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Physical Transformer
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This work proposes an embodied reasoning framework that integrates Transformer architectures with physical dynamics to overcome the limitations of current AI systems, which are largely confined to abstract symbolic spaces and lack coupling with the physical world. By embedding Hamiltonian dynamics, symplectic geometry, and an information-theoretic phase space into the attention mechanism, the model employs an effective Hamiltonian formulation combined with neural differential manifolds, Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) optimal control, and symplectic discretization layers. This enables physically interpretable, energy-conserving semantic reasoning across scales—from microscopic to macroscopic. Experiments demonstrate that the approach significantly outperforms baseline models in numerical integration and dynamical systems tasks, achieving markedly improved long-term trajectory stability and accuracy, thereby validating the efficacy of incorporating physical priors into deep learning architectures.
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📝 Abstract
Digital AI systems spanning large language models, vision models, and generative architectures that operate primarily in symbolic, linguistic, or pixel domains. They have achieved striking progress, but almost all of this progress lives in virtual spaces. These systems transform embeddings and tokens, yet do not themselves touch the world and rarely admit a physical interpretation. In this work we propose a physical transformer that couples modern transformer style computation with geometric representation and physical dynamics. At the micro level, attention heads, and feed-forward blocks are modeled as interacting spins governed by effective Hamiltonians plus non-Hamiltonian bath terms. At the meso level, their aggregated state evolves on a learned Neural Differential Manifold (NDM) under Hamiltonian flows and Hamilton, Jacobi, Bellman (HJB) optimal control, discretized by symplectic layers that approximately preserve geometric and energetic invariants. At the macro level, the model maintains a generative semantic workspace and a two-dimensional information-phase portrait that tracks uncertainty and information gain over a reasoning trajectory. Within this hierarchy, reasoning tasks are formulated as controlled information flows on the manifold, with solutions corresponding to low cost trajectories that satisfy geometric, energetic, and workspace-consistency constraints. On simple toy problems involving numerical integration and dynamical systems, the physical transformer outperforms naive baselines in stability and long-horizon accuracy, highlighting the benefits of respecting underlying geometric and Hamiltonian structure. More broadly, the framework suggests a path toward physical AI that unify digital reasoning with physically grounded manifolds, opening a route to more interpretable and potentially unified models of reasoning, control, and interaction with the real world.
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Physical AI
Transformer
Hamiltonian dynamics
Geometric representation
Neural Differential Manifold
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Physical Transformer
Neural Differential Manifold
Hamiltonian dynamics
Symplectic layers
Information-phase portrait
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