R. Berns: "Scaling Neural Quantum States beyond 10000 quantum spins".

After its first international workshop on tensor networks, Maison du Quantique Alpes is hosting its second workshop on the Interplay between neural and tensor networks from July 6th to July 10th, 2026. *Workshop’s Topic: Two very different mathematical objects are getting increasingly popular to represent objects in a compressed way: neural networks and tensor networks. Both are mathematical functions that can approximate various things e.g. the probability distribution of text (in a large language model), the solution of a partial differential equation or the ground state of a quantum many-body system. Both use some form of lossy compression, albeit of very different nature, and in both cases, it is not necessarily easy to know which object will compress well and which won’t. There are in fact intimate connections between the two types of networks and both rely on heavily optimized linear algebra libraries. There are on the other hand important differences as well: what one lacks in expressivity (pretty much everything can be fitted with a neural network; tensor networks are perhaps less flexible), may be complemented by advanced algorithms (tensor networks provide efficient routes to calculate many things without the need for stochastic methods). This workshop gathered experts of both fields with a focus on the application to quantum many-body physics: neural quantum states on one hand and tensor network states on the other. The goal, besides discussing the latest developments and bridging the two communities together, was to explore approaches that somehow lie at the interplay between the two fields. *Organizers: Lei Wang (Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing China), Miles Stoudenmire (CCQ Flatiron Institute, New York USA) and Xavier Waintal (University Grenoble Alpes, Pheliqs CEA Grenoble, France) About Maison du Quantique Alpes: If you want to know more about the events of Maison du Quantique Alpes, a french project coordinated by University Grenoble Alpes, you can visit our website here: https://quantalps.univ-grenoble-alpes...