2026 ISIT Panel Discussion: IT x AI: From Information Age to AI Age

The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), the world's leading conference on information theory, is coming to mainland China for the very first time, which marks a historic milestone. Join nearly 1,000 of the brightest minds in Guangzhou for this landmark event in 2026. As part of the symposium, we are excited to host a special panel discussion. We will dive deep into the future of AI and information theory, brainstorming how to leap from the "Information Age" of data transmission and storage into the new "Age of AI," driven by data understanding and generation. Grounded in the origin of information theory and closely aligned with the cutting-edge transformative trends of the deep convergence between communications and artificial intelligence, this panel focuses on key scientific challenges at the interdisciplinary crossroads to conduct in-depth discussions. Centering around five major propositions—AI-empowered non-linear channel coding innovation, the reconstruction of information performance evaluation frameworks for semantic-driven token communications, the back-feeding of classical optimal sequence decision theory to optimize large model generation paradigms, overcoming the inherent hallucination bottlenecks of large models based on information-theoretic causal modeling, and the cross-disciplinary mutual learning between communication reception and diffusion denoising mechanisms—the session assembles leading experts in the field for critical exchange, explores new paths for cross-domain breakthroughs in information science, and drives the innovative evolution of next-generation intelligent communications and native AI theoretical frameworks. For more information, please click：https://www.chaspark.com/#/s/IEEE-ISI...