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6 papers

math.ST2026

Optimally taming biases in black-box models for efficient semiparametric estimation

Yihong Gu, Qishuo Yin, Tianxi Cai +1

Modern semiparametric estimation often relies on flexible black-box machine learning methods to estimate nuisance functions, raising a fundamental question: how do nuisance estimat…

stat.ME2026

Neural Generative Distributional Regression

Jinhang Chai, Jianqing Fan, Yihong Gu

Any continuous conditional distribution of given can be generated from a transform of a known noise distribution such as the uniform or normal distribution via $Y = g(X…

math.ST2025

Causality Pursuit from Heterogeneous Environments via Neural Adversarial Invariance Learning

Yihong Gu, Cong Fang, Peter Bühlmann +1

Pursuing causality from data is a fundamental problem in scientific discovery, treatment intervention, and transfer learning. This paper introduces a novel algorithmic method for a…

math.ST2025

Optimal estimation of a factorizable density using diffusion models with ReLU neural networks

Jianqing Fan, Yihong Gu, Ximing Li

This paper investigates the score-based diffusion models for density estimation when the target density admits a factorizable low-dimensional nonparametric structure. To be specifi…

stat.ML2025

CINDES: Classification induced neural density estimator and simulator

Dehao Dai, Jianqing Fan, Yihong Gu +1

Neural network-based methods for (un)conditional density estimation have recently gained substantial attention, as various neural density estimators have outperformed classical app…

math.ST2025

Fundamental Computational Limits in Pursuing Invariant Causal Prediction and Invariance-Guided Regularization

Yihong Gu, Cong Fang, Yang Xu +2

Pursuing invariant prediction from heterogeneous environments opens the door to learning causality in a purely data-driven way and has several applications in causal discovery and…