Publications

Journal Publications

1. R. C. Yavas and V. Y. F. Tan
   “Variable-Length Feedback Codes over Known and Unknown Channels with Non-vanishing Error Probabilities”
   IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 2025
   [arXiv] [journal] [slides]

2. R. C. Yavas, Y. Huang, V. Y. F. Tan, J. Scarlett
   “A General Framework for Clustering and Distribution Matching with Bandit Feedback”
   IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Mar. 2025
   [arXiv] [journal] [slides]

3. R. C. Yavas , V. Kostina, and M. Effros
   “Third-order Analysis of Channel Coding in the Small-to-Moderate Deviations Regime”
   IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Sep. 2024.
   [arXiv] [journal] [slides]

4. R. C. Yavas , V. Kostina, and M. Effros
   “Variable-Length Sparse Feedback Codes for Point-to-Point, Multiple Access, and Random Access Channel”
   IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Apr. 2024
   [arXiv] [journal] [slides]

5. R. C. Yavas and V. Y. F. Tan
   “Fixed-Budget Best-Arm Identification in Sparse Linear Bandits”
   Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Jan. 2024
   [arXiv] [journal] [slides]

6. Y. Sakai, R. C. Yavas , and V. Y. F. Tan
   “Third-Order Asymptotics of Variable-Length Compression Allowing Errors”
   IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Dec. 2021
   [arXiv] [journal]

7. R. C. Yavas , V. Kostina, and M. Effros
   “Gaussian Multiple and Random Access Channels: Finite-Blocklength Analysis”
   IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Nov. 2021
   [arXiv] [journal] [patent] [poster]

8. R. C. Yavas , V. Kostina, and M. Effros
   “Random Access Channel Coding in the Finite Blocklength Regime”
   IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Apr. 2021
   [arXiv] [journal] [poster]

Conference Publications

1. R. C. Yavas and V. Y. F. Tan
   “Variable-Length Feedback Codes over Known and Unknown Channels with Non-vanishing Error Probabilities”
   ITW 2024, Nov. 2024
   [arXiv] [conference] [slides]

2. J. Chen, R. C. Yavas, and V. Kostina
   “Variable-Length Codes with Bursty Feedback”
   ISIT 2023, Jun. 2023
   [arXiv] [conference] [slides]

3. R. C. Yavas , V. Kostina, and M. Effros
   “Third-order Analysis of Channel Coding in the Moderate Deviations Regime”
   ISIT 2022, Jun. 2022
   [arXiv] [conference] [slides]

4. H. Yang, R. C. Yavas , V. Kostina, and R. D. Wesel
   “Variable-Length Stop-Feedback Codes With Finite Optimal Decoding Times for BI-AWGN Channels”
   ISIT 2022, Jun. 2022
   [arXiv] [conference] [slides]

5. R. C. Yavas , V. Kostina, and M. Effros
   “Nested Sparse Feedback Codes for Point-to-Point, Multiple Access, and Random Access Channels”
   ITW 2021 (Invited Paper), Oct. 2021
   [pdf] [conference] [slides]

6. R. C. Yavas , V. Kostina, and M. Effros
   “Variable-length Feedback Codes with Several Decoding Times for the Gaussian Channel”
   ISIT 2021, Jun. 2021
   [pdf] [conference] [slides]

7. R. C. Yavas , V. Kostina, and M. Effros
   “Gaussian Multiple and Random Access Channels: Finite-Blocklength Analysis”
   ISIT 2020 , Jun. 2020
   [arXiv] [conference] [slides]

8. M. Effros, V. Kostina, and R. C. Yavas
   “Random Access Channel Coding in the Finite Blocklength Regime”
   ISIT 2018, Jun. 2018
   [arXiv] [conference]

Other Talks

Tutorial on Large Deviations Bounds
An invited talk given to Prof. Richard Wesel's group at UCLA, in June 2022

Generating random variables using fair coins

Reviewer Service