IZS 2020 Conference Program

Tuesday, February 25

16:00 – 18:00 Registration desk open

Wednesday, February 26

07:30 Registration desk opens
08:25 Opening address
08:30 – 09:30   Keynote Lecture by Antonia Tulino (Università di Napoli Federico II; Nokia Bell Labs)
Coffee break
10:00 – 11:20 Session 1: Signal-Shaping Methods
Lunch break
13:30 – 14:50 Session 2: Coding Theory and Applications
Coffee break
15:20 – 17:00 Session 3: Coding for Data Storage and for Low Error-Rate Applications

Thursday, February 27

08:30 – 09:30   Keynote Lecture by Alfred Bruckstein (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Coffee break
10:00 – 11:40 Session 4: Information Inequalities and Statistics
Lunch break
13:30 – 14:50 Session 5: Shannon Theory
Coffee break
15:20 – 17:00 Session 6: Machine Learning and Information Theory
18:45 – end Conference Banquet at Restaurant Belvoirpark

Friday, February 28

08:30 – 09:30   Keynote Lecture by Andrew Barron (Yale University)
Coffee break
10:00 – 11:40 Session 7: Classical and Nonclassical Information Measures
Lunch break
13:30 – 14:50 Session 8: Information Theoretic Aspects of Communication
Coffee break
15:20 – 16:40 Session 9: Modern Detection Theory

All talks are 20 min.

Recent-Results Posters


Keynote Lecture (Wednesday 08:30 – 09:30)

  • A Network Evolution Story: From Communication to Content Distribution to Real-Time Computation
    Antonia Tulino (Università di Napoli Federico II; Nokia Bell Labs)

Session 1: Signal-Shaping Methods (Wednesday 10:00 – 11:20)
Invited Session by Frans M. J. Willems and Alex Alvarado (Eindhoven University of Technology)

  • Signal Shaping: Fundamentals, Potentials, and Techniques
    Robert F. H. Fischer
  • Probabilistic Shaping: A Random Coding Experiment
    Georg Böcherer, Patrick Schulte, Fabian Steiner
  • Short-Length Probabilistic Shaping: Improved Methods and Mitigation of Fiber Nonlinearities
    Tobias Fehenberger
  • Hierarchical Distribution Matching with Massively Parallel Interfaces for Fiber-Optic Communications
    Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Erik Agrell, Magnus Karlsson
    This talk is moved to Session 9 on Friday afternoon!
  • Prefix-Free Code Distribution Matching for 5G New Radio
    Junho Cho, Ori Shental

Session 2: Coding Theory and Applications (Wednesday 13:30 – 14:50)
Chaired by Yuval Cassuto (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

  • Improved Lower Bounds for Pliable Index Coding Using Absent Receivers
    Lawrence Ong, Badri N. Vellambi, Jörg Kliewer, Parastoo Sadeghi
  • On the Capacity of Private Monomial Computation
    Yauhen Yakimenka, Hsuan-Yin Lin, Eirik Rosnes
  • Asymptotic Absorbing Set Enumerators for Irregular LDPC Code Ensembles
    Emna Ben Yacoub, Gianluigi Liva
  • A Recursive Algorithm for Quantizer Design for Binary-Input Discrete Memoryless Channels
    Mehdi Dabirnia, Alfonso Martinez, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

Session 3: Coding for Data Storage and for Low Error-Rate Applications (Wednesday 15:20 – 17:00)
Invited Session by Thomas Mittelholzer (HSR University of Applied Sciences)

  • An Upgrading Algorithm with Optimal Power Law
    Or Ordentlich, Ido Tal
  • Efficient Compression of Long Arbitrary Sequences with No Reference at the Encoder
    Yuval Cassuto, Jacob Ziv
  • Locally Repairable Codes from Sum-Rank Codes
    Umberto Martínez-Peñas, Frank R. Kschischang
  • Efficient Evaluation of Asymptotic Trapping Set Enumerators for Irregular LDPC Code Ensembles
    Emna Ben Yacoub, Gianluigi Liva, Gerhard Kramer
  • Joint Decoding of Distribution Matching and Error Control Codes
    Patrick Schulte, Wafa Labidi, Gerhard Kramer

Keynote Lecture (Thursday 08:30 – 09:30)

  • Erratic Extremists Induce Dynamic Consensus
    Alfred Bruckstein (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

Session 4: Information Inequalities and Statistics (Thursday 10:00 – 11:40)
Invited Session by Yury Polyanskiy (MIT)

  • Maximal Correlation under Quantization
    Dror Drach, Or Ordentlich, Ofer Shayevitz
  • From Information Inequalities to Computational Lower Bounds in Learning
    Emmanuel Abbé
  • Dualizing Le Cam's Method with Applications to Estimating the Unseens
    Yury Polyanskiy, Yihong Wu
  • Information Constrained Optimal Transport: From Talagrand, to Marton, to Cover
    Ayfer Ozgur
  • Smooth Wasserstein Distance: Metric Structure and Statistical Efficiency
    Ziv Goldfeld

Session 5: Shannon Theory (Thursday 13:30 – 14:50)
Chaired by Emmanuel Abbé (EPFL)

  • Arbitrarily Varying Broadcast Channel with Uncertain Cooperation
    Uzi Pereg, Yossef Steinberg
  • The Duality Upper Bound for Unifilar Finite-State Channels with Feedback
    Oron Sabag, Haim H. Permuter
  • On the Information Bottleneck Problems: An Information Theoretic Perspective
    Abdellatif Zaidi, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
  • Communication Subject to State Obfuscation
    Ligong Wang, Gregory W. Wornell

