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Geometric Structures of Statistical Physics, Information Geometry, and Learning

SPIGL'20, Les Houches, France, July 27–31

  • Provides new geometric foundations of inference in machine learning based on statistical physics
  • Deepens mathematical physics models with new insights from statistical machine learning
  • Combines numerical schemes from geometric integrators in physics with intrinsic machine learning inference

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Part I: Tribute to Jean-Marie Souriau Seminal Works

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Structure des Systèmes Dynamiques Jean-Marie Souriau’s Book 50th Birthday

      • Géry de Saxcé, Charles-Michel Marle
      Pages 3-11
  3. Part II: Lie Group Geometry and Diffeological Model of Statistical Physics and Information Geometry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
    2. Galilean Thermodynamics of Continua

      • Géry de Saxcé
      Pages 107-119
    3. Nonparametric Estimations and the Diffeological Fisher Metric

      • Hông Vân Lê, Alexey A. Tuzhilin
      Pages 120-138
  4. Part III: Advanced Geometrical Models of Statistical Manifolds in Information Geometry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
    2. Relevant Differential Topology in Statistical Manifolds

      • Michel Nguiffo-Boyom
      Pages 154-178
    3. Quasiconvex Jensen Divergences and Quasiconvex Bregman Divergences

      • Frank Nielsen, Gaëtan Hadjeres
      Pages 196-218
  5. Part IV: Geometric Structures of Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Inference for Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
    2. Dirac Structures and Variational Formulation of Thermodynamics for Open Systems

      • Hiroaki Yoshimura, François Gay-Balmaz
      Pages 221-246
    3. The Geometry of Some Thermodynamic Systems

      • Alexandre Anahory Simoes, David Martín de Diego, Manuel Lainz Valcázar, Manuel de León
      Pages 247-275
    4. Learning Physics from Data: A Thermodynamic Interpretation

      • Francisco Chinesta, Elías Cueto, Miroslav Grmela, Beatriz Moya, Michal Pavelka, Martin Šípka
      Pages 276-297
    5. Computational Dynamics of Reduced Coupled Multibody-Fluid System in Lie Group Setting

      • Zdravko Terze, Viktor Pandža, Marijan Andrić, Dario Zlatar
      Pages 298-307

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About this book

Machine learning and artificial intelligence increasingly use methodological tools rooted in statistical physics. Conversely, limitations and pitfalls encountered in AI question the very foundations of statistical physics. This interplay between AI and statistical physics has been attested since the birth of AI, and principles underpinning statistical physics can shed new light on the conceptual basis of AI. During the last fifty years, statistical physics has been investigated through new geometric structures allowing covariant formalization of the thermodynamics. Inference methods in machine learning have begun to adapt these new geometric structures to process data in more abstract representation spaces.

This volume collects selected contributions on the interplay of statistical physics and artificial intelligence. The aim is to provide a constructive dialogue around a common foundation to allow the establishment of new principles and laws governing these two disciplines in a unified manner. The contributions were presented at the workshop on the Joint Structures and Common Foundation of Statistical Physics, Information Geometry and Inference for Learning which was held in Les Houches in July 2020. The various theoretical approaches are discussed in the context of potential applications in cognitive systems, machine learning, signal processing.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Thales Land & Air Systems, Technical Directorate, Thales, Limours, France

    Frédéric Barbaresco

  • Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Tokyo, Japan

    Frank Nielsen

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