Singular Learning#

Some personal resources for understanding and applying singular learning theory. For more information, please read the textbook by Sumio Watanabe.

Thesis

Algebraic methods for evaluating integrals in Bayesian statistics

Preprint

Asymptotic approximation of marginal likelihood integrals

Notes

Useful facts about RLCT

Slides

What is singular learning theory?

Slides

Singular Learning Theory: A view from Algebraic Geometry

Slides

Computing resolutions: how and why

Slides

Computing integral asymptotics using toric blow-ups of ideals

Video

Studying model asymptotics with Singular learning theory

Website

Macaulay2 library for computing RLCTs using Newton polyhedra

Motivic Invariants and Singularities#

My slides and problem sets on Singular Learning Theory from the Motivic Invariants and Singularities workshop at the Center for Mathematics at Notre Dame (May 2013).

Statistical Learning Theory

Slides

Problems

Real Log Canonical Threshold

Slides

Problems

Singularities in Graphical Models

Slides

Problems

Blow-ups and Zeta Functions

Notes