Dissertation
Lele Wang, “Channel coding techniques for network communication,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, San Diego, December 2015 (won the IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award).
Journals
[TIT 25] Wenliang Liu, Guanding Yu, Lele Wang, and Renjie Liao, "An Information-Theoretic Framework for Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Applications to Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics," accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2025.
[TMLR 25] Bicheng Xu*, Qi Yan*, Renjie Liao, Lele Wang, Leonid Sigal, "Joint Generative Modeling of Grounded Scene Graphs and Images via Diffusion Models," Transactions on Machine Learning Research, August 2025 (*equal contribution).
[TIT 25] Ziao Wang, Weina Wang, and Lele Wang, “Efficient algorithms for attributed graph alignment with vanishing edge correlation,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 4556-4580, June 2025.
[JSAIT 24] Nadim Ghaddar and Lele Wang, "Low-Complexity Coding Techniques for Cloud Radio Access Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Information Theory, vol. 5, pp. 572-584, 2024.
[TIT 24] Ziao Wang, Nadim Ghaddar, Banghua Zhu, and Lele Wang, “Noisy sorting capacity,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 70, no. 9, pp. 6121-6138, Sept. 2024.
[TIT 24] Ning Zhang, Ziao Wang, Weina Wang, and Lele Wang, “Attributed graph alignment,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 70, no. 8, pp. 5910-5934, Aug. 2024.
[TMLR 24] Qi Yan, Zhengyang Liang, Yang Song, Renjie Liao, and Lele Wang, “SwinGNN: rethinking permutation invariance in denoising diffusion models for graph generation," Transactions on Machine Learning Research, June 2024.
[JSAIT 24] Banghua Zhu*, Ziao Wang*, Nadim Ghaddar*, Jiantao Jiao, Lele Wang, "Noisy computing of the 𝖮𝖱 and 𝖬𝖠𝖷 functions," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Information Theory, vol. 5, pp. 302-313, 2024 (*equal contribution).
[TIT 24] Ziao Wang, Ning Zhang, Weina Wang, and Lele Wang, “On the feasible region of efficient algorithms for attributed graph alignment,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 3622-3639, May 2024.
[DCC 24] Wenqin Zhang, Yuan Luo, and Lele Wang, “Optimal binary and ternary locally repairable codes with minimum distance 6,” Designs, Codes and Cryptography, vol. 92, pp. 1251–1265, May 2024.
[TIT 24] Nadim Ghaddar, Shouvik Ganguly, Lele Wang, and Young-Han Kim, “A Lego-brick approach to coding for network communication,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 865-903, Feb. 2024.
[TIT 24] Alankrita Bhatt*, Ziao Wang*, Chi Wang, and Lele Wang, “Universal graph compression: Stochastic block models,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 1473-1497, Feb. 2024 (*equal contribution).
[JSAIT 22] Animesh Sakorikar and Lele Wang, “Soft BIBD and product gradient codes,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Information Theory, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 229-240, Jun. 2022.
[TIT 21] Tomer Berg, Ofer Shayevitz, Young-Han Kim, and Lele Wang, "Distributed source simulation with no communication," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 886-901, Feb. 2021.
[TIT 20] Lele Wang, Young-Han Kim, Chiao-Yi Chen, Hosung Park, and Eren Şaşoğlu, "Sliding-window superposition coding: Two-user interference channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 3293-3316, Jun. 2020.
[SIDMA 17] Lele Wang and Ofer Shayevitz, "Graph information ratio," SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 2703-2734, Dec. 2017.
[TIT 17] Lele Wang, Sihuang Hu, and Ofer Shayevitz, "Quickest sequence phase detection," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 5834–5849, Sep. 2017.
[TIT 17] Lele Wang and Mohammad Naghshvar, "On the capacity of the noncausal relay channel," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 3554–3564, Jun. 2017.
[TIT 16] Eren Şaşoğlu and Lele Wang, "Universal polarization," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 2937–2946, Jun. 2016.
