Prerequisites

In this section, we review the material from:

• Hastie, James, Tibshirani, and Witten, An Introduction to Statistical Learning, 2023, first 3 chapters

• Bach, Learning Theory from First Principles, 2025, first 3 chapters

• Chapter 24 of Spin Glass Theory and Far Beyond, 2023, “Neural Networks: From the Perceptron to Deep Nets”

Statistical Learning Theory Prerequisites¶

Machine Learning Prerequisites¶

Neural Network Prerequisites¶

We now draw from Chapter 24 of Spin Glass Theory and Far Beyond.