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20172023
most citedA Latent Topic Model with Markovian Transition for Process Data

3 citations · 6 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

stat.ML2023

Empirical Risk Minimization for Losses without Variance

Guanhua Fang, Ping Li, Gennady Samorodnitsky

This paper considers an empirical risk minimization problem under heavy-tailed settings, where data does not have finite variance, but only has -th moment with . In…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Copula for Instance-wise Feature Selection and Ranking

Hanyu Peng, Guanhua Fang, Ping Li

Instance-wise feature selection and ranking methods can achieve a good selection of task-friendly features for each sample in the context of neural networks. However, existing appr…

cs.DS2023

A Cover Time Study of a non-Markovian Algorithm

Guanhua Fang, Gennady Samorodnitsky, Zhiqiang Xu

Given a traversal algorithm, cover time is the expected number of steps needed to visit all nodes in a given graph. A smaller cover time means a higher exploration efficiency of tr…

stat.ML2022

On Penalization in Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits

Guanhua Fang, Ping Li, Gennady Samorodnitsky

We study an important variant of the stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem, which takes penalization into consideration. Instead of directly maximizing cumulative expected re…

math.ST2022

Catoni-style Confidence Sequences under Infinite Variance

Sujay Bhatt, Guanhua Fang, Ping Li +1

In this paper, we provide an extension of confidence sequences for settings where the variance of the data-generating distribution does not exist or is infinite. Confidence sequenc…

stat.ME2022

Best Subset Selection with Efficient Primal-Dual Algorithm

Shaogang Ren, Guanhua Fang, Ping Li

Best subset selection is considered the `gold standard' for many sparse learning problems. A variety of optimization techniques have been proposed to attack this non-convex and NP-…