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The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2025 (ISIT 2025) will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Jun. 22 - 27, 2025.

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2025 Information Theory Workshop

The IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2025 (ITW 2025) will be held in Sydney, Australia, Sep. 29 - Oct. 3, 2025.

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Shannon Award for 2025

The IEEE Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Peter Shor is the recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award for 2025.

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IEEE BITS Information Theory's Role in 6G

The most recent issue of IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine is on the role of Information Theory in 6G.

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Broadening Participation in the IT Society

The Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) committee introduces the new IT Society Volunteer website.

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The IEEE Information Theory Society is the premier professional society dedicated to the advancement of the mathematical underpinnings of information technology for the benefit of humanity. Information theory encompasses the processing, transmission, storage, and use of information, and the foundations of the communication process.

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News

Frans Willems Awarded 2025 IEEE Hamming Medal

IEEE Information Theory Society congratulates member Frans Willems for receiving the 2025 IEEE…

Dec 4, 2024
Call for ISIT and ITW Proposals

IEEE Information Theory Society is calling for proposals for the International Symposium on…

Oct 9, 2024
Call for Nominations: Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers

The IEEE Information Theory Society solicits nominations for the 2025 Padovani Lecturer, the 2025…

Sep 23, 2024
Call for Nominations: Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award

The Society solicits nominations for the inaugural IEEE Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award. Deadline:…

Sep 23, 2024
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Conferences

08-12 Dec, 2024
Cape Town, South Africa
IEEE Globecom 2024 Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G: Call for Papers

Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G (in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2024) is now open for…

14-15 Dec, 2024
Vancouver, Canada
Machine Learning and Compression Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024

The workshop solicits original research in the intersection of machine learning, data/model…

15-18 Dec, 2024
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
Workshop on Distributed Computing in 6G IoT Networks

with IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS) 2024…

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Jobs Board

Postdoctoral Fellow in Information Theory/Machine Learning
Simula UiB

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the intersection of machine learning and…

Nov 22, 2024
EE Systems faculty search at Caltech
California Institute of Technology

A new faculty search at Caltech covers all areas of EE systems and is open to applicants at every…

Nov 13, 2024
Researcher Positions in Space Communications
METU

We are looking for postdoctoral researchers to join us in the new ERC-AdG funded project GO SPACE…

Nov 8, 2024
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Submit to IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine

IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine invites tutorial articles that provide a new perspective on traditional topics or on emerging and interdisciplinary areas.

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Submit to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory

The IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT) covers various aspects of information theory and its applications, and accepts submissions in response to specific calls for papers.

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Recent Journal Issues

IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine

BITS publishes tutorial articles on broad research areas viewed through an information-theoretic lens.
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Research In Information Theory

Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences
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Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff for Gaussian Vector Sources
This paper studies the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff for a Gaussian vector source coding problem where the goal is to compress the multi-component source subject to distortion and perception constraints. Specifically, the RDP setting with either the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence or Wasserstein-2 metric as the perception loss function is examined, and it is shown that for Gaussian vector sources, jointly Gaussian reconstructions are optimal.
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Quantum Sensing and Communication via Non-Gaussian States
Quantum sensing and communication (QSC) is pivotal for developing next-generation networks with unprecedented performance. Many implementations of existing QSC systems employ Gaussian states as they can be easily realized using current technologies. However, Gaussian states lack non-classical properties necessary to unleash the full potential of QSC. This motivates the use of non-Gaussian states, which have non-classical properties beneficial for QSC. This paper establishes a theoretical foundation for QSC employing photon-varied Gaussian states (PVGSs).
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Source Coding for Markov Sources With Partial Memoryless Side Information at the Decoder
We consider the one helper source coding problem posed and investigated by Ahlswede, Körner, and Wyner for a class of information sources with memory. For this class of information sources we give explicit inner and outer bounds of the admissible rate region. We also give a certain nontrivial class of information sources where the inner and outer bounds match.
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Deviation From Maximal Entanglement for Mid-Spectrum Eigenstates of Local Hamiltonians
In a spin chain governed by a local Hamiltonian, we consider a microcanonical ensemble in the middle of the energy spectrum and a contiguous subsystem whose length is a constant fraction of the system size. We prove that if the bandwidth of the ensemble is greater than a certain constant, then the average entanglement entropy (between the subsystem and the rest of the system) of eigenstates in the ensemble deviates from the maximum entropy by at least a positive constant.
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Fisher Information Under Local Differential Privacy

We develop data processing inequalities that describe how Fisher information from statistical samples can scale with the privacy parameter $\varepsilon $ under local differential privacy constraints. These bounds are valid under general conditions on the distribution of the score of the statistical model, and they elucidate under which conditions the dependence on $\varepsilon $ is linear, quadratic, or exponential.

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