Miles Stoudenmire is a research scientist at the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) where he develops and applies tensor network computational methods, primarily for quantum many-body systems.
Tensor networks are a technique to represent very high-order tensors by a contracted network of low-order tensors, allowing one to make an exponential reduction in the parameters needed, while still maintaining accuracy. The prototypical application is the approximation of a many-body quantum wavefunction, but tensor networks are also useful for approximating transfer matrices of classical systems and weights of models used in machine learning.
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