随机算法 (Spring 2014)

随机算法
Randomized Algorithms

Instructor
尹一通
Email	yitong.yin@gmail.com yinyt@nju.edu.cn
office	计算机系 804
Class
Class meetings	Tuesday, 10am-12pm 仙 I-101
Office hours	Wednesday, 2-4pm 计算机系 804
Textbooks
Motwani and Raghavan. Randomized Algorithms. Cambridge Univ Press, 1995.
Mitzenmacher and Upfal. Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis. Cambridge Univ Press, 2005.

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Course info

• Instructor : 尹一通，

• email: yitong.yin@gmail.com, yinyt@nju.edu.cn
• office: 计算机系 804.

• Class meeting: Tuesday 10am-12pm, 仙 I-101.
• Office hour: Wednesday 2-4pm, 计算机系 804.

Syllabus

先修课程 Prerequisites

• 必须：离散数学，概率论，线性代数。
• 推荐：算法设计与分析。

Course materials

• 教材和参考书

成绩 Grades

• 课程成绩：本课程将会有若干次作业和一次期末考试。最终成绩将由平时作业成绩和期末考试成绩综合得出。
• 迟交：如果有特殊的理由，无法按时完成作业，请提前联系授课老师，给出正当理由。否则迟交的作业将不被接受。

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Lecture Notes

1. Introduction and Probability Space: checking matrix multiplication, polynomial identity testing
2. Conditional Probability: polynomial identity testing, min-cut
3. Random Variables and Expectations: random quicksort, balls and bins
4. Moment and Deviation: stable marriage, Markov's inequality, Chebyshev's inequality, median selection
5. Threshold and Concentration: random graphs, threshold phenomenon, Chernoff bound
6. Applications of Chernoff Bound: error reduction, set balancing, packet routing
7. Concentration of Measure: martingales, Azuma's inequality, Doob martingales, chromatic number of random graphs
8. Random Projection: Johnson-Lindenstrauss Theorem
9. Universal Hashing: [math]\displaystyle{ k }[/math]-wise independence, universal hash families, perfect hashing
10. The Probabilistic Method: MAX-SAT, conditional probability method, Lovász Local Lemma
11. Markov Chain and Random Walk: Markov chain, random walk, stationary distribution, convergence of Markov chain, hitting/cover time
12. Mixing Time and Coupling: mixing time, coupling lemma, coupling of Markov chain, rapid mixing by coupling
13. Expander Graphs and Mixing: expander graphs, graph spectrum, spectral gap, Cheeger's inequality, rapid mixing of expander walk
14. Sampling and Counting

The Probability Theory Toolkit

• Probability space and probability axioms
• Independent events
• Conditional probability
• Random variable and expectation
• Linearity of expectation
• The law of total probability and the law of total expectation
• The union bound
• Bernoulli trials
• Geometric distribution
• Binomial distribution
• Markov's inequality
• Variance and covariance
• Chebyshev's inequality
• Chernoff bound
• Martingale
• Azuma's inequality and Hoeffding's inequality
• Doob martingale
• k-wise independence
• The probabilistic method
• The Lovász local lemma and the algorithmic Lovász local lemma
• Markov chain:

reducibility, Periodicity, stationary distribution, hitting time, cover time;

mixing time, conductance