TherML: Thermodynamics of Machine Learning
arXiv:1807.04162v335 citations
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This work offers a foundational perspective for researchers in machine learning, potentially impacting how objectives are designed and analyzed across the field.
The authors introduced TherML, a framework that establishes a formal correspondence between thermodynamics and a broad class of machine learning objectives, aiming to provide a unified way to reason about these objectives.
In this work we offer a framework for reasoning about a wide class of existing objectives in machine learning. We develop a formal correspondence between this work and thermodynamics and discuss its implications.