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20202026
most citedAdaptive Importance Sampling for Efficient Stochastic Root Finding and Quantile Estimation

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

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7 papers

stat.ME2026

Studentized Cheap Bootstrap: Achieving Higher-Order Coverage Accuracy with Low Computation

Shengyi He, Henry Lam, Yunhao Yan

The bootstrap is a versatile method for quantifying statistical uncertainty. Among its variants, a popular approach, the studentized bootstrap, provably achieves higher-order cover…

stat.ME2024

Statistically Optimal Uncertainty Quantification for Expensive Black-Box Models

Shengyi He, Henry Lam

Uncertainty quantification, by means of confidence interval (CI) construction, has been a fundamental problem in statistics and also important in risk-aware decision-making. In thi…

math.ST2021

Higher-Order Coverage Errors of Batching Methods via Edgeworth Expansions on -Statistics

Shengyi He, Henry Lam

While batching methods have been widely used in simulation and statistics, it is open regarding their higher-order coverage behaviors and whether one variant is better than the oth…

stat.ME2021

Certifiable Deep Importance Sampling for Rare-Event Simulation of Black-Box Systems

Mansur Arief, Yuanlu Bai, Wenhao Ding +4

Rare-event simulation techniques, such as importance sampling (IS), constitute powerful tools to speed up challenging estimation of rare catastrophic events. These techniques often…

math.OC2021

Higher-Order Expansion and Bartlett Correctability of Distributionally Robust Optimization

Shengyi He, Henry Lam

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) is a worst-case framework for stochastic optimization under uncertainty that has drawn fast-growing studies in recent years. When the und…

stat.ME2021★ 2 cited

Adaptive Importance Sampling for Efficient Stochastic Root Finding and Quantile Estimation

Shengyi He, Guangxin Jiang, Henry Lam +1

In solving simulation-based stochastic root-finding or optimization problems that involve rare events, such as in extreme quantile estimation, running crude Monte Carlo can be proh…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Deep Probabilistic Accelerated Evaluation: A Robust Certifiable Rare-Event Simulation Methodology for Black-Box Safety-Critical Systems

Mansur Arief, Zhiyuan Huang, Guru Koushik Senthil Kumar +5

Evaluating the reliability of intelligent physical systems against rare safety-critical events poses a huge testing burden for real-world applications. Simulation provides a useful…