Self-Learning in Physical Machines
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Statistical Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 11000
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soft matter physics; physical learning algorithms; machine learning; metamaterials; smart matter; programmable matter; neuromorphic computing; statistical physics; computational neuroscience; mechanics; learning theory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, we have made great strides in the general understanding of learning phenomena in physical systems, where learning is understood as an analogy to neurological processes and computational machine learning (ML) algorithms. These research efforts lie in the intersection of physics, neuroscience and computer science and use insights and techniques from these fields to design and characterize self-learning machines that autonomously adapt functional properties and behaviors while observing examples of use.
Physical learning constitutes a fascinating emergent collective phenomenon that can be naturally described by the philosophy and tools of condensed matter and statistical physics. This unifying perspective may afford deeper insight into the universal aspects of learning in the real world under physical constraints. Such insight can help illuminate biological and computational learning, as well as suggest practical ways of realizing smart learning materials.
This Special Issue on self-learning machines will highlight recent exciting developments and ideas in the field, touching upon physical and biological learning studied both theoretically and experimentally. We invite authors to present original research articles or review articles on topics including, but not limited to:
- Self-learning machines in different media (electrical, optical, mechanical, etc.);
- Neuromorphic computing;
- Novel physical computation;
- Biologically plausible learning;
- The physics of learning.
Dr. Menachem Stern
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- self-learning
- learning machines
- physical learning
- inverse design
- neuromorphic computing
- biologically plausible learning
- smart matter
- functional matter
- novel computation
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