Publications

2026

1. ICML

   

   Efficient Tail-Aware Generative Optimization via Flow Model Fine-Tuning

   Zifan Wang, Riccardo De Santi, Xiaoyu Mo, and 3 more authors

   In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026

   arXiv Bib Code

   @inproceedings{wang2026efficient,
     title = {Efficient Tail-Aware Generative Optimization via Flow Model Fine-Tuning},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and De Santi, Riccardo and Mo, Xiaoyu and Zavlanos, Michael M and Krause, Andreas and Johansson, Karl H},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
     year = {2026},
   }

2. ICLR

   

   Source-Guided Flow Matching

   Zifan Wang^*, Alice Harting^*, Matthieu Barreau, and 2 more authors

   In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2026sourceguided,
     title = {Source-Guided Flow Matching},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Harting, Alice and Barreau, Matthieu and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
     year = {2026},
   }

3. CDC

   

   Federated Flow Matching

   Zifan Wang, Anqi Dong, Mahmoud Selim, and 2 more authors

   In 2026 65nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2025federated,
     title = {Federated Flow Matching},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Dong, Anqi and Selim, Mahmoud and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     booktitle = {2026 65nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
     year = {2026},
   }

4. Automatica

   

   Distributionally Robust Federated Learning with Outlier Resilience

   Zifan Wang, Xinlei Yi, Xenia Konti, and 2 more authors

   Automatica, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @article{wang2025distributionally,
     title = {Distributionally Robust Federated Learning with Outlier Resilience},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Yi, Xinlei and Konti, Xenia and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     journal = {Automatica},
     year = {2026},
   }

5. Preprint

   

   Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Performative Prediction

   Siyi Wang, Zifan Wang, and Karl H Johansson

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06730, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @article{wang2026wasserstein,
     title = {Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Performative Prediction},
     author = {Wang, Siyi and Wang, Zifan and Johansson, Karl H},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06730},
     year = {2026},
   }

6. Automatica

   Risk-averse learning with non-stationary distributions

   Siyi Wang, Zifan Wang, Xinlei Yi, and 3 more authors

   Automatica, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @article{wang2026risk,
     title = {Risk-averse learning with non-stationary distributions},
     author = {Wang, Siyi and Wang, Zifan and Yi, Xinlei and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl Henrik and Hirche, Sandra},
     journal = {Automatica},
     volume = {190},
     pages = {113060},
     year = {2026},
     publisher = {Elsevier}
   }

7. IFAC

   Preference-based optimization from noisy pairwise comparisons

   Siyi Wang, Zifan Wang, and Karl Henrik Johanssson

   In IFAC World Congress, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2025preference,
     title = {Preference-based optimization from noisy pairwise comparisons},
     author = {Wang, Siyi and Wang, Zifan and Johanssson, Karl Henrik},
     booktitle = {IFAC World Congress},
     year = {2026}
   }

8. IFAC

   Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Nash Equilibrium Seeking with Heterogeneous Data: A Lagrangian Approach

   Zifan Wang^*, Georgios Pantazis^*, Sergio Grammatico, and 2 more authors

   In IFAC World Congress, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2025wasserstein,
     title = {Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Nash Equilibrium Seeking with Heterogeneous Data: A Lagrangian Approach},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Pantazis, Georgios and Grammatico, Sergio and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     booktitle = {IFAC World Congress},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. IEEE TAC

   

   Constrained optimization with decision-dependent distributions

   Zifan Wang, Changxin Liu, Thomas Parisini, and 2 more authors

   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @article{wang2025constrained,
     title = {Constrained optimization with decision-dependent distributions},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Liu, Changxin and Parisini, Thomas and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {IEEE},
   }

2. IEEE TAC

   

   Asymmetric learning in convex games

   Zifan Wang, Xinlei Yi, Yi Shen, and 2 more authors

   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @article{wang2025asymmetric,
     title = {Asymmetric learning in convex games},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Yi, Xinlei and Shen, Yi and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {IEEE},
   }

