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48 results for Physics Foundation Model

Foundation models outperform supervised methods in time series forecasting across various operational regimes.

problem Lack of domain-specific training and ongoing maintenance in supervised learning for time series forecasting.
method Evaluation of foundation models against standard supervised approaches across four operational regimes: periodic, physically constrained, stochastic, and demand forecasting.
result Foundation models are optimal for cold-start or long-tail scenarios and perform well in domains with transferable periodic structures.

Physical foundations for relativistic spacetimes are revisited, in order to check at what extent Finsler spacetimes lie in their framework. Arguments based on inertial observers (as in the foundations of Special Relativity and Classical Mechanics) are shown to correspond with a double linear approximation in the measur…

2020-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

These lecture notes in Lie Groups are designed for a 1--semester third year or graduate course in mathematics, physics, engineering, chemistry or biology. This landmark theory of the 20th Century mathematics and physics gives a rigorous foundation to modern dynamics, as well as field and gauge theories in physics, engi…

2011-04-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a survey of our joint ongoing work with Ali Chamseddine, Slava Mukhanov and Walter van Suijlekom. We show how a problem purely motivated by "how geometry emerges from the quantum formalism" gives rise to a slightly noncommutative structure and a spectral model of gravity coupled with matter which fits with expe…

2017-03-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Foundation models fail to preserve continuous geometry, identified as the Geometric Alignment Tax.

problem Continuous geometry is lost in foundation models due to discrete categorical bottlenecks.
method Controlled ablations on synthetic systems and evaluation of 14 biological models using rate-distortion theory and MINE.
result Replacing cross-entropy with a continuous head reduces geometric distortion by up to 8.5x.

In this paper we form a general conservation law that unifies a class of physics field theories. For this we first introduce the notion of a general field as a formal sum differential forms on a Minkowski manifold. Thereafter, we employ the action principle to define the conservation law for such general fields. By con…

2019-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

MPP trains a transformer to predict multiple physical systems, improving accuracy across various tasks.

problem Training models for specific physical systems is inefficient and requires fine-tuning.
method MPP trains a shared transformer on multiple heterogeneous physical systems, projecting fields into a shared embedding space.
result A single MPP-pretrained transformer outperforms task-specific models on all pretraining sub-tasks and downstream tasks.

New framework for noncommutative Carrollian geometry using Lie-Rinehart pairs.

problem Developing a geometric framework for ultra-relativistic physics in noncommutative settings.
method Using ρ-Lie-Rinehart pairs to generalize Carrollian Lie algebroids to almost commutative geometry.
result Foundational principles of Carrollian geometry hold in almost commutative geometry.

These lecture notes in the De Rham-Hodge theory are designed for a 1-semester undergraduate course (in mathematics, physics, engineering, chemistry or biology). This landmark theory of the 20th Century mathematics gives a rigorous foundation to modern field and gauge theories in physics, engineering and physiology. The…

2008-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Mathematical advances needed for Digital Twins, differing from traditional models.

problem Foundational mathematical advances required for Digital Twins.
method Multi-scale, multi-physics modeling and coupling, different reliability criteria and uncertainty assessments.
result AI/ML methods can perform well in biomedical problems but fail in simple engineering systems.

Neural SVEs model complex systems with memory, outperforming traditional methods.

problem Modeling systems with memory effects and irregular behavior.
method Introducing neural stochastic Volterra equations as a physics-inspired architecture.
result Neural SVEs outperform neural SDEs and DeepONets in various applications.

Develops derived differential geometry for supermanifolds.

problem Handling non-transverse intersections and singular moduli problems in geometry and physics.
method Extends existing work on derived manifolds to supergeometric and infinite-dimensional contexts.
result Establishes foundational results relating derived differential geometry to differential operators and PDE theory.

Unified Bayesian PINN framework for solving inverse problems in infrared image processing.

problem Solving inverse problems in high-dimensional settings with complex physics.
method Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Networks (BPINN-IP) framework, incorporating physical laws and uncertainties.
result Unified framework for physical constraints, prior knowledge, and data-driven inference with uncertainty quantification.

CViT learns complex physical systems using vision transformer techniques.

problem Learning maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces in scientific machine learning.
method Combines vision transformer encoder, grid-based coordinate embedding, and cross-attention mechanism.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks, often surpassing larger models.

