· Day 1 - Sunday, Nov. 24 |
8:00 - 18:00 | Registration Desk | 1F, Lobby |
8:30 - 11:50 | Morning Parallel Tutorial Session |
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| Tutorial 1：Converse Techniques for Identification: A Cutting-Edge Example of Goal-Oriented Communication Christian Deppe (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany), Wafa Labidi (Technische Universität Braunschweig and Technical University of Munich, Germany), Johannes Rosenberger (Technical University of Munich, Germany) and Shun Watanabe (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) Tutorial 2：Characterizing the Generalization Error of Machine Learning Algorithms Via Information Measures Gholamali Aminian (The Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdom, Great Britain), Yuheng Bu (University of Florida, United States), Iñaki Esnaola(The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Great Britain) and Samir M. Perlaza (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France) (Coffee Break 10:00-10:20) | 3F, Meeting room 1
3F, Meeting room 2 |
12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 17:20 | Afternoon Parallel Tutorial Session |
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| Tutorial 1：Unraveling Contagion Origins: Mathematical Analysis, Network Algorithms and Applications to Epidemics and Infodemics Chee Wei TAN (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tutorial 2：Theory on Training Dynamics of Transformers Yingbin Liang (The Ohio State University, United States) (Coffee Break 15:30 - 15:50) | 3F, Meeting room 1
3F, Meeting room 2 |
18:00 - 20:00 | Welcome Reception | 5F, Xuefu Room B |
· Day 2 - Monday, Nov. 25 |
8:00 - 18:00 | Registration Desk | 1F, Lobby |
8:00 - 8:20 | Opening Ceremony | 3F, Junior Ballroom |
8:20 - 9:30 | Plenary Speaker 1: Aaron B. Wagner, Professor, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University Title: Beyond Dithered Quantization: Optimal Redundancy and Practical Codes for Exact Channel Synthesis | 3F, Junior Ballroom
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9:40 - 11:00 | Morning Parallel Technical Session A: |
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| MA1: Coding Theory 1 Session Chair: Linqi Song (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China) Linear-Function Correcting Codes Rohit Premlal and B. Sundar Rajan, Indian Institute of Science, India
On the Hermitian Hulls of Two-Point Algebraic Geometry Codes Lin Sok and Martianus Frederic Ezerman, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; San Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
New Cauchy MDS Array Codes With Flexible Sub-packetization and Efficient Decoding Peikai Li, Shenzhen University, China; Jingjie Lv, Dongguan University of Technology, China; Linqi Song, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Li Zhang, Shenzhen University, China; Hanxu Hou, Dongguan University of Technology, China
Pliable Index Coding with Restricted Decoding Sets Junping Wu, University of Newcastle, Australia; Lawrence Ong, The University of Newcastle, Australia; Sarah J Johnson and Jin Yeong Tan, University of Newcastle, Australia | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| MA2: Security, Privacy, Fairness 1 Session Chair: Mahtab Mirmohseni (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) Physical-Layer Security for MIMO Visible Light Communication Wiretap Channel Sufang Yang, Tsinghua University, China; Longguang Li, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; Jintao Wang, Tsinghua University, China
On Information Theoretic Fairness: Compressed Representations With Perfect Demographic Parity Amirreza Zamani, Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez and Mikael Skoglund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Secure Semantic Communication over Wiretap Channel Denis Kozlov, Mahtab Mirmohseni and Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, Great Britain
On Local Mutual-Information Privacy Khac-Hoang Ngo, Linköping University, Sweden; Johan Östman, AI Sweden, Sweden; Alexandre Graell i Amat, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden | 3F, Junior Ballroom |
| MA3: Hypothesis Testing 1 Session Chair: Lin Zhou (Beihang University, China) Large Deviations for Outlier Hypothesis Testing of Continuous Sequences Lina Zhu, Hangdian University, China; Lin Zhou, Beihang University, China
One-Shot Achievability Region for Hypothesis Testing with Communication Constraint Yuanxin Guo, Sadaf Salehkalaibar, Stark Draper and Wei Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Large Deviations for Outlier Hypothesis Testing with Distribution Uncertainty Xiaotian Zhang, Jun Diao and Lin Zhou, Beihang University, China
Covering Codes as Near-Optimal Quantizers for Distributed Hypothesis Testing against Independence Fatemeh Khaledian and Reza Asvadi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran; Elsa Dupraz , IMT Atlantique, France; Tad Matsumoto, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, France & IMT-Atlantic, Brest, France | 3F, Meeting Room 2 |
11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break Area |
11:20 - 12:40
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| MB1: Coded Caching 1 Session Chair: Qinyi Lu (Southeast University, China) Demand Private Coded Caching: the Two-File Case Qinyi Lu, Nan Liu and Wei Kang, Southeast University, China
