Special Seminar in Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes

Example of a low density parity check code graph.

Illustration of erasure decoding for an LDPC code graph fragment. (Image courtesy of Emin Martinian. Used with permission.)

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MIT Course Number

15.098

As Taught In

Spring 2006

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Description

This seminar is intended for doctoral students and discusses topics in applied probability. This semester includes a variety of fields, namely statistical physics (local weak convergence and correlation decay), artificial intelligence (belief propagation algorithms), computer science (random K-SAT problem, coloring, average case complexity) and electrical engineering (low density parity check (LDPC) codes).

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David Gamarnik, and Devavrat Shah. 15.098 Special Seminar in Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes. Spring 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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