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Activity Number: 149
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 1, 2016 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: International Chinese Statistical Association
Abstract #318250
Title: Phase Transitions in Semidefinite Programming and Graph Estimation
Author(s): Andrea Montanari*
Companies: Stanford University
Keywords: Graph estimation ; Community detection ; Semidefinite programming ; Computational complexity ; Phase transitions
Abstract:

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is one of the most powerful tools to design efficient estimation algorithms. I will discuss SDP relaxations to several fundamental problems in graph estimation, including community detection, the hidden clique problem and the hidden subgraph problem. It appears that these approaches undergo sharp phase transitions depending on the model parameters. I will present examples in which this phase transition can be characterized precisely.


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