IZS 2024 Conference Program

Tuesday, March 5

Wednesday, March 6

Thursday, March 7

Friday, March 8

All talks are 20 min.

Recent-Results Posters

Keynote Lecture (Wednesday 08:20 – 09:20)

• On Convex Hulls and the (Im)Possibility of Overparametrization
  Sara van de Geer (ETH Zurich)

Session 1: Statistical Learning in High Dimensions (Wednesday 09:50 – 11:30)
Invited Session by Ramji Venkataramanan (Cambridge University)

• A Representation-Learning Game for Classes of Prediction Tasks
  Neria Uzan, Nir Weinberger
• The Out-of-Sample Prediction Error of the Square-Root-LASSO and Related Estimators
  Cynthia Rush
• Quantitative Group Testing and Pooled Data with Sublinear Number of Tests
  Nelvin Tan, Pablo Pascual Cobo, Ramji Venkataramanan
• Neural Compression with Lattice Transform Coding
  Eric Lei, Hamed Hassani, Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti
• The Sample Complexity of Simple Binary Hypothesis Testing
  Varun Jog

Session 2: Learning and Estimation (Wednesday 13:20 – 15:00)
Invited Session by Marco Mondelli (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)

• Information-Theoretic Limits for Sublinear-Rank Symmetric Matrix Factorization
  Jean Barbier, Justin Ko, Anas A. Rahman
• Weak Decoding and Symmetries
  Emmanuel Abbe, Colin Sandon
• Equivalence Principles for Nonlinear Random Matrices
  Yue M. Lu
• Hyperparameter Tuning via Trajectory Predictions: Stochastic Prox-Linear Methods in Matrix Sensing
  Mengqi Lou, Kabir Aladin Verchand, Ashwin Pananjady
• Phase Transitions for Spectral Estimators in Generalized Linear Models via Approximate Message Passing
  Marco Mondelli

Session 3: Recent Trends in Multi-User Information Theory (Wednesday 15:30 – 16:50)
Invited Session by Shun Watanabe (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

• Gaussian Semantic Source Coding
  Peiyao Chen, Jun Chen, Yuxuan Shi, Shuo Shao, Yongpeng Wu, Timothy N. Davidson
• Functional Representation Lemma: Algorithms and Applications
  Yanina Shkel
• Pointwise Redundancy in One-Shot Lossy Compression via Poisson Functional Representation
  Cheuk Ting Li
• Exponential Strong Converse in Multi-user Problems
  Shun Watanabe

Session 4: Computation, Privacy, and Coding (Wednesday 17:00 – 17:40)
Chaired by Yanina Shkel (EPFL)

• Improved Capacity Outer Bound for Private Quadratic Monomial Computation
  Karen M. Dæhli, Sarah A. Obead, Hsuan-Yin Lin, Eirik Rosnes
• Weakly-Private Information Retrieval from MDS-Coded Distributed Storage
  Asbjørn O. Orvedal, Hsuan-Yin Lin, Eirik Rosnes

Keynote Lecture (Thursday 08:20 – 09:20)

• Physical Unclonable Functions: Coded Modulation, Shaping, and Helper Data Schemes
  Robert F. H. Fischer (Ulm University)

Session 5: Hypothesis Testing and Asymptotics (Thursday 09:50 – 11:10)
Invited Session by Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

• Strong Converse for Bi-Static ISAC with Two Detection-Error Exponents
  Mehrasa Ahmadipour, Michèle Wigger, Shlomo Shamai
• Universal Neyman–Pearson Classification with a Known Hypothesis
  Parham Boroumand, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
• Second-Order Asymptotics of Divergence Tests
  K. V. Harsha, Jithin Ravi, Tobias Koch
• Error Probability Trade-off in Quantum Hypothesis Testing via the Nussbaum–Szkoła Mapping
  Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar, Jorge Lizarribar-Carrillo

Session 6: Communications (Thursday 13:20 – 15:00)
Chaired by Albert Guillén i Fàbregas (Cambridge University)

• Graph-based Algorithms for Linear Computation Coding
  Hans Rosenberger, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R. Müller
• Optimizing IRS-Assisted SIMO/MISO Channels: An Analytical Approach
  Milad Dabiri, Sergey Loyka
• Active Eavesdropper Mitigation via Orthogonal Channel Estimation
  Gian Marti, Christoph Studer
• Data-Driven List Polar Decoder for Symmetric and Asymmetric Input Distributions
  Ziv Aharoni, Bashar Huleihel, Henry D. Pfister, Haim H. Permuter
• M-DAB: An Input-Distribution Optimization Algorithm for Composite DNA Storage by the Multinomial Channel
  Adir Kobovich, Eitan Yaakobi, Nir Weinberger

