The reading club will follow the following monograph by Cheuk Ting Li, available here (Li, 2024):
Channel Simulation: Theory and Applications to Lossy Compression and Differential Privacy
Foundations and Trends® in Communications and Information Theory, 2024
Prerequisite: an introductory course on information theory should be enough.
All weekly meetings will be held online.
Interested in joining? Send an email to ali.zafari@rutgers.edu
Next Meeting
🗓️ Date: August 28, 2025
🧑🏫 Led by: Ali
📖 Reading: Section 3.3 (Exponential and Poisson Functional Representation)
Scheduled Meetings
🗓️ Date: Sep 4, 2025
🧑🏫 Led by: Hoang
📖 Reading: Sections 3.4 (Likelihood Encoder and Minimal Random Coding) and 3.5 (Discussions on Sampling Schemes)
🗓️ Date: Sep 11, 2025
🧑🏫 Led by: Nam
📖 Reading: Sections 3.6 (Subtractively Dithered Quantization and Universal
Quantization) and 3.7 (Exact Fixed-Length Channel Simulation)
Past Meetings
🗓️ Date: August 14, 2025 - 9-10 PM
🧑🏫 Led by: Ali
📖 Reading: Section 3.2 (Rejection Sampling) [notes]
🗓️ Date: July 31, 2025 - 9-10 PM
🧑🏫 Led by: Ali
📖 Reading: Sections 3.1 (Functional Representation Lemma) [notes]
🗓️ Date: July 24, 2025 - 9-10 PM
🧑🏫 Led by: Everyone
📖 Reading: Chapter 2 (The Channel Simulation Setting)
🗓️ Date: July 18, 2025 - 4:30-5 PM
🧑🏫 Led by: -
📖 Reading: Chapter 1 (Channel Simulation: Introduction and Motivation)