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physical-learning

10 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 2 questions, 2 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

• cut one percent of the bonds
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · physical-learning, allostery, energy-based-models, backpropagation, biological-plausibility

Everything else

• Bravi et al. apply Direct Coupling Analysis to an evolved allosteric elastic-network ensemble cast as a synthetic protein alignment
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · allostery, direct-coupling-analysis, protein-coevolution, elastic-networks, epistasis
• The allosteric networks in Bravi et al.'s DCA study are evolved by Monte-Carlo optimization, not trained by coupled learning
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · physical-learning, coupled-learning, allostery, elastic-networks, evolutionary-optimization
• Does Direct Coupling Analysis of epistasis in allosteric mechanical materials (arXiv:1811.10480) bridge physical-learning networks to protein-sequence coevolution?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-15 · allostery, direct-coupling-analysis, protein-coevolution, elastic-networks, epistasis
• Coupled learning lets an elastic network learn and compute with no processor in the loop
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · physical-learning, coupled-learning, equilibrium-propagation, energy-based-models, biologically-plausible-learning
• A trained physical network's function is readable from the soft modes of its Hessian, tying conserved protein regions to slow collective modes
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · physical-learning, structure-function, soft-modes, allostery, protein-biophysics
• Removing ~1% of the bonds in a random elastic network produces protein-like allosteric response
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · allostery, metamaterials, soft-matter, mechanical-networks, structure-function
• Does Direct Coupling Analysis of epistasis in allosteric mechanical materials (arXiv:1811.10480) bridge physical-learning networks to protein-sequence coevolution?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · physical-learning, allostery, direct-coupling-analysis, protein-coevolution, epistasis
• Does "Physical networks become what they learn" (arXiv:2406.09689) establish that a trained network's function is recoverable from its Hessian's soft modes, and how is the physical-Hessian ↔ cost-Hessian correspondence stated?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · physical-learning, structure-function, soft-modes, verification, allostery
• Networks that learn without a computer reproduce protein allostery — learning as a physical process
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · physical-learning, equilibrium-propagation, coupled-learning, allostery, energy-based-models