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  1. Learning Regularized Graphon Mean-Field Games with Unknown Graphons
    Fengzhuo Zhang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Zhaoran Wang, and Zhuoran Yang
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, Nov 2024+

  2. Codes for Correcting Asymmetric Adjacent Transpositions and Deletions
    Shuche Wang, Vu Van Khu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, Nov 2024+

  3. Stochastic Bandits for Egalitarian Assignment
    Eugene Lim, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Harold Soh
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Oct 2024

  4. Optimal Best Arm Identification with Fixed Confidence in Restless Bandits
    P. N. Karthik, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Arpan Mukherjee, and Ali Tajer
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 70, No. 10, Pages 7349 - 7384, Oct 2024

  5. Optimal Clustering with Bandit Feedback [Slides] [Video]
    Junwen Yang, Zixin Zhong, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 25, No. 186, Pages 1 - 54, 2024

  6. A Hybrid Genetic Search and Dynamic Programming-based Split Algorithm for the Multi-trip Time-dependent Vehicle Routing Problem
    Jingyi Zhao, Mark Poon, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Zhenzhen Zhang
    European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 317, Issue 3, Pages 921 - 935, Sep 2024

  7. Adversarial Combinatorial Bandits with Switching Costs
    Yanyan Dong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 70, No. 7, Pages 5213 - 5227, Jul 2024

  8. Optimal Private Discrete Distribution Estimation with One-bit Communication
    Seung-Hyun Nam, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Si-Hyeon Lee
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 19, Pages 6514 - 6528, Jun 2024

  9. Federated Best Arm Identification with Heterogeneous Clients
    Zhirui Chen, P. N. Karthik, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Yeow Meng Chee
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 70, No. 6, Pages 4258 - 4279, Jun 2024

  10. Understanding and Mitigating Dimensional Collapse in Federated Learning
    Yujun Shi, Jian Liang, Wenqing Zhang, Chuhui Xue, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Song Bai
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 46, No. 5, Pages 2936 - 2949, May 2024

  11. Indexed Minimum Empirical Divergence-Based Algorithms for Linear Bandits
    Jie Bian and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Apr 2024

  12. Corrections to "Equivocations, Exponents and Second-Order Coding Rates under Various Rényi Information Measures" (see [39])
    Masahito Hayashi and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 70, No. 4, Pages 3046 - 3048, Apr 2024

  13. Fixed-Budget Best Arm Identification in Sparse Linear Bandits
    Recep Can Yavas and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Feb 2024

  14. Achieving the Pareto Frontier of Regret Minimization and Best Arm Identification in Multi-Armed Bandits
    Zixin Zhong, Wang Chi Cheung and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Sep 2023 (Featured Certification)

  15. Covert Communication with Mismatched Decoders [Slides]
    Qiaosheng (Eric) Zhang and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 69, No. 7, Pages 4163 - 4177, Jul 2023

  16. Near-Optimal Learning of Tree-Structured Distributions by Chow and Liu
    Arnab Bhattacharyya, Sutanu Gayen, Eric Price, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and N. V. Vinodchandran (alphabetical)
    SIAM Journal of Computing, Vol. 52, Issue 3, Pages 761 - 793, 2023

  17. Fast Beam Alignment via Pure Exploration in Multi-armed Bandits [Slides] [Code]
    Yi Wei, Zixin Zhong, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 22, No. 5, Pages 3264 - 3279, May 2023

  18. Best-Arm Identification in Restless Markov Multi-Armed Bandits [Slides]
    P. N. Karthik, Kota Srinivas Reddy, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 69, No. 5, Pages 3240 - 3262, May 2023

  19. Almost Optimal Variance-Constrained Best Arm Identification [Slides] [Code] [Video]
    Yunlong Hou, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Zixin Zhong
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 69, No. 4, Pages 2603 - 2634, Apr 2023

  20. Active-LATHE: An Active Learning Algorithm for Boosting the Error Exponent for Learning Homogeneous Ising Trees [Slides] [Code]
    Fengzhuo Zhang, Anshoo Tandon, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 69, No. 4, Pages 2537 - 2555, Apr 2023

