Perturbative Contrastive Physical Learning
arXiv:2606. 09756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Responses to perturbations are key to understanding physical systems.
arXiv:2608. 11585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical computing systems exploit device dynamics for computation, but their gradient-based optimization is challenging: backpropagation through a digital twin suffers from model-reality gap.
arXiv:2606. 09756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Responses to perturbations are key to understanding physical systems.
arXiv:2606. 27029v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hamiltonian Neural Networks (HNNs) integrate physical priors into neural models by learning a system's Hamiltonian, improving generalization and sample efficiency.
arXiv:2606. 27029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hamiltonian Neural Networks (HNNs) integrate physical priors into neural models by learning a system's Hamiltonian, improving generalization and sample efficiency.
arXiv:2607. 16177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a promising feedback control strategy for nonlinear and complex dynamical systems.
arXiv:2606. 00716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference and control in engineered physical systems pay a heavy physics cost at deployment: state estimators, inverse-problem solvers, model-predictive controllers, schedulers, and observers are often not closed-form and must re-solve a numerical optimization per instance, with the operator re-supplied each time.
arXiv:2606. 15053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surrogate models are central to scientific machine learning, where they enable fast prediction, simulation, inference, and control for complex physical systems.
Differentiable simulation is a key component in learning, control, and inverse problems, where gradients through nonlinear implicit solvers are required. Existing approaches either rely on unrolled automatic differentiation, whose memory grows with solver depth, or on equation-level implicit differentiation, which assembles global Jacobians and solves large sparse adjoint systems, discarding the locality of the forward solver -- and differentiating the converged equation rather than the finite computation that actually ran.
arXiv:2602. 03670v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a physics-inspired learning algorithm that uses stationary states of a dynamical system both for inference and learning.
arXiv:2608. 17344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural network surrogates are an emerging alternative to traditional electromagnetic wave simulators like finite-difference time-domain (FDTD); their goal is to replace rigorous physical simulations with pre-trained neural networks that solve wave-scattering forward and inverse problems orders of magnitude faster.
arXiv:2607. 16800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a leading paradigm for near-term quantum computing, yet their training suffers from sensitivity to circuit depth, initialization, and landscape pathologies such as barren plateaus.
arXiv:2508. 09156v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a framework for fine-tuning flow-matching generative models to enforce physical constraints and solve inverse problems in scientific systems.
arXiv:2607. 20378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed learning of partial differential equations (PDEs) has been dominated by multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), whose spectral bias and dense parameterization limit both accuracy and interpretability.