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Physics-inspired KSSE model achieves 88.93% ImageNet accuracy with reduced parameters

Researchers have developed a novel physics-inspired energy-based model called Kohn-Sham Spectral Embedding (KSSE) for image classification. KSSE replaces traditional dense Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with a sparse-graph spectral embedding evaluated at a specific temperature. This approach leverages concepts from random-bond Ising models and random-matrix theory to optimize graph topology and analyze fractal learning landscapes. In experiments on ImageNet-1000, KSSE achieved a Top-1 accuracy of 88.93% with significantly fewer parameters than comparable models like Swin-L and ViT-H/14. AI

IMPACT This novel approach could lead to more parameter-efficient image classification models, potentially reducing computational costs and enabling deployment on resource-constrained devices.

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Physics-inspired KSSE model achieves 88.93% ImageNet accuracy with reduced parameters

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · V. S. Usatyuk, D. A. Sapozhnikov, S. I. Egorov ·

    Kohn-Sham Spectral Embedding on Sparse Graphs at the Nishimori Temperature for Image Classification

    arXiv:2607.28428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Kohn--Sham Spectral Embedding (KSSE), a physics-inspired energy-based model replacing dense CNN classifiers with a sparse-graph spectral embedding evaluated at the Nishimori temperature of an associated Random-Bond Isin…