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Re: Percolation Theory [pdf]

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Post by mindcrime » Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 2:14 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #2

Relevant to the study of phase transitions in machine learning; e.g., https://openreview.net/forum?id=0pLCDJVVRD

Thanks for sharing that! A high level (not at all fleshed out) notion that percolation could have some applications to AI/ML is what led me to lookint into this in the first place. :-)

Re: Percolation Theory [pdf]

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Post by esafak » Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 3:07 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #11

esafak wrote: post #2

Relevant to the study of phase transitions in machine learning; e.g., https://openreview.net/forum?id=0pLCDJVVRD

Thanks for sharing that! A high level (not at all fleshed out) notion that percolation could have some applications to AI/ML is what led me to lookint into this in the first place. :-)

If you want to see the lay of the land read Statistical Mechanics of Deep Learning (https://ganguli-gang.stanford.edu/pdf/20.StatMechDeep.pdf)

Re: Percolation Theory [pdf]

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Post by mindcrime » Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 3:11 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #12

mindcrime wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing that! A high level (not at all fleshed out) notion that percolation could have some applications to AI/ML is what led me to lookint into this in the first place. :-)

If you want to see the lay of the land read Statistical Mechanics of Deep Learning ( https://ganguli-gang.stanford.edu/pdf/20.StatMechDeep.pdf )

Righteous. Thanks!