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  1. TOOL · arXiv cs.LG English(EN) ·

    Scalar-pathway fidelity improves physical accuracy in short-range equivariant interatomic potentials

    Researchers have developed novel methods, Physics-Aware Neighborhood (PAN) pooling and Physics-Guided Spectral (PGS) mixers, to enhance the accuracy of short-range equivariant interatomic potentials. These techniques focus on improving the scalar channels within neural network potentials, which are crucial for aggregating and resolving energy surfaces. When applied to the MACE scaffold, these scalar-pathway corrections led to significant reductions in force and energy errors across various materials and molecules, with only a minor increase in computational cost. The improvements were also observed in other models like Allegro and NequIP, suggesting the portability of these scalar-pathway fidelity enhancements across different short-range equivariant architectures. AI

  2. RESEARCH · arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) English(EN) · · [4 sources]

    Multi-Timescale Conductance Spiking Networks: A Sparse, Gradient-Trainable Framework with Rich Firing Dynamics for Enhanced Temporal Processing

    Researchers are advancing Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) through novel training methods and neuron models. One paper introduces a "circulate-firing" neuron and a learnable surrogate gradient function to improve information representation and gradient propagation, achieving competitive performance on various datasets and generalizing to Transformer architectures. Another study presents "Bullet Trains," a parallelization technique that significantly speeds up the training of temporally precise SNNs by using associative scans and differentiable spike time solvers, demonstrating viability on GPUs with event-based datasets. A third paper proposes "multi-timescale conductance spiking networks" that offer rich firing dynamics and gradient trainability without surrogate gradients, outperforming existing models in time-series regression tasks with sparser activity. AI

    IMPACT These advancements in SNNs could lead to more energy-efficient AI systems with improved temporal processing capabilities.