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most citedA review of distributed statistical inference

55 citations · 87 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2025

Adaptive Decentralized Federated Learning for Robust Optimization

Shuyuan Wu, Feifei Wang, Yuan Gao +2

In decentralized federated learning (DFL), the presence of abnormal clients, often caused by noisy or poisoned data, can significantly disrupt the learning process and degrade the…

stat.ME2024★ 4 cited

Penalized Sparse Covariance Regression with High Dimensional Covariates

Yuan Gao, Zhiyuan Zhang, Zhanrui Cai +3

Covariance regression offers an effective way to model the large covariance matrix with the auxiliary similarity matrices. In this work, we propose a sparse covariance regression (…

stat.CO2024

Grid Point Approximation for Distributed Nonparametric Smoothing and Prediction

Yuan Gao, Rui Pan, Feng Li +2

Kernel smoothing is a widely used nonparametric method in modern statistical analysis. The problem of efficiently conducting kernel smoothing for a massive dataset on a distributed…

stat.ME2024

A Latent Factor Model for High-Dimensional Binary Data

Jiaxin Shi, Yuan Gao, Rui Pan +1

In this study, we develop a latent factor model for analysing high-dimensional binary data. Specifically, a standard probit model is used to describe the regression relationship be…

stat.ME2024★ 22 cited

A Selective Review on Statistical Methods for Massive Data Computation: Distributed Computing, Subsampling, and Minibatch Techniques

Xuetong Li, Yuan Gao, Hong Chang +11

This paper presents a selective review of statistical computation methods for massive data analysis. A huge amount of statistical methods for massive data computation have been rap…

stat.ME2023★ 1 cited

Mixture Conditional Regression with Ultrahigh Dimensional Text Data for Estimating Extralegal Factor Effects

Jiaxin Shi, Fang Wang, Yuan Gao +2

Testing judicial impartiality is a problem of fundamental importance in empirical legal studies, for which standard regression methods have been popularly used to estimate the extr…

math.ST2023★ 1 cited

On the asymptotic properties of a bagging estimator with a massive dataset

Yuan Gao, Riquan Zhang, Hansheng Wang

Bagging is a useful method for large-scale statistical analysis, especially when the computing resources are very limited. We study here the asymptotic properties of bagging estima…

stat.CO2023★ 55 cited

A review of distributed statistical inference

Yuan Gao, Weidong Liu, Hansheng Wang +3

The rapid emergence of massive datasets in various fields poses a serious challenge to traditional statistical methods. Meanwhile, it provides opportunities for researchers to deve…

stat.ME2023

Testing Sufficiency for Transfer Learning

Ziqian Lin, Yuan Gao, Feifei Wang +1

Modern statistical analysis often encounters high dimensional models but with limited sample sizes. This makes the target data based statistical estimation very difficult. Then how…

stat.CO2022★ 1 cited

Distributed Estimation and Inference for Spatial Autoregression Model with Large Scale Networks

Yimeng Ren, Zhe Li, Xuening Zhu +2

The rapid growth of online network platforms generates large-scale network data and it poses great challenges for statistical analysis using the spatial autoregression (SAR) model.…

stat.ME2021★ 3 cited

An Asymptotic Analysis of Minibatch-Based Momentum Methods for Linear Regression Models

Yuan Gao, Xuening Zhu, Haobo Qi +3

Momentum methods have been shown to accelerate the convergence of the standard gradient descent algorithm in practice and theory. In particular, the minibatch-based gradient descen…