The physics of artificial intelligence
Author(s)
Peurifoy, John Edward.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
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Max E. Tegmark.
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In this thesis, I explore both what Physics can lend to the world of artificial intelligence, and how artificial intelligence can enhance the world of physics. In the first chapter I propose a method to use artificial neural networks to approximate light scattering by multilayer nanoparticles. This neural network model is experimentally shown to describe the system well, and is then further used to solve the inverse design problem and propose a generalized template for how to use neural networks to enhance numerical calculations. In the second and third chapter I explore the use of Unitary matrices in neural networks to attempt to solve the exploding and vanishing gradient problem. The norm-preserving property of unitary matrices is shown through experiments to allow neural networks to retain information over many more layers. This model achieves state of the art results on a number of toy and real world tasks.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2018 Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-87).
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2018Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Physics.