Robust Hypothesis Testing with a Relative Entropy Tolerance

Speaker:
Malhar Ajit Managoli
Organiser:
Shanthanu Suresh Rai
Date:
Friday, 20 Sep 2024, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Abstract

The classical hypothesis testing problem involves, given n samples, to decide whether they were sampled from a distribution p or distribution q. Here we consider the case when the actual distributions p and q are unknown; it is only known p is close to p_0 and q to q_0 (in KL divergence sense). We will find the optimal test, optimal probability of error and the worst case distribution, for certain types of p_0,q_0.

Based on a paper with the same title by Bernard Levy.