  21. Exact Recovery in the General Hypergraph Stochastic Block Model
    Qiaosheng (Eric) Zhang and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 69, No. 1, Pages 453 - 471, Jan 2023

  22. Asymptotic Nash Equilibrium for the M-ary Sequential Adversarial Hypothesis Testing Game
    Jiachun Pan, Yonglong Li, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Forensics and Security, Vol. 18, Pages 831 - 845, Dec 2022

  23. Information-Theoretic Characterization of the Generalization Error for Iterative Semi-Supervised Learning [Code]
    Haiyun He, Hanshu Yan, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 23, No. 287, Pages 1 - 52, 2022

  24. Distributionally Robust and Multi-Objective Nonnegative Matrix Factorization [Slides] [Code]
    Nicolas Gillis, Le Thi Khanh Hien, Valentin Leplat, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 44, No. 8, Pages 4052 - 4064, Aug 2022

  25. Asymptotics of Sequential Composite Hypothesis Testing under Probabilistic Constraints
    Jiachun Pan, Yonglong Li and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 68, No. 8, Pages 4998 - 5012, Aug 2022

  26. MC2G: An Efficient Algorithm for Matrix Completion with Social and Item Similarity Graphs
    Qiaosheng (Eric) Zhang#, Geewon Suh#, Changho Suh, and Vincent Y. F. Tan (# Equal contribution)
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 70, Pages 2681 - 2697, Jun 2022

  27. Optimal Adaptive Strategies for Sequential Quantum Hypothesis Testing
    Yonglong Li, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Marco Tomamichel
    Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol. 392, Issue 3, 993 - 1027, Jun 2022

  28. On Smooth Rényi Entropies: A Novel Information Measure, One-Shot Coding Theorems, and Asymptotic Expansions
    Yuta Sakai and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 68, No. 3, Pages 1496 - 1531, Mar 2022

  29. Tight Regret Bounds for Noisy Optimization of a Brownian Motion
    Zexin Wang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Jonathan Scarlett
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 70, Pages 1072 - 1087, Jan 2022

  30. Third-Order Asymptotics of Variable-Length Compression Allowing Errors
    Yuta Sakai, Recep Can Yavas and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 67, No. 12, Pages 7708 - 7722, Dec 2021

  31. Thompson Sampling Algorithms for Cascading Bandits [Slides] [Code]
    Zixin Zhong, Wang Chi Cheung, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 22, No. 218, Pages 1 - 66, 2021

  32. Optimal Change-Point Detection with Training Sequences in the Large and Moderate Deviations Regimes [Video]
    Haiyun He, Qiaosheng (Eric) Zhang, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 67, No. 10, Pages 6758 - 6784, Oct 2021

  33. State Masking over a Two-State Compound Channel
    Sadaf Salehkalaibar, Mohammad Hossein Yassaee, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Mehrasa Ahmadipour
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 67, No. 9, Pages 5651 - 5673, Sep 2021

  34. Covert Identification over Binary-Input Memoryless Channels [Video]
    Qiaosheng (Eric) Zhang and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 67, No. 8, Pages 5387 - 5403, Aug 2021

  35. Analysis of Optimization Algorithms via Sum-of-Squares [Code] [Slides]
    Sandra S. Y. Tan, Antonios Varvitsiotis, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 190, Pages 56 - 81, Jul 2021

  36. Adversarially-Trained Nonnegative Matrix Factorization [Code] [Slides]
    Ting Cai, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Cédric Févotte
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 28, Pages 1415 - 1419, Jun 2021

  37. Sequential Classification with Empirically Observed Statistics [Slides]
    Mahdi Haghifam, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Ashish Khisti
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 67, No. 5, Pages 3095 - 3113, May 2021

  38. On the Capacity of Channels with Deletions and States
    Yonglong Li and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 67, No. 5, Pages 2663 - 2679, May 2021

  39. Positive Semidefinite Matrix Factorization: A Connection with Phase Retrieval and Affine Rank Minimization [Code]
    Dana Lahat, Yanbin Lang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Cédric Févotte
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 69, Pages 3059 - 3074, Apr 2021

  40. On Non-Interactive Simulation of Binary Random Variables [Slides]
    Lei Yu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 67, No. 4, Pages 2528 - 2538, Apr 2021
    (This paper resolves an open problem posed by Elchanan Mossel in 2017.)

