influx of the rolling layer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Alexander Khapalov , Sergey Lapin

We consider problems of dynamic viscoelasticity taking into account the coupling of elastic and thermal fields. Efficient approximate models are developed and computational results on thermomechanical behaviour of shape-memory-alloy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 R. V. N. Melnik , A. J. Roberts

Phase-change memory devices have found applications in in-memory computing where the physical attributes of these devices are exploited to compute in place without the need to shuttle data between memory and processing units. However,…

Motivated by recent experimental studies in microbiology, we suggest a modification of the classic ballistic deposition model of surface growth, where the memory of a deposition at a site induces more depositions at that site or its…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-02-24 Ahmed Roman , Ruomin Zhu , Ilya Nemenman

Brain morphology is shaped by genetic and mechanical factors and is linked to biological development and diseases. Its fractal-like features, regional anisotropy, and complex curvature distributions hinder quantitative insights in medical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-09 Yingjie Zhao , Yicheng Song , Fan Xu , Zhiping Xu

Neural models learn representations of high-dimensional data on low-dimensional manifolds. Multiple factors, including stochasticities in the training process, model architectures, and additional inductive biases, may induce different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hanlin Yu , Berfin Inal , Georgios Arvanitidis , Soren Hauberg , Francesco Locatello , Marco Fumero

The construction of the Hamiltonian matrix \textbf{H} is an essential, yet computationally expensive step in \textit{ab-initio} device simulations based on density-functional theory (DFT). In homogeneous structures, the fact that a unit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-03 Chen Hao Xia , Manasa Kaniselvan , Marko Mladenoivić , Mathieu Luisier

Direct Numerical Simulations are used to solve turbulent flow and heat transfer over a variety of rough walls in a channel. The wall geometries are exactly resolved in the simulations. The aim is to understand the effect of roughness…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-25 Pourya Forooghi , Matthias Stripf , Bettina Frohnapfel

Transformers face quadratic complexity and memory issues with long sequences, prompting the adoption of linear attention mechanisms using fixed-size hidden states. However, linear models often suffer from limited recall performance, leading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Dustin Wang , Rui-Jie Zhu , Steven Abreu , Yong Shan , Taylor Kergan , Yuqi Pan , Yuhong Chou , Zheng Li , Ge Zhang , Wenhao Huang , Jason Eshraghian

We investigate how thin sheets of arbitrary shapes morph under the isotropic in-plane expansion of their top surface, which may represent several stimuli such as nonuniform heating, local swelling and differential growth. Inspired by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-02 Matteo Pezzulla , Gabriel P. Smith , Paola Nardinocchi , Douglas P. Holmes

We survey the current state of phase change memory (PCM), a non-volatile solid-state memory technology built around the large electrical contrast between the highly-resistive amorphous and highly-conductive crystalline states in so-called…

We present a comprehensive series of dissipationless N-body simulations to investigate the evolution of density distribution in equal-mass mergers between dark matter (DM) halos and multicomponent galaxies. The DM halo models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stelios Kazantzidis , Andrew R. Zentner , Andrey V. Kravtsov