Concentration Inequalities at IISc Bangalore

The Concentration inequalities online course is an 8 weeks program offered by Swayam, the government of India’s education ministry initiative. It is generally known that functions containing a large number of unpredictable integers act more predictably and less arbitrarily than their components.

Top-notch faculty from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore delivers the Concentration inequalities classes lectures. The course also provides candidates with a government-approved certificate via Swayam, Candidates must register and take the proctored in-person exam offered by the course provider at one of the approved testing centres which costs Rs 1000.

This graduate-level Concentration inequalities training on concentration inequalities addresses the fundamentals of the subject while also introducing advanced themes and approaches. Applications from computer science, electrical engineering, and statistics will be used to demonstrate the utility of the derived inequalities. 

The Concentration inequalities syllabus covers the following topics:

• Chernoff bounds: Hoeffding’s inequality, Bennett’s inequality, Bernstein’s inequality
• Introduction & motivation: Limit results and concentration bounds
• Variance bounds: Efron-Stein inequality, Poincáre inequality
• Isoperimetric inequalities
• The transportation method
• The entropy method and log Sobolev inequality
• Other special topics