Publications

Preprints

1. R. C. Yavas and V. Y. F. Tan
   “Variable-Length Feedback Codes over Known and Unknown Channels with Non-vanishing Error Probabilities”
   submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Jan. 2024
   [arXiv] [slides]

Journal Publications

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

2. 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]

3. 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]

4. 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]

5. 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]

6. 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]

7. 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