Optimal Memory-Rate Tradeoff for Secure Multi-Access Coded Caching: the Case of Largest Access Number Han Fang, Qinyi Lu, Nan Liu and Wei Kang, Southeast University, China
On the Regret of Coded Caching with Adversarial Requests Anupam Nayak, IIT Bombay, India; Srinivas Reddy Kota, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India; Nikhil Karamchandani, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Coded Caching for Hierarchical Two-Layer Multi-Access Networks with Low Coding Delay Rajlaxmi Pandey, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; B. Sundar Rajan , Indian Institute of Science, India | 3F, Meeting Room 2
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| MB2: Compression 1 Session Chair: Xinyang Li (Technical University of Munich, Germany) An Achievable Rate-Distortion Region for Joint State and Message Communication over Multiple Access Channels Xinyang Li, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Vlad Costin Andrei, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Ullrich J Mönich, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Holger Boche, Technical University Munich, Germany
Multi-terminal Strong Coordination with Degraded Source Observations Viswanathan Ramachandran, Tobias J. Oechtering and Mikael Skoglund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Revisiting Distributed Source Coding for Efficient Downlink Transmission in Coded Edge Computing Rong Hu, Wuhan University & Wuhan, China; Xiaofan He, Wuhan University, China
Optimal Sampling for Uncertainty-of-Information Minimization in a Remote Monitoring System Xiaomeng Chen and Aimin Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China; Shaohua Wu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China | 3F, Junior Ballroom |
| MB3: Age of Information Session Chair: Aimin Li (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China) Sampling to Achieve the Goal: An Age-aware Remote Markov Decision Process Aimin Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China; Shaohua Wu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Gary C. F. Lee, Institute for Infocomm Research & Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore; Xiaomeng Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China; Sumei Sun, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Information Freshness in Random Access Networks with Energy Harvesting Shuyu Xiao, Xinghua Sun, Wen Zhan and Xijun Wang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Timely Offloading in Mobile Edge Cloud Systems Nitya Sathyavageeswaran, Roy Yates and Anand D. Sarwate, Rutgers University,United States; Narayan Mandayam, WINLAB, Rutgers University,United States
Age of Information in Multi-Source Broadcast Channel Subhankar Banerjee and Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland,United States | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
12:40 - 14:10 | Lunch Break | 1F, Xili Kitchen |
14:10 - 15:30 | Afternoon Parallel Technical Session C: |
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| MC1: Network Information Theory 1 Session Chair: Yanlin Geng (State Key Lab. of ISN, Xidian University, China) Wireless MapReduce Arrays for Coded Distributed Computing Elizabath Peter, K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri and B. Sundar Rajan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Capacity Bounds of Broadcast Channel With a Full-Duplex Base-User Pair Yanlin Geng, State Key Lab. of ISN, Xidian University, China; Xueyan Niu, Theory Lab, Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong SAR, China; Bo Bai, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong SAR, China; Wei Han, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, Hong Kong SAR, China
Variable-Length Feedback Codes over Known and Unknown Channels with Non-vanishing Error Probabilities Recep Can Yavas, National University of Singapore & CNRS at CREATE, United States; Vincent Y. F. Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Finite Field Multiple Access for Sourced Massive Random Access with Finite Blocklength Qi-yue Yu and Shi-wen Lin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Shu Lin, UC Davis, United States | 3F, Meeting Room 1
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| MC2: Security, Privacy, Fairness 2 Session Chair: Yanxiao Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China) One-Shot Information Hiding Yanxiao Liu and Cheuk Ting Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Secure Summation with User Selection and Collusion Yizhou Zhao, Southwest University, China; Hua Sun, University of North Texas,United States
Common information in well-mixing graphs and applications to information-theoretic cryptography Andrei Romashchenko, LIRMM, CNRS & University Montpellier 2 & The Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS, France; Geoffroy Caillat-Grenier , LIRMM, Univ Montpellier and CNRS, France; Rustam Zyavgarov, Moscow State Univ, Russia
Reducing Ciphertext and Key Sizes for MLWE-Based Cryptosystems Georg Maringer, Technische Universität München, Germany; Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Technical University of Munich, TUM, Germany | 3F, Meeting Room 2 |
15:30 - 15:50 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break Area |
15:50 - 17:30 | Afternoon Parallel Technical Session D: |
