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What kind of mathematical foundations are required for conducting research across the vast specialised branches of AI/ML/DL? [D] (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by HopeIsGold@alien.top to c/machinelearning@academy.garden

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The absolute basic mathematics that is required to understand basic ML/DL are calculus, linear algebra, probability and some convex optimisation. We are all aware of that.

But ML and DL has become a vast field both in breadth and depth. A single person can't understand the field entirely. There are specialistions and sub-specialisations and further more.

If you work in a branch of ML/DL research where some other math fundamentals are needed to understand research papers and do innovative research, can you mention your field of work and the math fundamentals that are required to gain entry into your field?

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[–] patrickkidger@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I do scientific machine learning, with a particular focus on numerical methods and computational biology.

The other big piece of fundamental mathematics needed is differential equations -- ODEs at least, but ideally also SDEs+PDEs+numerics. (Soapbox moment: I find it kind of unusual how poorly this is taught outside of math/engineering courses, given that it's easily the single most successful modelling paradigm of the past few century.)

Just Know Stuff also has a short list of things I consider worth knowing.

[–] Desmack1@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What about automatic differentiation too!

[–] KingRandomGuy@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

This isn't really a fundamental piece of mathematics, it's just an algorithm built on the chain rule.

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