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Information, Compression, Learning, Life
Presenter(s)
UC San Diego
2021 Shannon Lecture
Alon Orlitsky
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Topic
Shannon Lecture
Date
Abstract
Over the past two decades, our research group has applied information-theoretic ideas, concepts, and techniques to diverse areas of machine learning and data science. This expository presentation follows our journey from compression, to estimation, structure exploitation, functional approximation, classification, and robust and reinforcement learning, with a few life lessons learned along the way.