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| MD1: Coding Theory 2 Session Chair: Lev Tauz (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Theoretical Bounds for the Size of Elementary Trapping Sets by Graph Theory Methods Haoran Xiong and Zicheng Ye, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, China; Huazi Zhang, Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China; Jun Wang, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China; Ke Liu, Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd., China; Dawei Yin and Guanghui Wang, Shandong University, China; Guiying Yan and Zhiming Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Explicit Constructions of Girth-Eight QC-LDPC Codes: A Unified Framework Motivated by TDGS Guohua Zhang, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Yulin Hu, Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Defeng Ren, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Yi Fang, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Block-MDS QC-LDPC Codes with Application to High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution with Energy-Time Entanglement Lev Tauz and Debarnab Mitra, University of California, Los Angeles,United States; Murat Can Sarihan, University of California Los Angeles,United States; Jayanth Shreekumar, University of California, Los Angeles,United States; Lara Dolecek, UCLA,United States; Chee Wei Wong, University of California Los Angeles,United States
Entanglement-assisted Quasi-cyclic LDPC codes Pavan Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India; Abhi Kumar Sharma and Shayan Garani, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Practical Coding Schemes based on LDPC Codes for Distributed Parametric Regression Jiahui Wei, INSA Rennes & IMT-Atlantique, France; Elsa Dupraz , IMT Atlantique, France; Philippe Mary, Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR, France | 3F, Meeting Room 1
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| MD2: Federated Learning Session Chair: Chee Wei Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) A Communication-Efficient Semi-Decentralized Approach for Federated Learning with Stragglers Chengxi Li, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Ming Xiao, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Mikael Skoglund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
FedUHB: Accelerating Federated Unlearning via Polyak Heavy Ball Method Yu Jiang, Chee Wei Tan and Kwok-Yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Federated Learning Meets Network Coding: Efficient Coded Hierarchical Federated Learning Tianli Gao, Jiahong Lin and Congduan Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China; Chee Wei Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Jun Gao, China Unicom Online Information Technology Co.Ltd, China
Byzantine-Resilient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning Without Privacy Compromises Yue Xia, Christoph Hofmeister, Maximilian Egger and Rawad Bitar, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Network Function Computation for Vector Linear Functions
Qin Zhou, Nankai University & Chern Institute of Mathematics and LPMC, China; Fang-Wei Fu, Nankai University, China | 3F, Meeting Room 2 |
17:40 - 18:40 | Ning Cai Memorial Session | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
17:40-17:50 | Masahito Hayashi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen/International Quantum Academy/Nagoya University) |
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17:50-18:00 | Photo Slide and Video Letter Show |
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18:00-18:10 | Qi Cao (Xidian University) |
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18:10-18:20 | Xuan Guang (Nankai University) |
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18:20-18:30 | Yanlin Geng (Xidian University) |
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· Day 3 - Tuesday, Nov. 26 |
8:00 - 18:00 | Registration Desk | 1F, Lobby |
8:20 - 9:30 | Plenary Speaker 2: Prakash Narayan, Professor, University of Maryland, College Park Title: Shared Information | 3F, Junior Ballroom
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9:40 - 11:00 | Morning Parallel Technical Session A: |
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| TA1: Coding Theory 3 Session Chair: Bo Bai (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong SAR, China) Rack-aware Minimum-Storage Regenerating Codes with Optimal Access for Consecutive Node Failures Jiaojiao Wang and Xun Guan, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China
Weight Distributions of Two Classes of Optimal \((r, \delta)\)-Locally Repairable Codes Yao Tian, Hengfeng Jin and Fang-Wei Fu, Nankai University, China
On the I/O Cost of Linear Repair Schemes for Arbitrary $(n, k)$ Reed-Solomon Codes Wenhao Liu, Zhengyi Jiang and Zhongyi Huang, Tsinghua University, China; Linqi Song, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Hanxu Hou , Dongguan University of Technology, China
Conjugate-Piggybacking Codes: MDS Array Codes with Lower Repair Bandwidth over Small Field Size Hao Shi, Zhengyi Jiang and Zhongyi Huang, Tsinghua University, China; Bo Bai, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong SAR, China; Gong Zhang , Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China; Hanxu Hou , Huawei Technology Limited Company, Hong Kong SAR, China | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| TA2: Statistics and Learning Theory 1 Session Chair: Congduan Li (Sun Yat-sen University, China) On the Asymptotic HGR Maximal Correlation of Gaussian Markov Chain Tianren Peng and Xinyi Tong, Tsinghua University, China; Shao-Lun Huang, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China
