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Statistical mechanics of learning

  • IFISC Seminar

  • Chris van den Broeck
  • Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
  • March 12, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
  • IFISC Seminar Room
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We review the statistical mechanics approach to learning from examples.
We discus several learning rules and compare their performance to the universal learning curve of a self-similar committee machine.



C. Van den Broeck and J. M. Parrondo , “Generalization Error in a Self-Similar Committee Machine”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 2355 (1993).

A. Engel and C. Van den Broeck, Statistical Mechanics of Learning, Cambridge University Press (2001).



Coffee and cookies will be served 15 minutes before the start of the seminar


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