  41. Community Detection and Matrix Completion with Social and Item Similarity Graphs [Slides] [Video]
    Qiaosheng (Eric) Zhang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Changho Suh
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 69, Pages 917 - 931, Jan 2021

  42. Throughput Scaling of Covert Communication over Wireless Adhoc Networks
    Kang-Hee Cho, Si-Hyeon Lee, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 12, Pages 7684 - 7701, Dec 2020

  43. The Bee-Identification Error Exponent with Absentee Bees
    Anshoo Tandon, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Lav R. Varshney
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 12, Pages 7602 - 7614, Dec 2020

  44. Variable-Length Source Dispersions Differ Under Maximum and Average Criteria
    Yuta Sakai and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 12, Pages 7565 - 7587, Dec 2020

  45. Exact Asymptotics for Learning Tree-Structured Graphical Models With Side Information: Noiseless and Noisy Samples [Slides] [Video]
    Anshoo Tandon, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Shiyao Zhu
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, Vol. 1, No. 3, Pages 760 - 776, Nov 2020

  46. Second-Order Asymptotics of Sequential Hypothesis Testing
    Yonglong Li and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 11, Pages 7222 - 7230, Nov 2020

  47. Second- and Third-Order Asymptotics of the Continuous-Time Poisson Channel [Slides]
    Yuta Sakai, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Mladen Kovačević
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 8, Pages 4742 - 4760, Aug 2020

  48. Distributed Detection with Empirically Observed Statistics
    Haiyun He, Lin Zhou and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 7, Pages 4349 - 4367, Jul 2020

  49. On Exact and ∞-Rényi Common Informations [Slides]
    Lei Yu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 6, Pages 3366 - 3406, Jun 2020
    (This paper resolves an open problem posed by Kumar, Li and El Gamal in 2014.)

  50. Exact Channel Synthesis
    Lei Yu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 5, Pages 2299 - 2818, May 2020

  51. Corrections to "Wyner's Common Information under Rényi Divergence Measures" (see [60])
    Lei Yu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 4, Pages 2599 - 2608, Apr 2020

  52. Second-Order Asymptotically Optimal Statistical Classification
    Lin Zhou, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Mehul Motani
    Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Pages 81 - 111, Mar 2020

  53. Exact Error and Erasure Exponents for the Asymmetric Broadcast Channel [Slides] [Code]
    Daming Cao and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 66, No. 2, Pages 865 - 885, Feb 2020

  54. Strong Converse for Hypothesis Testing Against Independence over a Two-Hop Network
    Daming Cao, Lin Zhou and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Entropy, Vol. 21, No. 12, Article 1171, Nov 2019 (Special Issue on Multiuser Information Theory II)

  55. The Bee-Identification Problem: Bounds on the Error Exponent [News]
    Anshoo Tandon, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Lav R. Varshney
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 67, No. 11, Pages 7405 - 7416, Nov 2019

  56. The Informativeness of k-means for Learning Mixture Models [Slides]
    Zhaoqiang Liu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 11, Pages 7460 - 7479, Nov 2019

  57. On the Throughput of Channels that Wear Out
    Ting-Yi Wu, Lav R. Varshney, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 67, No. 8, Pages 5311 - 5320, Aug 2019

  58. The Reliability Function of Lossy Source-Channel Coding of Variable-Length Codes with Feedback
    Lan V. Truong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 8, Pages 5028 - 5042, Aug 2019

  59. Moderate Deviation Asymptotics for Variable-Length Codes with Feedback
    Lan V. Truong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 7, Pages 4364 - 4386, Jul 2019

  60. On the Maximum Size of Block Codes Subject to a Distance Criterion [Slides]
    Ling-Hua Chang, Po-Ning Chen, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Carol Wang and Yunghsiang S. Han
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 6, Pages 3751 - 3757, Jun 2019

  61. Simulation of Random Variables under Rényi Divergence Measures of All Orders
    Lei Yu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 6, Pages 3349 - 3383, Jun 2019

