Gavin E. Crooks
Exploring the deep connections between thermodynamics, information, and computation.
Berkeley Institute for Technology and Science
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Amica Conference: Thermodynamic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence. March 9-11, 2026, Karuizawa, Japan.
Tech. Note: On Measures of Information and Entropy
A brief overview of information measures on classical, discrete probability distributions.
Tech. Note: Gates, States, and Circuits
Notes on the circuit model of quantum computing. Currently mostly an exposition on the menagerie of quantum gates.
Article: Thermodynamic natural gradient descent
We show that natural gradient descent can have a similar computational complexity per iteration to a first-order method, when employing appropriate hardware.