Refined Statistical Bounds for Classification Error Mismatches with Constrained Bayes Error Zijian Yang and Vahe Eminyan, RWTH Aachen, Germany; Ralf Schlüter, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Convexity Results on Derivative of Negative Fisher Information Along Heat Flow Ken Chen, Xidian University, China; Yanlin Geng, State Key Lab. of ISN, Xidian University, China
Truncated Non-Uniform Quantization for Distributed SGD Guangfeng Yan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Tan Li, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Yuanzhang Xiao, University of Hawaii at Manoa,United States; Hanxu Hou, Dongguan University of Technology, China; Linqi Song, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Congduan Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China | 3F, Junior Ballroom |
| TA3: Neural Networks Session Chair: Ziping Zhao (ShanghaiTech University, China) An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Temporal GNNs Amirmohammad Farzaneh, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Great Britain
Improved Stability Bounds of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks Under Graph Perturbations Jun Zhang and Ziping Zhao, ShanghaiTech University, China
On Verifying Entropic Vectors with Distributions Generated by Neural Networks Shuhao Zhang, Nan Liu and Wei Kang, Southeast University, China; Haim H Permuter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Score Matching with Deep Neural Networks: A Non-Asymptotic Analysis Evan Scope Crafts and Bo Zhao, University of Texas at Austin,UnitedStates; Xianyang Zhang, Texas A&M University,United States | 3F, Meeting Room 2 |
11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break Area |
11:20 - 12:40 | Morning Parallel Technical Session B: |
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| TB1: Quantum Information Theory Session Chair: Si-Hyeon Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)) No Advantage of Non-Local Cooperation in Distributed Compression of Classical Sources Hyun-Young Park and Seung-Hyun Nam, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, South; Si-Hyeon Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, South
Coordination Capacity for Classical-Quantum Correlations Hosen Nator and Uzi Pereg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Entanglement Coordination Rates in Multi-User Networks Hosen Nator and Uzi Pereg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Good Entanglement-Assisted Qubit Codes from Matrix Product Codes Lin Sok and Martianus Frederic Ezerman, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; San Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 3F, Junior Ballroom |
| TB2: Compression 2 Session Chair: Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China) On the Quantization Goodness of Polar Lattices Ling Liu, Xidian University, China; Shanxiang Lyu, Jinan University, China; Cong Ling, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Great Britain; Baoming Bai, Xidian University, China
Rate-Distortion Tradeoff of Bistatic Integrated Sensing and Communication Tian Jiao and Zhiqiang Wei, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; Yanlin Geng, State Key Lab. of ISN, Xidian University, China; Kai Wan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; Zai Yang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; Giuseppe Caire, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Lossy Compression for Sparse Aggregation Yijun Fan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Fangwei Ye, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China; Raymond W. Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Lossy Compression with Data, Perception, and Classification Constraints Yuhan Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Youlong Wu, ShanghaiTech University, China; Shuai Ma , Peng Cheng Laboratory, China; Ying Jun, Angela Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| TB3: Hypothesis Testing 2 Session Chair: Neha Sangwan (University of California, San Diego, India) Sequential Outlier Hypothesis Testing under Universality Constraints Jun Diao and Lin Zhou, Beihang University, China
High-dimensional Sequential Testing of Multiple Hypotheses Yiming Xing, Tongji University, China; Shen Yan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States; Ziming Wang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Cascaded Group Testing Waqar Mirza, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India; Nikhil Karamchandani, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India; Niranjan Balachandran, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Sequential Hypothesis Testing of Quantum States Greg A Fields, University of California, San Diego, United States; Tara Javidi, University of California, San DiegoUnited States; Jack Postlewaite and Saikat Guha, University of Arizona, United States; Neha Sangwan, University of California, San Diego, India
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12:40 - 14:10 | Lunch Break | 1F, Xili Kitchen |
14:10 - 15:30 | Afternoon Parallel Technical Session C: |
