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Record Nr.

UNINA9910698653503321

Autore

Iten Raban

Titolo

Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Discoveries : Extracting Physical Concepts from Experimental Data Using Deep Learning / / Raban Iten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-031-27019-3

9783031270192

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Discoveries in science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Machine Learning Background -- Overview of Using Machine Learning for Physical Discoveries -- Theory: Formalizing the Process of Human Model Building -- Methods: Using Neural Networks to Find Simple Representations -- Applications: Physical Toy Examples -- Open Questions and Future Prospects.

Sommario/riassunto

Will research soon be done by artificial intelligence, thereby making human researchers superfluous? This book explains modern approaches to discovering physical concepts with machine learning and elucidates their strengths and limitations. The automation of the creation of experimental setups and physical models, as well as model testing are discussed. The focus of the book is the automation of an important step of the model creation, namely finding a minimal number of natural parameters that contain sufficient information to make predictions about the considered system. The basic idea of this approach is to employ a deep learning architecture, SciNet, to model a simplified version of a physicist's reasoning process. SciNet finds the relevant physical parameters, like the mass of a particle, from experimental data and makes predictions based on the parameters found. The author demonstrates how to extract conceptual information from such parameters, e.g., Copernicus' conclusion that the solar



system is heliocentric. .