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most citedTheoretical Foundations of t-SNE for Visualizing High-Dimensional Clustered Data

96 citations · 199 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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stat.ML2026

Enhancing Spectral Embedding through Robust and Flexible Knowledge Transfer in Electronic Health Records

Feiqing Huang, Zongqi Xia, Rong Ma +1

We propose a spectral-based, unsupervised representation learning framework to derive low-dimensional embeddings for clinical concepts and patients in rare disease cohorts from ele…

stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

Statistical Inference for Genetic Relatedness Based on High-Dimensional Logistic Regression

Rong Ma, Zijian Guo, T. Tony Cai +1

This paper studies the problem of statistical inference for genetic relatedness between binary traits based on individual-level genome-wide association data. Specifically, under th…

math.ST2022

Matrix Reordering for Noisy Disordered Matrices: Optimality and Computationally Efficient Algorithms

T. Tony Cai, Rong Ma

Motivated by applications in single-cell biology and metagenomics, we investigate the problem of matrix reordering based on a noisy disordered monotone Toeplitz matrix model. We es…

stat.ME2021★ 1 cited

Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Linear Regression with Blockwise Missing Data

Fei Xue, Rong Ma, Hongzhe Li

Blockwise missing data occurs frequently when we integrate multisource or multimodality data where different sources or modalities contain complementary information. In this paper,…

stat.ML2021★ 96 cited

Theoretical Foundations of t-SNE for Visualizing High-Dimensional Clustered Data

T. Tony Cai, Rong Ma

This paper investigates the theoretical foundations of the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) algorithm, a popular nonlinear dimension reduction and data visualiza…

stat.ME2020★ 7 cited

Estimation, Confidence Intervals, and Large-Scale Hypotheses Testing for High-Dimensional Mixed Linear Regression

Linjun Zhang, Rong Ma, T. Tony Cai +1

This paper studies the high-dimensional mixed linear regression (MLR) where the output variable comes from one of the two linear regression models with an unknown mixing proportion…

stat.ME2020★ 5 cited

The Asymptotic Distribution of Modularity in Weighted Signed Networks

Rong Ma, Ian Barnett

Modularity is a popular metric for quantifying the degree of community structure within a network. The distribution of the largest eigenvalue of a network's edge weight or adjacenc…

math.ST2020★ 6 cited

Optimal Structured Principal Subspace Estimation: Metric Entropy and Minimax Rates

T. Tony Cai, Hongzhe Li, Rong Ma

Driven by a wide range of applications, many principal subspace estimation problems have been studied individually under different structural constraints. This paper presents a uni…

math.ST2019★ 8 cited

Optimal Estimation of Bacterial Growth Rates Based on Permuted Monotone Matrix

Rong Ma, T. Tony Cai, Hongzhe Li

Motivated by the problem of estimating the bacterial growth rates for genome assemblies from shotgun metagenomic data, we consider the permuted monotone matrix model , wher…

math.ST2019★ 11 cited

Optimal Permutation Recovery in Permuted Monotone Matrix Model

Rong Ma, T. Tony Cai, Hongzhe Li

Motivated by recent research on quantifying bacterial growth dynamics based on genome assemblies, we consider a permuted monotone matrix model , where the rows represent di…

stat.ME2018★ 63 cited

Global and Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Logistic Regression Models

Rong Ma, T. Tony Cai, Hongzhe Li

High-dimensional logistic regression is widely used in analyzing data with binary outcomes. In this paper, global testing and large-scale multiple testing for the regression coeffi…

stat.ME2018★ 1 cited

Optimal Estimation of Simultaneous Signals Using Absolute Inner Product with Applications to Integrative Genomics

Rong Ma, T. Tony Cai, Hongzhe Li

Integrating the summary statistics from genome-wide association study (\textsc{gwas}) and expression quantitative trait loci (e\textsc{qtl}) data provides a powerful way of identif…