  62. Error-Free Communication over State-Dependent Channels with Variable-Length Feedback [Slides]
    Mladen Kovačević, Carol Wang, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 67, No. 5, Pages 3182 - 3191, May 2019

  63. Distributed Hypothesis Testing with Privacy Constraints
    Atefeh Gilani, Selma Belhadj Amor, Sadaf Salehkalaibar and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Entropy, Vol. 21, No. 5, Article 478, May 2019

  64. Time-Division is Optimal for Covert Communication over Some Broadcast Channels [Slides]
    Vincent Y. F. Tan and Si-Hyeon Lee
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 14, No. 5, Pages 1377 - 1389, May 2019

  65. Refined Asymptotics for Rate-Distortion using Gaussian Codebooks for Arbitrary Sources [Slides]
    Lin Zhou, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Mehul Motani
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 5, Pages 3145 - 3159, May 2019

  66. The Dispersion of Universal Joint-Source Channel Coding for Arbitrary Sources and Additive Channels
    Lin Zhou, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Mehul Motani
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 4, Pages 2234 - 2251, Apr 2019

  67. Rényi Resolvability and Its Applications to the Wiretap Channel
    Lei Yu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 3, Pages 1862 - 1897, Mar 2019

  68. Asymptotic Coupling and Its Applications in Information Theory [Slides]
    Lei Yu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 3, Pages 1321 - 1344, Mar 2019

  69. Strong Converse for Multimessage Networks with Tight Cut-Set Bounds [Russian Version]
    Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Problems of Information Transmission (Пробл. передачи информ.), Vol. 55, No. 1, Pages 67- 100, Jan 2019

  70. Asymptotically Optimal Codes Correcting Fixed-Length Duplication Errors in DNA Storage Systems
    Mladen Kovačević and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 22, No. 11, Pages 2194 - 2197, Nov 2018

  71. Lower Bounds on the Bayes Risk of the Bayesian BTL Model with Applications to Comparison Graphs [Slides]
    Mine Alsan, Ranjitha Prasad and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 12, No. 5, Pages 975 - 988, Oct 2018

  72. Exponential Strong Converse for Content Identification with Lossy Recovery
    Lin Zhou, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Lei Yu and Mehul Motani
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 8, Pages 5879 - 5897, Aug 2018

  73. Codes in the Space of Multisets—Coding for Permutation Channels with Impairments
    Mladen Kovačević and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 7, Pages 5156 - 5169, Jul 2018

  74. Achievable Moderate Deviations Asymptotics for Streaming Slepian-Wolf Coding
    Lin Zhou, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Mehul Motani
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 5, Pages 3756 - 3780, May 2018

  75. Analysis of Remaining Uncertainties and Exponents under Various Conditional Rényi Entropies
    Vincent Y. F. Tan and Masahito Hayashi
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 5, Pages 3734 - 3755, May 2018

  76. Wyner's Common Information under Rényi Divergence Measures
    Lei Yu and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 5, Pages 3616 - 3623, May 2018

  77. On Gaussian MACs with Variable-Length Feedback and Non-Vanishing Error Probabilities [Slides]
    Lan V. Truong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 4, Pages 2333 - 2346, Apr 2018

  78. Hypothesis Testing under Mutual Information Privacy Constraints in the High Privacy Regime
    Jiachun Liao, Lalitha Sankar, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Flavio du Pin Calmon
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 13, No. 4, Pages 1058 - 1071, Apr 2018

  79. On Achievable Rates of AWGN Energy-Harvesting Channels with Block Energy Arrival and Non-Vanishing Error Probabilities
    Silas L. Fong, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Ayfer Özgur
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 3, Pages 2038 - 2064, Mar 2018

  80. Stochastic L-BFGS Revisited: Improved Convergence Rates and Practical Acceleration Strategies [News]
    Renbo Zhao, William B. Haskell and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 66, No. 5, Pages 1155 - 1169, Mar 2018

  81. Minimum Rates of Approximate Sufficient Statistics [Slides]
    Masahito Hayashi and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 2, Pages 875 - 888, Feb 2018

