Publications

Working Papers

• Physical layer foundation models for ultra-massive MIMO systems
  Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Lizhong Zheng, Khaled B. Letaief
  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, in preparation, 2025.
  

Journal

• Sensing for free: Learn to localize more sources than antennas without pilots
  Wentao Yu, Khaled B. Letaief, Lizhong Zheng
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, under review, Jun. 2025.
  

• AI and deep learning for THz ultra-massive MIMO: From model-driven approaches to foundation models (invited paper) [arxiv]
  Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Linglong Dai, Lizhong Zheng, Khaled B. Letaief
  Engineering, under major revision, Dec. 2024. (IF=11.6, flagship journal of the Chinese Academy of Engineering)

• Deep learning for near-field XL-MIMO transceiver design: Principles and techniques [paper][arxiv]
  Wentao Yu, Yifan Ma, Hengtao He, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief
  IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 52-58, Jan. 2025.
  

• Bayes-optimal unsupervised learning for channel estimation in near-field holographic MIMO [paper][arxiv]
  Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Xianghao Yu, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Ross Murch, Khaled B. Letaief
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 714-729, May 2024.
  (Popular Article of IEEE JSTSP)

• An adaptive and robust deep learning framework for THz ultra-massive MIMO channel estimation [paper][arxiv][code][webinar][blog (in Chinese)]
  Wentao Yu, Yifei Shen, Hengtao He, Xianghao Yu, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 761-776, Jul. 2023.
  (IEEE Signal Processing Society's Annual Top 25 Downloaded Articles from Sept. 2023 to Sept. 2024)
  

• Multi-label learning based antenna selection in massive MIMO systems [paper]
  Wentao Yu, Tianyu Wang, Shaowei Wang
  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 7255-7260, Jul. 2021.

Conference

• Multimodal deep learning-empowered beam prediction in future THz ISAC systems (invited paper) [arxiv]
  Kai Zhang, Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief
  in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 2025.

• Learning Bayes-optimal channel estimation for holographic MIMO in unknown EM environments [paper][arxiv]
  Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Xianghao Yu, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Ross Murch, Khaled B. Letaief
  in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, CO, USA, Jun. 2024.

• Lightweight and flexible Deep equilibrium learning for CSI feedback in FDD massive MIMO [paper][arxiv]
  Yifan Ma, Wentao Yu, Xianghao Yu, Jun Zhang, Shenghui Song, Khaled B. Letaief
  in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2024.

• Newtonized near-field channel estimation for ultra-massive MIMO systems [paper]
  Ruoxiao Cao, Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Xianghao Yu, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Yi Gong, Khaled B. Letaief
  in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, UAE, Apr. 2024.

• Task-oriented communication with out-of-distribution detection: An information bottleneck framework [paper][arxiv]
  Hongru Li, Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Jiawei Shao, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief
  in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023.

• Blind performance prediction for deep learning based ultra-massive MIMO channel estimation [paper][arxiv]
  Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Xianghao Yu, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief
  in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, May-Jun. 2023.

• Hybrid far- and near-field channel estimation for THz ultra-massive MIMO via fixed point networks [paper][arxiv]
  Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Xianghao Yu, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief
  in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2022.

• Inter-slice radio resource management via online convex optimization [paper]
  Tianyu Wang, Wentao Yu, Shaowei Wang
  in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, QC, Canada, Jun. 2021.