Publications

Preprints and Under Review

Understanding Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers, Lingyun Guo, Ali Bereyhi
arXiv Preprint (arXiv:2610.37932) | 2026 | Link | BibTeX

Revisiting GAN with Bayes-Optimal Discrimination, Mohammadreza Tavasoli Naeini, Ali Bereyhi, Morteza Noshad, Ben Liang, Alfred O. Hero III
arXiv Preprint (arXiv:2510.25609) | 2026 | Link | BibTeX

BOLT: Universal Classifier Training via a Bayes-Error Upper Bound, Mohammadreza Tavasoli Naeini, Ali Bereyhi, Morteza Noshad, Ben Liang, Alfred O. Hero III
arXiv Preprint (arXiv:2501.07754) | 2026 | Link | BibTeX

GP-FL: Model-Based Hessian Estimation for Second-Order Over-the-Air Federated Learning, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, H. Vincent Poor
arXiv Preprint (arXiv:2412.03867) | 2025 | Link | BibTeX

Peer-Reviewed

Journals

MIMO-PASS: Uplink and Downlink Transmission via MIMO Pinching-Antenna Systems, Ali Bereyhi, Chongjun Ouyang, Saba Asaad, Zhiguo Ding, H. Vincent Poor
IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2026 | BibTeX

Regularized Top-k: A Bayesian Framework for Gradient Sparsification, Ali Bereyhi, Ben Liang, Gary Boudreau, Ali Afana
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | 2025 | BibTeX

Over-the-Air Fair Federated Learning via Multi-Objective Optimization, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, H. Vincent Poor
submitted to IEEE Communications Letters | 2025 | BibTeX

On the Ergodic Mutual Information of Keyhole MIMO Channels With Finite-Alphabet Inputs, Chongjun Ouyang, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R. Müller, Julian Cheng, Hongwen Yang
IEEE Communications Letters | 2023 | BibTeX

Device Scheduling in Over-the-Air Federated Learning Via Matching Pursuit, Ali Bereyhi, Adela Vagollari, Saba Asaad, Ralf R. Müller, Wolfgang Gerstacker, H. Vincent Poor
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | 2023 | Link | BibTeX

Channel Hardening of IRS-Aided Multi-Antenna Systems: How Should IRSs Scale?, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Chongjun Ouyang, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer, H Vincent Poor
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2023 | BibTeX

Secure active and passive beamforming in IRS-aided MIMO systems, Saba Asaad, Yifei Wu, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer, H Vincent Poor
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security | 2022 | BibTeX

Linear Computation Coding: A Framework for Joint Quantization and Computing, Ralf Reiner Müller, Bernhard Martin Wilhelm Gäde, Ali Bereyhi
Algorithms | 2022 | BibTeX

Securing massive MIMO systems: Secrecy for free with low-complexity architectures, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer, Georg Fischer, H Vincent Poor
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2021 | BibTeX

Detection of spatially modulated signals via RLS: Theoretical bounds and applications, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Bernhard Gade, Ralf R Müller, H Vincent Poor
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2021 | BibTeX

Statistical mechanics of MAP estimation: General replica ansatz, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller, Hermann Schulz-Baldes
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | 2019 | BibTeX

GLSE precoders for massive MIMO systems: Analysis and applications, Ali Bereyhi, Mohammad Ali Sedaghat, Ralf R Müller, Georg Fischer
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2019 | BibTeX

Optimal transmit antenna selection for massive MIMO wiretap channels, Saba Asaad, Ali Bereyhi, Amir Masoud Rabiei, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2018 | BibTeX

Least square error precoders for massive MIMO with signal constraints: Fundamental limits, Mohammad Ali Sedaghat, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2017 | BibTeX

Conferences

Regime-aware financial volatility forecasting via in-context learning, Saba Asaad, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Ali Bereyhi
FinAI Workshop at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) | 2026 | BibTeX

Low-complexity tuning of pinching-antenna systems for integrated sensing and communication, Saba Asaad, Chongjun Ouyang, Zhiguo Ding, Ali Bereyhi
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) | 2026 | BibTeX

LDGuid: A Framework for Robust Change Detection via Latent Difference Guidance, Jiaxuan Zhao, Ali Bereyhi
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGRSS) | 2026 | BibTeX

IRIS: Learning-Driven Task-Specific Cinema Robot Arm for Visuomotor Motion Control, Qilong Cheng, Matthew Mackay, Ali Bereyhi
23rd Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV) | 2026 | BibTeX

Global Unknown Estimation: A Statistical Framework for Wireless Distributed Learning, Yicheng Qu, Ali Bereyhi, Ben Liang
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) | 2026 | BibTeX

Fast Tuning of Pinching Antenna-Assisted ISAC Systems via User Clustering, Ruizhi Niu, Ali Bereyhi
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) | 2026 | BibTeX

Energy-efficient over-the-air federated learning via pinching antenna systems, Saba Asaad, Ali Bereyhi
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) | 2026 | BibTeX

Dynamic and static energy efficient design of pinching antenna systems, Saba Asaad, Chongjun Ouyang, Ali Bereyhi, Zhiguo Ding
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) | 2026 | BibTeX

