Fall 2009 NEW Course Announcement: EE 599 --- Large Scale Systems and Message Passing Algorithms
Alexandros G. Dimakis · 2009
Course Description: This course will focus on recent developments for inference in systems with a large number of random variables. The lectures will build up knowledge on: Graphical models for communication, storage and statistical inference. Sparse-Graph Codes. Fountain Codes and Network coding. Belief propagation and linear programming relaxations for hard combinatorial problems. Gossip algorithms. Convergence analysis based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques. Compressed sensing and recovery of sparse signals.