Machine learning boosts physics research, especially at high energy experiments.
problem Finding new fundamental physics in high energy experiments.
method Review of machine learning methods and applications in high energy physics.
result Modern machine learning techniques have expanded the scope of physics research.
Most of the econometric and econophysics models have been borrowed from the statistical physics, and as a cosequence, a new interdisciplinary science called econophysics has emerged. In this paper we planned to extend the analogy between different economic processes or phenomena and processes and phenomena from differe…
Neyman-Pearson testing improves goodness of fit in detecting new physics.
problem Detecting small anomalies in data distributions.
method Employing Neyman-Pearson strategy with a rich parametrized family of models.
result Neyman-Pearson testing is more sensitive to small departures and unbiased towards specific anomalies.
We introduce the historical development and physical idea behind topological Yang-Mills theory and explain how a physical framework describing subatomic physics can be used as a tool to study differential geometry. Further, we emphasize that this phenomenon demonstrates that the interrelation between physics and mathem…
Forward-prediction models enhance physical reasoning, but only for specific tasks.
problem Improving physical reasoning in complex tasks involving many objects.
method Incorporated forward-prediction models into simple physical-reasoning agents and evaluated their performance on the PHYRE benchmark.
result Forward-prediction models improve physical-reasoning performance, especially on complex tasks, but generalization to new task templates is challenging.
PINNs can learn trivial solutions; new approach improves performance.
problem PINNs fail to learn non-trivial solutions in data-scarce settings.
method Developed an alternative sampling approach and new penalty term.
result PINNs can be improved to learn non-trivial solutions with up to 80% fewer collocation points.
New adaptive SGD algorithms for federated learning over physical channels.
problem Reducing communication cost in federated learning over physical channels.
method Proposed adaptive federated SGD algorithms considering channel noise and hardware constraints.
result Demonstrated convergence rates adaptive to stochastic gradient noise level.
Anomaly Awareness detects anomalies in particle physics and computer vision.
problem Detect anomalies in complex data sets.
method Modifies cost function to learn normal events and anomalies.
result Effective at identifying new anomalies not previously seen.
New sampling scheme improves ML accuracy in physics simulations.
problem Improving accuracy of ML models in physics simulations.
method Taylor-based data sampling scheme for DNNs.
result Reduces error in DNN solutions of ODE systems.
New Physics Learning Machine compares generative models for scientific research.
problem Evaluating the fidelity of generative models in high-energy physics.
method Two-sample hypothesis testing using machine learning.
result The New Physics Learning Machine outperforms alternative approaches in classification-based tests.
PICN learns physical fields from shallow neural networks, improving AI in multi-physical systems.
problem Challenges in modeling and forecasting multi-physical systems due to data scarcity and noise.
method Physics-informed convolutional network (PICN) combining CNN and physical laws, using deconvolution and convolution layers.
result PICN effectively solves and estimates nonlinear physical operator equations and recovers physical information from noisy observations.
The quantitative aspirations of economists and financial analysts have for many years been based on the belief that it should be possible to build models of economic systems - and financial markets in particular - that are as predictive as those in physics. While this perspective has led to a number of important breakt…
This work maps Boltzmann distributions to ARNNs for better physics-based model approximations.
problem Approximating Boltzmann distributions of binary systems.
method Exact mapping of Boltzmann distribution to autoregressive neural network architecture.
result New ARNN architectures derived from physical models show superior performance.
Absolute parallelism geometry is frequently used for physical applications. It has two main defects, from the point of view of applications. The first is the identical vanishing of its curvature tensor. The second is that its autoparallel paths do not represent physical trajectories. The present work shows how these de…
CoDA adapts dynamics models to new physical systems by conditioning on context.
problem Generalizing to new physical systems with shared dynamics but different contexts.
method Context-informed dynamics adaptation (CoDA) using multiple environments and a hypernetwork.
result State-of-the-art generalization results on nonlinear dynamics.
