- Series
- Stochastics Seminar
- Time
- Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Gabor Lugosi – Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona – gabor.lugosi@gmail.com
- Organizer
- Vladimir Koltchinskii
In these lectures we discuss some statistical problems with an interesting combinatorial structure behind. We start by reviewing the "hidden clique" problem, a simple prototypical example with a surprisingly rich structure. We also discuss various "combinatorial" testing problems and their connections to high-dimensional random geometric graphs. Time permitting, we study the problem of estimating the mean of a random variable