Chao Tian

Orcid: 0000-0001-8752-6141

Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College Station, TX, USA
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA (former)
  • McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada (former)


According to our database1, Chao Tian authored at least 130 papers between 2004 and 2024.

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2024
Provable Policy Gradient Methods for Average-Reward Markov Potential Games.
CoRR, 2024

Weakly Private Information Retrieval from Heterogeneously Trusted Servers.
CoRR, 2024

2023
A Shannon-Theoretic Approach to the Storage-Retrieval Trade-Off in PIR Systems.
Inf., January, 2023

Stochastic chaining and strengthened information-theoretic generalization bounds.
J. Frankl. Inst., 2023

Natural Actor-Critic for Robust Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Federated Linear Bandits with Finite Adversarial Actions.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Exactly Tight Information-Theoretic Generalization Error Bound for the Quadratic Gaussian Problem.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2023

2022
On Top-k Selection From m-Wise Partial Rankings via Borda Counting.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 2022

Individually Conditional Individual Mutual Information Bound on Generalization Error.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2022

Revisiting the Optimization of Cauchy Reed-Solomon Coding Matrix for Fault-Tolerant Data Storage.
IEEE Trans. Computers, 2022

Two-Level Private Information Retrieval.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Inf. Theory, 2022

Guest Editorial.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Inf. Theory, 2022

Private Retrieval, Computing, and Learning: Recent Progress and Future Challenges.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2022

Privacy in Retrieval, Computing, and Learning.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2022

Coding Overhead Analysis of Decentralized Coded Caching.
IEEE Commun. Lett., 2022

Anchor-Changing Regularized Natural Policy Gradient for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Improved Weakly Private Information Retrieval Codes.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2022

A New Approach to Compute Information Theoretic Outer Bounds and Its Application to Regenerating Codes.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2022

Approximate Top-m Arm Identification with Heterogeneous Reward Variances.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2022

2021
On the Fundamental Limits of Coded Caching Systems With Restricted Demand Types.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2021

New Results on the Storage-Retrieval Tradeoff in Private Information Retrieval Systems.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Inf. Theory, 2021

Computational Techniques for Investigating Information Theoretic Limits of Information Systems.
Inf., 2021

Fast Global Convergence of Policy Optimization for Constrained MDPs.
CoRR, 2021

Learning Policies with Zero or Bounded Constraint Violation for Constrained MDPs.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2021, 2021

2020
Fast Erasure Coding for Data Storage: A Comprehensive Study of the Acceleration Techniques.
ACM Trans. Storage, 2020

Capacity-Achieving Private Information Retrieval Codes From MDS-Coded Databases With Minimum Message Size.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2020

On the Storage Cost of Private Information Retrieval.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2020

Weakly Secure Symmetric Multilevel Diversity Coding.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2020

On the Information Leakage in Private Information Retrieval Systems.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 2020

Decoding Binary Linear Codes Over Channels With Synchronization Errors.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2020

Weakly Private Information Retrieval Under the Maximal Leakage Metric.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2020

2019
Capacity-Achieving Private Information Retrieval Codes With Optimal Message Size and Upload Cost.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2019

Breaking the MDS-PIR Capacity Barrier via Joint Storage Coding.
Inf., 2019

An Open-Source Toolbox for Computer-Aided Investigation on the Fundamental Limits of Information Systems, Version 0.1.
CoRR, 2019

On the Fundamental Limit of Coded Caching Systems with a Single Demand Type.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2019

2018
Caching and Delivery via Interference Elimination.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2018

A Generic Transformation to Enable Optimal Repair in MDS Codes for Distributed Storage Systems.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2018

On the Symmetry Reduction of Information Inequalities.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2018

Fundamental Limits of Coded Caching: From Uncoded Prefetching to Coded Prefetching.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2018

Symmetry, Outer Bounds, and Code Constructions: A Computer-Aided Investigation on the Fundamental Limits of Caching.
Entropy, 2018

Multilevel Diversity Coding with Secure Regeneration: Separate Coding Achieves the MBR Point.
Entropy, 2018

Special focus on distributed storage coding.
Sci. China Inf. Sci., 2018

New results on multilevel diversity coding with secure regeneration.
Sci. China Inf. Sci., 2018

From Uncoded Prefetching to Coded Prefetching in Coded Caching Systems.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2018

A Shannon-Theoretic Approach to the Storage-Retrieval Tradeoff in PIR Systems.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2018

Delayed Parity Generation in MDS Storage Codes.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2018

An Alternative Generic Transformation for Optimal Repair Bandwidth and Rebuilding Access in MDS Codes.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2018

2017
Matched Multiuser Gaussian Source Channel Communications via Uncoded Schemes.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2017

On the Tradeoff Region of Secure Exact-Repair Regenerating Codes.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2017

From Uncoded Prefetching to Coded Prefetching in Coded Caching.
CoRR, 2017

Coded prefetching and efficient delivery in decentralized caching systems.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, 2017

A generic transformation for optimal repair bandwidth and rebuilding access in MDS codes.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2017

2016
Multilevel Diversity Coding With Regeneration.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2016

Enabling All-Node-Repair in Minimum Storage Regenerating Codes.
CoRR, 2016

Cyclically symmetric entropy inequalities.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2016

Orbit-entropy cones and extremal pairwise orbit-entropy inequalities.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2016

Selective Sampling Based Efficient Classifier Representation in Distributed Learning.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2016

Multilevel diversity coding with regeneration: Separate coding achieves the MBR point.
Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems, 2016

2015
Layered Exact-Repair Regenerating Codes via Embedded Error Correction and Block Designs.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2015

Gaussian State Amplification with Noisy Observations.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2015

Broadcasting Correlated Vector Gaussians.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2015