Top Computer Science Venues
[EMNLP 25] Amirhossein Dabiriaghdam and Lele Wang, "SimMark: A Robust Sentence-Level Similarity-Based Watermarking Algorithm for Large Language Models," in Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Main Conference), Suzhou, China, November 2025.
[EMNLP 25] Qihang Zhang, Muchen Li, Ziao Wang, Renjie Liao, and Lele Wang, "Test-Time Steering for Lossless Text Compression via Weighted Product of Experts," in Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings), Suzhou, China, November 2025.
[CVPR 25] Yuxiang Fu*, Qi Yan*, Lele Wang, Ke Li, and Renjie Liao, “MoFlow: One-Step Flow Matching for Human Trajectory Forecasting via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation Distillation,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2025 (*equal contribution).
[ALT 25] Ziao Wang, Nadim Ghaddar, Banghua Zhu, Lele Wang, "Noisy computing of the threshold function," in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, Milan, Italy, February 2025.
[COLT 24] Ziao Wang, Weina Wang, and Lele Wang, “Efficient algorithms for attributed graph alignment with vanishing edge correlation,” in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, Edmonton, Canada, June 2024.
[ICLR 23] Deyu Bo, Chuan Shi, Lele Wang, and Renjie Liao, “Specformer: Spectral graph neural networks meet transformers,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations, Kigali, Rwanda, May 2023.
Conference Proceedings
[ISIT 25] Xuzhe Xia, Nicholas Kwan, and Lele Wang, “On the Worst-Case Complexity of Gibbs Decoding for Reed-Muller Codes,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Ann Arbor (Michigan), USA, June 2025.
[ISIT 25] Chun Hei Michael Shiu, Hei Victor Cheng, and Lele Wang, “On the Information-Theoretic Limit of Subgraph Alignment,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Ann Arbor (Michigan), USA, June 2025.
[ISIT 25] Nadim Ghaddar, Lele Wang, and Wei Yu, “On-Grid Angle-of-Arrival Estimation in Large-Scale MIMO Systems Using Channel Codes,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Ann Arbor (Michigan), USA, June 2025.
[CVG 24] Jiahe Liu, Youran Qu, Qi Yan, Xiaohui Zeng, Lele Wang, and Renjie Liao, "Fréchet Video Motion Distance: A Metric for Evaluating Motion Consistency in Videos," First Workshop on Controllable Video Generation (CVG) at ICML, Vienna, Austria, July 2024.
[ISIT 24] Yuxin Jiang, Wenqin Zhang, Yuan Luo, and Lele Wang, “Sparse Gaussian gradient code,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Athens, Greece, July 2024.
[ISIT 24] Wenliang Liu, Guanding Yu, Lele Wang, and Renjie Liao, “An information-theoretic framework for out-of-distribution generalization,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Athens, Greece, July 2024.
[SemEval 24] Amirhossein Abaskohi*, Amirhossein Dabiriaghdam*, Lele Wang, and Giuseppe Carenini, “BCAmirs at SemEval-2024 task 4: beyond words: a multimodal and multilingual exploration of persuasion in memes,” in Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024. (*equal contribution)
[CRV24] Yuxiang Fu, Qi Yan, Lele Wang, Ke Li, and Renjie Liao, “Stochastic Trajectory Generation with Diffusion via Implicit Maximizing Likelihood Estimation Distillation,” 21st Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV) workshops, Guelph, ON, Canada, May 2024.
[ISIT 23] Nicholas Kwan and Lele Wang, "Constructions for nonadaptive tropical group testing,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2023.
[ISIT 23] Ziao Wang, Nadim Ghaddar, Banghua Zhu, and Lele Wang, “Variable-length insertion-based noisy sorting,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2023.
[ISIT 23] Banghua Zhu, Ziao Wang, Nadim Ghaddar, Jiantao Jiao, and Lele Wang, “On the optimal bounds for noisy computing,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2023.
[NetSoft 23] Jiaming Cheng*, Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen*, Lele Wang, Duong Tung Nguyen, Vijay K. Bhargava, “A bandit approach to online pricing for heterogeneous edge resource allocation,” in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization, Madrid, Spain, June 2023. (*equal contribution)
[ISIT 22] Ziao Wang, Ning Zhang, Weina Wang, and Lele Wang, “On the feasible region of efficient algorithms for attributed graph alignment,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposiums on Information Theory, Espoo, Finland, July 2022.
