Tuesday, August 19
Coffee and Pastries available
Keynote: Paul H. Siegel, UCSD
Title: Coding Theory, Memory, and AI: A Harmonious Trio
Session: Coding for Storage
Session Chair: Ahmed Elkelesh (Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart, Germany)
| Marker Guess & Check Plus (MGC+): An Efficient Short Blocklength Code for Random Edit Errors, Best Paper Nominee Ramy Khabbaz* (CNRS & Côte d’Azur University France, France); Marc Antonini (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Serge Kas Hanna (CNRS & Côte d’Azur University, France) |
| Coded Secure Delivery for Anonymous Information Retrieval, Best Paper Nominee Omer Lauer* and Yuval Cassuto (Technion, Israel) |
| Rank Modulated Composite Encoding for Data Storage in DNA, Best Paper Nominee Tomer Cohen* (Technion, Israel); Zhiying Wang (UC Irvine, USA); Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel); Zohar Yakhini (Reichman University, Israel) |
Coffee Break
Keynote: Minghai Qin, Western Digital
Title: Inference of Large Language Models in the Presence of Noise
Session: Coding and AI
Session Chair: Guido Montorsi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
| AI/ML Based Encoder and Decoder Design for PUCCH HARQ-ACK Payload Akash S Doshi (Qualcomm Technologies Inc., USA); Pinar Sen (University of California, San Diego, USA); Kirill Ivanov (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); Wei Yang (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, USA); June Namgoong (Qualcomm Technologies Inc., USA); Taesang Yoo and Jing Jiang (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Tingfagn Ji (Qualcomm Technologies Inc., USA) |
| Neural Network Decoding of Polar Codes with Large Kernels Valerio Bioglio (Università Degli Studi di Torino, Italy); Gastón De Boni Rovella (Universidad de la República, Uruguay); Meryem Benammar (ISAE-Supaero, France) |
| Action-List Reinforcement Learning Decoders Milad Taghipour and Bane Vasic (University of Arizona, USA) |
| Channel Coding for Binary Neural Networks Implemented with Noisy Memristor Crossbars Elsa Dupraz (IMT Atlantique, France); François Leduc-Primeau (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada) |
Luncheon at the UCLA Faculty Club
Keynote: Frank Kschischang
Title: Coding for Fiber-Optic Communications
Session: Coding for Optical Channels
Session Chair: David Mitchell (New Mexico State University, USA)
| Deep Unfolded Optical Decoder for LDPC Codes with System Noise Mitigation Lantian Wei and Tadashi Wadayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan); Kazunori Hayashi (Kyoto University, Japan) |
Enhancing oFEC using MAP Decoding of BCH Component Codes, Best Paper Nominee Soren Forchhammer, Knud Larsen and Jakob Dahl Andersen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) |
Serially Concatenated Codes for Data Center Networks Balazs Matuz (Huawei Technnologies, Germany); Emna Ben Yacoub (Huawei Munich Research Center, Germany); Stefano Calabro (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany) |
| Soft-Output from Covered Space Decoding of Product Codes, Best Paper Nominee Tim Janz, Simon Obermüller, Andreas Zunker and Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart, Germany) |
Poster Symposium and Refreshments
Mong Lobby in Engineering VI building