3. Preprint

   

   SparScene: Efficient Traffic Scene Representation via Sparse Graph Learning for Large-Scale Trajectory Generation

   Xiaoyu Mo, Jintian Ge, Zifan Wang, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.21133, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @article{mo2025sparscene,
     title = {SparScene: Efficient Traffic Scene Representation via Sparse Graph Learning for Large-Scale Trajectory Generation},
     author = {Mo, Xiaoyu and Ge, Jintian and Wang, Zifan and Lv, Chen and Johansson, Karl Henrik},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.21133},
     year = {2025},
   }

4. IEEE TAC

   

   Policy Evaluation in Distributional LQR

   Zifan Wang, Yulong Gao, Siyi Wang, and 3 more authors

   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @article{wang2025policy,
     title = {Policy Evaluation in Distributional LQR},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Gao, Yulong and Wang, Siyi and Zavlanos, Michael M and Abate, Alessandro and Johansson, Karl H},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {IEEE},
   }

5. Preprint

   First-and Zeroth-Order Learning in Asynchronous Games

   Zifan Wang, Xinlei Yi, Michael M Zavlanos, and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.09111, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @article{wang2025first,
     title = {First-and Zeroth-Order Learning in Asynchronous Games},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Yi, Xinlei and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.09111},
     year = {2025}
   }

6. Preprint

   Projected Gradient Descent for Constrained Decision-Dependent Optimization

   Zifan Wang, Changxin Liu, Thomas Parisini, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08856, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @article{wang2025projected,
     title = {Projected Gradient Descent for Constrained Decision-Dependent Optimization},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Liu, Changxin and Parisini, Thomas and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08856},
     year = {2025}
   }

7. SETTA

   

   Risk-Averse Certification of Bayesian Neural Networks

   Xiyue Zhang, Zifan Wang, Yulong Gao, and 3 more authors

   In International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools, and Applications, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{zhang2025risk,
     title = {Risk-Averse Certification of Bayesian Neural Networks},
     author = {Zhang, Xiyue and Wang, Zifan and Gao, Yulong and Romao, Licio and Abate, Alessandro and Kwiatkowska, Marta},
     booktitle = {International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools, and Applications},
     pages = {299--317},
     year = {2025},
     organization = {Springer},
   }

2024

1. NeurIPS

   

   Outlier-robust distributionally robust optimization via unbalanced optimal transport

   Zifan Wang, Yi Shen, Michael M Zavlanos, and 1 more author

   In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2024outlier,
     title = {Outlier-robust distributionally robust optimization via unbalanced optimal transport},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Shen, Yi and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
     volume = {37},
     pages = {52189--52214},
     year = {2024},
   }

2. ACC

   Learning of nash equilibria in risk-averse games

   Zifan Wang, Yi Shen, Michael M Zavlanos, and 1 more author

   In 2024 American Control Conference, 2024

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2024learning,
     title = {Learning of nash equilibria in risk-averse games},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Shen, Yi and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     booktitle = {2024 American Control Conference},
     pages = {3270--3275},
     year = {2024},
     organization = {IEEE}
   }

2023

1. L4DC

   

   Policy evaluation in distributional LQR

   Zifan Wang, Yulong Gao, Siyi Wang, and 3 more authors

   In Learning for dynamics and control conference, 2023

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2023policy,
     title = {Policy evaluation in distributional LQR},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Gao, Yulong and Wang, Siyi and Zavlanos, Michael M and Abate, Alessandro and Johansson, Karl Henrik},
     booktitle = {Learning for dynamics and control conference},
     pages = {1245--1256},
     year = {2023},
     organization = {PMLR},
   }

