Fan Cheng (程帆)

Associate Professor

Information and Computing Lab (ICL)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Contact

Email: chengfan85 (at) gmail.com (1st)
             chengfan (at) sjtu.edu.cn
Address: SEIEE 3-513, SJTU.

Teaching

  1. Introduction to Computation (IEEE)

  2. Information Theory (IEEE, John, ACM, AI) (Links: Bilibili)

Research interests

Information theory (Shannon Theory) and machine learning (Diffusion Model)

Publications

Information theory

Algebraic Shannon Theory (Informaiton Theory 2.0)

Conference papers

  1. Y. Dong, S. Yang, J. Wang, F. Cheng, ‘‘Achievable Rate Scalability and Latency Analysis of Line Networks with Outage Links,’’ 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, (ISIT 2024).

  2. B. Dai, F. Cheng, Y. Yang, D. Xia, ‘‘A Linear Feedback Coding Scheme for Computation Over Gaussian Multiple-Access Channels,’’ 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, (ISIT 2024).

  3. Y. Geng and F. Cheng, ‘‘Duality between finite numbers of discrete multiple access and broadcast channels,’’ 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Jeju, Korea (ITW 2015).

  4. Q. Chen, F. Cheng, T. Liu and R. W. Yeung, ‘‘A Marginal Characterization of Entropy Functions for Conditional Mutual Independent Random Variables,’’ 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, (ISIT 2015).

  5. F. Cheng, ‘‘Optimality of Routing on the Wiretap Network with Simple Network Topology,’’ 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, (ISIT 2014).

  6. F. Cheng and Y. Geng, ‘‘Convexity of Fisher Information with Respect to Gaussian Perturbation,’’ 2014 Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory, (IWCIT 2014).

  7. F. Cheng, R. W. Yeung and K. W. Shum, ‘‘Imperfect Secrecy in Wiretap Channel II,’’ 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, (ISIT 2012).

  8. F. Cheng and R. W. Yeung, ‘‘Performance Bounds in Secure Network Coding,’’ 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Network Coding, (NetCod 2011).

Journal papers

  1. Y. Dong, S. Yang, J. Wang, F. Cheng, ‘‘Achievable Rate and Latency of Line Networks with Outage Links,’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2024. arXiv link

  2. F. Cheng, ‘‘A Reformulation of Gaussian Completely Monotone Conjecture: A Hodge Structure on the Fisher Information along Heat Flow,’’ submitted, 2022. arXiv link

  3. F. Cheng and V. Y. F. Tan, ‘‘A Numerical Study on the Wiretap Network with a Simple Network Topology,’’ IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 2481-2492, May 2016. arXiv link

  4. F. Cheng and Y. Geng, ‘‘Higher Order Derivatives in Costa's Entropy Power Inequality,’’ IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 5892-5905, Nov. 2015. arXiv link

  5. F. Cheng, R. W. Yeung, and K. W. Shum, ‘‘Imperfect Secrecy in Wiretap Channel II,’’ IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 628-636, Jan. 2015. arXiv link

  6. F. Cheng and R. W. Yeung, ‘‘Performance Bounds on a Wiretap Network with Arbitrary Wiretap Sets,’’ IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 3345-3358, Jun. 2014. arXiv link

  7. F. Cheng, ‘‘Generalization of Mrs. Gerber's Lemma,’’ Communications in Information and Systems, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 79-86, 2014. Full Text arXiv link

  8. R. K. Panta, R. Jana, F. Cheng, Y.-F. R. Chen, and V. A. Vaishampayan, ‘‘Phoenix: Storage Using an Autonomous Mobile Infrastructure,’’ IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 1863-1873, Sept. 2013.

  9. T. Wu and F. Cheng, ‘‘The Structures of Zero-divisor Semi-groups with Graph Kn * K2,’’ Semi-group Forum, vol. 76, Springer (2008), pp. 330-340.

Machine learning

Conference papers

  1. Y. Zhang, M. Xia, Y. Shen, J. Zhu, C. Yang, K. Zheng, L. Huang, Y. Liu and F. Cheng, Exploring Guided Sampling of Conditional GANs, ECCV, 2024.

  2. Z. Yang, R. Feng, H. Zhang, Y. Shen, K. Zhu, L. Huang, Y. Zhang, Y. Liu, D. Zhao, J. Zhou, F. Cheng, Lipschitz Singularities in Diffusion Models, ICLR, 2024. (Oral, accpet rate~%1.2)

  3. H. Zhang, R. Feng, Z. Yang, L. Huang, Y. Liu, Y. Zhang, Y. Shen, D. Zhao, J. Zhou, F. Cheng, Dimensionality-Varying Diffusion Process, CVPR, 2023.

  4. F. Zhou, M. Hu, H. Dong, Z. Cheng, F. Cheng, S. Han, D. Zhang, TaCube: Pre-computing Data Cubes for Answering Numerical-Reasoning Questions over Tabular Data, EMNLP, 2022. (Oral)

  5. Z. Cheng, H. Dong, F. Cheng, R. Jia, P. Wu, S. Han, D. Zhang, FORTAP: Using Formulas for Numerical-Reasoning-Aware Table Pretraining, ACL, 2022.

Education

PhD, Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, 2008-2012. Supervisor: Prof. Raymond Yeung.

Bachelor, Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2003-2007.

Events

2016 Shannon Workshop