Event time:
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 4:00pm
Location:
LOM 215
Speaker:
Elchanan Mossel
Speaker affiliation:
MIT
Event description:
Abstract: Belief Propagation on trees is a Deceptively Simple Inference Procedure.
Professor Mossel will discuss some mathematical aspects of the analysis of Belief Propagation, in particular in connection with the theory of dilute spin-glasses and the theory of zeta functions on graphs as well as inference applications for problems in network clustering and evolutionary inference.