2. CDC

   Convergence analysis of the best response algorithm for time-varying games

   Zifan Wang, Yi Shen, Michael M Zavlanos, and 1 more author

   In 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2023convergence,
     title = {Convergence analysis of the best response algorithm for time-varying games},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Shen, Yi and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     booktitle = {2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
     pages = {1144--1149},
     year = {2023},
     organization = {IEEE}
   }

2022

1. ICML

   

   Risk-averse no-regret learning in online convex games

   Zifan Wang, Yi Shen, and Michael Zavlanos

   In International conference on machine learning, 2022

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2022risk,
     title = {Risk-averse no-regret learning in online convex games},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Shen, Yi and Zavlanos, Michael},
     booktitle = {International conference on machine learning},
     pages = {22999--23017},
     year = {2022},
     organization = {PMLR},
   }

2. IS

   Distributed dynamic event-triggered communication and control for multi-agent consensus: A hybrid system approach

   Zifan Wang, Yabin Gao, Yifan Liu, and 2 more authors

   Information Sciences, 2022

   Bib

   @article{wang2022distributed,
     title = {Distributed dynamic event-triggered communication and control for multi-agent consensus: A hybrid system approach},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Gao, Yabin and Liu, Yifan and Wang, Siyi and Wu, Ligang},
     journal = {Information Sciences},
     volume = {618},
     pages = {191--208},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Elsevier}
   }

3. CDC

   A zeroth-order momentum method for risk-averse online convex games

   Zifan Wang, Yi Shen, Zachary I Bell, and 3 more authors

   In 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2022

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{wang2022zeroth,
     title = {A zeroth-order momentum method for risk-averse online convex games},
     author = {Wang, Zifan and Shen, Yi and Bell, Zachary I and Nivison, Scott and Zavlanos, Michael M and Johansson, Karl H},
     booktitle = {2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
     pages = {5179--5184},
     year = {2022},
     organization = {IEEE}
   }

1967

1. Vision

   

   Letters on wave mechanics

   Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Planck, and 2 more authors

   1967

   Bib

   @book{przibram1967letters,
     title = {Letters on wave mechanics},
     author = {Einstein, Albert and Schrödinger, Erwin and Planck, Max and Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon and Przibram, Karl},
     year = {1967},
     publisher = {Vision},
   }

1956

1. 

   Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement

   Albert Einstein

   1956

   Bib

   @book{einstein1956investigations,
     title = {Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement},
     author = {Einstein, Albert},
     year = {1956},
     publisher = {Courier Corporation},
   }

1950

1. AJP

   The meaning of relativity

   Albert Einstein and AH Taub

   American Journal of Physics, 1950

   Bib

   @article{einstein1950meaning,
     title = {The meaning of relativity},
     author = {Einstein, Albert and Taub, AH},
     journal = {American Journal of Physics},
     volume = {18},
     number = {6},
     pages = {403--404},
     year = {1950},
     publisher = {American Association of Physics Teachers}
   }

1935

1. PhysRev

   Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

   A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

   Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

   Abs DOI HTML PDF Video

   

   In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.

1920

1. Relativity: the Special and General Theory

   Albert Einstein

   1920

   HTML

1905

1. Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen

   A. Einstein

   Annalen der physik, 1905
2. Ann. Phys.

   Un the movement of small particles suspended in statiunary liquids required by the molecular-kinetic theory 0f heat

   A. Einstein

   Ann. Phys., 1905
3. On the electrodynamics of moving bodies

   A. Einstein

   1905
4. Ann. Phys.

   Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt

   Albert Einstein

   Ann. Phys., 1905

   Nobel Prize Abs DOI Bib

   Albert Einstein receveid the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect

   This is the abstract text.

   @article{einstein1905photoelectriceffect,
     title = {{{\"U}ber einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt}},
     author = {Einstein, Albert},
     journal = {Ann. Phys.},
     volume = {322},
     number = {6},
     pages = {132--148},
     year = {1905},
     doi = {10.1002/andp.19053220607},
   }