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| TC1: Coding Theory 4 Session Chair: Baoming Bai (Xidian University, China) Fast Successive-Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes with Reed-Solomon Kernel Jianhan Zhao and Wei Zhang, Tianjin University, China; Yanyan Liu, Nankai University, China
A New Early-Termination Method for the Berlekamp-Massey Algorithm Chao Chen, Xidian University, China; Nianqi Tang, Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC, Shenzhen, China; Yunghsiang Sam Han, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Baoming Bai, Xidian University, China; Jiefei Zhang and Wenhao Zhou, The 54th Research Institute, China
Improved Construction for Multiplicative Repetition Based Non-Binary Polar Codes Rongchi Xu, Peiyao Chen, Ling Liu, Min Zhu and Baoming Bai, Xidian University, China
New Reed-Solomon Codes with All XOR Operation for Better En/decoding Performance Gefeng Deng, South China University of Technology, China; Zhengyi Jiang, Tsinghua University, China; Bo Bai, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong SAR, China; Gong Zhang , Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China; Xiuyin Zhang , South China University of Technology, China; Hanxu Hou, Huawei Technology Limited Company, Hong Kong SAR, China | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| TC2: Wireless Communication Session Chair: Zhiqiang Wei (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) Ultra-low Complexity Communication Algorithms Based on (n, n(n-1), n-1) PGCs Li Peng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Analysis of Cross-Domain Message Passing for OTFS Transmissions Ruoxi Chong, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom, Great Britain; Shuangyang Li, Technical University of Berlin, Germany; Zhiqiang Wei, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; Michail Matthaiou, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom, Great Britain; Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, University of New South Wales, Australia; Giuseppe Caire, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Systematic Construction of Golay Complementary Sets of Arbitrary Lengths and Alphabet Sizes Abhishek Roy, None, India; Sudhan Majhi, Indian Institute of Science, India & Indian Insitute of Technology Patna, India; Subhabrata Paul, IIT Patna, India
Fast Iterative ELAA-MIMO Detection Exploiting Static Channel Components Jiuyu Liu, Yi Ma and Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, Great Britain | 3F, Meeting Room 2 |
15:30 - 15:50 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break Area |
15:50 - 17:30 | Afternoon Parallel Technical Session D: |
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| TD1: Decoding Algorithms Session Chair: Xiao Ma (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Locally Constrained Guessing Codeword Decoding of Short Block Codes Xiangping Zheng and Xiao Ma, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Order Skipping Ordered Statistics Decoding and Its Performance Analysis Xihao Li, Wenhao Chen and Li Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, China; Yuan Li, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China; Huazi Zhang, Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China
An Efficient Adaptive Belief Propagation Decoder for Polar Codes Zhongjun Yang, Zuoxin Cai and Li Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, China; Huazi Zhang, Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China
Reduced Complexity SISO Decoding Algorithm for the First-Order Reed-Muller Codes Liudmila Karakchieva and Peter Trifonov, ITMO University, Russia
Guessing What, Noise or Codeword? Xiao Ma, Sun Yat-sen University, China | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| TD2: Coded Caching 2 Session Chair: Charul Rajput (Indian Institute of Science, India) A New Hotplug Coded Caching Scheme Using PDAs Mallikharjuna Chinnapadamala, Charul Rajput and B. Sundar Rajan, Indian Institute of Science, India
A Novel Construction of Coded Caching Schemes with Polynomial Subpacketizations via Projective Geometry Huimei Wei, GuangXi Normal University, China
Security, Privacy and Linear Function Retrieval in Multi-Access Combinatorial Topology with Private Cache Mallikharjuna Chinnapadamala and B. Sundar Rajan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Hierarchical Caching System With Hotplug Model Using HpPDA Abhay Kumar Maurya, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Charul Rajput and B. Sundar Rajan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces-Assisted Multiple-Antenna Coded Caching XiaoFan Niu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology & School of Electronic Information and Communication, China; Minquan Cheng, Guangxi Normal University, China; Kai Wan and Robert C. Qiu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; Giuseppe Caire, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany | 3F, Meeting Room 2 |
17:30 - 18:30 | Huawei Industrial Session Session Chair: Ting-Yi Wu (Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China) Efficient Coding Techniques for Distributed Storage Systems Jie Li, Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
19:00 - 21:30 | Banquet & Whimsical Wonders | 2F, Tianruixuan Restaurant
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· Day 4 - Wednesday, Nov. 27 |
8:00 - 18:00 | Registration Desk | 1F, Lobby |
