1–5 Sept 2026
University of Sussex
Europe/London timezone

The Hunting of Physics with Machine Learning through the (f)RG Looking Glass, and what we found there: An Agony, in two to eight Fits

4 Sept 2026, 11:30
30m
Large Lecture Theatre (Juiblee Building)

Large Lecture Theatre

Juiblee Building

Invited Plenary

Speaker

Jan M. Pawlowski

Description

In this talk I give a -certainly incomplete- overview of the rapidly growing area of

(i) physics and renormalisation group applications with Machine Learning

as well as

(ii) Machine Learning with the renormalisation group.

Applications (i) use the nonlinear optimisation property of neural networks for physics. Applications
(ii) use the fact that the layerwise or even global information transport in deep neural architectures is
either explicitly or implicitly a general (functional) renormalisation group transformation. Specifically, this
allows us to endow generative architectures which much-needed information beyond the learning sample.

Applications and ideas in (i,ii) are illustrated within simple examples.

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