Session 6: Machine Learning and Information Theory (Thursday 15:20 – 17:00)
Invited Session by Haim H. Permuter (Ben Gurion University)

  • ITENE: Intrinsic Transfer Entropy Neural Estimator
    Jingjing Zhang, Osvaldo Simeone, Zoran Cvetkovic, Eugenio Abela, Mark Richardson
  • Sampling for Faster Neural Estimation
    Chung Chan
  • Reinforcement Learning for Channel Coding
    Mengke Lian, Fabrizio Carpi, Christian Häger, Henry D. Pfister
  • Joint Source-Channel Coding of Images with (not very) Deep Learning
    David Burth Kurka, Deniz Gündüz
  • Reinforcement Learning Technique for Finding the Feedback Capacity
    Ziv Aharoni, Oron Sabag, Haim H. Permuter

Keynote Lecture (Friday 08:30 – 09:30)

  • Deep Network Approximation
    Andrew Barron (Yale University)

Session 7: Classical and Nonclassical Information Measures (Friday 10:00 – 11:40)
Chaired by Tobias Koch (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

  • Robust Generalization via α-Mutual Information
    Amedeo Roberto Esposito, Michael Gastpar, Ibrahim Issa
  • On Data-Processing and Majorization Inequalities for f-Divergences
    Igal Sason
  • Entanglement-Assisted Capacity of Quantum Channels with Side Information
    Uzi Pereg
  • Error Exponents of Mismatched Likelihood Ratio Testing
    Parham Boroumand, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
  • Properties of a Recent Upper Bound to the Mismatch Capacity
    Ehsan Asadi Kangarshahi, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

Session 8: Information Theoretic Aspects of Communication (Friday 13:30 – 14:50)
Chaired by Robert Fischer (Ulm University)

  • Fundamental Limits of Wireless Caching under Uneven-Capacity Channels
    Eleftherios Lampiris, Jingjing Zhang, Osvaldo Simeone, Petros Elia
  • Efficient Error Probability Simulation of Coded Modulation over Fading Channels
    Josep Font-Segura, Alfonso Martinez, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
  • On the Error Probability of Optimal Codes in Gaussian Channels under Average Power Constraint
    Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar
  • On the Broadcast Approach over Parallel MIMO Two-State Fading Channel
    Kfir M. Cohen, Avi Steiner, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)

Session 9: Modern Detection Theory (Friday 15:20 – 16:40)
Chaired by Sergey Loyka (University of Ottawa)

  • Hierarchical Distribution Matching with Massively Parallel Interfaces for Fiber-Optic Communications
    Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Erik Agrell, Magnus Karlsson
    This talk belongs to Session 1 "Signal-Shaping Methods".
  • On the Per-User Probability of Error in Gaussian Many-Access Channels
    Jithin Ravi, Tobias Koch
  • Approximate Bit-wise MAP Detection for Greedy Sparse Signal Recovery Algorithms
    Jeongmin Chae, Song-Nam Hong
  • Multilevel Codes in Lattice-Reduction-Aided Decision-Feedback Equalization
    Robert F. H. Fischer, Sebastian Stern, Johannes B. Huber

Recent-Results Posters

The posters will be on display throughout the day, with the authors available for discussion during the morning coffee break.

  • Wednesday:

    • Adaptive Coded Modulation Scheme for Free-Space Optical Communication
      Ahmed Elzanaty (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
      Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
    • Achievable Information Rates of Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping: An Alternative Approach via Random Sign-Coding Arguments
      Yunus Can Gültekin (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
      Alex Alvarado (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
      Frans M. J. Willems (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
    • On Achieving Low Bit Error Rates with QAM Signaling and LDPC Coding over the AWGN
      Gada Rezgui (CY Paris University, Cergy-Pontoise, France)
      Iryna Andriyanova (CY Paris University, Cergy-Pontoise, France)
      Charly Poulliat (University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France)
      Asma Maaloui (University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France)
  • Thursday:

    • Secure Distributed Multiple Matrix Multiplication
      Nitish Mital (Imperial College London, UK)
      Cong Ling (Imperial College London, UK)
      Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, UK)
    • Finite Blocklength Rate for Soft Covering
      Lanqing Yu (Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
      Semih Yagli (Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
      Paul Cuff (Renaissance Technologies LLC, Long Island, USA)
    • From Feedback Capacity to Tight Achievable Rates without Feedback for AGN Channels with Stable and Unstable Autoregressive Noise
      Christos Kourtellaris (University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus)
      Charalambos D. Charalambous (University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus)
      Sergey Loyka (University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
  • Friday:

    • Topology Optimization for 6G Networks: A Network Information-Theoretic Approach
      Abdulkadir Çelik (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
      Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
      Basem Shihada (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
      Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
    • Generalized Gaussian Model for Data-Driven Learning in Communications
      Khac-Hoang Ngo (LSS, CentraleSupélec, France; Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies, France)
      Sheng Yang (LSS, CentraleSupélec, France)
      Maxime Guillaud (Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies, France)
    • Weight Enumeration, RM-Polar Codes, List Decoding
      Kumud S. Altmayer (University of Maryland, Adelphi, USA; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)
    • Indoor Location Estimation based on Images and Object Identification
      Dimitris Milioris (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
      Philippe Jacquet (Inria Paris-Saclay, France)

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