Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar - PCTS Seminar Series: Deep Learning for Physics

Understanding Machine Learning via Exactly Solvable Statistical Physics Models

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The affinity between statistical physics and machine learning has long history, this is reflected even in the machine learning terminology that is in part adopted from physics. I will describe the main lines of this long-lasting friendship in the context of current theoretical challenges and open questions about deep learning. Theoretical physics often proceeds in terms of solvable synthetic models, I will describe the related line of work on solvable models of simple feed-forward neural networks. I will highlight a path forward to capture the subtle interplay between the structure of the data, the architecture of the network, and the learning algorithm.

Date & Time

February 06, 2020 | 11:45am – 12:30pm

Location

Jadwin Hall PCTS Seminar Room 407 (Princeton University)

Speakers

Lenka Zdeborova

Affiliation

CEA Scalay and CNRS Speaker

Notes

Each talk will be preceded with lunch at 11:45 am. The talks will be held from 12:25-1:30 pm and from 2:00 - 3:00 pm.