Despite the wide implementation of machine learning (ML) techniques in traffic flow modeling recently, those data-driven approaches often fall short of accuracy in the cases with a small or noisy dataset. To address this issue, this study presents a new modeling framework, named physics regularized machine learning (PR…
Hybridizes physical and data-driven methods for predicting physicochemical properties.
problem Predicting physicochemical properties accurately using limited data.
method Distills physical method predictions into a prior model and combines with sparse experimental data using Bayesian inference.
result Significant improvements in predicting activity coefficients at infinite dilution compared to baselines and ensemble methods.
I review few conceptual steps in analytic description of topological interactions, which constitute the basis of a new interdisciplinary branch in mathematical physics, "Statistical Topology", emerged at the edge of topology and statistical physics of fluctuating non-phantom rope-like objects. This new branch is called…
Machine learning in context of physical systems merits a re-examination of the learning strategy. In addition to data, one can leverage a vast library of physical prior models (e.g. kinematics, fluid flow, etc) to perform more robust inference. The nascent sub-field of \emph{physics-based learning} (PBL) studies the bl…
New PRGP model improves traffic flow estimation.
problem Lack of models combining physics and ML for traffic flow.
method Physics regularized Gaussian process (PRGP) with discrete formulations.
result PRGP model outperforms calibrated physics models and ML methods.
Improves machine learning models by incorporating physical laws into feature maps.
problem Lack of model interpretability in classical machine learning approaches.
method Physics-informed feature maps constructed from physical laws and dimensional analysis.
result Enhanced model interpretability and potential discovery of new physical equations.
We study the problem of defending deep neural network approaches for image classification from physically realizable attacks. First, we demonstrate that the two most scalable and effective methods for learning robust models, adversarial training with PGD attacks and randomized smoothing, exhibit very limited effectiven…
H. Weyl's proposal of 1918 for generalizing Riemannian geometry by local scale gauge (later called {\em Weyl geometry}) was motivated by mathematical, philosophical and physical considerations. It was the starting point of his unified field theory of electromagnetism and gravity. After getting disillusioned with this r…
Paper proposes a new dataset for group anomaly detection in physics.
problem Group anomaly detection in physics.
method Development of a synthetic benchmark dataset and comparison of anomaly detection techniques.
result Demonstrated performance of anomaly detection techniques on the new dataset.
Building on the notion of a particle physics detector as a camera and the collimated streams of high energy particles, or jets, it measures as an image, we investigate the potential of machine learning techniques based on deep learning architectures to identify highly boosted W bosons. Modern deep learning algorithms t…
Machine learning knot invariants with physics applications.
problem Understanding relations between knot invariants in physics.
method Machine learning and theoretical physics (Chern-Simons theory, gauge theories).
result New analytic results from Big Data experiments.
Understanding and reasoning about physics is an important ability of intelligent agents. We develop the PHYRE benchmark for physical reasoning that contains a set of simple classical mechanics puzzles in a 2D physical environment. The benchmark is designed to encourage the development of learning algorithms that are sa…
Bridging physics and deep learning is a topical challenge. While deep learning frameworks open avenues in physical science, the design of physically-consistent deep neural network architectures is an open issue. In the spirit of physics-informed NNs, PDE-NetGen package provides new means to automatically translate phys…
Framework analyzes physical metrics in soccer to link performance with value.
problem Understanding and quantifying the value of physical performance in soccer.
method Estimating physical indicators from tracking data, contextualizing runs, linking with possession-value model.
result Physical performance correlates with value generation in soccer.
Paper develops a new model for predicting volatility surface.
problem Predicting volatility in financial markets is challenging due to its non-observable nature and complex dynamics.
method Physics-informed convolutional transformer architecture.
result The new model outperforms other deep-learning architectures in predicting volatility surface.
Challenge uses unsupervised learning to detect new physics signals at LHC.
problem Detecting new physics signals at the LHC using unsupervised machine learning.
method Developed and evaluated anomaly detection algorithms on a large dataset.
result Benchmark dataset of >1 Billion simulated LHC events for future studies.
New neural network enforces mass conservation for better ice flow predictions.
problem Reliably project future sea level rise by improving ice sheet model inputs.
method Proposes divergence-free neural networks (dfNNs) enforcing local mass conservation.
result dfNNs yield more reliable ice flux estimates compared to other models.
