<p>&lt;p&gt;This course introduces some basic theories and algorithms of graphical&amp;amp;nbsp;models and their applications in the Internet, social media, recommendation systems, biology and other fields. This is a course with distinctive interdisciplinary characteristics. Mathematical methods will involve graph theory, generating function, branching process, Bayesian network, factor graph, cavity method, percolation, phase transition, information theory, machine learning,&amp;amp;nbsp;big-data,&amp;amp;nbsp;etc.&lt;/p&gt;</p>