Universal Training of Neural Networks to Achieve Bayes Optimal Classification Accuracy, Mohammadreza Tavasoli Naeini, Ali Bereyhi, Morteza Noshad, Ben Liang, Alfred Hero
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | 2025 | BibTeX

Second-Order Wireless Federated Leaning via Nonparametric Hessian Estimation, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Ali Bereyhi
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | 2025 | BibTeX

Rate-Constrained Quantization for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Ali Bereyhi
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | 2025 | BibTeX

Learning Semantic Difference via Adversarial Networks: Applications to Image Segmentation, Eric Zhao, Ali Bereyhi
submitted to IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) | 2025 | BibTeX

Graph-based Algorithms for Linear Computation Coding: Alternative Viewpoint, Hans Rosenberger, rodrigo Fischer, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC) | 2025 | BibTeX

Downlink Beamforming with Pinching-Antenna Assisted MIMO Systems, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Chongjun Ouyang, Zhiguo Ding, H Vincent Poor
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshop | 2025 | BibTeX

Coding for Computation: Efficient Compression of Neural Networks for Reconfigurable Hardware, Hans Rosenberger, Rodrigo Fischer, Johanna Fröhlich, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop | 2025 | BibTeX

Class-Balanced Robustness through Multi-Objective Optimization in Adversarial Training, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Saba Asaad, Ali Bereyhi
submitted to IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) | 2025 | BibTeX

Adaptive Sigmoid Clipping for Balancing the Direction-Magnitude Mismatch Trade-off in Differentially Private Learning, Faeze Moradi Kalarde, Ali Bereyhi, Ben Liang, Min Dong
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NuerIPS) | 2025 | BibTeX

Novel Gradient Sparsification Algorithm via Bayesian Inference, Ali Bereyhi, Ben Liang, Gary Boudreau, Ali Afana
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) | 2024 | BibTeX

Joint Receive Antenna Selection and Beamforming in RIS-Aided MIMO Systems, Chongjun Ouyang, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Yuanwei Liu, Xingqi Zhang, Ralf R. Müller
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) | 2024 | BibTeX

Graph-based Algorithms for Linear Computation Coding, Hans Rosenberger, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
International Zurich Seminar on Information and Communication (IZS) | 2024 | BibTeX

Storage Constrained Linear Computation Coding, Alexander Karataev, Hans Rosenberger, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
Data Compression Conference (DCC) | 2023 | BibTeX

Statistical-CSI-Based Antenna Selection and Precoding in Uplink MIMO, Chongjun Ouyang, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R. Müller, Julian Cheng, Hongwen Yang
ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas and Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (WSA-SCC) | 2023 | BibTeX

Multiple Target Measurements: Bayesian Framework for Moving Object Detection in MIMO Radar, Bastian Eisele, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | 2023 | BibTeX

Linear Computation Coding: Exponential Search and Reduced-State Algorithms, Hans Rosenberger, Johanna Fröhlich, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
Data Compression Conference (DCC) | 2023 | BibTeX

A Novel Tree-Based Algorithm for Device Coordination in Over-the-Air Federated Learning, Mohammad Ali Sedaghat, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R. Müller
ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas and Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (WSA-SCC) | 2023 | BibTeX

A Novel Antenna Placement Algorithm for Compressive Sensing MIMO Radar, Bastian Eisele, Ali Bereyhi, Ingrid Ullmann, Ralf Müller
IEEE Radar Conference | 2023 | BibTeX

Secure Coding via Gaussian Random Fields, Ali Bereyhi, Bruno Loureiro, Florent Krzakala, Ralf R Müller, Hermann Schulz-Baldes
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) | 2022 | BibTeX

How Should IRSs Scale to Harden Multi-Antenna Channels?, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Chongjun Ouyang, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer, H Vincent Poor
IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM) | 2022 | BibTeX

Oversampled Adaptive Sensing via a Predefined Codebook, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R Müller
IEEE International Online Symposium on Joint Communications & Sensing (JC&S) | 2021 | BibTeX

Linear computation coding, Ralf R Müller, Bernhard Gäde, Ali Bereyhi
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | 2021 | BibTeX

Joint active and passive secure precoding in IRS-aided MIMO systems, Saba Asaad, Yifei Wu, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer, H Vincent Poor
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) | 2021 | BibTeX

Secure transmission in IRS-assisted MIMO systems with active eavesdroppers, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer, H Vincent Poor
54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers | 2020 | BibTeX

Polar Quantisation of Uniformly Distributed Signals on the Hypersphere for OMA, Bernhard Gaede, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
VDE International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA) | 2020 | BibTeX

Efficient matrix multiplication: The sparse power-of-2 factorization, Ralf R Müller, Bernhard Gäde, Ali Bereyhi
Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) | 2020 | BibTeX

A single-RF architecture for multiuser massive MIMO via reflecting surfaces, Ali Bereyhi, Vahid Jamali, Ralf R Müller, Antonia M Tulino, Georg Fischer, Robert Schober
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | 2020 | BibTeX