8:20 - 9:30 | Plenary Speaker 3: Yuejie Chi, Sense of Wonder Group Endowed Professor in AI Systems, Carnegie Mellon University Title: Fantastic Diffusion Models and Where to Apply Them | 3F, Junior Ballroom
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9:40 - 11:00 | Morning Parallel Technical Session A: |
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| WA1: Emerging Applications 1 Session Chair: Lifeng Lai (University of California, Davis, USA) Robust Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning with Conditional Value-at-Risk Xinyi Ni and Lifeng Lai, University of California, Davis, United States
Multispectral Band Selection using Correlation Explanation for Identification of Discriminative Bands related to Grapevine Diseases Shurong Zhang and Alban Goupil, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France; Valeriu Vrabie, Universitée de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France; Eric Perrin, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France; Marie-Laure Panon, Comité Champagne, France
Maximizing User Admittance for Cognitive Satellite-Terrestrial Networks using ODE-inspired Spectral Radius Estimation Kai Wang and Chee Wei Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Christopher G. Brinton, Purdue University, United States
Geometric Analysis of Non-convex Optimization Landscapes for Robust M-Estimation of Location Hongyuan Yang and Ziping Zhao, ShanghaiTech University, China; Ying Sun, The Pennsylvania State University, United States | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| WA2: Statistics and Learning Theory 2 Session Chair: Shao-Lun Huang (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China) The Second-Order Perspectives of Minimax Parameter Estimation in Restricted Space with Weighted Squared Error Loss Tianren Peng and Xinyi Tong, Tsinghua University, China; Shao-Lun Huang, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China
Neural Estimation of the Information Bottleneck Based on a Mapping Approach Lingyi Chen, Tsinghua University, China; Shitong Wu, Tsinghua University & Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China; Sicheng Xu, University of Science & Technology of China, China; Wenyi Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, China; Huihui Wu, Yangtze Delta Region Institute, Huzhou UESTC, China
Information-theoretic Analysis of the Gibbs Algorithm: An Individual Sample Approach Youheng Zhu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; Yuheng Bu, University of Florida,United States
A Non-asymptotic Framework for Characterizing Dependency Structures in Multimodal Learning Weida Wang, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China; Tao Shi, Tsinghua University, China; Yaoyuan Liang and Xinyi Tong, Tsinghua University, China; Shao-Lun Huang, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China | 3F, Junior Ballroom |
| WA3: Information Theory and Machine Learning (Invited Session) Session Chair: Yang Li (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China) Semantic Markov Chain using Synonymous Mapping Jin Xu, Tanlong Du, Zijian Liang, Kai Niu, Ping Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Task-oriented Digital Semantic Communication with Generalization Ability Xingyu Mao, Qifa Yan, Xiaohu Tang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
A Theory of Semantic Communication Qi Cao, Xidian University, China; Yulin Shao, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China; Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Great Britain | 3F, Meeting Room 2 |
11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break Area |
11:20 - 12:40 | Morning Parallel Technical Session B: |
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| WB1: Shannon Theory 1 Session Chair: Baris Nakiboglu (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) Capacity Bounds on Optical Wireless Relay Channels Meiyun Huang, East China Normal University, China; Longguang Li, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
On the Paley RIP and Paley graph extractor Shohei Satake, Kumamoto University, Japan
Divergence Inequalities from Multivariate Taylor's Theorem Ian George, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Alice Zheng and Akshay Bansal, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,United States
Augustin Information In The Vicinity of Augustin Capacity-Achieving Input Distributions Hao-Chung Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Baris Nakiboglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| WB2: Security, Privacy, Fairness 3 Session Chair: Kai Wan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Optimal Rate Region for Key Efficient Hierarchical Secure Aggregation with User Collusion Xiang Zhang, Technical University of Berlin, Germany; Kai Wan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; Hua Sun, University of North Texas,United States; Shiqiang Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,United States; Mingyue Ji, University of Florida,United States; Giuseppe Caire, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
PoW Security-Latency under Random Delays and the Effect of Transaction Fees Mustafa Doger and Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland, United States; Nail Akar, Bilkent University, Turkey
