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Contents
This course will be an introduction to the latest cutting-edge topics in information and coding theory, including coding techniques and information theoretic metohds for communication, storage, and computation. The content of the most recent edition of this course is: Review MDS codes and relation to polynomials. Introduction to straggler mitigation using coded computation. Reducing communication bandwidth through coded data shuffling. Distributed matrix multiplication using entangled polynomial codes, PolyDot codes, MatDot codes and product codes. Coded gradient descent using fractional repetition codes, MDS codes, expander graphs and overcomplete representations.