Machine learning and data analysis are becoming increasingly central in sciences including physics. In this course, fundamental principles and methods of machine learning will be introduced and practised. ...
The students understand tools from the statistical physics of disordered systems, and apply them to study computational and statistical problems in graph theory, discrete optimisation, inference and machine learning. ...
The class covers topics related to statistical inference and algorithms on graphs: basic random graphs concepts, thresholds, subgraph containment (planted clique), connectivity, broadcasting on trees, stochastic block models and perceptron models. Requirem ...
The classical distinction between polynomial time solvable and NP-hard problems is often too coarse. This course covers techniques for proving more fine-grained lower and upper bounds on complexity of computational problems. ...