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Publications (15)

cs.AI2026

The FM Agent

Annan Li, Chufan Wu, Zengle Ge +19

Large language models (LLMs) are catalyzing the development of autonomous AI research agents for scientific and engineering discovery. We present FM Agent, a novel and general-purp…

math.OC2017

HONES: A Fast and Tuning-free Homotopy Method For Online Newton Step

Yuting Ye, Lihua Lei, Cheng Ju

In this article, we develop and analyze a homotopy continuation method, referred to as HONES , for solving the sequential generalized projections in Online Newton Step, as well as…

cs.IR2025

Modernizing Facebook Scoped Search: Keyword and Embedding Hybrid Retrieval with LLM Evaluation

Yongye Su, Zeya Zhang, Jane Kou +5

Beyond general web-scale search, social network search uniquely enables users to retrieve information and discover potential connections within their social context. We introduce a…

stat.ME2018

Collaborative targeted inference from continuously indexed nuisance parameter estimators

Cheng Ju, Antoine Chambaz, Mark J. van der Laan

We wish to infer the value of a parameter at a law from which we sample independent observations. The parameter is smooth and we can define two variation-independent features of th…

stat.AP2017

Propensity score prediction for electronic healthcare databases using Super Learner and High-dimensional Propensity Score Methods

Cheng Ju, Mary Combs, Samuel D Lendle +4

The optimal learner for prediction modeling varies depending on the underlying data-generating distribution. Super Learner (SL) is a generic ensemble learning algorithm that uses c…

math.OC2019

Non-convex Finite-Sum Optimization Via SCSG Methods

Lihua Lei, Cheng Ju, Jianbo Chen +1

We develop a class of algorithms, as variants of the stochastically controlled stochastic gradient (SCSG) methods (Lei and Jordan, 2016), for the smooth non-convex finite-sum optim…

stat.CO2017

Scalable Collaborative Targeted Learning for High-Dimensional Data

Cheng Ju, Susan Gruber, Samuel D. Lendle +5

Robust inference of a low-dimensional parameter in a large semi-parametric model relies on external estimators of infinite-dimensional features of the distribution of the data. Typ…

stat.ME2017

On Adaptive Propensity Score Truncation in Causal Inference

Cheng Ju, Joshua Schwab, Mark J. van der Laan

The positivity assumption, or the experimental treatment assignment (ETA) assumption, is important for identifiability in causal inference. Even if the positivity assumption holds,…

stat.ME2017

Collaborative-controlled LASSO for Constructing Propensity Score-based Estimators in High-Dimensional Data

Cheng Ju, Richard Wyss, Jessica M. Franklin +3

Propensity score (PS) based estimators are increasingly used for causal inference in observational studies. However, model selection for PS estimation in high-dimensional data has…

cs.SI2018

Semisupervised Learning on Heterogeneous Graphs and its Applications to Facebook News Feed

Cheng Ju, James Li, Bram Wasti +1

Graph-based semi-supervised learning is a fundamental machine learning problem, and has been well studied. Most studies focus on homogeneous networks (e.g. citation network, friend…

stat.ME2019

Robust inference on the average treatment effect using the outcome highly adaptive lasso

Cheng Ju, David Benkeser, Mark J. van der Laan

Many estimators of the average effect of a treatment on an outcome require estimation of the propensity score, the outcome regression, or both. It is often beneficial to utilize fl…

cs.CV2026

FC-Track: Overlap-Aware Post-Association Correction for Online Multi-Object Tracking

Cheng Ju, Zejing Zhao, Akio Namiki

Reliable multi-object tracking (MOT) is essential for robotic systems operating in complex and dynamic environments. Despite recent advances in detection and association, online MO…

math.OC2020

Extending iLQR method with control delay

Cheng Ju, Yan Qin, Chunjiang Fu

Iterative linear quadradic regulator(iLQR) has become a benchmark method to deal with nonlinear stochastic optimal control problem. However, it does not apply to delay system. In t…

stat.ML2017

The Relative Performance of Ensemble Methods with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification

Cheng Ju, Aurélien Bibaut, Mark J. van der Laan

Artificial neural networks have been successfully applied to a variety of machine learning tasks, including image recognition, semantic segmentation, and machine translation. Howev…

cs.CV2024

DENOISER: Rethinking the Robustness for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition

Haozhe Cheng, Cheng Ju, Haicheng Wang +5

As one of the fundamental video tasks in computer vision, Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition (OVAR) recently gains increasing attention, with the development of vision-language pre…