{"id":223912,"date":"2025-10-24T05:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/statistical-mechanics-method-helps-machines-better-understand-complex-systems"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:17:53","slug":"statistical-mechanics-method-helps-machines-better-understand-complex-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/statistical-mechanics-method-helps-machines-better-understand-complex-systems","title":{"rendered":"Statistical mechanics method helps machines better understand complex systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/statistical-mechanics-method-helps-machines-better-understand-complex-systems.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study by University of Hawai\u02bbi researchers is advancing how we learn the laws that govern complex systems\u2014from predator-prey relationships to traffic patterns in cities to how populations grow and shift\u2014using artificial intelligence (AI) and physics.<\/p>\n<p>The research, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/4d98-tdlp\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Research<\/i>, introduces a new method based on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/statistical+mechanics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">statistical mechanics<\/a> to improve the discovery of equations directly from noisy real-world data. Statistical mechanics is a branch of physics that explains how collective behavior emerges from individual particles, such as how the random motion of gas molecules leads to predictable changes in pressure and temperature.<\/p>\n<p>In this new work, statistical mechanics is used to understand how different mathematical models \u201ccompete\u201d when trying to explain a system. This matters because many scientific fields rely on understanding how systems change over time, whether tracking disease spread, analyzing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/climate+change\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">climate change<\/a> or predicting the stock market. But real-world data is often messy, and traditional AI models can be unreliable when the data gets noisy or incomplete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by University of Hawai\u02bbi researchers is advancing how we learn the laws that govern complex systems\u2014from predator-prey relationships to traffic patterns in cities to how populations grow and shift\u2014using artificial intelligence (AI) and physics. The research, published in Physical Review Research, introduces a new method based on statistical mechanics to improve the discovery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,41,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}