Publications

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Tutorial

[T1] X. Huang, D. Kroening, W. Ruan, J. Sharp, Y. Sun, E. Thamo, M. Wu, X. Yi, "A survey of safety and trustworthiness of deep neural networks: Verification, testing, adversarial attack and defence, and interpretability," Computer Science Review, vol. 37, Aug. 2020, e-print arXiv: 1812.08342.

IEEE Transactions

[J26] Y. Liang, C. Liao, and X. Yi, “Topological interference management with adversarial topology perturbation: An algorithmic perspective,” IEEE Trans. Communications, accepted, Oct. 2022.

[J25] G. Jin, X. Yi, P. Yang, L. Zhang, S. Schewe, and X. Huang, "Weight expansion: A new perspective on dropout and generalization," Transactions on Machine Learning Research, accepted, Aug. 2022, arXiv:2201.09209.

[J24] J. Guo, K. Huang,  X. Yi, R. Zhang, "Learning Disentangled Graph Convolutional Networks Locally and Globally," IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, accepted, July 2022, e-print arxiv: 2104.11893.

[J23] H. Yu, X. Yi, and G. Caire. "Downlink precoding for DP-UPA FDD massive MIMO via multi-dimensional active channel sparsification," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, accepted, Feb. 2022, e-print arXiv:2104.13309.

[J22] H. Yu, X. Yi, and G. Caire, "Topological pilot assignment in large-scale distributed MIMO networks," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, accepted, Jan. 2022, (IEEExplore) e-print arXiv:2105.12645.

[J21] X. Yi, "Asymptotic spectral representation of linear convolutional layers," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 70, 2022. (IEEExplore) e-print: arXiv: 2006.07117.

[J20] G. Sun, Y. Li, X. Yi, W. Wang, X. Gao, L. Wang, F. Wei, and Y. Chen, ``Massive grant-free OFDMA with timing and frequency offsets,'' IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, accepted, Oct. 2021. (IEEExplore)

[J19] J. Shi, W. Wang, X. Yi, X. Gao, and G. Li, ``Deep Learning based Robust Precoding for Massive MIMO,'' IEEE Trans. Communications, accepted, Aug. 2021. (IEEExplore)

[J18] M. B. Khalilsarai, T. Yang, S. Haghighatshoar, X. Yi, and G. Caire, "Dual-Polarized FDD Massive MIMO: A Comprehensive Framework," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, accepted, Jul. 2021. (IEEExplore)

[J17] C. Wu, X. Yi, Y. Zhu, W. Wang, L. You, X. Gao, ``Channel prediction in high-mobility massive MIMO: From spatio-temporal auto-regression to deep learning,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) special issue on Machine Learning in Communications and Networks, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 1915-1930, Jul. 2021. (IEEExplore)

[J16] H. Yu, L. You, W. Wang, and X. Yi, ``Active channel sparsification for uplink massive MIMO with uniform planar array,'' IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 6018-6032, Sept. 2021. (IEEExplore)

[J15] C. Wu, X. Yi, W. Wang, L. You, Q. Huang, X. Gao, "Learning to localize: A 3D CNN approach to user positioning in massive MIMO-OFDM systems," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 4556-4570, Jul. 2021. (IEEExplore)

[J14] J. Shi, W. Wang, X. Yi, J. Wang, X. Gao, Q. Liu, and G. Li, "Learning to compute ergodic rate for multi-cell scheduling in massive MIMO,'' IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 785-797, Feb. 2021. (IEEExplore)

[J13] H. Joudeh, X. Yi, B. Clerckx, G. Caire, "On the optimality of treating inter-cell interference as noise: Downlink cellular networks and uplink-downlink duality," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 6939-6961, Nov. 2020. (IEEExplore)

[J12] L. You, J. Xiong, X. Yi, J. Wang, W. Wang, and X. Gao, "Energy efficiency optimization for downlink massive MIMO with statistical CSIT," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2684-2698, Apr. 2020. (IEEExplore)

[J11] X. Yi and H. Sun, “Opportunistic topological interference management,” IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 521-535, Jan. 2020. (IEEExplore) 

[J10] X. Yi and H. Sun, “Opportunistic treating interference as noise,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 520-533, Jan. 2020. (IEEExplore)

