Thermodynamic Machine Learning through Maximum Work Production

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15416v3
• Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:04:24 GMT
• Title: Thermodynamic Machine Learning through Maximum Work Production
• Authors: A. B. Boyd, J. P. Crutchfield, and M. Gu
• Abstract summary: We introduce the thermodynamic principle that work production is the most relevant performance metric for an adaptive physical agent. We show that selecting the maximum-work agent for given environmental data corresponds to finding the maximum-likelihood model. In this way, work emerges as an organizing principle that underlies learning in adaptive thermodynamic systems.
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• Abstract: Adaptive systems -- such as a biological organism gaining survival advantage, an autonomous robot executing a functional task, or a motor protein transporting intracellular nutrients -- must model the regularities and stochasticity in their environments to take full advantage of thermodynamic resources. Analogously, but in a purely computational realm, machine learning algorithms estimate models to capture predictable structure and identify irrelevant noise in training data. This happens through optimization of performance metrics, such as model likelihood. If physically implemented, is there a sense in which computational models estimated through machine learning are physically preferred? We introduce the thermodynamic principle that work production is the most relevant performance metric for an adaptive physical agent and compare the results to the maximum-likelihood principle that guides machine learning. Within the class of physical agents that most efficiently harvest energy from their environment, we demonstrate that an efficient agent's model explicitly determines its architecture and how much useful work it harvests from the environment. We then show that selecting the maximum-work agent for given environmental data corresponds to finding the maximum-likelihood model. This establishes an equivalence between nonequilibrium thermodynamics and dynamic learning. In this way, work maximization emerges as an organizing principle that underlies learning in adaptive thermodynamic systems.

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