publications

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2025

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    Machine Learning the Entropy to Estimate Free Energy Differences without Sampling Transitions
    Yamin Ben-Shimon, Barak Hirshberg, and Yohai Bar-Sinai
    2025
    arXiv
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    Grokking at the Edge of Linear Separability
    Alon Beck, Noam Levi, and Yohai Bar-Sinai
    ICML, 2025
    arXiv PDF Open Review

2024

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    Do earthquakes "know" how big they will be? a neural-net aided study
    Neri Berman, Oleg Zlydenko, Oren Gilon, Yossi Matias, and Yohai Bar-Sinai
    arxiv preprint, 2024
    arXiv
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    Hidden Markov modeling of single particle diffusion with stochastic tethering
    Amit Federbush, Amit Moscovich, and Yohai Bar-Sinai
    Physical Review E, 2024
    arXiv HTML PDF Code
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    Grokking in Linear Estimators–A Solvable Model that Groks without Understanding
    Noam Levi, Alon Beck, and Yohai Bar-Sinai
    ICLR, 2024
    arXiv PDF Open Review

2023

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    Charting the Topography of the Neural Network Landscape with Thermal-Like Noise
    Theo Jules, Gal Brener, Tal Kachman, Noam Levi, and Yohai Bar-Sinai
    arxiv preprint, 2023
    arXiv
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    A neural encoder for earthquake rate forecasting
    Oleg Zlydenko, Gal Elidan, Avinatan Hassidim, Doron Kukliansky, Yossi Matias, Brendan Meade, Alexandra Molchanov, Sella Nevo, and Yohai Bar-Sinai
    Scientific Reports, 2023
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    Machine-Learning-Based Single-Molecule Quantification of Circulating MicroRNA Mixtures
    Jonathan Jeffet, Sayan Mondal, Amit Federbush, Nadav Tenenboim, Miriam Neaman, Jasline Deek, Yuval Ebenstein, and Yohai Bar-Sinai
    ACS sensors, 2023
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2022

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    3D-printed machines that manipulate microscopic objects using capillary forces
    Cheng Zeng, Maya Winters Faaborg, Ahmed Sherif, Martin J Falk, Rozhin Hajian, Ming Xiao, Kara Hartig, Yohai Bar-Sinai, Michael P Brenner, and Vinothan N Manoharan
    Nature, 2022
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    Beyond quality and quantity: Spatial distribution of contact encodes frictional strength
    Sam Dillavou, Yohai Bar-Sinai, Michael P Brenner, and Shmuel M Rubinstein
    Physical Review E, 2022
    arXiv HTML PDF

2021

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    Learned discretizations for passive scalar advection in a two-dimensional turbulent flow
    Jiawei Zhuang, Dmitrii Kochkov, Yohai Bar-Sinai, Michael P Brenner, and Stephan Hoyer
    Physical Review Fluids, 2021
    arXiv HTML PDF Code

2020

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    Machine-learning iterative calculation of entropy for physical systems
    Amit Nir, Eran Sela, Roy Beck, and Yohai Bar-Sinai
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
    arXiv HTML PDF
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    Geometric charges and nonlinear elasticity of two-dimensional elastic metamaterials
    Yohai Bar-Sinai, Gabriele Librandi, Katia Bertoldi, and Michael Moshe
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
    arXiv HTML PDF
  3. Thermal conductance of one-dimensional disordered harmonic chains
    Biswarup Ash, Ariel Amir, Yohai Bar-Sinai, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry
    Physical Review B, 2020
    arXiv HTML PDF

2019

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    Spatiotemporal dynamics of frictional systems: The interplay of interfacial friction and bulk elasticity
    Yohai Bar-Sinai, Michael Aldam, Robert Spatschek, Efim A Brener, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Lubricants, 2019
    arXiv HTML PDF
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    Learning data-driven discretizations for partial differential equations
    Yohai Bar-Sinai, Stephan Hoyer, Jason Hickey, and Michael P Brenner
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
    arXiv HTML PDF Code
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    Machine learning in a data-limited regime: Augmenting experiments with synthetic data uncovers order in crumpled sheets
    Jordan Hoffmann, Yohai Bar-Sinai, Lisa M Lee, Jovana Andrejevic, Shruti Mishra, Shmuel M Rubinstein, and Chris H Rycroft
    Science advances, 2019
    arXiv HTML PDF

2017

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    Gaussian fluctuations of spatially inhomogeneous polymers
    Yohai Bar-Sinai, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Soft Matter, 2017
    arXiv HTML PDF
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    Local thermal energy as a structural indicator in glasses
    Jacques Zylberg, Edan Lerner, Yohai Bar-Sinai, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017
    arXiv HTML PDF

2016

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    Frictional sliding without geometrical reflection symmetry
    Michael Aldam, Yohai Bar-Sinai, Ilya Svetlizky, Efim A Brener, Jay Fineberg, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Physical Review X, 2016
    arXiv HTML PDF Talk
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    Dynamic instabilities of frictional sliding at a bimaterial interface
    Efim A Brener, Marc Weikamp, Robert Spatschek, Yohai Bar-Sinai, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2016
    arXiv HTML PDF
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    Mechanical stress induces remodeling of vascular networks in growing leaves
    Yohai Bar-Sinai, Jean-Daniel Julien, Eran Sharon, Shahaf Armon, Naomi Nakayama, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, and Arezki Boudaoud
    PLoS computational biology, 2016
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2015

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    Spatial distribution of thermal energy in equilibrium
    Yohai Bar-Sinai, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Physical Review E, 2015
    arXiv HTML PDF
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    Velocity-strengthening friction significantly affects interfacial dynamics, strength and dissipation
    Yohai Bar-Sinai, Robert Spatschek, Efim A Brener, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Scientific reports, 2015
    arXiv HTML PDF

2014

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    On the velocity-strengthening behavior of dry friction
    Yohai Bar-Sinai, Robert Spatschek, Efim A Brener, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2014
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2013

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    Instabilities at frictional interfaces: Creep patches, nucleation, and rupture fronts
    Yohai Bar-Sinai, Robert Spatschek, Efim A Brener, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Physical Review E, 2013
    arXiv HTML PDF

2012

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    Slow rupture of frictional interfaces
    Yohai Bar Sinai, Efim A Brener, and Eran Bouchbinder
    Geophysical Research Letters, 2012
    arXiv HTML PDF