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Yiyang Zhu
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9ranked-venue papers
1as first author
9since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0000-7641-7353ORCID · corroborated
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Computer networks · 6 · 6 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Scaling Law for Large Wireless ModelsabstractEmerging from recent advances in foundation models, Large Wireless Models (LWMs) represent a new paradigm of general-purpose intelligence for wireless communications that transcends task-specific engineering. The success of foundation models is critically underpinned by scaling laws, which provide a predictable roadmap for how performance scales with resources. However, established scaling laws from language and vision, charting performance as a power-law of model and dataset sizes, are ill-suited for the wireless domain, as their core formulations cannot model the structured nature of the physical channel. To address this, we propose a novel wireless scaling law that extends the classical formulation by modeling two wireless-native factors: channel heterogeneity and discretization granularity. These two factors reshape scaling behavior via nested linear and power-law relationships, recasting the scaling law's parameters (notably the scaling exponent and irreducible loss) from universal constants into dynamic variables dictated by the physical environment. Our physics-aware formulation reveals two key insights: first, that compute-optimal scaling is not dictated by a fixed model-data ratio but is instead a dynamic function of heterogeneity and granularity, and second, that this dependency is particularly sensitive to granularity, allowing significant performance to be unlocked from existing data simply by refining its resolution. Crucially, this establishes a reliable roadmap for designing powerful yet resource-efficient LWMs, translating theoretical insights into actionable engineering principles. Extensive experiments validate our wireless scaling law, showing a 32.31% prediction accuracy improvement over classical laws in diverse wireless scenarios where they fail. Jiayi Zhang 0001, Bokai Xu, Yiyang Zhu, Enyu Shi |
AAAI | 6 |
| 2026 | MaLAM4Com: Multi-Agent Cooperative Large AI Models for Wireless CommunicationsabstractLarge artificial intelligence (AI) models for wireless communications have demonstrated remarkable success across a range of wireless downstream tasks. However, their high computational overhead, low training efficiency, and limited privacy protection pose significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained terminal devices. To address this issue, we propose a novel distributed framework that utilizes a three-layer cooperative paradigm to effectively achieve cooperation among agents, namely Multi-agent cooperative Large AI Models for Wireless Communications: MaLAM4Com. However, two key challenges in MaLAM4Com are how to effectively extract knowledge from shared information and how to alleviate the significant complexity arising from high-dimensional information sharing. To address these bottlenecks, we introduce federated distillation and Lyapunov cooperation to achieve robust knowledge transfer and consistent dynamic evolution, enabling the agents to capture the intrinsic structure of wireless channels. Subsequently, we innovatively utilize low-dimensional embeddings to facilitate information sharing among agents, significantly reducing cooperation complexity by up to 94% while enhancing privacy protection. This breaks traditional cooperative paradigms that rely on wireless channels. Moreover, we further introduce dataset distillation to enhance training efficiency by synthesizing elite data instead of directly utilizing raw datasets. Numerical results demonstrate that MaLAM4Com significantly outperforms existing baselines, with gains exceeding 45% under low sampling ratios. Remarkably, low-dimensional embeddings have also shown significant advantages in downstream tasks, reducing inference complexity by over 96%. Jiayi Zhang 0001, Yiyang Zhu, Enyu Shi, Bokai Xu, Dusit Niyato, Shi Jin 0002, Bo Ai 0001 |
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. | 3 |
| 2026 | Performance Optimization of RIS-Aided Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With DRL ApproachabstractReconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are emerging as a crucial technology to address the energy consumption challenges posed by the widespread deployment of access points (APs) in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems within future sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, most existing studies on RIS-aided CF mMIMO systems assume ideal hardware and static channel conditions, which deviate from practical deployment scenarios. This work analyzes the performance of a RIS-aided CF mMIMO system by incorporating the combined effects of hardware impairments from non-ideal transceivers and channel aging caused by user mobility. We first characterize both direct and cascaded channels between APs and user equipment, modeling them using correlated Rician fading to capture realistic propagation effects. The overall channel is then estimated via the minimum mean square error method under perfect and imperfect line-of-sight phase knowledge, and we derive an analytical expression for the