  82. A Unified Convergence Analysis of the Multiplicative Update Algorithm for Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
    Renbo Zhao and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pages 129 - 138, Jan 2018

  83. A Proof of the Strong Converse Theorem for Gaussian Broadcast Channels via the Gaussian Poincaré Inequality
    Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 12, Pages 7737 - 7746, Dec 2017

  84. Zero-Error Capacity of P-ary Shift Channels and FIFO Queues
    Mladen Kovačević, Miloš Stojaković and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 12, Pages 7698 - 7707, Dec 2017

  85. Moderate Deviations Analysis for Classical Communication over Quantum Channels
    Christopher T. Chubb, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Marco Tomamichel
    Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol. 355, No. 3, Pages 1283 - 1315, Nov 2017

  86. A Tight Upper Bound on the Second-Order Coding Rate for Parallel Gaussian Channels with Feedback [Slides]
    Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 10, Pages 6474 - 6486, Oct 2017

  87. Improved Bounds on Sidon Sets via Lattice Packing of Simplices [Slides]
    Mladen Kovačević and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 31, No. 3, Pages 2269 - 2278, Sep 2017

  88. Rank-One NMF-Based Initialization for NMF and Relative Error Bounds under a Geometric Assumption [Code] [Slides]
    Zhaoqiang Liu and Vincent Y. F. Tan 
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 65, No. 18, Pages 4717 - 4731, Sep 2017

  89. Scaling Exponent and Moderate Deviations Asymptotics of Polar Codes for the AWGN Channel
    Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Entropy, Vol. 19, No. 7, Article 364, 2017

  90. Achievable Rates for Gaussian Degraded Relay Channels with Non-Vanishing Error Probabilities
    Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 7, Pages 4183 - 4201, Jul 2017

  91. Second-Order and Moderate Deviation Asymptotics for Successive Refinement
    Lin Zhou, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Mehul Motani
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 5, Pages 2896 - 2921, May 2017

  92. Exact Moderate Deviations Asymptotics for Streaming Data Transmission
    Si-Hyeon Lee, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Ashish Khisti
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 5, Pages 2726 - 2736, May 2017

  93. Polar Coding for the Binary Erasure Channel with Deletions [Code]
    Eldho K. Thomas, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Alexander Vardy and Mehul Motani
    IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 21, No. 4, Pages 710 - 713, Apr 2017

  94. Adversarial Top-K Ranking [Slides]
    Changho Suh, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Renbo Zhao
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 4, Pages 2201 - 2225, Apr 2017

  95. Discrete Lossy Gray-Wyner Revisited: Second-Order Asymptotics, Large and Moderate Deviations
    Lin Zhou, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Mehul Motani
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 3, Pages 1766 - 1791, Mar 2017

  96. On Gaussian Channels with Feedback under Expected Power Constraints and with Non-Vanishing Error Probabilities [Slides]
    Lan V. Truong, Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan 
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 3, Pages 1746 - 1765, Mar 2017

  97. Equivocations, Exponents and Second-Order Coding Rates under Various Rényi Information Measures [Slides]
    Masahito Hayashi and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 2, Pages 975 - 1005, Feb 2017

  98. Online Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Outliers [Code] [Supplemental Material]
    Renbo Zhao and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 65, No. 3, Pages 555 - 570, Feb 2017

  99. The Dispersion of Nearest-Neighbor Decoding for Additive Non-Gaussian Channels
    Jonathan Scarlett, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Giuseppe Durisi
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 1, Pages 81 - 92, Jan 2017

  100. Streaming Data Transmission in the Moderate Deviations and Central Limit Regimes [Slides]
    Si-Hyeon Lee, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Ashish Khisti
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 12, Pages 6816 - 6830, Dec 2016

  101. On the Scaling Exponent of Polar Codes for Binary-Input Energy-Harvesting Channels
    Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 34, No. 12, Pages 3540 - 3551, Dec 2016

  102. Non-Asymptotic Achievable Rates for Energy-Harvesting Channels using Save-and-Transmit
    Silas L. Fong, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Jing Yang
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 34, No. 12, Pages 3499 - 3511, Dec 2016

