Schedule
The workshop will be held on July 3, 2026 at the Guangzhou Yuexiu International Congress Center. See the venue on Google Maps
Room: 602B
Some accepted papers will be selected for spotlight presentations.
For details on the invited talks and the speakers, please see below.
Timetable
Chairs: Jun Chen, Ezgi Ozyilkan, Yong Fang, and Elza Erkip
| Time (UTC-4) | Event | Invited Speaker / Spotlight Paper / Additional Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 09:50 - 11:10 | Technical Session 1 | |
| 09:50 – 10:30 | Keynote Presentation 1 | Aaron Wagner: Wasserstein Distortion: Unifying Fidelity and Realism |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Oral Presentation 1 | Changshuo Wang, Zijian Liang, Kai Niu, Ping Zhang: A Theoretical Framework for Rate-Distortion Limits in Learned Image Compression |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Oral Presentation 2 | Tong Wu, Zhiyong Chen, Guo Lu, Li Song, Feng Yang, Meixia Tao, Wenjun Zhang: Joint Source-Channel-Generation Coding: From Distortion-Oriented Reconstruction to Semantic-Consistent Generation |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Tea Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:50 | Technical Session 2 | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Keynote Presentation 2 | Bo Bai: Forget BIT, It is all about TOKEN: Towards Semantic Information Theory for LLMs |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Invited Talk 1 | Yanjun Han: Next-symbol Prediction from Compression: Statistical and Computational Foundations |
| 12:50 - 14:00 | Lunch Break and Poster Session | |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Technical Session 3 | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Keynote Presentation 3 | Zoe Liu: AV1 for Video AI: From Bit Compression to Token Compression |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Oral Presentation 3 | Chenghong Bian, Yulin Shao, Deniz Gündüz: Towards AI-Native Fronthaul: Neural Compression for NextG Cloud RAN |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Oral Presentation 4 | Gergely Flamich, Spencer Hill: Singular Relative Entropy Coding with Bits-Back Rejection Sampling |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Tea Break | |
| 15:40 - 18:00 | Technical Session 4 | |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Invited Talk 2 | Xueyan Niu: Compression for LLMs and LLMs for Compression |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Invited Talk 3 | Wenqi Shao: Towards Practical Foundation Model Compression by Quantization and Linear Attention |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Panel and Open Discussion |
Accepted posters:
- MultiTok: Variable-Length Tokenization for Efficient LLMs Adapted from LZW Compression by Noel Elias; Homa Esfahanizadeh; Kaan Kale; Sriram Vishwanath; Muriel Médard
- SCKM: Symmetric Co-Skew Moment for User Selection in Federated Learning by Liangyan Li; Yangyi Liu; Yimo Ning; Stefano Rini; Jun Chen
- A Distortion-Aware Discrete Semantic Communication Framework for Multiple-Access Channels by Yiqiao Zhou; Na Wang; Xiaolong Hong; Kangning Ma; Shuo Shao
- Nonsquare 2D Orthogonal Matching Pursuit with Karhunen-Loeve Transform and Trellis Coded Quantization by Linlong Guo; Yize Yang; Yong Fang
- Serial Concatenation of Compander and Trellis Coded Quantizer by Linlong Guo; Yize Yang; Yong Fang
- Hamming Distance Spectrum-Based Dynamic Pruning Method in Distributed Arithmetic Coding by Junwei Zhou; Haoyun Xiao; Jianwen Xiang; Yanchao Yang
- Rate-Distortion-Complexity: Bridging Shannon Information and Neural Network Expressivity by Jiancheng Tang; Qianqian Yang
- The Entropy of Early Language: Benchmarking Source Coding on the CHILDES Corpus by Erick Oduniyi