instantaneous spectral efficiency (SE). We also derive the closed-form expressions of the use-and-then-forget bound with the maximum-ratio transmission precoding method. Building on these insights, we establish an efficient joint optimization framework for beamforming in the AP and phase-shift adaptations in the RIS, exploring an alternating optimization method and a deep-reinforcement learning (DRL)-based algorithm. The numerical results validate our theoretical analysis, illustrating the impact of hardware impairments and channel aging on SE. Although the DRL-based method is scalable and adapts well to dynamic environments, its high computational and memory demands pose challenges for real-time deployment, highlighting a trade-off between performance and feasibility. Yu Lu 0011, Jiayi Zhang 0001, Yiyang Zhu, Jiakang Zheng, Dingcheng Yang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Bo Ai 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. | 3 |
| 2026 | Joint Precoding and AP Selection for Energy-Efficient RIS-Aided Cell-Free Massive MIMO With Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningabstractCell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two advanced transceiver technologies for realizing future sixth-generation (6G) networks. In this paper, we investigate the joint precoding and access point (AP) selection for an energy-efficient RIS-aided CF mMIMO system. To address the associated computational complexity and communication power consumption, we advocate for user-centric dynamic networks in which each user is served by a subset of APs rather than by all of them. Based on the user-centric network, we formulate a joint precoding and AP selection problem to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of the considered system. To solve this complex nonconvex problem, we propose an innovative double-layer multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL)-based scheme. Moreover, we propose an adaptive power threshold-based AP selection scheme to further enhance the EE of the considered system. To reduce the computational complexity of the RIS-aided CF mMIMO system, we introduce a fuzzy logic (FuZ) strategy into the MARL scheme to accelerate convergence. The simulation results show that the proposed FuZ-based MARL cooperative architecture effectively improves EE performance, offering a 85% enhancement over the zero-forcing (ZF) method, and achieves faster convergence speed compared with MARL. It is important to note that increasing the transmission power of the APs or the number of RIS elements can effectively enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) performance, which also leads to an increase in power consumption, resulting in a non-trivial trade-off between the quality of service and EE performance. Enyu Shi, Yiyang Zhu, Jiayi Zhang 0001, Chau Yuen, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Marco Di Renzo, Bo Ai 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. | 2 |
| 2025 | Polygenic prediction for underrepresented populations through transfer learning by utilizing genetic similarity shared with European populationsabstractBecause current genome-wide association studies are primarily conducted in individuals of European ancestry and information disparities exist among different populations, the polygenic score derived from Europeans thus exhibits poor transferability. Borrowing the idea of transfer learning, which enables the utilization of knowledge acquired from auxiliary samples to enhance learning capability in target samples, we propose transPGS, a novel polygenic score method, for genetic prediction in underrepresented populations by leveraging genetic similarity shared between the European and non-European populations while explaining the trans-ethnic difference in linkage disequilibrium (LD) and effect sizes. We demonstrate the usefulness and robustness of transPGS in elevated prediction accuracy via individual-level and summary-level simulations and apply it to seven continuous phenotypes and three diseases in the African, Chinese, and East Asian populations of the UK Biobank and Genetic Epidemiology Research Study on Adult Health and Aging cohorts. We further reveal that distinct LD and minor allele frequency patterns across ancestral groups are responsible for the dissatisfactory portability of PGS. Yiyang Zhu, Wenying Chen, Kexuan Zhu, Shuiping Huang, Ping Zeng |
Briefings Bioinform. | 1 |
| 2025 | Mobile Cell-Free Massive MIMO With Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A Scalable FrameworkabstractCell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) offers significant advantages in mobility scenarios, mainly due to the elimination of cell boundaries and strong macro diversity. In this paper, we examine the downlink performance of cell-free mMIMO systems equipped with mobile-APs utilizing the concept of unmanned aerial vehicles, where mobility and power control are jointly considered to effectively enhance coverage and suppress interference. However, the high computational complexity, poor collaboration, limited scalability, and uneven reward distribution of conventional optimization schemes lead to serious performance degradation and instability. These factors complicate the provision of consistent and high-quality service across all user equipments in downlink cell-free mMIMO systems. Consequently, we propose a novel scalable framework enhanced by multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to tackle these challenges. The established framework incorporates a graph neural network (GNN)-aided communication mechanism to facilitate effective collaboration among agents, a permutation architecture to improve scalability, and a directional decoupling architecture to accurately distinguish contributions. In the numerical results, we present comparisons of different optimization schemes and network architectures, which reveal that the proposed scheme can effectively enhance system performance compared to conventional schemes due to the adoption of advanced technologies. In particular, appropriately compressing the observation space of agents is beneficial for achieving a better balance between performance and convergence. Jiayi Zhang 0001, Yiyang Zhu, Enyu Shi, Bo Ai 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. | 3 |
| 2025 | Uplink Performance of Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Enhanced Cell-Free Massive MIMO SystemsabstractIn this paper, we explore the integration of low-power, low-cost stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) into cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems to enhance access point (AP) capabilities and address high power consumption and cost challenges. Specifically, we investigate the uplink performance of a SIM-enhanced CF mMIMO system and propose a novel system framework. First, the closed-form expressions of the spectral efficiency (SE) are obtained using the unique two-layer signal processing framework of CF mMIMO systems. Second, to mitigate inter-user interference, an interference-based greedy algorithm for pilot allocation is introduced. Third, a wave-based beamforming algorithm for SIM is proposed, based only on statistical channel state information, which effectively reduces the fronthaul costs. Finally, two different power control algorithms are proposed to improve the performance of UE with inferior channel conditions. The results indicate that increasing the number of SIM layers and meta-atoms leads to significant performance improvements and allows for a reduction in the number of APs and AP antennas, thus lowering the costs. In particular, the best SE performance is achieved with the deployment of 20 APs plus 1200 SIM meta-atoms. Finally, the proposed wave-based beamforming algorithm can enhance the SE performance of SIM-enhanced CF-mMIMO systems by 57%, significantly outperforming traditional CF mMIMO systems. Enyu Shi, Jiayi Zhang 0001, Yiyang Zhu, Jiancheng An 0001, Chau Yuen, Bo Ai 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. | 3 |
| 2024 | Performance Analysis of RIS-Aided MISO Systems with EMI and Channel AgingabstractIn this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input single-output (MISO) system in the presence of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and channel aging with a Rician fading channel model between the base station (BS) and user equipment (UE). Specifically, we derive the closed-form expression for downlink spectral efficiency (SE) with maximum ratio transmission (MRT) precoding. The Monte-Carlo simulation supports the theoretical results, demonstrating that amplifying the weight of the line-of-sight (LoS) component in Rician fading channels can boost SE, while EMI has a detrimental impact. Furthermore, continuously increasing the number of RIS elements is not an optimal choice when EMI exists. Nonetheless, RIS can be deployed to compensate for SE degradation caused by channel aging effects. Finally, enlarging the RIS elements size can significantly improve system performance. Taoyu Song, Enyu Shi, Yu Lu 0011, Yiyang Zhu, Jiayi Zhang 0001, Bo Ai 0001 |
VTC Spring | 4 |
| 2024 | Cooperative Multi-Target Positioning for Cell-Free Massive MIMO With Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningabstractCell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology to empower next-generation mobile communication networks. In this paper, to address the computational complexity associated with conventional fingerprint positioning, we consider a novel cooperative positioning architecture that involves certain relevant access points (APs) to establish positioning similarity coefficients. Then, we propose an innovative joint positioning and correction framework employing multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to tackle the challenges of high-dimensional sophisticated signal processing, which mainly leverages on the received signal strength information for preliminary positioning, supplemented by the angle of arrival information to refine the initial position estimation. Moreover, to mitigate the bias effects originating from remote APs, we design a cooperative weighted K-nearest neighbor (Co-WKNN)-based estimation scheme to select APs with a high correlation to participate in user positioning. In the numerical results, we present comparisons of various user positioning schemes, which reveal that the proposed MARL-based positioning scheme with Co-WKNN can effectively improve positioning performance. It is important to note that the cooperative positioning architecture is a critical element in striking a balance between positioning performance and computational complexity. Jiayi Zhang 0001, Enyu Shi, Yiyang Zhu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Bo Ai 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. | 4 |