28 July 2024 to 3 August 2024
Europe/London timezone

Exploring Generative Networks for Manifolds with Non-Trivial Topology

29 Jul 2024, 12:15
20m
Talk Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and artificial intelligence

Speaker

Shiyang Chen (Swansea university)

Description

The expressive power of neural networks in modeling complex distributions is desirable to bypass topological freezing and critical slowing down in simulations of lattice field theory. Some approaches suffer from problems with topology, which may lead to some classes of configurations not being generated. In this talk, I will present a novel generative approach inspired by a model previously introduced in the ML community (GFlowNets) and simulate triple ring models and lattice $\phi^4$ model to demonstrate the capabilities of the method to solve issues connected with ergodicity.

Primary author

Shiyang Chen (Swansea university)

Co-authors

Biagio Lucini (Swansea University) Gert Aarts (Swansea University)

Presentation materials