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most citedSmooth function approximation by deep neural networks with general activation functions

67 citations · 93 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

stat.ML2026

Fast rates in Bayesian online learning with approximate posteriors

Ilsang Ohn

Exact Bayes prediction enjoys fast predictive regret guarantees, but exact posterior updating or representation may be too costly for online use. We study when these statistical gu…

stat.ML2026

Adaptive Bayesian Online Learning via Expert Aggregation

Jungbin Jun, Ilsang Ohn

Bayesian online learning promises uncertainty-aware prediction on data streams, but its performance hinges on inferential choices, including learning rates, prior distributions and…

stat.ME2026

Rate-optimal neural boundary detection from unlabeled noisy images

Kyeongho Kim, Ilsang Ohn

We study boundary detection for unlabeled noisy images from a statistical perspective. The aim is to recover an unknown object region from raw intensity observations without pixel-…

math.ST2026

Early-stopped aggregation: Adaptive inference with computational efficiency

Ilsang Ohn, Shitao Fan, Jungbin Jun +1

When considering a model selection or, more generally, an aggregation approach for adaptive statistical inference, it is often necessary to compute estimators over a wide range of…

math.ST2025

Variational bagging: a robust approach for Bayesian uncertainty quantification

Shitao Fan, Ilsang Ohn, David Dunson +1

Variational Bayes methods are popular due to their computational efficiency and adaptability to diverse applications. In specifying the variational family, mean-field classes are c…

stat.ML2025

Online conformal inference with retrospective adjustment for faster adaptation to distribution shift

Jungbin Jun, Ilsang Ohn

Conformal prediction has emerged as a powerful framework for constructing distribution-free prediction sets with guaranteed coverage assuming only the exchangeability assumption. H…

cs.LG2025

Knowledge Distillation of Uncertainty using Deep Latent Factor Model

Sehyun Park, Jongjin Lee, Yunseop Shin +2

Deep ensembles deliver state-of-the-art, reliable uncertainty quantification, but their heavy computational and memory requirements hinder their practical deployments to real appli…

math.ST2025

Nonparametric estimation of a factorizable density using diffusion models

Hyeok Kyu Kwon, Dongha Kim, Ilsang Ohn +1

In recent years, diffusion models, and more generally score-based deep generative models, have achieved remarkable success in various applications, including image and audio genera…

stat.ML2023

A Bayesian sparse factor model with adaptive posterior concentration

Ilsang Ohn, Lizhen Lin, Yongdai Kim

In this paper, we propose a new Bayesian inference method for a high-dimensional sparse factor model that allows both the factor dimensionality and the sparse structure of the load…

stat.ML2023★ 4 cited

Masked Bayesian Neural Networks : Theoretical Guarantee and its Posterior Inference

Insung Kong, Dongyoon Yang, Jongjin Lee +3

Bayesian approaches for learning deep neural networks (BNN) have been received much attention and successfully applied to various applications. Particularly, BNNs have the merit of…

stat.ML2023

Intrinsic and extrinsic deep learning on manifolds

Yihao Fang, Ilsang Ohn, Vijay Gupta +1

We propose extrinsic and intrinsic deep neural network architectures as general frameworks for deep learning on manifolds. Specifically, extrinsic deep neural networks (eDNNs) pres…

stat.ML2022

The convergent Indian buffet process

Ilsang Ohn

We propose a new Bayesian nonparametric prior for latent feature models, which we call the convergent Indian buffet process (CIBP). We show that under the CIBP, the number of laten…

stat.ML2022

Masked Bayesian Neural Networks : Computation and Optimality

Insung Kong, Dongyoon Yang, Jongjin Lee +2

As data size and computing power increase, the architectures of deep neural networks (DNNs) have been getting more complex and huge, and thus there is a growing need to simplify su…

stat.ML2022★ 5 cited

SLIDE: a surrogate fairness constraint to ensure fairness consistency

Kunwoong Kim, Ilsang Ohn, Sara Kim +1

As they have a vital effect on social decision makings, AI algorithms should be not only accurate and but also fair. Among various algorithms for fairness AI, learning a prediction…

stat.ML2022★ 4 cited

Learning fair representation with a parametric integral probability metric

Dongha Kim, Kunwoong Kim, Insung Kong +2

As they have a vital effect on social decision-making, AI algorithms should be not only accurate but also fair. Among various algorithms for fairness AI, learning fair representati…

math.ST2021★ 6 cited

Adaptive variational Bayes: Optimality, computation and applications

Ilsang Ohn, Lizhen Lin

In this paper, we explore adaptive inference based on variational Bayes. Although several studies have been conducted to analyze the contraction properties of variational posterior…

math.ST2020★ 4 cited

Optimal Bayesian estimation of Gaussian mixtures with growing number of components

Ilsang Ohn, Lizhen Lin

We study Bayesian estimation of finite mixture models in a general setup where the number of components is unknown and allowed to grow with the sample size. An assumption on growin…

math.ST2020★ 3 cited

Nonconvex sparse regularization for deep neural networks and its optimality

Ilsang Ohn, Yongdai Kim

Recent theoretical studies proved that deep neural network (DNN) estimators obtained by minimizing empirical risk with a certain sparsity constraint can attain optimal convergence…

stat.ML2019★ 67 cited

Smooth function approximation by deep neural networks with general activation functions

Ilsang Ohn, Yongdai Kim

There has been a growing interest in expressivity of deep neural networks. However, most of the existing work about this topic focuses only on the specific activation function such…

stat.ML2018

Fast convergence rates of deep neural networks for classification

Yongdai Kim, Ilsang Ohn, Dongha Kim

We derive the fast convergence rates of a deep neural network (DNN) classifier with the rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function learned using the hinge loss. We consider t…