CMPTG CS 5 - Spring 2025
Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, 2025
I had the privilege of teaching a 10 week seminar course on statistical mechanics and its connections to machine learning theory. We covered the following topics: 1] Boltzmann statistics, 2] the Ising model and mean field theories, 3] Energy based models and Boltzmann machines, 4] Diffusion Models, 5] Fokker-Planck equations and the probability flow ODE, 6] Effective field theories of neural networks, and 7] Neural tangent kernels.