Tutorials on Ising models and Boltzmann machines

Here I compile some introductory materials to Botlzmann machines and Ising models aimed for students.

Botlzmann machines

• An introduction to Boltmzann machines by Geoffrey Hinton.
• Some video lectures from this old course on neural networks (from video 11a onwards) also by Geoffrey Hinton.

Ising models

• Chapter 31 of this book from David MacKay.
• An introduction by Simon DeDeo.
• An introduction by Barry Cipra.
• A video lecture by Leonard Susskind.
• Chapter 1 of this book by Hidetoshi Nishimori on mean-field approximations.

Applications

• Machine learning Ising models to capture phase transitions in real neural networks, paper and video lecture by William Bialek and Thierry Mora.
• Ising Models for Inferring Network Structure From Spike Data, paper and review article by Yasser Roudi, John Hertz, Joanna Tyrcha and Benjamin Dunn.