Lars Holdijk

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@HoldijkLars

Machine Learning for (comp/bio) chemistry @UniOfOxford | prev. @UvA_Amsterdam, @UnivGroningen

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Lars Holdijk @HoldijkLars Jul 9

Our book on Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics is out this month. @wellingmax, @sirui_lu97 and I have been posting about some interesting topics it covers.

Today we have my favourite animations yet, and some groundwork for the coming days: five related Markov kernels.

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Lars Holdijk @HoldijkLars Aug 9

Great new paper from Sandeep Cranganore, Sebastian Lehner, @jo_brandstetter and @wellingmax!

Very nice perspective on escorting fields for finite-time driving! Sandeep shows that you can just read them off the FP generator's spectrum, at any speed!

arxiv.org/abs/2607.24393

arxiv.org Stochastic Counterdiabatic Driving via Biorthogonal Liouvillian Eigenmodes Finite-time driving of stochastic systems generates excess dissipation, causing the evolving probability distribution to lag behind the instantaneous equilibrium, and consequently degrading the...

Lars Holdijk @HoldijkLars Jul 8

Sirui takes over for day 3: normalizing flows.

Yesterday the ELBO appeared as a free energy with a gap. Today the gap closes, not by better inference but by construction: invertible maps leave nothing unobserved.

Exact likelihoods, for the price of invertibility.

Sirui Lu Verified account @sirui_lu97 Jul 8

Our book "Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics: A Tale of Free Energies" is out this month. With @HoldijkLars and @wellingmax we're posting about topics it covers. Yesterday: the ELBO as a free energy.

Today: normalizing flows. Remove the noise, and the bound becomes exact.

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Lars Holdijk @HoldijkLars Jul 7

Our book "Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics: A Tale of Free Energies" is out this month. With @sirui_lu97 and @wellingmax I'm posting about topics it covers. Yesterday: heat and work in variational EM.

Today: the variational free energy, and why the ELBO is one.

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Lars Holdijk @HoldijkLars Jul 6

Our book "Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics: A Tale of Free Energies" is out this month. Over the coming weeks @sirui_lu97, @wellingmax and I will post about some of the topics it covers.

Starting it off: heat and work in latent variable models and variational EM.

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