  103. Strong Converse Theorems for Classes of Multimessage Multicast Networks: A Rényi Divergence Approach
    Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 9, Pages 4953 - 4967, Sep 2016

  104. A Proof of the Strong Converse Theorem for Gaussian Multiple Access Channels
    Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 8, Pages 4376 - 4394, Aug 2016

  105. Impact of Pre-Adapted HIV Transmission [Science Daily] [News and Views] [Project Webpage] [Video]
    Jonathan M. Carlson, Victor Y. Du, Nico Pfeifer, Anju Bansal, Vincent Y. F. Tan,  Karen Power, Chanson J. Brumme, Anat Kreimer, Charles E. DeZiel, Nicolo Fusi, Malinda Schaefer, Mark A. Brockman, Jill Gilmour, Matt A. Price, William Kilembe, Richard Haubrich, Mina John, Simon Mallal, Roger Shapiro, John Frater, P. Richard Harrigan, Thumbi Ndung’u, Susan Allen, David Heckerman, John Sidney, Todd M. Allen, Philip J. R. Goulder, Zabrina L. Brumme, Eric Hunter, Paul A. Goepfert
    Nature Medicine, Vol. 22, No. 6, Pages 606 - 613, Jun 2016

  106. A Numerical Study on the Wiretap Network with a Simple Network Topology
    Fan Cheng and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 5, Pages 2481 - 2492, May 2016

  107. Second-Order Asymptotics for the Gaussian MAC with Degraded Message Sets [Slides]
    Jonathan Scarlett and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 12, Pages 6700 - 6718, Dec 2015
    (Conference version was a finalist for the best student paper award of the IEEE ISIT 2014)

  108. Asymmetric Evaluations of Erasure and Undetected Error Probabilities [Slides]
    Masahito Hayashi and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 12, Pages 6560 - 6577, Dec 2015

  109. Unequal Message Protection: Asymptotic and Non-Asymptotic Tradeoffs
    Yanina Shkel, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Stark C. Draper
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 10, Pages 5396 - 5416, Oct 2015

  110. Information Spectrum Approach to Strong Converse Theorems for Degraded Wiretap Channels
    Vincent Y. F. Tan and Matthieu R. Bloch
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 10, No. 9, Pages 1891 - 1904, Sep 2015

  111. Second-Order Asymptotics for the Classical Capacity of Image Additive Quantum Channels
    Marco Tomamichel and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol. 338, No. 1, Pages 103 - 137, Aug 2015

  112. A Case Where Interference Does Not Affect the Channel Dispersion
    Sy-Quoc Le, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Mehul Motani
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 5, Pages 2439 - 2453, May 2015

  113. The Third-Order Term in the Normal Approximation for the AWGN Channel
    Vincent Y. F. Tan and Marco Tomamichel
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 5, Pages 2430 - 2438, May 2015

  114. Non-Asymptotic and Second-Order Achievability Bounds for Coding With Side-Information
    Shun Watanabe, Shigeaki Kuzuoka and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 4, Pages 1574 - 1605, Apr 2015

  115. On the Reliability Function of the Discrete Memoryless Relay Channel
    Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 4, Pages 1550 - 1573, Apr 2015

  116. The Sender-Excited Secret-Key Agreement Model: Capacity, Reliability and Secrecy Exponents
    Tzu-Han Chou, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Stark C. Draper
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 1, Pages 609 - 627, Jan 2015

  117. A Parsimonious Mixture of Gaussian Trees Model for Oversampling in Imbalanced and Multi-Modal Time-Series Classification [Webpage]
    Hong Cao, Vincent Y. F. Tan and John Z. F. Pang
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol. 25, No. 12, Pages 2226 - 2239, Dec 2014

  118. Second-Order Coding Rates for Channels with State
    Marco Tomamichel and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 60, No. 8, Pages 4427 - 4448, Aug 2014

  119. A Formula for the Capacity of the General Gel'fand-Pinsker Channel
    Vincent Y. F. Tan
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 62, No. 6, Pages 1857 - 1870, Jun 2014

  120. Strong Impossibility Results for Sparse Signal Processing
    Vincent Y. F. Tan and George Atia
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 21, No. 3, Pages 260 - 264, Mar 2014

