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most citedLOCO Feature Importance Inference without Data Splitting via Minipatch Ensembles

3 citations · 8 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

stat.ML2026

LOCO-AdaMP: Built-in LOCO Inference for Adaptive Minipatch Ensembles with Enhanced Prediction

Yinan Cheng, Lili Zheng

As black-box machine learning models become increasingly common, extracting interpretations with uncertainty quantification has become a critical challenge. One popular type of int…

stat.ML2026

Model-Agnostic Feature Selection via LOCO-Guided Adaptive Minipatch Sampling

Xuhui Liu, Lili Zheng

Black-box machine learning models increasingly deliver strong predictions, but extracting useful information from them, such as a set of important features, remains challenging. Ex…

stat.ML2025

iLOCO: Distribution-Free Inference for Feature Interactions

Camille Little, Lili Zheng, Genevera Allen

Feature importance measures are widely studied and are essential for understanding model behavior, guiding feature selection, and enhancing interpretability. However, many machine…

stat.ME2024

Cluster Quilting: Spectral Clustering for Patchwork Learning

Lili Zheng, Andersen Chang, Genevera I. Allen

Patchwork learning arises as a new and challenging data collection paradigm where both samples and features are observed in fragmented subsets. Due to technological limits, measure…

stat.ME2023

Joint Semi-Symmetric Tensor PCA for Integrating Multi-modal Populations of Networks

Jiaming Liu, Lili Zheng, Zhengwu Zhang +1

Multi-modal populations of networks arise in many scenarios including in large-scale multi-modal neuroimaging studies that capture both functional and structural neuroimaging data…

stat.ML2023

Interpretable Machine Learning for Discovery: Statistical Challenges \& Opportunities

Genevera I. Allen, Luqin Gan, Lili Zheng

New technologies have led to vast troves of large and complex datasets across many scientific domains and industries. People routinely use machine learning techniques to not only p…

stat.ME2023

Nonparanormal Graph Quilting with Applications to Calcium Imaging

Andersen Chang, Lili Zheng, Gautam Dasarthy +1

Probabilistic graphical models have become an important unsupervised learning tool for detecting network structures for a variety of problems, including the estimation of functiona…

stat.ME2023★ 2 cited

High-dimensional Multi-class Classification with Presence-only Data

Lili Zheng, Garvesh Raskutti

Classification with positive and unlabeled (PU) data frequently arises in bioinformatics, clinical data, and ecological studies, where collecting negative samples can be prohibitiv…

stat.ME2022

Graphical Model Inference with Erosely Measured Data

Lili Zheng, Genevera I. Allen

In this paper, we investigate the Gaussian graphical model inference problem in a novel setting that we call erose measurements, referring to irregularly measured or observed data.…

stat.ME2022

Low-Rank Covariance Completion for Graph Quilting with Applications to Functional Connectivity

Andersen Chang, Lili Zheng, Genevera I. Allen

As a tool for estimating networks in high dimensions, graphical models are commonly applied to calcium imaging data to estimate functional neuronal connectivity, i.e. relationships…

stat.ML2022★ 3 cited

LOCO Feature Importance Inference without Data Splitting via Minipatch Ensembles

Luqin Gan, Lili Zheng, Genevera I. Allen

Feature importance inference is critical for the interpretability and reliability of machine learning models. There has been increasing interest in developing model-agnostic approa…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Gaussian Process Inference Using Mini-batch Stochastic Gradient Descent: Convergence Guarantees and Empirical Benefits

Hao Chen, Lili Zheng, Raed Al Kontar +1

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants have established themselves as the go-to algorithms for large-scale machine learning problems with independent samples due to the…

math.ST2020★ 1 cited

Optimal High-order Tensor SVD via Tensor-Train Orthogonal Iteration

Yuchen Zhou, Anru R. Zhang, Lili Zheng +1

This paper studies a general framework for high-order tensor SVD. We propose a new computationally efficient algorithm, tensor-train orthogonal iteration (TTOI), that aims to estim…

stat.ML2020★ 1 cited

Context-dependent self-exciting point processes: models, methods, and risk bounds in high dimensions

Lili Zheng, Garvesh Raskutti, Rebecca Willett +1

High-dimensional autoregressive point processes model how current events trigger or inhibit future events, such as activity by one member of a social network can affect the future…

math.ST2018

Testing for high-dimensional network parameters in auto-regressive models

Lili Zheng, Garvesh Raskutti

High-dimensional auto-regressive models provide a natural way to model influence between actors given multi-variate time series data for time intervals. While there has bee…