Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics: A Tale of Free Energies - Hardcover

Max Welling , Sirui Lu , Lars Holdijk

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009709062 ISBN 13: 9781009709064

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

A timely text providing a unifying perspective on the mathematics of generative AI and stochastic thermodynamics.

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About the Authors

Max Welling is Full Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam. He is co-founder and CTO of the startup CuspAI. Professor Welling is a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences and was the recipient of the ECCV Koenderink Prize in 2010 and the ICML Test of Time award in 2021.

Sirui Lu is Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany. His research directions are the deep integration between (quantum) physics and artificial intelligence. Previously, he obtained his bachelor's degree from the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Lars Holdijk is Ph.D. student at the University of Oxford. His research focusses on the intersection of Generative Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biochemistry and Statistical Physics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009709062
• ISBN 13: 9781009709064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307