ICTS:32734

Information Theory and its applications in Combinatorics and Computation

(2025). Information Theory and its applications in Combinatorics and Computation. SciVideos. https://scivideos.org/index.php/icts-tifr/32734

Information Theory and its applications in Combinatorics and Computation. SciVideos, Sep. 10, 2025, https://scivideos.org/index.php/icts-tifr/32734 

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Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
Talk numberICTS:32734
Source RepositoryICTS-TIFR

Abstract

Relative entropy in statistics

We will more carefully examine relative entropy and its properties, and understand its connections to other distance measures between distributions and its role in statistics.

Key concepts: Stein’s lemma, Sanov’s theorem, Pinsker’s inequality, Fidelity.