Publications

Journal/Conference Papers

  • Simultaneous Estimation of Nonlinear Functionals of a Quantum State
    [pdf], [arXiv:2505.16715]
    Kean Chen, Qisheng Wang, Zhan Yu, Zhicheng Zhang
    AQIS 2025, and IEEE T-IT, 2026

  • Local Test for Unitarily Invariant Properties of Bipartite Quantum States
    [pdf], [arXiv:2404.04599]
    Kean Chen, Qisheng Wang, Zhicheng Zhang
    IEEE T-IT, 2026

  • Quantum Multi-Level Estimation of Functionals of Discrete Distributions
    [pdf], [arXiv:2605.03685]
    Kean Chen, Minbo Gao, Tongyang Li, Qisheng Wang, Xinzhao Wang
    ICALP 2026

  • Strict Hierarchy for Quantum Channel Certification to Unitary
    [pdf], [arXiv:2604.26900]
    Kean Chen, Qisheng Wang, Zhicheng Zhang
    ICALP 2026

  • Approximation does not help in quantum unitary time-reversal
    [pdf], [arXiv:2507.05736]
    Kean Chen, Nengkun Yu, Zhicheng Zhang
    STOC 2026

  • AlphaSyndrome: Tackling the Syndrome Measurement Circuit Scheduling Problem for QEC Codes
    [pdf], [arXiv:2601.12509]
    Yuhao Liu, Shuohao Ping, Junyu Zhou, Ethan Decker, Justin Kalloor, Mathias Weiden, Kean Chen, Yunong Shi, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Costin Iancu, Gushu Li
    ASPLOS 2026

  • Improved Sample Upper and Lower Bounds for Trace Estimation of Quantum State Powers
    [pdf], [arXiv:2505.09563]
    Kean Chen, Qisheng Wang
    COLT 2025

  • Verifying Fault-Tolerance of Quantum Error Correction Codes
    [pdf], [arXiv:2501.14380]
    Kean Chen, Yuhao Liu, Wang Fang, Jennifer Paykin, Xin-Chuan Wu, Albert Schmitz, Steve Zdancewic, Gushu Li
    CAV 2025

  • Automatic Test Pattern Generation for Robust Quantum Circuit Testing
    [pdf], [arXiv:2202.10697]
    Kean Chen, Mingsheng Ying
    ACM TODAES, 2024

  • Unitarity Estimation for Quantum Channels
    [pdf], [arXiv:2212.09319]
    Kean Chen, Qisheng Wang, Peixun Long, Mingsheng Ying
    IEEE T-IT, 2023

  • Quantum Algorithm for Fidelity Estimation
    [pdf], [arXiv:2103.09076]
    Qisheng Wang, Zhicheng Zhang, Kean Chen, Ji Guan, Wang Fang, Junyi Liu, Mingsheng Ying
    IEEE T-IT, 2023

  • Spatio-Temporal Point Process for Multiple Object Tracking
    [pdf], [arXiv:2302.02444]
    Tao Wang, Kean Chen, Weiyao Lin, John See, Zenghui Zhang, Qian Xu, Xia Jia
    IEEE TNNLS, 2023

  • End-to-End Video Instance Segmentation via Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks
    [pdf], [arXiv:2203.03145]
    Tao Wang, Ning Xu, Kean Chen, Weiyao Lin
    ICCV 2021

  • AP-Loss for Accurate One-Stage Object Detection
    [pdf], [arXiv:2008.07294]
    Kean Chen, Weiyao Lin, Jianguo Li, John See, Ji Wang, Junni Zou
    IEEE T-PAMI, 2021

  • PIoU Loss: Towards Accurate Oriented Object Detection in Complex Environments
    [pdf], [arXiv:2007.09584]
    Zhiming Chen, Kean Chen, Weiyao Lin, John See, Hui Yu, Yan Ke, Cong Yang
    ECCV 2020

  • Towards Accurate One-Stage Object Detection with AP-Loss
    [pdf], [arXiv:1904.06373]
    Kean Chen, Jianguo Li, Weiyao Lin, John See, Ji Wang, Lingyu Duan, Zhibo Chen, Changwei He, Junni Zou
    CVPR 2019

Manuscripts

  • Quantum channel tomography: optimal bounds and a Heisenberg-to-classical phase transition
    [pdf], [arXiv:2604.17369]
    Kean Chen, Filippo Girardi, Aadil Oufkir, Nengkun Yu, Zhicheng Zhang
    arXiv:2604.17369, 2026
    This paper subsumes prior papers [arXiv:2512.13614], [arXiv:2601.04180], [arXiv:2601.10683]

  • TopoLS: Lattice Surgery Compilation via Topological Program Transformations
    [pdf], [arXiv:2601.23109]
    Junyu Zhou, Yuhao Liu, Ethan Decker, Justin Kalloor, Mathias Weiden, Kean Chen, Costin Iancu, Gushu Li
    arXiv:2601.23109, 2026

  • Optimal lower bound for quantum channel tomography in away-from-boundary regime
    [pdf], [arXiv:2601.10683]
    Kean Chen, Zhicheng Zhang, Nengkun Yu
    arXiv:2601.10683, 2026

  • Quantum channel tomography and estimation by local test
    [pdf], [arXiv:2512.13614]
    Kean Chen, Nengkun Yu, Zhicheng Zhang
    arXiv:2512.13614, 2025

  • A List of Complexity Bounds for Property Testing by Quantum Sample-to-Query Lifting
    [pdf], [arXiv:2512.01971]
    Kean Chen, Qisheng Wang, Zhicheng Zhang
    arXiv:2512.01971, 2025

  • Inverse-free quantum state estimation with Heisenberg scaling
    [pdf], [arXiv:2510.25750]
    Kean Chen
    arXiv:2510.25750, 2025

  • VeriQBench: A Benchmark for Multiple Types of Quantum Circuits
    [pdf], [arXiv:2206.10880]
    Kean Chen, Wang Fang, Ji Guan, Xin Hong, Mingyu Huang, Junyi Liu, Qisheng Wang, Mingsheng Ying
    arXiv:2206.10880, 2022