Communications in Information and Systems

Volume 20 (2020)

Number 3

Mathematical Engineering: A special issue at the occasion of the 85th birthday of Prof. Thomas Kailath

Guest Editors: Ali H. Sayed, Helmut Bölcskei, Patrick Dewilde, Vwani Roychowdhury, and Stephen Shing-Toung Yau

Contents

Preface

pp. 249-251

Extrema without convexity and stability without Lyapunov

Brian D. O. Anderson and Mengbin Ye

pp. 253-281

Data-driven symbol detection via model-based machine learning

Nariman Farsad, Nir Shlezinger, Andrea J. Goldsmith, and Yonina C. Eldar

pp. 283-317

Augment deep BP-parameter learning with local XAI-structural learning

S. Y. Kung and Zejiang Hou

pp. 319-352

Second-order guarantees in centralized, federated and decentralized nonconvex optimization

Stefan Vlaski and Ali H. Sayed

pp. 353-388