Existence and Algorithmic Construction of q-ary Secure Codes with List Decoding Ling Jiang, Shanghai Ocean University, China; Yujie Gu, Kyushu University, Japan; Jinping Fan, Shanghai Normal University, China; Ying Miao, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Secret-Key Generation with PUFs and Biometric Identifiers for Compound Authentication Channels Vamoua Yachongka and Remi A Chou, University of Texas at Arlington,United States | 3F, Junior Ballroom |
12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 18:00 | Excursions and Sports Activities:
Excursion A: City tour in Shenzhen Shenzhen Lianhua Hill Park → Guan Shanyue Art Museum → Shenzhen Museum → Shenzhen Library (Central Library)
Excursion B: City tour in Dongguan Visit Huawei Xiliu Beipo Village | Excursion A/B: Shenzhen/Dongguan Pickleball Play Gathering: Big Chill Pickleball Club |
20:30 - 22:00 | ISIT 2026 Organizing Committee Meeting | Room 1202, Information Building, Tsinghua SIGS |
· Day 5 - Thursday, Nov. 28 |
8:00 - 11:59 | Registration Desk | 1F, Lobby |
8:20 - 9:30 | Plenary Speaker 4: Guangyue Han, Professor,The University of Hong Kong Title: A Stochastic Calculus Approach to Continuous-Time Gaussian Channels | 3F, Junior Ballroom |
9:40 - 11:00 | Morning Parallel Technical Session A: |
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| RA1: Coding Theory 5 Session Chair: Kenneth W. Shum (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China) A Low-Latency Decoding of CA-Polar-SPC Product Codes
Zhao Xinwei and Xiao Ma, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Computer Formalization of Deletion-Correcting Permutation Codes Minhan Gao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China; Kenneth W. Shum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
On the New Rank Metric Codes Related to Gabidulin Codes Ran Li and Fang-Wei Fu, Nankai University, China
A Tighter Distance Upper-Bound for Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Codes Shobhit Bhatnagar, Indian Institute of Science, India; P Vijay Kumar, Indian Institute of Science & University of Southern California, India | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| RA2: Coding for DNA Systems Session Chair: Yiwei Zhang (Shandong University, China) Coding for Synthesis Defects Ziyang Lu, Shandong University, China; Han Mao Kiah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Yiwei Zhang, Shandong University, China; Robert N. Grass, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland; Eitan Yaakobi, Technion, Israel
How to Find Simple Conditions for Successful Sequence Reconstruction? Chen Wang, Shandong University, China; Eitan Yaakobi, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; Yiwei Zhang, Shandong University, China
Studying the Cycle Complexity of DNA Synthesis Amit Zrihan and Eitan Yaakobi, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; Zoar Yakhini, Interdisciplinary Center, Israel
On the Expected Number of Views Required for Fixed-Error Sequence Reconstruction Vivian Papadopoulou, Technical University of Munich, Germany & Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Great Britain; V. Arvind Rameshwar, India Urban Data Exchange, India; Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, Germany | 3F, Junior Ballroom |
11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break Area |
11:20 - 12:40 | Morning Parallel Technical Session B: |
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| RB1: Shannon Theory 2 Session Chair: Samir M. Perlaza (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France) Non-iterative algorithm for channel capacity Masahito Hayashi, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Achievability Bounds on Unequal Error Protection Codes Liuquan Yao and Shuai Yuan, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, China; Yuan Li, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China; Huazi Zhang, Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China; Jun Wang, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China; Guiying Yan and Zhiming Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Leveraging Noisy Observations in Zero-Sum Games Emmanouil Marios Athanasakos, Inria, France; Samir M. Perlaza, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France
Statistics of Random Binning Based on Tsallis Divergence Masoud Kavian, Huawei Paris Research Center & Huawei Technologies, France; Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedian and Mohammad Hossein Yassaee, Sharif University of Technology, Iran; Mahtab Mirmohseni, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, Great Britain; Mohammad Reza Aref, Sharif University of Tech., Iran | 3F, Junior Ballroom
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| RB2: Feedback Channel Session Chair: Fan Cheng (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) Sum-Capacity for Symmetric Finite-State Gaussian Multiple Access Channel With Delayed Feedback Dengfeng Xia and Han Deng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China; Peng Xu, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Bin Dai, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Gaussian Relay Channel with Noiseless Feedback: Revisit Han Deng and Dengfeng Xia, Southwest Jiaotong University, China; Peng Xu, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Bin Dai, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Efficient Coding for Computation Over Gaussian Multiple-Access Channel With Noiseless/Noisy Feedback Yuhan Yang and Han Deng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China; Peng Xu, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Bin Dai, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Causal Vector-valued Witsenhausen Counterexamples with Feedback Mengyuan Zhao, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Mael Le Treust, ETIS Unité Mixte Recherche 8051, Université Cergy-Pontoise, ENSEA, CNRS, France; Tobias J. Oechtering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