[J9] M. B. Khalilsarai, S. Haghighatshoar, X. Yi, and G. Caire, “FDD massive MIMO via UL/DL channel covariance extrapolation and active channel sparsification,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 121-135, Jan. 2019. (IEEExplore)

[J8] X. Yi and G. Caire, “Topological interference management with decoded message passing,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 3842-3864, May 2018. (IEEExplore)

[J7] X. Yi, H. Sun, S. Jafar, and D. Gesbert, “TDMA is optimal for all-unicast DoF region of TIM if and only if topology is chordal bipartite,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 2065– 2076, Mar. 2018. (IEEExplore)

[J6] X. Yi and G. Caire, “Optimality of treating interference as noise: A combinatorial perspective,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 4654–4673, Aug. 2016. (IEEExplore)

[J5] X. Yi and D. Gesbert, “Topological interference management with transmitter cooperation,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 6107–6130, Nov. 2015. (IEEExplore)

[J4] X. Yi, S. Yang, D. Gesbert, and M. Kobayashi, “The degrees of freedom region of temporally correlated MIMO networks with delayed CSIT,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 594–614, Jan. 2014. (IEEExplore)

[J3] X. Yi and D. Gesbert, “Precoding methods for the MISO broadcast channel with delayed CSIT,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 2344–2354, May 2013. (IEEExplore)

[J2] S. Yang, M. Kobayashi, D. Gesbert, and X. Yi, “Degrees of freedom of time correlated MISO broadcast channels with delayed CSIT,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 315–328, Jan. 2013. (IEEExplore)

[J1] X. Yi and E. K. S. Au, “User scheduling for heterogeneous multiuser MIMO systems: a subspace viewpoint,” IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, vol. 60, no. 8, pp. 4004–4013, Oct. 2011. (IEEExplore)

AI Conference Papers

[AI7] G. Jin, X. Yi, D. Wu, R. Mu, X. Huang, “Randomized adversarial training via Taylor expansion,” IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’23), 2023.

[AI6] J. Guo, K. Huang, X. Yi, and R. Zhang, “Graph neural networks with diverse spectral filtering,” International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’23), Jan. 2023.

[AI5] G. Liu, X. Huang, and X. Yi, "Adversarial Label Poisoning Attack on Graph Neural Networks via Label Propagation," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'22), 2022. 

[AI4] W. Ruan, X. Yi, and X. Huang, “Adversarial Robustnessof Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications,” Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’21), Nov. 2021, QLD, Australia.

[AI3] G. Jin, X. Yi, W. Huang, S. Schewe, and X. Huang, "Enhancing Adversarial Training with Second-Order Statistics of Weights," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'22), 2022.

[AI2] S. Zhang, Z. Qian, K. Huang, Q. Wang, R. Zhang, and X. Yi, "Towards better robust generalization with shift consistency regularization," 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'21), Jul. 2021.

[AI1] G. Jin, X. Yi, L. Zhang, L. Zhang, S. Schewe, and X. Huang, “How does weight correlation affect generalisation ability of deep neural networks?” 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), Dec. 2020.

IEEE Conference Papers

[C29] Z. Shan, X. Yi, H. Yu, C. Liao, and S. Jin, “Learning to code on graphs for topological interference management,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’23), Jun. 2023.

[C28] Y. Liang, C. Liao, and X. Yi, “A primal-dual algorithmic aspect of link scheduling in dynamic wireless networks,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’23), Jun. 2023.

[C27] G. Sun, X. Yi, W. Wang, and W. Xu, “Hybrid Beamforming for Ergodic Rate Maximization of mmWave Massive Grant-Free Systems,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’22), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2022.

[C26] G. Sun, Y. Li, X. Yi, W. Wang, X. Gao, L. Wang, “OFDMA Based Massive Grant-Free Transmission in the Presence of Timing Offset,” nternational Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP’21), Changsha, China, 2021.

[C25] Y. Liang, C. Liao, and X. Yi, “Dynamic Algorithms for Minimum Coloring with Applications,” 38th Workshop on Combinatorial Mathematics and Computation Theory (CMCT’21), Taipei, Jun. 2021. (Best Paper Award)

[C24] H. Yu, X. Yi, and G. Caire, "Topological pilot assignment in cell-free massive MIMO networks," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'21), Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2021.

[C23] Y. Liang, C. Liao, and X. Yi, "Topological interference management with adversarial perturbation," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’21), Jul. 2021, e-print: arXiv: 2101.12673.

