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stat.ML2025

A Probabilistic Perspective on Model Collapse

Shirong Xu, Hengzhi He, Guang Cheng

In recent years, model collapse has become a critical issue in language model training, making it essential to understand the underlying mechanisms driving this phenomenon. In this…

stat.ML2025

Recursive Learning Without Collapse: A Weighting-Based Stabilization Framework

Hengzhi He, Shirong Xu, Guang Cheng

Recent studies identified an intriguing phenomenon in recursive generative model training known as model collapse, where models trained on data generated by previous models exhibit…

stat.ML2024★ 1 cited

Discriminative Estimation of Total Variation Distance: A Fidelity Auditor for Generative Data

Lan Tao, Shirong Xu, Chi-Hua Wang +2

With the proliferation of generative AI and the increasing volume of generative data (also called as synthetic data), assessing the fidelity of generative data has become a critica…

stat.ML2024

Rate-Optimal Rank Aggregation with Private Pairwise Rankings

Shirong Xu, Will Wei Sun, Guang Cheng

In various real-world scenarios, such as recommender systems and political surveys, pairwise rankings are commonly collected and utilized for rank aggregation to derive an overall…

stat.ML2023★ 3 cited

Utility Theory of Synthetic Data Generation

Shirong Xu, Will Wei Sun, Guang Cheng

Synthetic data algorithms are widely employed in industries to generate artificial data for downstream learning tasks. While existing research primarily focuses on empirically eval…

stat.ML2023

Ranking Differential Privacy

Shirong Xu, Will Wei Sun, Guang Cheng

Rankings are widely collected in various real-life scenarios, leading to the leakage of personal information such as users' preferences on videos or news. To protect rankings, exis…