Timeline for Information theory and convex optimization
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| Apr 29, 2015 at 10:00 | answer | added | kodlu | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 5:47 | comment | added | luegofuego | A slightly more mundane example might be when we were asked to prove the convexity of the rate distortion function, which is a one line proof if you recall some properties of infimums over convex sets etc. | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 5:44 | comment | added | luegofuego | Well, as one of many examples, we were talking about saddle point properties of the channel capacity. I believe it's called the KL divergence minmax formulation or something. It's covered fairly well in the Polyanskiy notes I mentioned above. What struck me is that it seemed to be exactly a re-statement of Lagrangian relaxation/duality in a different context. | |
| S Apr 28, 2015 at 22:09 | history | suggested | argentpepper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2015 at 21:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCSTheory/status/593168876801814528 | ||
| Apr 28, 2015 at 21:22 | comment | added | kodlu | Can you give an example of such "elegance and intuition" in another context? | |
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| Apr 28, 2015 at 11:53 | history | asked | luegofuego | CC BY-SA 3.0 |