
Ali Tajer
Professor, ECSE and CS
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518) 276-8237
3018 Jonsson Engineering Center (JEC)
110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
Information Theory & Coding (High-dimensional Statistics)
Fall 2018
Title | Topic |
|---|---|
Lecture 13 | Bayesian CR lower bound, information bound, local estimators, biased estimators |
Lecture 14 | maximum likelihood estimator, high-dimensional unstructured estimation, bowl-shaped loss |
Lecture 15 | two-point quantization of the estimation problem (LeCam’s method) |
Lecture 16 | two-point per dimension (coordinate) quantization of the estimation problem (Assouad's method) |
Lecture 17 | information-theoretic method to analyzing risk; model capacity, geometric interpretation |
Lecture 18 | Shannon's method, Fano's method |
Lecture 19 | structured high-dimensional estimation, denoising a sparse vector (lower bound) |
Lecture 20 | denoising a sparse vector (upper bound); thresholding schemes for sparse recovery |
Lecture 21 | linear regression and sparse recovery |
Lecture 22 | functional estimation (lower bounds) |
Lecture 23 | functional estimation (upper bounds) |
