Publications

Degree-M Bethe and Sinkhorn permanent based bounds on the permanent of a non-negative matrix
Yuwen Huang, Navin Kashyap, and Pascal O. Vontobel. Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2024. Paper

The Bethe partition function and the SPA for factor graphs based on homogeneous real stable polynomials
Yuwen Huang and Pascal O. Vontobel. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2024. PaperSlidesSlides (Vontobel)

Bounding the permanent of a non-negative matrix via its degree-M Bethe and Sinkhorn permanents
Yuwen Huang and Pascal O. Vontobel. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2023. PaperSlides

On the relationship between the global minimum of the Bethe free energy function of a factor graph and sum-product algorithm fixed points
Yuwen Huang and Pascal O. Vontobel. In IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), November 2022. PaperSlides

A Scalable Distributed Quantum Optimization Framework via Factor Graph Paradigm
Yuwen Huang, Xiaojun Lin, Bin Luo, and John C. S. Lui. Submitted to Quantum, 2026. Paper

Graph-Cover-based Characterization of the Bethe Partition Function of Double-Edge Factor Graphs
Yuwen Huang and Pascal O. Vontobel. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2024. Paper

Quantum algorithms for finite-horizon Markov decision processes
Bin Luo, Yuwen Huang, Jonathan Allcock, Xiaojun Lin, Shengyu Zhang, and John C. S. Lui. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2025. Paper

Sets of marginals and Pearson-correlation-based CHSH inequalities for a two-qubit system
Yuwen Huang and Pascal O. Vontobel. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021. PaperSlidesVideo

Characterizing the Bethe partition function of double-edge factor graphs via graph covers
Yuwen Huang and Pascal O. Vontobel. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2020. PaperSlides

NOMA-aided mobile edge computing via user cooperation
Yuwen Huang, Yuan Liu, and Fangjiong Chen. Published in IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2020. Paper

Energy efficiency of distributed antenna systems with wireless power transfer
Yuwen Huang, Yuan Liu, and Geoffrey Ye Li. Published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2019. Paper

Energy-efficient SWIPT in IoT distributed antenna systems
Yuwen Huang, Mengyu Liu, and Yuan Liu. Published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018. Paper

User cooperation for NOMA-based mobile edge computing
Yuwen Huang and Yuan Liu. In IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), December 2018. Paper

Energy-Efficient SWIPT in Distributed Antenna Systems
Yuwen Huang and Yuan Liu. In IEEE Globecom Workshops, December 2017. Paper