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math.PR2018★ 1 cited
TAP free energy, spin glasses, and variational inference
Zhou Fan, Song Mei, Andrea Montanari
We consider the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses with ferromagnetically biased couplings. For a specific choice of the couplings mean, the resulting Gibbs measure is e…
stat.ML2018★ 517 cited
A Mean Field View of the Landscape of Two-Layers Neural Networks
Song Mei, Andrea Montanari, Phan-Minh Nguyen
Multi-layer neural networks are among the most powerful models in machine learning, yet the fundamental reasons for this success defy mathematical understanding. Learning a neural…