PhyLT seminar

Physics of Learning Theory

Organizers

       

Alex Morozov, Ian Jauslin, Nilava Metya

Announcements

Books and references

Lecture notes by Florent Krzakala and Lenka Zdeborová    View
A Friendly Tutorial on Mean-Field Spin Glass Techniques for Non-Physicists    View
An Introduction to Statistical Learning    View
Statistical/Machine Learning Theory lecture notes by Tengyu Ma    View
Princeton summer school notes by Bruno Loureiro    View

Schedule

       

2 - 3 PM in HILL 701.



Date Speaker Topic Notes Recording
Jan 29, 2025 Nilava Metya Probability Review: Concentration View
Feb 05, 2025 Nilava Metya Introduction to Learning Theory View
Feb 12, 2025 Alex Morozov Curie-Weiss model of ferromagnetism View View
Feb 19, 2025 Alex Morozov Curie-Weiss model of ferromagnetism (continued) View View
Feb 26, 2025 Alex Morozov Wrapping up the CW model. Gibbs variational approach. View View
Mar 05, 2025 Alex Morozov Cavity method. View View
Mar 12, 2025 Alex Morozov Random field ising model. View
Mar 26, 2025 Ian Jauslin Belief propagation on complete graphs. View
Apr 02, 2025 Ian Jauslin Belief propagation on trees. View
Apr 09, 2025 Anirvan Sengupta Cavity method and the Onsager term. View View