Statistical physics, Bayesian inference and neural information processing
Abstract
Lecture notes from the course given by Professor Sara A. Solla at the Les Houches summer school on "Statistical physics of Machine Learning". The notes discuss neural information processing through the lens of Statistical Physics. Contents include Bayesian inference and its connection to a Gibbs description of learning and generalization, Generalized Linear Models as a controlled alternative to backpropagation through time, and linear and non-linear techniques for dimensionality reduction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2309.17006,
title = {Statistical physics, Bayesian inference and neural information processing},
author = {Erin Grant and Sandra Nestler and Berfin Şimşek and Sara Solla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.17006},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
These are notes from the lecture of Sara Solla given at the summer school "Statistical Physics & Machine Learning", that took place in Les Houches School of Physics in France from 4th to 29th July 2022. The school was organized by Florent Krzakala and Lenka Zdeborov\'a from EPFL