Dor Elimelech

Phase Transitions in the Detection of Correlated Databases

We study the problem of detecting the correlation between two Gaussian databases $\mathsf{X}\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times d}$ and $\mathsf{Y}^{n\times d}$, each composed of $n$ users with $d$ features. This problem is relevant in the analysis of social media, computational biology, etc. We formulate this a…