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Submitted/Preprints

  1. C. Cai, H. Jiang, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “Score-based turbo message passing for plug-and-play compressive imaging,”, major revision in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2025. [Paper]

Journals

  1. C. Cai, W. Jiang, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “Joint activity detection and channel estimation for massive connectivity: Where message passing meets score-based generative priors,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 44, pp. 3575-3590, 2026. [Paper] [Code]

  2. L. Chen, C. Cai*, H. Yang, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “Scoring ISAC: Benchmarking integrated sensing and communications via score-based generative modeling,” Journal of Communications and Information Networks, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 224-245, Sept. 2025. [Invited paper]

  3. C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “End-to-end learning for task-oriented semantic communications over MIMO channels: An information-theoretic framework,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1292-1307, April 2025. [Paper]

  4. C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “Multi-device task-oriented communication via maximal coding rate reduction,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 18096-18110, Dec. 2024. [Paper] [Code]

  5. Y. Huang, C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “Joint active and passive beamforming for RIS-aided semantic communication,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 12, pp. 19815-19820, Dec. 2024.

  6. C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “RIS partitioning based scalable beamforming design for large-scale MIMO: Asymptotic analysis and optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 6061-6077, Sept. 2023.

  7. C. Cai, X. Yuan, W. Yan, Z. Huang, Y.-C. Liang, and W. Zhang, “Hierarchical passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided communications,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 1909-1913, Sept. 2021.

  8. H. Yang, C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Y.-C. Liang, “RIS-aided constant-envelope beamforming for multiuser wireless power transfer: A max-min approach,” China Communications, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 80-90, March 2021.

  9. C. Cai, H. Yang, X. Yuan, Y.-J. A. Zhang, and Y. Liu, “Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted D2D underlay communications: A two-timescale optimization design,” Journal of Communications and Information Networks, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 369-380, Dec. 2020.

Conferences

  1. C. Cai, W. Jiang, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “Joint activity detection and channel estimation for massive connectivity: Where message passing meets score-based diffusion priors,” IEEE ICC Workshops, 2026.

  2. C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “Score-based turbo message passing for plug-and-play compressive image recovery,” IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2025. [Paper] [Code]

  3. C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Y. -J. A. Zhang, “Deep unfolding based precoding for task-oriented semantic communications over MIMO channels,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2024, pp. 383-390.

  4. C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Y.-J. A. Zhang, “Task-oriented communication for multi-device edge inference: A maximal coding rate reduction approach,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, CO, USA, 2024, pp. 5628-5633.

  5. C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Y.-J. A. Zhang, “RIS partitioning based scalable beamforming design for large-scale MIMO,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022, pp. 2334-2339.

  6. C. Cai, H. Yang, X. Yuan, and Y.-C. Liang, “Two-timescale optimization for intelligent reflecting surface aided D2D underlay communication,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, 2020, pp. 1-6.