Physics of Learning and Adaptation III

Presentations

• Physics of Learning: From Living Systems to Artificial Neural Networks

  ORAL · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Yuhai Tu

    • Flatiron Institute

  Authors

  • Yuhai Tu

    • Flatiron Institute

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• Physical Learning in Nonreciprocal Active Spinner Materials

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Shiqi LIU

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Shiqi LIU

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Tzer Han Tan

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Hongbo Zhao

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

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• Impact of tunable interactions on emergent behavior in a random field Ising model with feedback

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Tanya Chhabra

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Tanya Chhabra

    • Syracuse University

  • M Lisa Manning

    • Syracuse University
    • Syracuse University, Bioinspired Institute
    • Department of Physics and BioInspired Institute, Syracuse University
    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244,BioInspired Institute, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244

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• Local Learning Rules for Out-of-Equilibrium Physical Generative Models

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.19136

  Presenters

  • Cyrill Bösch

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Cyrill Bösch

    • Princeton University

  • Geoffrey Roeder

    • Princeton University

  • Marc Serra-Garcia

    • AMOLF

  • Ryan P Adams

    • Princeton University

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• Oscillatory training: cooperatively training multiple tasks in physical systems without batching

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Adam Gabriel Frim

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Adam Gabriel Frim

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Andrea Jo-Wei Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Sidney Robert Nagel

    • University of Chicago

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• Explaining Near-Zero Hessian Eigenvalues Through Approximate Symmetries in Neural Networks

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Marcel Kühn

    • Leipzig University

  Authors

  • Marcel Kühn

    • Leipzig University

  • Bernd Rosenow

    • Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universtiy of Leipzig
    • University Leipzig

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• Analyzing Neural Scaling Laws in Two-Layer Networks with Power-Law Data Spectra

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Bernd Rosenow

    • Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universtiy of Leipzig
    • University Leipzig

  Authors

  • Bernd Rosenow

    • Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universtiy of Leipzig
    • University Leipzig

  • Roman Worschech

    • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig

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• Learning context-dependent categorization through a cooperative game

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Henry R Hill

    • University of Florida

  Authors

  • Henry R Hill

    • University of Florida

  • BingKan Xue

    • University of Florida

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• Decomposing non-Markovian History Dependence

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Matthew P Leighton

    • Yale University
    • Yale

  Authors

  • Matthew P Leighton

    • Yale University
    • Yale

  • Christopher W Lynn

    • Yale University

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• Phase transition in statistical inference of spatial information from single-cell sequencing data

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Alican Saray

    • Ohio State University

  Authors

  • Alican Saray

    • Ohio State University

  • Brian Skinner

    • Ohio State University
    • The Ohio State University

  • Calvin Pozderac

    • Ohio State University

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• Networks of Coupled Phase Oscillators as a Neuromorphic Platform Trained with Equilibrium Propagation

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Qingshan Wang

    • Max Planck Inst for Sci Light

  Authors

  • Qingshan Wang

    • Max Planck Inst for Sci Light

  • Florian Marquardt

    • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
    • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

  • Clara C Wanjura

    • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
    • Max Planck Institute for Science of Light in Erlangen

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• Solution of Linear Systems in High Dimensions with Application to Chemical Reaction Networks

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • John Zima

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • John Zima

    • Northwestern University

  • Miles M Stoudenmire

    • Flatiron Institute

  • Todd Gingrich

    • Northwestern University

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• Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Publication: Yizhou Liu, Ziming Liu, and Jeff Gore. Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling, NeurIPS 2025.

  Presenters

  • Yizhou Liu

    • MIT

  Authors

  • Yizhou Liu

    • MIT

  • Ziming Liu

    • MIT

  • Jeffrey Chen Gore

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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