A new method trains physics-constrained neural networks more efficiently.
problem Training machine learning tools with limited data and physical constraints.
method Dual-Dimer method for searching saddle points in nonconvex-nonconcave functions.
result The Dual-Dimer method improves training efficiency and convergence speed.
We provide an introduction to the mathematics and physics of the deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills equation, a fully nonlinear geometric PDE on Kahler manifolds which plays an important role in mirror symmetry. We discuss the physical origin of the equation, and some recent progress towards its solution. In dimension 3 we …
Over the past three decades, black holes have played an important role in quantum gravity, mathematical physics, numerical relativity and gravitational wave phenomenology. However, conceptual settings and mathematical models used to discuss them have varied considerably from one area to another. Over the last five year…
New trends explore quantum machine learning to speed up computations and analyze data.
problem Speeding up machine learning computations and analyzing large quantum data.
method Interplay between quantum physics and machine learning, including new algorithms and hardware.
result Breakthroughs in quantum machine learning can provide advantages over classical methods.
Tensor networks improve anomaly detection at LHC for new physics.
problem Identifying new phenomena in proton collision events at LHC.
method Tensor network-based anomaly detection using Matrix Product State with an isometric feature map.
result Tensor networks outperform established quantum methods in identifying new phenomena.
Single model learns physics from diverse data.
problem Lack of universal physics models for diverse applications.
method General Physics Transformer (GPhyT) trained on diverse physics data.
result Single model achieves superior performance across multiple physics domains.
New algorithms tackle data challenges in physics model selection.
problem Lack of labeled data, high dimensionality, and inapplicability of data augmentation techniques to physics data.
method Two algorithms: feature selection and data augmentation combined with classifiers and stacking ensemble.
result Achieved 90% accuracy on nonlinear structural mechanics classification problem.
Enforces physical constraints in GP regression models.
problem Unbounded GP models can produce infeasible values.
method Enforces nonnegativity constraints probabilistically.
result Reduces model variance and enforces physical bounds.
Neural model predicts object states and physical parameters from visual observations.
problem Computational models struggle with physical reasoning and adapting to new environments.
method Visual prior predicts particle-based system from visual observations; inference module refines estimates subject to dynamics constraints.
result Model can infer physical properties within a few observations and adapt to unseen scenarios.
New method solves differential equations on manifolds, with applications in physics.
problem Solving differential equations on Riemannian manifolds.
method Developed linear homotopy theory for codifferential operator, leading to a direct sum decomposition of differential forms.
result Shows a new way to solve exterior differential systems, applicable to fundamental physics equations.
New method uses EKI for efficient Bayesian inference in high-dimensional problems.
problem Efficient inference for high-dimensional posterior distributions in physics-informed neural networks.
method Ensemble Kalman Inversion (EKI) for high-dimensional posterior inference.
result EKI-based inference provides comparable uncertainty estimates to HMC-based methods but with reduced computational cost.
New benchmark for causal reasoning from human video descriptions.
problem Lack of diversity in event types and natural language descriptions, and differences from human judgments.
method Iterative event cloze task and data augmentation techniques.
result Improved data collection efficiency and diverse causal judgments.
A quantum state generation method that respects physical constraints.
problem Generating quantum states with complex-valued Hermitian, positive semi-definite, and trace one properties.
method Mirror diffusion model with von Neumann entropy to enforce structural constraints.
result Demonstrated effective generation of quantum states with conditional guidance.
A new method learns physical system sensitivity to improve policy learning without needing a full model.
problem Expensive policy learning without models and model bias.
method Learn sensitivity of trajectories to parameter perturbations.
result Feasibility demonstrated on a physical robot.
We present a new hybrid physics-based machine-learning approach to reservoir modeling. The methodology relies on a series of deep adversarial neural network architecture with physics-based regularization. The network is used to simulate the dynamic behavior of physical quantities (i.e. saturation) subject to a set of g…
In the overview, a generic mathematical object (mapping) is introduced, and its relation to model physics parameterization is explained. Machine learning (ML) tools that can be used to emulate and/or approximate mappings are introduced. Applications of ML to emulate existing parameterizations, to develop new parameteri…