Session 7: Decoding Mismatch and Error Exponents (Thursday 15:30 – 17:10)
Chaired by Tobias Koch (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

• Mismatched Decoding: Generalized Mutual Information under Small Mismatch
  Priyanka Patel, Francesc Molina, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
• Coding for the Gilbert–Elliott Channel: A Mismatched Decoding Perspective
  Yutong Han, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
• Error Exponents of Block Codes for Finite-State Sources with Mismatch
  Mehdi Dabirnia, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
• Error Exponents for Source Coding under Logarithmic Loss
  Hamdi Joudeh, Han Wu
• The Method of Types for the AWGN Channel: Correct-Decoding Exponent
  Sergey Tridenski, Anelia Somekh-Baruch

Keynote Lecture (Friday 08:20 – 09:20)

• Networks and Helpers
  Yossef Steinberg (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

Session 8: Information Inequalities and Optimal Transport (Friday 09:50 – 11:30)
Invited Session by Thomas A. Courtade (University of California, Berkeley)

• The Shifted Composition Rule
  Jason M. Altschuler, Sinho Chewi
• Bounds on Transport Maps via Diffusion Processes
  Max Fathi
• Gromov–Wasserstein Alignment: Statistical and Computational Advancements via Duality
  Ziv Goldfeld
• Training Generative Models from Privatized Data via Entropic Optimal Transport
  Daria Reshetova, Wei-Ning Chen, Ayfer Özgür
• Linearized Brascamp–Lieb Inequalities
  Thomas A. Courtade

Session 9: Data Science (Friday 13:20 – 15:00)
Chaired by Christoph Studer (ETH Zurich)

• On the Error Exponent Benefit of Sequentiality in Universal Binary Classification
  Ching-Fang Li, I-Hsiang Wang
• Batches Stabilize the Minimum Norm Risk in High Dimensional Overparameterized Linear Regression
  Shahar Stein Ioushua, Inbar Hasidim, Ofer Shayevitz, Meir Feder
• Testing Dependency of Unlabeled Databases
  Vered Paslev, Wasim Huleihel
• A Unified Framework to Generalization Error via Variable-size Compressibility
  Milad Sefidgaran, Abdellatif Zaidi
• Rate-Loss Regions for Polynomial Regression Side Information
  Jiahui Wei, Philippe Mary, Elsa Dupraz

Session 10: Statistical Theory of Communication (Friday 15:30 – 16:50)
Chaired by Ligong Wang (ETH Zurich)

• An Information-Spectrum Approach to Distributed Hypothesis Testing for General Sources
  Ismaila Salihou Adamou, Elsa Dupraz, Tad Matsumoto
• Communication Over Entanglement-Breaking Channels With Unreliable Entanglement Assistance
  Uzi Pereg
• Semantic Communications with Privacy Constraints
  Amirreza Zamani, Sajad Daei, Tobias J. Oechtering, Deniz Gündüz, Mikael Skoglund
• Multi-terminal Strong Coordination over Noiseless Networks with Secrecy Constraints
  Viswanathan Ramachandran, Tobias J. Oechtering, Mikael Skoglund

Recent-Result Posters

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

Wednesday:

• Information Velocity of Cascaded Gaussian Channels with Feedback
  Elad Domanovitz (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
  Anatoly Khina (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
  Tal Philosof (Samsung Research, Tel Aviv, Israel)
  Yuval Kochman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
• A Dominant Interferer-based Approximation for SINR Meta Distribution of UAV-assisted Wireless Communication Networks
  Yujie Qin (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)
  Mustafa A. Kishk (Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland)
  Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)

Thursday:

• Covert Authentication in MIMO Systems
  Sang Wu Kim (Iowa State University, Ames, USA)
• A New Error Detection Method for S-Box in Advanced Encryption Standard
  Po-Hung Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
  Jiun-Hung Yu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
  Kai-Po Hsu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

Friday:

• Near-Field Localization for Hybrid RIS-Assisted Terahertz Systems
  Jiao Wu (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)
  Seungnyun Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA)
  Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)
• Channel Modeling with RIS-powered Wireless Communication Systems
  Kumud S. Altmayer (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)
  Ilya Burtakov (Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
• Toward Immersive Underwater Cloud-Enabled Networks
  Rawan Alghamdi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)
  Hayssam Dahrouj (University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
  Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)
  Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)

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