{"id":3927687,"date":"2026-08-27T07:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/going-beyond-simple-models-of-neural-networks-extended-mean-field-theory-offers-a-better-approach\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:03:50","slug":"going-beyond-simple-models-of-neural-networks-extended-mean-field-theory-offers-a-better-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/going-beyond-simple-models-of-neural-networks-extended-mean-field-theory-offers-a-better-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Going beyond simple models of neural networks: Extended mean-field theory offers a better approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Physics is most readily applied to relatively simple systems: a pendulum, two electrons colliding or the structure of the solar system. But when systems become complicated\u2014when many particles interact with one another, in condensed matter systems such as gases and fluids or in the cosmology of the early universe\u2014simplifications can be made using a technique called classical or extended mean-field theory.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-simple-neural-networks-field-theory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics is most readily applied to relatively simple systems: a pendulum, two electrons colliding or the structure of the solar system. But when systems become complicated\u2014when many particles interact with one another, in condensed matter systems such as gases and fluids or in the cosmology of the early universe\u2014simplifications can be made using a technique [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}