{"id":47151,"date":"2023-12-20T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T20:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=47151"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:44:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T20:44:01","slug":"ams-weekly-seminar-professor-cristopher-moore","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/event\/ams-weekly-seminar-professor-cristopher-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"AMS Weekly Seminar | Professor Cristopher Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Olin 305<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> March 14th\u00a0at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> The physics of inference, phase transitions, and community detection<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> There is a deep analogy between Bayesian inference and statistical physics. When we fit a model to noisy data, we can think about the landscape of possible models, and look for phase transitions where the ground truth suddenly gets lost in this landscape \u2014 either because of \u201cheat\u201d or noise, or because of dynamics where the accurate states are hidden behind an &#8220;energy barrier\u201d and thus take exponential time to find. I\u2019ll use this framework to describe phase transitions in community detection in networks, where communities suddenly become hard or impossible to find. If time permits, I\u2019ll discuss related spectral algorithms, and give a hint of similar phase transitions in other inference problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoom link:<\/strong> https:\/\/wse.zoom.us\/j\/94601022340<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Olin 305 When: March 14th\u00a0at 1:30 p.m. Title: The physics of inference, phase transitions, and community detection Abstract: There is a deep analogy between Bayesian inference and statistical 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