Optimal transport calibrates machine learning models for particle physics simulations.

problem Discrepancies between simulation and experimental data limit machine learning effectiveness.
method A model calibration approach based on optimal transport applied to high-dimensional simulations.
result Calibrated high-dimensional representations enable proper calibration of various downstream quantities.

Develops PAC-Bayesian framework for physics-informed machine learning.

problem Lack of statistical generalisation understanding for PIML models.
method PAC-Bayesian framework with multi-task perspective, incorporating physical structure.
result High-probability generalisation guarantees with unbounded losses.

Revises mean-field theory of Santa Fe model using kinetic theory.

problem Deriving a solid mathematical foundation for the Santa Fe model.
method Systematic derivation of BBGKY hierarchy from exact master equation.
result Explicit and closed-form solutions for mean-field equations.

Enhances neural network solvers for PDEs with complex boundary conditions.

problem Challenges in solving PDEs with high accuracy and complex boundary conditions.
method Integrates natural gradient optimization with numerical time-stepping schemes to enforce Dirichlet boundary conditions.
result Superior accuracy and computational efficiency of the proposed methods for solving PDEs.

While model-based deep reinforcement learning (RL) holds great promise for sample efficiency and generalization, learning an accurate dynamics model is often challenging and requires substantial interaction with the environment. A wide variety of domains have dynamics that share common foundations like the laws of clas…

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Physics-informed neural networks and neural operators speed up solving parametric PDEs by orders of magnitude.

problem Solving PDEs for varying parameters is computationally expensive.
method Physics-informed neural networks and neural operators learn solution mappings across parameter spaces.
result Neural operators achieve computational speedups of 10^3 to 10^5 times faster than traditional methods.

Paper proposes ExsdHawkes to model LOBs, capturing volatility dynamics.

problem Modeling volatility signature plots in LOBs with high-frequency trading dynamics.
method Extended State-Dependent Hawkes Process (ExsdHawkes) with relaxed constraints.
result ExsdHawkes uniquely reproduces volatility signature plots, identifying MLOs as catalysts.

Research proves unique continuation for Einstein-vacuum equations on aAdS spacetimes.

problem Establishing rigorous mathematical statements for AdS/CFT correspondence.
method Novel Carleman estimates and unique continuation results for wave equations on aAdS spacetimes.
result Proved a unique continuation result for the Einstein-vacuum equations from aAdS conformal boundaries.

Recent technological development has enabled researchers to study social phenomena scientifically in detail and financial markets has particularly attracted physicists since the Brownian motion has played the key role as in physics. In our previous report (arXiv:1703.06739; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.), we have prese…

2018-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

AIF improves physical AI agents' performance in dynamic environments.

problem Physical AI agents are less capable than biological agents in open-ended real-world environments.
method Developed from probability theory, Bayesian machine learning, variational inference, and Active Inference (AIF), grounded in the Free Energy Principle.
result AIF minimizes variational free energy and is well-suited to physical constraints.

Survey and new results link hydrodynamics, molecular physics, and financial engineering.

problem Understanding financial engineering topics like Asian options and volatility swaps.
method Linking Kevin waves, Klein-Kramers, and Kolmogorov equations to financial models.
result Corrected the original solution of the Kolmogorov equation.

A new framework uses uncertainty to learn from raw data without explicit models.

problem Limitations of traditional machine learning models and lack of interpretability.
method Introduces a model-free framework using surprisal (information theoretic uncertainty) to analyze and infer from raw data.
result Achieves at or near state-of-the-art performance across various machine learning tasks.

Revises Bayesian model averaging for foundation models.

problem Ensemble pre-trained and lightly-finetuned foundation models for improved classification performance.
method Introduces trainable linear classifiers and computationally cheaper model averaging scheme (OMA).
result Ensembled models can better predict on various datasets.

Time series foundation models are well-calibrated, improving over baseline models.

problem Calibration of time series foundation models for practical applications.
method Systematic evaluations of five time series foundation models and two baselines, assessing calibration, prediction heads, and long-term forecasting.
result Time series foundation models are consistently better calibrated than baseline models and do not show over- or under-confidence.

Introduces foundation priors for using model-generated data in empirical research.

problem Using model-generated data as real observations in empirical research.
method Introduces foundation priors as an exponential-tilted, generalized Bayesian update of the user's primitive prior.
result Synthetic data reflects both model patterns and user's priors, enabling principled use in empirical work.