"Paper: Yuchen Zhang, John C Duchi, Michael I Jordan, Martin J Wainwright, Information-theoretic lower bounds for distributed statistical estimation with communication constraints"

Over the past few decades, probabilistic models have become an important tool for under-standing risks and decision making in practical financial systems.

A p-random restriction is a random partial input obtained by independently leaving each input variable unset with probability p setting them to either 0,1 with (1-p)/2 each.

In this talk, we will discuss the following problems.