Polar Codes for Multiple Descriptions.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2015

An Approximation Approach to Network Information Theory.
Found. Trends Commun. Inf. Theory, 2015

2014
Optimality and Approximate Optimality of Source-Channel Separation in Networks.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2014

Characterizing the Rate Region of the (4, 3, 3) Exact-Repair Regenerating Codes.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2014

Distributed data storage systems with opportunistic repair.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2014

Repair-efficient distributed storage codes with heterogeneous reliability requirements.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, 2014

2013
Worst-Case Expected-Capacity Loss of Slow-Fading Channels.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2013

Capacity-Achieving Polar Codes for Arbitrarily Permuted Parallel Channels.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2013

Accelerated Bilateral Filtering With Block Skipping.
IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2013

Exact-repair regenerating codes via layered erasure correction and block designs.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2013

Rate region of the (4, 3, 3) exact-repair regenerating codes.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2013

Gaussian state amplification with noisy state observations.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2013

A probabilistic pairwise-preference predictor for image quality.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2013

Distributed storage evaluation on a three-wide inter-data center deployment.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013), 2013

2012
Minimum Expected Distortion in Gaussian Source Coding With Fading Side Information.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2012

Amplification of the hidden Gaussian channel states.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2012

Broadcast correlated Gaussians: The vector-scalar case.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2012

An automatic grid corner extraction technique for camera calibration.
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2012

2011
The Achievable Distortion Region of Sending a Bivariate Gaussian Source on the Gaussian Broadcast Channel.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2011

Approximate Characterizations for the Gaussian Source Broadcast Distortion Region.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2011

Latent Capacity Region: A Case Study on Symmetric Broadcast With Common Messages.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2011

A three-layer scheme for M-channel multiple description image coding.
Signal Process., 2011

On the capacity of a hybrid broadcast multiple access system for WDM networks.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, 2011

Inequalities for entropies of sets of subsets of random variables.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, 2011

Sending Gaussian Source on Bandwidth-Mismatched Gaussian Channel with Improved Robustness.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2011

Upsampling range camera depth maps using high-resolution vision camera and pixel-level confidence classification.
Proceedings of the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXII, 2011

2010
New coding schemes for the symmetric K -description problem.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2010

Asymmetric multilevel diversity coding and asymmetric Gaussian multiple descriptions.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2010

M-Channel Multiple Description Coding With Two-Rate Coding and Staggered Quantization.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2010

LDPC code design for asynchronous Slepian-Wolf coding.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2010

Network resource allocation for competing multiple description transmissions.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2010

The achievable distortion region of bivariate Gaussian source on Gaussian broadcast channel.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2010

A three-layer algorithm for M-channel multiple description image coding.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2010

2009
A Coding Algorithm for Constant Weight Vectors: A Geometric Approach Based on Dissections.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2009

Approximating the Gaussian multiple description rate region under symmetric distortion constraints.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2009

Remote vector Gaussian source coding with decoder side information under mutual information and distortion constraints.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2009

Multiple description coding for stationary Gaussian sources.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2009

Multiple Description Coding With Prediction Compensation.
IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2009

Physical sketching: Reconstruction and analysis of 3D objects from freehand sketches.
Comput. Aided Des., 2009

Quantization splitting for symmetric K-channel multiple descriptions.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2009

Approximate characterizations for the Gaussian broadcasting distortion region.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2009

Asynchronous Slepian-Wolf code design.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2009

Capacity Region of Reversely Degraded Gaussian MIMO Broadcast Channel.
Proceedings of the Global Communications Conference, 2009. GLOBECOM 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 30 November, 2009

2008
Successive Refinement Via Broadcast: Optimizing Expected Distortion of a Gaussian Source Over a Gaussian Fading Channel.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2008

Side-Information Scalable Source Coding.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2008

Multiuser Successive Refinement and Multiple Description Coding.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2008

Successive Refinement for Hypothesis Testing and Lossless One-Helper Problem.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2008

Distortion Minimization in Gaussian Source Coding with Fading Side Information
CoRR, 2008

A unified coding scheme for hybrid transmission of Gaussian source over Gaussian channel.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2008

A novel coding scheme for symmetric multiple description coding.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2008

Asymmetric Gaussian multiple descriptions and asymmetric multilevel diversity coding.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2008

On the Symmetric Gaussian Multiple Description Rate-Distortion Function.
Proceedings of the 2008 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2008), 2008

Asymmetric Multi-level Diversity Coding.
Proceedings of the 2008 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2008), 2008

2007
On Multistage Successive Refinement for Wyner-Ziv Source Coding With Degraded Side Informations.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2007

Expected Distortion for Gaussian Source with a Broadcast Transmission Strategy over a Fading Channel.
Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop on Information Theory for Wireless Networks, 2007

On Scalable Source Coding With Decoder Side Informations.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2007

Hypothesis Testing Under Successive Refinement Communication Constraints.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2007

Multiple Description Coding for Stationary and Ergodic Sources.
Proceedings of the 2007 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2007), 2007

2006
Multiple Description Quantization Via Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2006

Visually Optimized Multiple Description Image Coding.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

2005
A new class of multiple description scalar quantizer and its application to image coding.
IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2005

Constant weight codes: a geometric approach.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005

A new class of universal multiple description lattice quantizers.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005

Staggered Lattices in Multiple Description Quantization.
Proceedings of the 2005 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2005), 2005

2004
Optimality and suboptimality of multiple-description vector quantization with a lattice codebook.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2004

Universal Multiple Description Scalar Quantization: Analysis and Design.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2004

A special class of multiple description scalar quantizers.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2004

An embedded image coding system based on tarp filter with classification.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

Sequential Design of Multiple Description Scalar Quantizers.
Proceedings of the 2004 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2004), 2004


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