Preprints and Submissions

  1. Third-Order Asymptotics for Fixed-Length Lossy Compression of Discrete Memoryless Sources
    Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Nov 2026

  2. Best-of-Both-Worlds FTRL for Linear Bandits: The Interplay of Information Acquisition, Corruption, and Geometry
    Canzhe Zhao and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted, Nov 2026

  3. Second-Order Asymptotics for the Scalar Gaussian Broadcast Channel
    Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Nov 2026

  4. Last-Iterate Stationarity of Muon with Finitely Many Newton-Schulz Iterations
    Ping Li and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted, Oct 2026

  5. Bayesian Fixed-Confidence Best-Arm Identification with Abstention
    Yuqi Huang, Yunlong Hou, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted, Oct 2026

  6. On the Tightness of Omura's Strong Converse Exponent and Critical Rates Above Capacity
    Hamdi Joudeh and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Oct 2026

  7. Second-Order Asymptotics for the Gaussian MAC on the Relative Interior of the Sum-Rate Face
    Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Sep 2026

  8. Second-Order Asymptotics for the Gaussian Multiple-Access Channel at Corner Points
    Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Aug 2026

  9. Statistical Inference for Rank Allocation in Low-Rank Adaptation
    Yihang Gao and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to Annals of Applied Statistics, Jul 2026

  10. Bayesian Best-Arm Identification with Abstention: A Polynomial-to-Exponential Phase Transition
    Yuqi Huang, Yunlong Hou, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to Mathematics of Operations Research, Jun 2026

  11. On the Benefits of Free Exploration for Regret Minimization in Multi-Armed Bandits
    Yunlong Hou, Zixin Zhong, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to the Journal of Machine Learning Research, May 2026

  12. Bandit Convex Optimization with Gradient Prediction Adaptivity
    Shuche Wang, Adarsh Barik and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 2026

  13. ODELoRA: Training Low-Rank Adaptation by Solving Ordinary Differential Equations
    Yihang Gao and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted to the SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, Feb 2026

  14. Quantum-Enhanced Neural Contextual Bandit Algorithms
    Yuqi Huang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, and Sharu Theresa Jose
    Submitted to Quantum Machine Intelligence, Jan 2026

  15. Transformers Provably Learn Directed Acyclic Graphs via Kernel-Guided Mutual Information
    Yuan Cheng, Yu Huang, Zhe Xiong, Yingbin Liang, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    To be submitted, 2026+

  16. Memory Limitations of Prompt Tuning in Transformers
    Maxime Meyer, Mario Michelessa, Caroline Chaux, and Vincent Y. F. Tan
    Submitted, 2025+