Publications
Book Chapters
Data-Driven Approaches for Detecting and Identifying Anomalous Data Streams S. Zou, Y. Liang, H. V. Poor, X. Shi Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Biomedical Big Data, edited by Ervin Sejdic and Tiago Falk, CRC Press, 2018.
A Broadcast Approach to Fading Channels under Secrecy Constraints S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, H. V. Poor, S. Shamai to appear in Information-Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond, Edited by Ivana Maric, Osvaldo Simeone, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Journal Publications and Preprints
Tightening Mutual Information Based Bounds on Generalization Error Y. Bu, S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli accepted, to appear, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, April 2020.
Sequential Algorithms for Moving Anomaly Detection in Networks G. Rovatsos, S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli accepted, to appear, Sequential Analysis, 2020.
Quickest Detection of Dynamic Events in Networks S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli, J. Li, D. Towsley Accepted, to appear on IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Oct 2019.
Linear-Complexity Exponentially-Consistent Tests for Universal Outlying Sequence Detection Y. Bu, S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 2115-2128, April 15, 2019.
Quickest Change Detection under Transient Dynamics: Theory and Asymptotic Analysis S. Zou, G. Fellouris, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 1397-1412, March 2019.
Estimation of KL Divergence: Optimal Minimax Rate Y. Bu*, S. Zou*, Y. Liang, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 2648-2674, April 2018. (Bu and Zou contributed equally).
Degraded Broadcast Channel with Secrecy Outside a Bounded Range S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, H. V. Poor, S. Shamai (Shitz) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 2104-2120, Mar. 2018.
Nonparametric Detection of Anomalous Data Streams S. Zou, Y. Liang, H. V. Poor, X. Shi IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 65, no. 21, pp. 5785-5797, Nov. 2017.
Nonparametric Detection of Geometric Structures over Networks S. Zou, Y. Liang, H. V. Poor IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 65, no. 19, pp. 5034-5046, Oct. 2017.
Broadcast Networks with Layered Decoding and Layered Secrecy: Theory and Applications S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, H. V. Poor, S. Shamai (Shitz) Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.103, no.10, pp.1841-1856, Oct. 2015.
An Information Theoretic Approach to Secret Sharing S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, S. Shamai (Shitz) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.61, no.6, pp.3121-3136, June 2015.
Conference Publications
2020
Finite-sample Analysis of Greedy-GQ with Linear Function Approximation under Markovian Noise Y. Wang, S. Zou Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Aug. 2020 (acceptance rate: 27.6%)
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Sequential Detection in Adversarial Environments R. Zhang, S. Zou accepted, to appear, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2020.
Quickest Change Detection in Anonymous Heterogeneous Sensor Networks Z. Sun, S. Zou, Q. Li IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May. 2020.
Information-Theoretic Understanding of Population Risk Improvement with Model Compression Y. Bu, W. Gao, S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), New York, USA, Feb. 2020 (acceptance rate: 20.6%)
Poster
2019
Finite-Sample Analysis for SARSA with Linear Function Approximation S. Zou, T. Xu, Y. Liang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver CA, Dec 2019. (acceptance rate: 21%)
Poster
Slides
Two Time-scale Off-Policy TD Learning: Non-asymptotic Analysis over Markovian Samples T. Xu, S. Zou, Y. Liang Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver CA, Dec 2019. (acceptance rate: 21%)
Poster
A Consensus-based Approach for Distributed Quickest Detection of Significant Events in Networks J. Li, D. Towsley, S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli and G. Ciocarlie Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2019.
Tightening Mutual Information Based Bounds on Generalization Error Y. Bu, S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2019.
Quickest Detection of a Moving Target in a Sensor Network G. Rovatsos, S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2019.
Distributed Quickest Detection of Significant Events in Networks S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli, J. Li, D. Towsley, A. Swami IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019.
2018
Quickest Detection of Significant Events in Structured Networks S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli, J. Li, D. Towsley Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Oct. 2018.
Stochastic Control of Power Supply in Data Centers G. Rovatsos, S. Zou, A. Dominguez-Garcia, V. V. Veeravalli Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Oct. 2018.
Quickest Detection of Dynamic Events in Sensor Networks S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Alberta, Canada, April. 2018.
2017
Gaussian Fading Channel with Secrecy Outside a Bounded Range S. Zou, Y. Liang, S. Shamai IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS): The Workshop on Physical-Layer Methods for Wireless Security, Las Vegas, USA Oct. 2017.
Asymptotic Optimality of D-CuSum for Quickest Change Detection under Transient Dynamics S. Zou, G. Fellouris, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, Germany, June 2017.
Linear-Complexity Exponentially-Consistent Tests for Universal Outlying Sequence Detection Y. Bu, S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, Germany, June 2017.
Quickest Change Detection under Transient Dynamics G. Rovatsos, S. Zou, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, USA, Mar. 2017.
2016
K-User Degraded Broadcast Channel with Secrecy Outside a Bounded Range S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, H. V. Poor, S. Shamai (Shitz) IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Cambridge, Sept. 2016.
Estimation of KL Divergence Between Large-Alphabet Distributions Y. Bu, S. Zou, Y. Liang, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, Jul. 2016.
Universal Outlying Sequence Detection for Continuous Observations Y. Bu, S. Zou, Y. Liang, V. V. Veeravalli IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, Mar. 2016.
Nonparametric Detection of an Anomalous Disk over a Two-Dimensional Lattice Network S. Zou, Y. Liang, H. V. Poor IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, Mar. 2016.
Recent Results on Broadcast Networks with Layered Decoding and Secrecy: an Overview S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, H. V. Poor, S. Shamai (Shitz) International Zurich Seminar on Communications (IZS), Zurich, Mar. 2016.
2015
Rate Splitting and Sharing for Degraded Broadcast Channel with Secrecy Outside a Bounded Range S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, S. Shamai (Shitz) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Hongkong, Jun. 2015.
Degraded Broadcast Channel: Secrecy Outside of a Bounded Range S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, S. Shamai (Shitz) IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Jerusalem, Apr. 2015.
2014
Unsupervised Nonparametric Anomaly Detection: A Kernel Method S. Zou, Y. Liang, H. V. Poor, X. Shi 52th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Oct. 2014.
A Kernel-Based Nonparametric Test for Anomaly Detection over Line Network S. Zou, Y. Liang, H. V. Poor IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Reims, Sept. 2014.
Kernel-Based Nonparametric Anomaly Detection S. Zou, Y. Liang, H. V. Poor, X. Shi IEEE 15th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Toronto, Jun. 2014.
Layered Decoding and Secrecy over Degraded Gaussian MIMO Broadcast Channels and Application in Secret Sharing S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, S. Shamai (Shitz) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Honolulu, Jun. 2014.
2013
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