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most citedEarly Detection of COVID-19 Hotspots Using Spatio-Temporal Data

19 citations · 39 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.IT2026

Quickest Change Detection in Parametric Models With 1-Bit Measurements

Liyan Xie, Martina Cardone

We consider the quickest change detection from 1-bit quantized observations, where the post-change distribution is a parametric model with unknown parameters and the quantization t…

math.ST2023★ 1 cited

Distributionally Robust Quickest Change Detection using Wasserstein Uncertainty Sets

Liyan Xie, Yuchen Liang, Venugopal V. Veeravalli

The problem of quickest detection of a change in the distribution of a sequence of independent observations is considered. It is assumed that the pre-change distribution is known (…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

MissDiff: Training Diffusion Models on Tabular Data with Missing Values

Yidong Ouyang, Liyan Xie, Chongxuan Li +1

The diffusion model has shown remarkable performance in modeling data distributions and synthesizing data. However, the vanilla diffusion model requires complete or fully observed…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

Neural Differential Recurrent Neural Network with Adaptive Time Steps

Yixuan Tan, Liyan Xie, Xiuyuan Cheng

The neural Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) model has shown success in learning complex continuous-time processes from observations on discrete time stamps. In this work, we co…

math.ST2022★ 1 cited

Window-Limited CUSUM for Sequential Change Detection

Liyan Xie, George V. Moustakides, Yao Xie

We study the parametric online changepoint detection problem, where the underlying distribution of the streaming data changes from a known distribution to an alternative that is of…

math.ST2022

Minimax Robust Quickest Change Detection using Wasserstein Ambiguity Sets

Liyan Xie

We study the robust quickest change detection under unknown pre- and post-change distributions. To deal with uncertainties in the data-generating distributions, we formulate two da…

stat.ME2022

PERCEPT: a new online change-point detection method using topological data analysis

Xiaojun Zheng, Simon Mak, Liyan Xie +1

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a set of data analysis tools for extracting embedded topological structures from complex high-dimensional datasets. In recent years, TDA ha…

stat.ML2021★ 19 cited

Early Detection of COVID-19 Hotspots Using Spatio-Temporal Data

Shixiang Zhu, Alexander Bukharin, Liyan Xie +4

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has worked with other federal agencies to identify counties with increasing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) incid…

math.ST2021★ 6 cited

Robust Hypothesis Testing with Wasserstein Uncertainty Sets

Liyan Xie, Rui Gao, Yao Xie

We consider a data-driven robust hypothesis test where the optimal test will minimize the worst-case performance regarding distributions that are close to the empirical distributio…

math.ST2021★ 1 cited

Sequential (Quickest) Change Detection: Classical Results and New Directions

Liyan Xie, Shaofeng Zou, Yao Xie +1

Online detection of changes in stochastic systems, referred to as sequential change detection or quickest change detection, is an important research topic in statistics, signal pro…

math.ST2021

Optimality of Graph Scanning Statistic for Online Community Detection

Liyan Xie, Yao Xie

Sequential change-point detection for graphs is a fundamental problem for streaming network data types and has wide applications in social networks and power systems. Given fixed v…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Sequential change-point detection for mutually exciting point processes over networks

Haoyun Wang, Liyan Xie, Yao Xie +2

We present a new CUSUM procedure for sequentially detecting change-point in the self and mutual exciting processes, a.k.a. Hawkes networks using discrete events data. Hawkes networ…

math.ST2020★ 2 cited

Sequential Change Detection by Optimal Weighted Divergence

Liyan Xie, Yao Xie

We present a new non-parametric statistic, called the weighed divergence, based on empirical distributions for sequential change detection. We start by constructing the we…

stat.ML2020★ 2 cited

Distributionally Robust Weighted -Nearest Neighbors

Shixiang Zhu, Liyan Xie, Minghe Zhang +2

Learning a robust classifier from a few samples remains a key challenge in machine learning. A major thrust of research has been focused on developing -nearest neighbor (-NN)…

math.ST2019

Spectral CUSUM for Online Network Structure Change Detection

Minghe Zhang, Liyan Xie, Yao Xie

Detecting abrupt changes in the community structure of a network from noisy observations is a fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning. This paper presents an online…

math.ST2018★ 1 cited

Sequential Subspace Change-Point Detection

Liyan Xie, Yao Xie, George V. Moustakides

We consider the online monitoring of multivariate streaming data for changes that are characterized by an unknown subspace structure manifested in the covariance matrix. In particu…