[ISIT 22] Ziao Wang, Nadim Ghaddar, and Lele Wang, “Noisy sorting capacity,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposiums on Information Theory, Espoo, Finland, July 2022.
[CWIT 22] Nadim Ghaddar, Shouvik Ganguly, Lele Wang, and Young-Han Kim, “A Lego-brick approach to lossy source coding,” in Proceedings of the 17th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Ottawa, Canada, June 2022.
[ICML 21] Animesh Sakorikar and Lele Wang, “Soft BIBD and product gradient codes,” ICML workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods for Rigorous, Responsible, and Reliable Machine Learning (ITR3), Virtual, July 2021.
[ISIT 21] Ning Zhang, Weina Wang, and Lele Wang, “Attributed graph alignment,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Melbourne, Australia, July 2021.
[ISIT 21] Alankrita Bhatt*, Ziao Wang*, Chi Wang, and Lele Wang, “Universal graph compression: Stochastic block models,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Melbourne, Australia, July 2021 (*equal contribution).
[ISIT 21] Nadim Ghaddar, Shouvik Ganguly, Lele Wang, and Young-Han Kim, “A Lego-brick approach to coding for asymmetric channels and channels with state,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Melbourne, Australia, July 2021.
[ISTC 21] Animesh Sakorikar and Lele Wang, "Variants on block design based gradient codes for adversarial stragglers," in Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Topics in Coding, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 2021.
[ITW 21] Shouvik Ganguly and Lele Wang, “Sliding-window Gelfand-Pinsker coding: General k-user broadcast channels,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Riva del Garda, Italy, April 2021.
[ISIT 20] Shouvik Ganguly, Lele Wang, and Young-Han Kim, “A functional construction of codes for multiple access and broadcast channels,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 2020.
[ITW 19] Tomer Berg, Ofer Shayevitz, Young-Han Kim, and Lele Wang, “Some results on distributed source simulation with no communication," in Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Visby, Sweden, Aug. 2019.
[ISIT 19] Lele Wang and Ofer Shayevitz, “Adaptive sequence phase detection,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Paris, France, July 2019.
[Allerton 17] Alankrita Bhatt, Nadim Ghaddar, and Lele Wang, “Polar coding for multiple descriptions using monotone chain rules,” in Proceedings of the 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computation, Monticello, Illinois, October 2017.
[ISIT 16] Lele Wang and Ofer Shayevitz, “Graph information ratio,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Aachen, Germany, June 2017.
[ISIT 16] Lele Wang, Sihuang Hu, and Ofer Shayevitz, “Quickest sequence phase detection,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, Spain, July 2016.
[GLOBECOM 15] Kwang Taik Kim, Seok-Ki Ahn, Young-Han Kim, Hosung Park, Lele Wang, Chiao-Yi Chen, and Jeongho Park “Adaptive sliding-window coded modulation in cellular networks,” in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, San Diego, CA, December 2015.
[Allerton 15] Lele Wang and Young-Han Kim, "Linear code duality between channel coding and Slepian-Wolf coding," in Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computation, Monticello, Illinois, September 2015.
[ISIT 15] Lele Wang, "Polar coding for relay channels," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Hong Kong, China, June 2015.
[GLOBECOM 14] Hosung Park, Young-Han Kim, and Lele Wang, "Interference management via sliding-window superposition coding," in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for 5G Wireless Cellular Networks, IEEE GLOBECOM, Austin, TX, December 2014.
[ISIT 14] Lele Wang, Eren Şaşoğlu, and Young-Han Kim, "Sliding-window superposition coding for interference networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, July 2014.
[ISIT 14] Lele Wang and Eren Şaşoğlu, "Polar coding for interference networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, July 2014.
[ISIT 14] Eren Şaşoğlu and Lele Wang, "Universal polarization," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, July 2014.
