Information Theory: BasicsCovers the basics of information theory, entropy, and fixed points in graph colorings and the Ising model.
Stochastic Block ModelCovers the Stochastic Block Model and its application in community detection, exploring its mathematical formulation and challenges.
Szemerédi Regularity LemmaExplores the Szemerédi Regularity Lemma, e-regularity in bipartite graphs, supergraph structure, and induction techniques.
Polynomial Identity TestingCovers polynomial identity testing using oracles and random point evaluation, with applications in graph theory and algorithmic aspects.
Sparsest Cut: ARV TheoremCovers the proof of the Bourgain's ARV Theorem, focusing on the finite set of points in a semi-metric space and the application of the ARV algorithm to find the sparsest cut in a graph.
Belief PropagationExplores Belief Propagation in graphical models, factor graphs, spin glass examples, Boltzmann distributions, and graph coloring properties.