Shell theory: A statistical model of reality

• Main Authors: LIN, Wen-yan, LIU, Siying, REN, Changhao, CHEUNG, Ngai-Man, LI, Hongdong, MATSUSHITA, Yasuyuki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Semantics; Mathematical model; Machine learning; Random variables; Manifolds; Machine learning algorithms; Prediction algorithms; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6222; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7225/viewcontent/again27.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Machine learning's grand ambition is the mathematical modeling of reality. The recent years have seen major advances using deep-learned techniques that model reality implicitly; however, corresponding advances in explicit mathematical models have been noticeably lacking. We believe this dichoto...