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Publications (14)

math.ST2023

On the failure of the bootstrap for Chatterjee's rank correlation

Zhexiao Lin, Fang Han

While researchers commonly use the bootstrap for statistical inference, many of us have realized that the standard bootstrap, in general, does not work for Chatterjee's rank correl…

stat.ME2026

Variance reduction combining pre-experiment and in-experiment data

Zhexiao Lin, Pablo Crespo

Online controlled experiments (A/B testing) are fundamental to data-driven decision-making in many companies. Improving the sensitivity of these experiments under fixed sample size…

stat.ML2026

Domain-Shift-Aware Conformal Prediction for Large Language Models

Zhexiao Lin, Yuanyuan Li, Neeraj Sarna +2

Large language models have achieved impressive performance across diverse tasks. However, their tendency to produce overconfident and factually incorrect outputs, known as hallucin…

math.ST2025

Limit theorems of Chatterjee's rank correlation

Zhexiao Lin, Fang Han

Establishing the limiting distribution of Chatterjee's rank correlation for a general, possibly non-independent, pair of random variables has been eagerly awaited by many. This pap…

stat.ME2026

Introducing the b-value: combining unbiased and biased estimators from a sensitivity analysis perspective

Zhexiao Lin, Peter J. Bickel, Peng Ding

In empirical research, when we have multiple estimators for the same parameter of interest, a central question arises: how do we combine unbiased but less precise estimators with b…

cs.LG2026

Nearest-Neighbor Radii under Dependent Sampling

Yuanyuan Gao, Yilong Hou, Zhexiao Lin

Nearest-neighbor methods are fundamental to classical and modern machine learning, yet their geometric properties are typically analyzed under independent sampling. In this paper,…