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Neural Renormalization Group Flow for Percolation

Aug 2026 · 1 citation · 30 references
Physics Computer Science

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To get good performance for two-dimensional site percolation developping a supervised, scale-shared neural architecture, it is key that the learned latent representation exhibits critical fluctuations and scale-dependent flows consistent with the renormalization-group structure of percolation.

Abstract

Machine learning offers a possible route to data-driven real-space renormalization when the relevant observables are nonlocal and difficult to prescribe explicitly. We explore this idea for two-dimensional site percolation developping a supervised, scale-shared neural architecture. The model recursively applies the same learned coarse-graining rule across scales, producing a latent field from which the crossing probability is predicted, while a corresponding fine-graining decoder reconstructs the largest-cluster mask. Trained only on small lattices, the model extrapolates to substantially larger systems, recovers the spanning cluster with high fidelity, and produces observables obeying the expected finite-size scaling near the critical point. We observe that to get such performance it is key that the learned latent representation exhibits critical fluctuations and scale-dependent flows consistent with the renormalization-group structure of percolation.

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