Miriam Klopotek

Interpreting learning dynamics of autoencoders: Transient scaling and emerging concepts of the Ising model

Max Weinmann, Miriam Klopotek

We study how unsupervised autoencoders trained on microscopic spin configurations from the Ising model learn macroscopic, theory-relevant variables underlying the data-generating process. Without embedding domain knowledge, we mimic a typical discovery setting: We quantify learni…Read more