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48 results for theoretical physics

Transformers predict scattering amplitudes in theoretical physics.

problem Computing exact coefficients of scattering amplitudes in N = 4 SYM theory.
method Applied Transformers to predict integer coefficients of scattering amplitudes.
result Transformers achieve high (> 98%) accuracy on predicting scattering amplitudes.

Special issue on understanding physical processes from unusual diffusion patterns.

problem Understanding physical processes from anomalous diffusion data.
method Not explicitly described in the abstract, but likely involves analysis of data from the Anomalous Diffusion Challenge.
result Not explicitly stated, but likely includes analysis of physical processes from anomalous diffusion data.

Unified physics-informed learning method improves generalization performance.

problem Lack of theoretical analysis for hybrid settings with incomplete physical constraints.
method Unified residual form unifying collocation and variational methods, establishing generalization performance governed by affine variety dimension.
result Generalization performance is determined by affine variety dimension, not just the number of parameters.

The great success of deep learning shows that its technology contains profound truth, and understanding its internal mechanism not only has important implications for the development of its technology and effective application in various fields, but also provides meaningful insights into the understanding of human brai…

2018-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops error rates for physics-informed learning, comparing it to data-driven methods.

problem Understanding the trade-off between soft penalties and hard constraints in PISL.
method Develops complexity-dependent error rates using the small-ball method.
result Physics-informed estimators have comparable error rates to hard constrained methods, differing only by constants.

This talk reviews some mathematical and physical ideas related to the notion of dimension. After a brief historical introduction, various modern constructions from fractal geometry, noncommutative geometry, and theoretical physics are invoked and compared.

2005-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Physics-informed kernel learning integrates physical priors into machine learning models.

problem Tackles the integration of physical laws into machine learning models for improved accuracy and efficiency.
method Uses Fourier methods to approximate the kernel and minimizes a physics-informed risk function.
result Demonstrates PIKL outperforms physics-informed neural networks and traditional PDE solvers in various scenarios.

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.

Econophysics embodies the recent upsurge of interest by physicists into financial economics, driven by the availability of large amount of data, job shortage in physics and the possibility of applying many-body techniques developed in statistical and theoretical physics to the understanding of the self-organizing econo…

2008-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New method solves PDEs on spheres using physics-informed convolutional neural networks.

problem Solving PDEs on surfaces, especially spheres, with high accuracy and efficiency.
method Physics-informed convolutional neural networks (PICNN) with theoretical analysis and approximation results.
result Established fast convergence rates for PICNN solving PDEs on spheres.

Interpretable machine-learning models can be unstable under multicollinearity, leading to oscillatory weights that do not reflect meaningful contributions.

problem Interpretable machine-learning models can be unstable under multicollinearity.
method Theoretical analysis of eigenmodes of the feature correlation matrix.
result Small-eigenvalue modes associated with multicollinearity amplify fluctuations in the weights and generate oscillatory patterns that do not necessarily reflect meaningful contributions.
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These are the lecture notes for an advanced Ph.D. level course I taught in Spring'02 at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. The course primarily focused on an introduction to stochastic calculus and derivative pricing with various stochastic computations recast in the language of path integr…

2014-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

In this proceeding we give an overview of the idea of covariance (or equivariance) featured in the recent development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We study the similarities and differences between the use of covariance in theoretical physics and in the CNN context. Additionally, we demonstrate that the simp…

2019-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Equivariant flows generate symmetric distributions for complex systems.

problem Generating symmetric distributions for complex systems with exact likelihood.
method Equivariant normalizing flows that preserve symmetries.
result Equivariant flows generate symmetric distributions that are invariant to symmetries in physical systems.

BITS for GAPS uses Bayesian methods to improve surrogate model accuracy in complex systems.

problem Improving surrogate model accuracy in complex physical systems with uncertainty.
method Bayesian Information-Theoretic Sampling for hierarchical Gaussian Process Surrogates.
result Increased expected information gain and predictive accuracy by targeting high-uncertainty regions.

Neural networks learn higher-order derivatives for physics problems.

problem Lack of higher-order derivatives in neural networks for theoretical physics.
method Graph-theoretical approach to assign diagrams to partial derivatives, iterative NN perturbation theory.
result NNs can learn higher-order derivatives, improving machine-learned approximations.

3D models vulnerable to adversarial attacks, new method improves success rate and naturalness.

problem Vulnerability of 3D deep learning models to adversarial examples in the physical world.
method ε-isometric (εε-ISO) attack considering geometric properties and invariance to physical transformations.
result Significantly improved attack success rate and naturalness of 3D adversarial examples.

Harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces arise from a conformally invariant variational problem. Therefore, on one hand, they are intimately connected with moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces, and on the other hand, because the conformal group is noncompact, constitute a prototype for the formation of singularities, the so-ca…

2017-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Physical systems differring in their microscopic details often display strikingly similar behaviour when probed at macroscopic scales. Those universal properties, largely determining their physical characteristics, are revealed by the powerful renormalization group (RG) procedure, which systematically retains "slow" de…

2017-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This is an invited article for the Discussion and Debate special issue of The European Physical Journal Special Topics on the subject "Can Economics Be a Physical Science?" The first part of the paper traces the personal path of the author from theoretical physics to economics. It briefly summarizes applications of sta…

2016-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We study Dirac-harmonic maps from surfaces to manifolds with torsion, which is motivated from the superstring action considered in theoretical physics. We discuss analytic and geometric properties of such maps and outline an existence result for uncoupled solutions.

2014-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