PIRSA:24020068

Scalar and Grassmann Neural Network Field Theory

Maiti, A. (2024). Scalar and Grassmann Neural Network Field Theory. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/24020068

Maiti, Anindita. Scalar and Grassmann Neural Network Field Theory. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 16, 2024, https://pirsa.org/24020068 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:24020068,
            doi = {10.48660/24020068},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/24020068},
            author = {Maiti, Anindita},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {Scalar and Grassmann Neural Network Field Theory},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2024},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:24020068 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Anindita Maiti Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Talk number PIRSA:24020068
DOI 10.48660/24020068
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Neural Network Field Theories (NNFTs) are field theories defined via output ensembles of initialized Neural Network (NN) architectures, the backbones of current state-of-the-art Deep Learning techniques. Different limits of NN architectures correspond to free, weakly interacting, and non-perturbative regimes of NNFTs, via central limit theorem and its violations. Nature of field interactions in NNFTs can be controlled by tuning architecture parameters and hyperparameters, systematically, at initialization. I will present a systematic construction of scalar NNFT actions, using various attributes of NN architectures, via a new set of Feynman rules and techniques from statistical physics. Conversely, I will present the construction of a class of NN architectures exactly corresponding to some interacting scalar field theories, via a systematic deformation of NN parameter distributions. As an example of the latter method, I will present the construction of an architecture for $\lambda \phi^4$ scalar NNFT. Lastly, I will introduce Grassmann NNFTs, their free and interacting regimes via central limit theorem for Grassmanns, and construction of an architecture corresponding to free Dirac NNFT. This approach provides us a way to initialize NN architectures exactly representing certain field configurations, and are useful for computing attributes, e.g. correlators, of field theories on lattice.

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