Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics
A Tale of Free Energies
$274.47
- Hardcover
307 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2026
Summary
Originating from lectures delivered at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences, this book presents a unifying perspective on traditional and modern methods in generative AI and stochastic thermodynamics. By relating the core topics in machine learning to the notion of (variational) free-energy, a bridge is built between methods such as latent variable models, variational auto-encoders, optimal control, optimal transport, normalizing flows and diffusion models and concepts such as entro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009709064 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009709062 |
| Author: | Max Welling, Sirui Lu, Lars Holdijk |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 307 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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Max Welling
Authors
Max Welling is Full Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam. He is co-founder and CTO of the startup CuspAI. Professor Welling is a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences and was the recipient of the ECCV Koenderink Prize in 2010 and the ICML Test of Time award in 2021.
Sirui Lu is Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany. His research directions are the deep integration between (quantum) physics and artificial intelligence. Previously, he obtained his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Lars Holdijk is Ph.D. student at the University of Oxford. His research focusses on the intersection of Generative Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biochemistry and Statistical Physics.
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