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Semester:
- 2020 Autumn/Monsoon (Sept - Jan)
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Syllabus:
- Introduction to the Fourier representation for Boolean functions
- Application to linearity testing, and Hastad's 3-bit PCP
- Voting theory and Arrow's theorem
- Learning algorithms from spectral concentration
- Goldreich-Levin theorem from the Fourier perspective
- Hardness amplification
- Hypercontractivity, FKN Theorem, and the KKL Theorem
- Fourier analysis on the biased hypercube and applications
- Invariance principles and the Berry-Essen theorem
- Roth's theorem on 3-term APs over integers