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CC = Vancouver Convention Centre
F = Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver
* = applied session ! = JSM meeting theme
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146 !
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Mon, 7/30/2018,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
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CC-West 119
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Statistical Physics, Information Theory, and Statistics — Invited Papers
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IMS, IEEE Computer Society
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Organizer(s): Guy Bresler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Chair(s): Guy Bresler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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10:35 AM
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EM Algorithm Achieves the Near-Optimal Rate for Two-Component Symmetric Gaussian Mixtures in $O(\Sqrt{N})$ Iterations
Yihong Wu, Yale
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11:00 AM
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Additivity of Information in Multilayer Networks via Additive Gaussian Noise Transforms
Galen Reeves, Duke University
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11:25 AM
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Exact Recovery in the Ising Blockmodel
Quentin Berthet, University of Cambridge
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11:50 AM
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Covering Probability Simplex with Divergence Balls
Yuri Polyanskiy, MIT
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12:15 PM
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Floor Discussion
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