  121. On the Dispersions of Three Network Information Theory Problems
    Vincent Y. F. Tan and Oliver Kosut
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 60, No. 2, Pages 881 - 903, Feb 2014

  122. A Tight Upper Bound for the Third-Order Asymptotics for Most Discrete Memoryless Channels [Slides]
    Marco Tomamichel and Vincent Y. F. Tan 
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 11, Pages 7041 - 7051, Nov 2013

  123. Wireless Compressive Sensing for Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes over Fading Channels
    Gang Yang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Chin Keong Ho, See Ho Ting and Yong Liang Guan
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 61, No. 18, Pages 4491 - 4505, Sep 2013

  124. Automatic Relevance Determination in Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with the β-Divergence [Supplementary Material] [Poster] [Slides] [Code]
    Vincent Y. F. Tan and Cédric Févotte 
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 35, No. 7, Pages 1592 - 1605, Jul 2013

  125. High-Dimensional Gaussian Graphical Model Selection: Walk Summability and Local Separation Criterion
    Animashree Anandkumar, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Furong Huang and Alan S. Willsky 
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 13, No. 76, Pages 2293 - 2337, 2012

  126. High-Dimensional Structure Estimation of Ising Models: Local Separation Criterion
    Animashree Anandkumar, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Furong Huang and Alan S. Willsky
    Annals of Statistics, Vol. 40, No. 3, Pages 1346 - 1375, 2012

  127. Widespread Impact of HLA Restriction on Immune Control and Escape Pathways in HIV-1
    Jonathan M. Carlson, Jennifer Listgarten, Nico Pfeifer, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Carl Kadie, Bruce D. Walker, Thumbi Ndung'u, Roger Shapiro, John Frater, Zabrina L. Brumme, Philip J. R. Goulder, David Heckerman
    Journal of Virology, Vol. 86, No. 9, Pages 5230 - 5243, May 2012.

  128. Rank Minimization over Finite Fields: Fundamental Limits and Coding-Theoretic Interpretations [Slides]
    Vincent Y. F. Tan, Laura Balzano and Stark C. Draper
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 4, Pages 2018 - 2039, Apr 2012

  129. Learning Latent Tree Graphical Models [Abstract] [Webpage] [Code] [Slides]
    Myung Jin Choi, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Animashree Anandkumar and Alan S. Willsky
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 12, No. 49, Pages 1771 - 1812, 2011

  130. Learning High-Dimensional Markov Forest Distributions: Analysis of Error Rates [Abstract] [Slides]
    Vincent Y. F. Tan, Animashree Anandkumar and Alan S. Willsky
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 12, No. 45, Pages 1617 - 1653, 2011

  131. A Large-Deviation Analysis of the Maximum-Likelihood Learning of Markov Tree Structures [Slides]
    Vincent Y. F. Tan, Animashree Anandkumar, Lang Tong and Alan S. Willsky
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 3, Pages 1714 - 1735, Mar 2011

  132. Learning Graphical Models for Hypothesis Testing and Classification
    Vincent Y. F. Tan, Sujay Sanghavi, John W. Fisher III and Alan S. Willsky
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 11, Pages 5481 - 5495, Nov 2010

  133. Beyond Atopy: Multiple Patterns of Sensitization in Relation to Asthma in a Birth Cohort Study
    Angela Simpson*, Vincent Y. F. Tan*, John Winn, Markus Svensen, Chris Bishop, David Heckerman, Iain Buchan and Adnan Custovic
    American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 181, Pages 1200 - 1206, Jun 2010 (*Co-first Authorship)

  134. Learning Gaussian Tree Models: Analysis of Error Exponents and Extremal Structures [News] [Poster] [Code] [Slides]
    Vincent Y. F. Tan, Animashree Anandkumar and Alan S. Willsky 
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, Issue 5, No. 2701 - 2714, May 2010

  135. Estimating Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation from Noisy Samples: A Stochastic Algorithm [Code]
    Vincent Y. F. Tan and Vivek K Goyal
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, Issue 10, No. 5135 - 5145, Oct 2008