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Publications (18)

eess.SP2020

Baseline Estimation of Commercial Building HVAC Fan Power Using Tensor Completion

Shunbo Lei, David Hong, Johanna L. Mathieu +1

Commercial building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems have been studied for providing ancillary services to power grids via demand response (DR). One critic…

math.ST2021

HePPCAT: Probabilistic PCA for Data with Heteroscedastic Noise

David Hong, Kyle Gilman, Laura Balzano +1

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classical and ubiquitous method for reducing data dimensionality, but it is suboptimal for heterogeneous data that are increasingly common i…

math.ST2018

Asymptotic performance of PCA for high-dimensional heteroscedastic data

David Hong, Laura Balzano, Jeffrey A. Fessler

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a classical method for reducing the dimensionality of data by projecting them onto a subspace that captures most of their variation. Effective…

cs.LG2022

Provable tradeoffs in adversarially robust classification

Edgar Dobriban, Hamed Hassani, David Hong +1

It is well known that machine learning methods can be vulnerable to adversarially-chosen perturbations of their inputs. Despite significant progress in the area, foundational open…

math.DS2021

Generic Properties of Koopman Eigenfunctions for Stable Fixed Points and Periodic Orbits

Matthew D. Kvalheim, David Hong, Shai Revzen

Our recent work established existence and uniqueness results for globally defined linearizing semiconjugacies for flows having a g…

cs.LG2019

Convolutional Analysis Operator Learning: Dependence on Training Data

Il Yong Chun, David Hong, Ben Adcock +1

Convolutional analysis operator learning (CAOL) enables the unsupervised training of (hierarchical) convolutional sparsifying operators or autoencoders from large datasets. One can…

math.ST2016

Towards a Theoretical Analysis of PCA for Heteroscedastic Data

David Hong, Laura Balzano, Jeffrey A. Fessler

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a method for estimating a subspace given noisy samples. It is useful in a variety of problems ranging from dimensionality reduction to anomaly…

math.NA2026

Generalized Canonical Polyadic Tensor Decompositions with General Symmetry

Alex Mulrooney, David Hong

Canonical Polyadic (CP) tensor decomposition is a workhorse algorithm for discovering underlying low-dimensional structure in tensor data. This is accomplished in conventional CP d…

cs.CY2017

Instant Accident Reporting and Crowdsensed Road Condition Analytics for Smart Cities

Ashkan Yousefpour, Caleb Fung, Tam Nguyen +2

The following report contains information about a proposed technology by the authors, which consists of a device that sits inside of a vehicle and constantly monitors the car infor…

math.ST2026

Network Signflip Parallel Analysis for Selecting the Embedding Dimension

David Hong, Joshua Cape

The paper proposes a data‑driven spectral technique called NetFlipPA that determines how many dimensions to keep when embedding large heterogeneous networks by comparing eigenvalue…

#spectral graph theory#network embedding#dimension selection#stochastic block models
math.NA2019

Generalized Canonical Polyadic Tensor Decomposition

David Hong, Tamara G. Kolda, Jed A. Duersch

Tensor decomposition is a fundamental unsupervised machine learning method in data science, with applications including network analysis and sensor data processing. This work devel…

cs.SE2026

Beyond Output Correctness: Benchmarking and Evaluating Large Language Model Reasoning in Coding Tasks

Yuangang Li, Justin Tian Jin Chen, Ethan Yu +2

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on explicit reasoning to solve coding tasks, yet evaluating the quality of this reasoning remains challenging. Existing reasoning eva…

eess.SP2025

Streaming Heteroscedastic Probabilistic PCA with Missing Data

Kyle Gilman, David Hong, Jeffrey A. Fessler +1

Streaming principal component analysis (PCA) is an integral tool in large-scale machine learning for rapidly estimating low-dimensional subspaces from very high-dimensional data ar…

math.RA2026

Certificate for Orthogonal Equivalence of Real Polynomials by Polynomial-Weighted Principal Component Analysis

Martin Helmer, David Hong, Hoon Hong

Suppose that and are two real polynomials of degree in variables. If the polynomials and

math.ST2022

Optimally Weighted PCA for High-Dimensional Heteroscedastic Data

David Hong, Fan Yang, Jeffrey A. Fessler +1

Modern data are increasingly both high-dimensional and heteroscedastic. This paper considers the challenge of estimating underlying principal components from high-dimensional data…

math.ST2026

Selecting the number of components in PCA via random signflips

David Hong, Yue Sheng, Edgar Dobriban

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a foundational tool in modern data analysis, and a crucial step in PCA is selecting the number of components to keep. However, classical selec…

cs.CV2021

Subspace Clustering using Ensembles of -Subspaces

John Lipor, David Hong, Yan Shuo Tan +1

Subspace clustering is the unsupervised grouping of points lying near a union of low-dimensional linear subspaces. Algorithms based directly on geometric properties of such data te…

math.NA2020

Stochastic Gradients for Large-Scale Tensor Decomposition

Tamara G. Kolda, David Hong

Tensor decomposition is a well-known tool for multiway data analysis. This work proposes using stochastic gradients for efficient generalized canonical polyadic (GCP) tensor decomp…