This episode covers the relationship between Curriculum Learning and AutoML with Lucas Nildaimon dos Santos Silva.

Lucas is a data scientist at americanas s.a., in Brazil, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science from the Federal University of São Carlos where he also did his master’s. He’s researching machine learning and NLP and has recently published a paper on Curriculum Learning in AutoML systems, found below.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9680164

In this episode, we explore the relationship between Machine Learning and Statistical Mechanics with the guidance of Alia Abbara. This conversation centers around her PhD dissertation and we cover such topics as the relationship between statistics and physics,  the long legacy of physics on machine learning, and the role of physical intuition in the future of machine learning.

Find her original paper here: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03497407/document