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20222025
most citedMachine Learning Without a Processor: Emergent Learning in a Nonlinear Electronic Metamaterial

34 citations · 69 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cond-mat.dis-nn2025

Analog Physical Systems Can Exhibit Double Descent

Sam Dillavou, Jason W Rocks, Jacob F Wycoff +2

An important component of the success of large AI models is double descent, in which networks avoid overfitting as they grow relative to the amount of training data, instead improv…

cond-mat.dis-nn2025

Understanding and Embracing Imperfection in Physical Learning Networks

Sam Dillavou, Marcelo Guzman, Andrea J. Liu +1

Performing machine learning with analog signals offers advantages in speed and energy efficiency, but sensitivity to component and measurement imperfections often foils training wi…

cond-mat.dis-nn2024★ 1 cited

Microscopic imprints of learned solutions in adaptive resistor networks

Marcel Guzman, Felipe Martins, Menachem Stern +1

In physical networks trained using supervised learning, physical parameters are adjusted to produce desired responses to inputs. An example is electrical contrastive local learning…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 1 cited

Cornerstones are the Key Stones: Using Interpretable Machine Learning to Probe the Clogging Process in 2D Granular Hoppers

Jesse M. Hanlan, Sam Dillavou, Andrea J. Liu +1

The sudden arrest of flow by formation of a stable arch over an outlet is a unique and characteristic feature of granular materials. Previous work suggests that grains near the out…

cond-mat.dis-nn2024★ 4 cited

Physical networks become what they learn

Menachem Stern, Marcelo Guzman, Felipe Martins +2

Physical networks can develop diverse responses, or functions, by design, evolution or learning. We focus on electrical networks of nodes connected by resistive edges. Such network…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 34 cited

Machine Learning Without a Processor: Emergent Learning in a Nonlinear Electronic Metamaterial

Sam Dillavou, Benjamin D Beyer, Menachem Stern +3

Standard deep learning algorithms require differentiating large nonlinear networks, a process that is slow and power-hungry. Electronic learning metamaterials offer potentially fas…

cond-mat.soft2023

Experimental Demonstration of Coupled Learning in Elastic Networks

Lauren E. Altman, Menachem Stern, Andrea J. Liu +1

Coupled learning is a contrastive scheme for tuning the properties of individual elements within a network in order to achieve desired functionality of the system. It takes advanta…

cond-mat.dis-nn2023★ 1 cited

Physical learning of power-efficient solutions

Menachem Stern, Sam Dillavou, Dinesh Jayaraman +2

As the size and ubiquity of artificial intelligence and computational machine learning (ML) models grow, their energy consumption for training and use is rapidly becoming economica…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 28 cited

Desynchronous Learning in a Physics-Driven Learning Network

Jacob F Wycoff, Sam Dillavou, Menachem Stern +2

In a neuron network, synapses update individually using local information, allowing for entirely decentralized learning. In contrast, elements in an artificial neural network (ANN)…