Tissue wrinkles foreshadow cancer

Nature Physics Springer Nature (2025) 1-2

Deep neural networks have an inbuilt Occam鈥檚 razor

Nature Communications Nature Research 16:1 (2025) 220

Authors:

Chris Mingard, Henry Rees, Guillermo Valle-P茅rez, Ard A Louis

Abstract:

The remarkable performance of overparameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) must arise from an interplay between network architecture, training algorithms, and structure in the data. To disentangle these three components for supervised learning, we apply a Bayesian picture based on the functions expressed by a DNN. The prior over functions is determined by the network architecture, which we vary by exploiting a transition between ordered and chaotic regimes. For Boolean function classification, we approximate the likelihood using the error spectrum of functions on data. Combining this with the prior yields an accurate prediction for the posterior, measured for DNNs trained with stochastic gradient descent. This analysis shows that structured data, together with a specific Occam鈥檚 razor-like inductive bias towards (Kolmogorov) simple functions that exactly counteracts the exponential growth of the number of functions with complexity, is a key to the success of DNNs.

Coarse-graining dense, deformable active particles

(2025)

Authors:

Mehrana R Nejad, Julia M Yeomans

Cellular dynamics emerging from turbulent flows steered by active filaments

(2025)

Authors:

Mehrana R Nejad, Julia M Yeomans, Sumesh P Thampi

Minimal Hubbard models of maximal Hilbert Space fragmentation

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 134:1 (2025) 010411

Authors:

Yves Kwan, Patrick Wilhelm, Sounak Biswas, Siddharth Ashok Parameswaran

Abstract:

We show that Hubbard models with nearest-neighbor hopping and a nearest-neighbor hardcore constraint exhibit 鈥渕aximal鈥 Hilbert space fragmentation in many lattices of arbitrary dimension 饾憫. Focusing on the 饾憫 =1 rhombus chain and the 饾憫 =2 Lieb lattice, we demonstrate that the fragmentation is strong for all fillings in the thermodynamic limit, and explicitly construct all emergent integrals of motion, which include an extensive set of higher-form symmetries. Blockades consisting of frozen particles partition the system in real space, leading to anomalous dynamics. Our results are potentially relevant to optical lattices of dipolar and Rydberg-dressed atoms.