Secure regularized zero forcing for multiuser MIMOME channels, Saba Asaad, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer
53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers | 2019 | BibTeX

RLS-based detection for massive spatial modulation MIMO, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Bernhard Gäde, Ralf R Müller
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) | 2019 | BibTeX

RLS precoding for massive MIMO systems with nonlinear front-end, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R Müller, Symeon Chatzinotas
IEEE 20th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) | 2019 | BibTeX

RLS Waveform Adaptation for Massive MIMO Systems with Nonlinear Front-End, A Bereyhi, S Asaad, Ralf R Müller, Symeon Chatzinotas
IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication | 2019 | BibTeX

PAPR-limited precoding in massive MIMO systems with reflect-and transmit-array antennas, Ali Bereyhi, Vahid Jamali, Ralf R Müller, Georg Fischer, Robert Schober, Antonia M Tulino
53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers | 2019 | BibTeX

Outphasing elements for hybrid analogue digital beamforming and single-RF MIMO, Bernhard Gäde, Michael Amon, Ali Bereyhi, Georg Fischer, Ralf R Müller
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | 2019 | BibTeX

Joint User Selection and Precoding in Multiuser MIMO Systems via Group LASSO, Saba Asaad, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer
IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) | 2019 | BibTeX

Approximate message passing for indoor THz channel estimation, Viktoria Schram, Ali Bereyhi, Jan-Nico Zaech, Ralf R Müller, Wolfgang H Gerstacker
International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom) | 2019 | BibTeX

An adaptive bayesian framework for recovery of sources with structured sparsity, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP) | 2019 | BibTeX

A fair comparison between spatial modulation and antenna selection in massive MIMO systems, Bernhard Gäde, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R Müller
VDE International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA) | 2019 | BibTeX

Theoretical bounds on MAP estimation in distributed sensing networks, Ali Bereyhi, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Ralf R Müller
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) | 2018 | BibTeX

Stepwise transmit antenna selection in downlink massive multiuser MIMO, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R Müller
VDE International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA) | 2018 | BibTeX

RLS Recovery with Asymmetric Penalty: Fundamental Limits and Algorithmic Approaches, Ali Bereyhi, Mohammad Ali Sedaghat, Ralf R Müller
International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom) | 2018 | BibTeX

Precoding via approximate message passing with instantaneous signal constraints, Ali Bereyhi, Mohammad Ali Sedaghat, Ralf R Müller
International Zurich Seminar on Information and Communication (IZS) | 2018 | BibTeX

Oversampled adaptive sensing with random projections: Analysis and algorithmic approaches, Ralf R Müller, Ali Bereyhi, Christoph F Mecklenbräuker
IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT) | 2018 | BibTeX

Oversampled adaptive sensing, Ralf R Müller, Ali Bereyhi, Christoph Mecklenbräuker
Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) | 2018 | BibTeX

On robustness of massive MIMO systems against passive eavesdropping under antenna selection, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer, Amir M Rabiei
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) | 2018 | BibTeX

Maximum-a-posteriori signal recovery with prior information: Applications to compressive sensing, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | 2018 | BibTeX

Iterative antenna selection for secrecy enhancement in massive MIMO wiretap channels, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Rafael F Schaefer, Ralf R M”uller
IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) | 2018 | BibTeX

Replica symmetry breaking in compressive sensing, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf Müller, Hermann Schulz-Baldes
Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) | 2017 | BibTeX

Optimal number of transmit antennas for secrecy enhancement in massive MIMOME channels, Saba Asaad, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller, Rafael F Schaefer, Amir M Rabiei
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) | 2017 | BibTeX

Nonlinear Precoders for Massive MIMO Systems with General Constraints, Ali Bereyhi, Mohammad Ali Sedaghat, Saba Asaad, Ralf Müller
VDE International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA) | 2017 | BibTeX

Asymptotics of transmit antenna selection: Impact of multiple receive antennas, Saba Asaad, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R. Müller, Amir M. Rabiei
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) | 2017 | BibTeX

Asymptotics of nonlinear LSE precoders with applications to transmit antenna selection, Ali Bereyhi, Mohammad Ali Sedaghat, Ralf R Müller
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) | 2017 | BibTeX

Asymptotic performance analysis of spatially reconfigurable antenna arrays, Saba Asaad, Ali Bereyhi, Mohammad Ali Sedaghat, Ralf Müller, Amir Masoud Rabiei
VDE International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA) | 2017 | BibTeX

A new class of nonlinear precoders for hardware efficient massive MIMO systems, Mohammad A Sedaghat, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) | 2017 | BibTeX

RSB decoupling property of MAP estimators, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf Müller, Hermann Schulz-Baldes
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) | 2016 | BibTeX

Patents

Finite Resolution Decomposition of a matrix and matrix-vector multiplication, Ralf R Müller, Bernhard Gäde, Ali Bereyhi
24 | 2022 | BibTeX

Book Chapters

Analysis of Sparse Recovery Algorithms via the Replica Method, Ali Bereyhi, Ralf R Müller, Hermann Schulz-Baldes
Springer Nature Switzerland AG | 2022 | BibTeX