Explaining Machine Learning and Memorization with Statistical Mechanics
Artificial neural networks (NNs) and machine learning (ML) algorithms are poorly understood from a theoretical perspective, which makes it difficult to fully realize their potential and overcome their weaknesses. For instance, ML algorithms train NN weights by moving them along a low-dimensional subspace of their allowed values, but this implicitly low-dimensional learning structure is not properly exploited to improve training because its nature is not well understood. Moreover, trained NNs are easily confused by pervasive adversarial attacks whose theoretical underpinnings are still unclear. This thesis aims to improve our theoretical understanding of NNs and ML, with a particular focus on adversarial attacks and implicitly low-dimensional learning. For this purpose, we use mathematical tools from statistical mechanics to study different types of NNs and ways in which they can fit the data. In particular, we study two classes of models that fit the data with various degrees of learning and memorization: dense associative memory (DAM) and restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM). In the process, we investigate connections between different versions of these models that are useful to make analytical investigations more efficient.
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