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Notices of the American Mathematical Society

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Mathematizing Human Perception

Brett Jefferson

The author aims to encourage mathematicians to learn about and conduct research in the area of cognitive science by walking the reader through the process of utilizing tools and formalism from mathematics to address challenges in perception.

Normalizing Flows Aided Variational Inference: A Useful Alternative to MCMC?

Sumegha Premchandar, Bhattacharya Shrijita and Maiti Tapabrata

This article discusses the use of normalizing flows for variational inference (VI), a method wherein we can approximate and sample from complex probability densities. Normalizing flows are primarily used for modeling continuous distributions and can be used to specify very flexible probability models, thus improving the accuracy of VI algorithms.

Tropical Geometry Forwards and Backwards

Dhruv Ranganathan

This article gives an introduction to the process of tropicalization; discusses the “backwards direction,” i.e., the tropical inverse problem; and sketches how tropicalization, both forwards and backwards, predicts new theorems in traditional algebraic geometry.

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