2024 IEEE Information Theory Workshop
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Day2

· 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

9:40 - 11:00

Morning Parallel Technical Session A:



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

Morning Parallel Technical Session B:



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


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 of 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, 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:



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


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:



MD1: Coding Theory 2

   Session Chair: Lev Tauz (University of California, Los Angeles,United States)

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, 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, University of California, Los Angeles, 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


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)


17:50-18:00

Photo Slide and Video Letter Show


18:00-18:10

Qi Cao (Xidian University)


18:10-18:20

Xuan Guang (Nankai University)


18:20-18:30

Yanlin Geng (Xidian University)


18:30-18:40

Raymond Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)