12:40 - 14:10 | Lunch Break | 1F, Xili Kitchen |
14:10 - 15:30 | Afternoon Parallel Technical Session C: |
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| RC1: Quantum Security Session Chair: Shanxiang Lyu (Jinan University, China) Semantic Security with Unreliable Entanglement Assistance: Interception and Loss Meir Lederman, Technion, Israel; Uzi Pereg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Towards Quantum-Safe Distributed Learning via Homomorphic Encryption: Learning with Gradients Guangfeng Yan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Shanxiang Lyu, Jinan University, China; Hanxu Hou, Dongguan University of Technology, China; Zhiyong Zheng, Renmin University of China, China; Linqi Song, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China;
Quantum X-Secure B-Byzantine T-Colluding Private Information Retrieval Mohamed Nomeir, Alptug Aytekin and Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland, United States
Covert Communication with Positive Rate Over State-Dependent Quantum Channels Hassan ZivariFard, Columbia University,United States; Remi A Chou, University of Texas at Arlington,United States; Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University,United States | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| RC2: Distributed Computing Session Chair: Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó (The Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain) Algebraic Geometric Rook Codes for Coded Distributed Computing Pedro Soto and Gretchen Matthews, Virginia Tech,United States
Addressing Fluctuating Stragglers in Distributed Matrix Multiplication via Fountain Codes Siyuan Wang, Jianping Wang and Linqi Song, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Generalized Multivariate Polynomial Codes for Distributed Matrix-Matrix Multiplication Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó, The Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain; Burak Hasırcıoğlu, The Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdom, Great Britain; Deniz Gündüz, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Great Britain
Optimal Bandwidth for All-Linear-Reduce Operation Zhengrui Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China; Wai Ho Mow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China; Yunghsiang Sam Han, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Yunqi Wan, Huawei Technology Co. Ltd., China | 3F, Meeting Room 2 |
15:30 - 15:50 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break Area |
15:50 - 17:30 | Afternoon Parallel Technical Session D: |
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| RD1: Network Information Theory 2 Session Chair: Wenyi Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China) Random Alloy Codes and the Fundamental Limits of Coded Distributed Tensors Pedro Soto, Virginia Tech, United States
Zero-Error Capacity of Broadcast Channels with Two Binary Outputs Qi Cao, Wu and Guanchong Ni, Xidian University, China; Yanlin Geng, State Key Lab. of ISN, Xidian University, China; Baoming Bai, Xidian University, China
Alternating Maximization Algorithm for Mismatch Capacity with Oblivious Relaying Xinwei Li and Lingyi Chen, Tsinghua University, China; Shitong Wu, Tsinghua University & Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China; Huihui Wu, Yangtze Delta Region Institute , Huzhou UESTC, China; Hao Wu, Tsinghua University, China; Wenyi Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Sparse Degree Optimization for BATS Codes Hoover H. F. Yin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Jie Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States | 3F, Meeting Room 1 |
| RD2: Emerging Application 2 Session Chair: Amin Aminzadeh Gohari (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China) Identification via Gaussian Multiple Access Channels in the Presence of Feedback Yaning Zhao, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany; Wafa Labidi, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Holger Boche, Technical University Munich, Germany; Eduard A Jorswieck, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany; Christian Deppe, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Identification via Binary Uniform Permutation Channel Abhishek Sarkar and Bikash K Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Detecting Informationally-Dense Subsets Chao Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Ali Al-Bashabsheh, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data and Brain Computing, BDBC, Beihang University, China; Chung Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Relative Fractional Independence Number Sharareh Alipour, Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies Khatam University, Iran; Amin Aminzadeh Gohari, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Mehrshad Taziki, Carnegie Mellon University,United States | 3F, Meeting Room 2 |
Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport: About 40 mins drive.
Shenzhen North Station: About 20-min drive.