[C22] J. Shi, W. Wang, X. Yi, X. Gao, and G. Li, ``Deep learning based robust precoder design for massive MIMO downlink,'' in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Communications (ICC'21), June 2021.

[C21] C. Wu, X. Yi, W. Wang, Q. Huang, X. Gao, “3D CNN-enabled positioning in 3D massive MIMO-OFDM systems,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Communications (ICC’20), Dublin, Ireland.

[C20] M. B. Khalilsarai, T. Yang, S. Haghighatshoar, X. Yi, and G. Caire, “Active Channel Sparsification and Precoding for Dual-Polarized FDD Massive MIMO,” 24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2020), Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 2020. 

[C19] J. Xiong, L. You, X. Yi, J. Wang, W. Wang and X. Gao, "Energy efficient precoding for Massive MIMO downlink transmission with statistical CSI," in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'19), Waikoloa, HI, USA, Dec. 2019.

[C18] H. Yu, H. Yin, and X. Yi, ``On detecting pilot attack in massive MIMO: An information-based clustering approach,'' in IEEE Int. Workshop Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'19), Cannes, France, 2019.

[C17] X. Yi and H. Sun, “Opportunistic topological interference management,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’19), Paris, France, Jul. 2019.

[C16] H. Joudeh, X. Yi, and B. Clerckx, "On multi-cell uplink-downlink duality with treating inter-cell interference as noise," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’19), Paris, France, Jul. 2019.

[C15] M. B. Khalilsarai, S. Haghighatshoar, X. Yi, and G. Caire, “FDD massive MIMO: Efficient downlink probing and uplink feedback via active channel sparsification,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Communi-cations (ICC’18), arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.07993.

[C14] X. Yi and G. Caire, “Topological interference management with decoded message passing: A polyhedral approach,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’17), Aachen, Germany, Jun. 2017.

[C13] X. Yi and G. Caire, “Topological coded caching,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’16), Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2016.

[C12] X. Yi and G. Caire, “Topological interference management with decoded message passing,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’16), Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2016.

[C11] X. Yi and G. Caire, “ITLinQ+: An improved spectrum sharing mechanism for device-to-device communications,” in Proc. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC’15), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 2015. (Invited)

[C10] X. Yi and G. Caire, “On the optimality of treating interference as noise: A combinatorial optimization perspective,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’15), Hong Kong, Jun. 2015.

[C9] X. Yi and D. Gesbert, “Topological interference management with transmitter cooperation,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’14), Hawii, USA, Jun. 2014.

[C8] X. Yi, D. Gesbert, S. Yang, and M. Kobayashi, “Degrees of freedom of time-correlated broadcast channels with delayed CSIT: The MIMO case,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’13), Istanbul, Turkey, Jul. 2013.

[C7] P. de Kerret, X. Yi, and D. Gesbert, ”On the degrees of freedom of the K-User time-correlated broadcast channel with delayed CSIT”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’13), Istanbul, Turkey, Jul. 2013.

 [C6] X. Yi, P. de Kerret, and D. Gesbert, “The DoF of network MIMO with backhaul delays,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Communications (ICC’13), Budapest, Hungry, Jun. 2013.

 [C5] X. Yi, D. Gesbert, S. Yang, and M. Kobayashi, “On the DoF of the multiple-antenna time correlated interference channel with delayed CSIT,” in Proc. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC’12), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 2012. (Invited, long version arXiv: 1204.3046).

 [C4] S. Yang, M. Kobayashi, D. Gesbert, X. Yi, “Degrees of Freedom of MISO broadcast channel with perfect delayed and imperfect current CSIT,” in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW’12), Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 2012.

 [C3] M. Kobayashi, S. Yang, D. Gesbert, X. Yi, “On the Degrees of freedom of time correlated MISO broadcast channel with delayed CSIT,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT’12), Cambridge, MA, USA, Jul. 2012.

 [C2] X. Yi and E. K. S. Au, “On enhancing inter-user spatial separation for downlink multiuser MIMO systems,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Communications (ICC’12), Ottawa, Canada, Jun. 2012.

 [C1] X. Yi and D. Gesbert, “Precoding on the broadcast MIMO channel with delayed CSIT: The finite SNR case,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’12), Kyoto, Japan, Mar. 2012.