[ISIT 13] Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei, Bernd Bandemer, Young-Han Kim, Eren Şaşoğlu, and Lele Wang, "On the capacity region for index coding," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013.
[ISIT 13] Lele Wang, Eren Şaşoğlu, Bernd Bandemer, and Young-Han Kim, "A comparison of superposition coding schemes," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013.
[ISIT 12] Lele Wang, Minghai Qin, Eitan Yaakobi, Young-Han Kim, and Paul H. Siegel, "WOM with retained messages," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, July 2012.
[Allerton 11] Yu Xiang, Lele Wang, and Young-Han Kim, "Information flooding," in Proceedings of the 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computation, Monticello, Illinois, September 2011.
[ISIT 11] Lele Wang and Mohammad Naghshvar, "On the capacity of the noncausal relay channel," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2011.
[ISIT 11] Lele Wang and Young-Han Kim, "Sum-capacity of multiple-write noisy memory," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2011.
[GLOBECOM 09] Chen Chi, Yu Zhang, and Lele Wang, "Joint power control and FEC unequal error protection for scalable H.264 video transmission over wireless fading channels," in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE GLOBECOM, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2009.
Invited Presentations:
Graph matching: Fundamental limits and efficient algorithms
3-hour tutorial at ISIT 2024 (jointly with Hye Won Chung), Athens, Greece, July 2024
1-hour tutorial at BIRS Workshop on Dynamic Allocation and Matching, Banff, Canada, March 2025
Attributed graph alignment
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indiana, USA, October 2022
BIRS/CMO Workshop on Learning in Networks: Performance Limits and Algorithms, Oaxaca, Mexico, November 2022
BIRS Workshop on Algorithmic Structures for Uncoordinated Communications and Statistical Inference in Exceedingly Large Spaces, Banff, Canada, March 2024
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, June 2024
Vancouver local meetup for the Learning on Graphs Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 2024
Universal graph compression: Stochastic block models
56th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2022
Oberwolfach Workshop on New Mathematical Techniques in Information Theory, Germany, March 2022
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, June 2022
IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, Banff, Canada, May 2024
Soft BIBD and product gradient codes
ITA workshop, San Diego, USA, May 2022
Munich Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, Munich, Germany, June 2022
A functional construction of codes for multiple access and broadcast channels
ITA workshop, San Diego, USA, February 2020
Two-dimensional sliding-window superposition coding
ITA workshop, San Diego, USA, February 2019
The magic of fast positioning: An information-theoretic perspective
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, March 2018
National University of Singapore, Singapore, March 2018
Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA, April 2018
Princeton University, Princeton, USA, April 2018
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, April 2020
Coded positioning systems
ITA workshop, San Diego, USA, February 2018
53rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Johns Hopkins University, March 2019
Advanced channel coding techniques for wireless communication
University at Buffalo -The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, February 2018
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, USA, February 2018
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, April 2018
Structure and complexity aspects in communication and detection
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 2018
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, January 2018
Structure in information theory: codes, sequences, and graphs
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, January 2018
Graph information ratio
ITA workshop, San Diego, USA, February 2017
University of California, Berkeley, BLISS seminar, Berkeley, USA, March 2017
Discrete math seminar, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October 2019
54th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, USA, March 2020
Dagstuhl Seminar on Algorithmic Aspects of Information Theory, Dagstuhl, Germany, July 2022
Codes and card tricks: Magic for adversarial crowds
ITA workshop, San Diego, USA, February 2016
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, May 2016
Stanford University, Information Theory Forum, Stanford, USA, January 2017
Advanced channel coding techniques for wireless networks
ITA workshop, Graduation-Day talk, San Diego, USA, February 2015
Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, April 2015
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA, September 2015
Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, November 2015
Universal polar coding
BIRS workshop - Between Shannon and Hamming: Network Information Theory and Combinatorics, Banff, Canada, March 2015
Interference management at optimal rates and low complexity
Rising stars in EECS workshop, Berkeley, USA, November 2014
Practical coding techniques for network communication systems
Qualcomm, Inc. San Diego, USA, April 2013
The two-egg puzzle and the capacity of the phase change memory
North American School of Information Theory, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, June 2012