[Guest post by Mary Wooters; the conference already started but there are still great activities tomorrow and Wednesday. On an unrelated note, please make sure to watch the new Theory Shorts episode by the Simons Institute of Computing on lower bounds in computational complexity, featuring Madhu Sudan, Paul Beame, Faith Ellen, Jelani Nelson, and Manuel … Continue reading RANDOM/APPROX conference
Month: August 2021
Replica Method for the Machine Learning Theorist: Part 2 of 2
Blake Bordelon, Haozhe Shan, Abdul Canatar, Boaz Barak, Cengiz Pehlevan See part 1 of this series, and pdf version of both parts. See also all seminar posts. In the previous post we described the outline of the replica method, and outlined the analysis per this figure: Specifically, we reduced the task of evaluating the expectation … Continue reading Replica Method for the Machine Learning Theorist: Part 2 of 2
Replica Method for the Machine Learning Theorist: Part 1 of 2
Blake Bordelon, Haozhe Shan, Abdul Canatar, Boaz Barak, Cengiz Pehlevan [Boaz's note: Blake and Haozhe were students in the ML theory seminar this spring; in that seminar we touched on the replica method in the lecture on inference and statistical physics but here Blake and Haozhe (with a little help from the rest of us) … Continue reading Replica Method for the Machine Learning Theorist: Part 1 of 2
Windows On Theory 