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most citedStatistical Significance of Clustering using Soft Thresholding

69 citations · 231 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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stat.ME2022

Robust Low-rank Tensor Decomposition with the Criterion

Qiang Heng, Eric C. Chi, Yufeng Liu

The growing prevalence of tensor data, or multiway arrays, in science and engineering applications motivates the need for tensor decompositions that are robust against outliers. In…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Rejoinder: Learning Optimal Distributionally Robust Individualized Treatment Rules

Weibin Mo, Zhengling Qi, Yufeng Liu

We thank the opportunity offered by editors for this discussion and the discussants for their insightful comments and thoughtful contributions. We also want to congratulate Kallus…

stat.ME2021★ 1 cited

Efficient Learning of Optimal Individualized Treatment Rules for Heteroscedastic or Misspecified Treatment-Free Effect Models

Weibin Mo, Yufeng Liu

Recent development in data-driven decision science has seen great advances in individualized decision making. Given data with individual covariates, treatment assignments and outco…

stat.ME2020★ 1 cited

Angle-based hierarchical classification using exact label embedding

Yiwei Fan, Xiaoling Lu, Yufeng Liu +1

Hierarchical classification problems are commonly seen in practice. However, most existing methods do not fully utilize the hierarchical information among class labels. In this pap…

stat.ML2020

Learning Optimal Distributionally Robust Individualized Treatment Rules

Weibin Mo, Zhengling Qi, Yufeng Liu

Recent development in the data-driven decision science has seen great advances in individualized decision making. Given data with individual covariates, treatment assignments and o…

stat.ML2019

High dimensional precision medicine from patient-derived xenografts

Naim U. Rashid, Daniel J. Luckett, Jingxiang Chen +8

The complexity of human cancer often results in significant heterogeneity in response to treatment. Precision medicine offers potential to improve patient outcomes by leveraging th…

math.ST2019★ 3 cited

Statistical Analysis of Stationary Solutions of Coupled Nonconvex Nonsmooth Empirical Risk Minimization

Zhengling Qi, Ying Cui, Yufeng Liu +1

This paper has two main goals: (a) establish several statistical properties---consistency, asymptotic distributions, and convergence rates---of stationary solutions and values of a…

math.OC2019

Estimation of Individualized Decision Rules Based on an Optimized Covariate-Dependent Equivalent of Random Outcomes

Zhengling Qi, Ying Cui, Yufeng Liu +1

Recent exploration of optimal individualized decision rules (IDRs) for patients in precision medicine has attracted a lot of attention due to the heterogeneous responses of patient…

stat.ME2019

Penalized linear regression with high-dimensional pairwise screening

Siliang Gong, Kai Zhang, Yufeng Liu

In variable selection, most existing screening methods focus on marginal effects and ignore dependence between covariates. To improve the performance of selection, we incorporate p…

stat.ME2017★ 2 cited

Double Sparsity Kernel Learning with Automatic Variable Selection and Data Extraction

Jingxiang Chen, Chong Zhang, Michael R. Kosorok +1

Learning with Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) has been widely used in many scientific disciplines. Because a RKHS can be very flexible, it is common to impose a regulariza…

stat.ME2017

Efficient Test-based Variable Selection for High-dimensional Linear Models

Siliang Gong, Kai Zhang, Yufeng Liu

Variable selection plays a fundamental role in high-dimensional data analysis. Various methods have been developed for variable selection in recent years. Well-known examples are f…

stat.ME2017★ 1 cited

Estimating Individualized Treatment Rules for Ordinal Treatments

Jingxiang Chen, Haoda Fu, Xuanyao He +2

Precision medicine is an emerging scientific topic for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual patient characteristics. It is an important direction for…

stat.ML2017

Stability Enhanced Large-Margin Classifier Selection

Will Wei Sun, Guang Cheng, Yufeng Liu

Stability is an important aspect of a classification procedure because unstable predictions can potentially reduce users' trust in a classification system and also harm the reprodu…

stat.ML2016★ 58 cited

Simultaneous Clustering and Estimation of Heterogeneous Graphical Models

Botao Hao, Will Wei Sun, Yufeng Liu +1

We consider joint estimation of multiple graphical models arising from heterogeneous and high-dimensional observations. Unlike most previous approaches which assume that the cluste…

stat.ML2016★ 1 cited

Joint Estimation of Multiple Dependent Gaussian Graphical Models with Applications to Mouse Genomics

Yuying Xie, Yufeng Liu, William Valdar

Gaussian graphical models are widely used to represent conditional dependence among random variables. In this paper, we propose a novel estimator for data arising from a group of G…

stat.ML2014

Large-Margin Classification with Multiple Decision Rules

Patrick K. Kimes, D. Neil Hayes, J. S. Marron +1

Binary classification is a common statistical learning problem in which a model is estimated on a set of covariates for some outcome indicating the membership of one of two classes…

stat.ME2014★ 28 cited

Statistical Significance for Hierarchical Clustering

Patrick K. Kimes, Yufeng Liu, D. Neil Hayes +1

Cluster analysis has proved to be an invaluable tool for the exploratory and unsupervised analysis of high dimensional datasets. Among methods for clustering, hierarchical approach…

stat.ME2014

Significance Analysis for Pairwise Variable Selection in Classification

Xingye Qiao, Yufeng Liu, J. S. Marron

The goal of this article is to select important variables that can distinguish one class of data from another. A marginal variable selection method ranks the marginal effects for c…

stat.AP2014★ 1 cited

IsoDOT Detects Differential RNA-isoform Expression/Usage with respect to a Categorical or Continuous Covariate with High Sensitivity and Specificity

Wei Sun, Yufeng Liu, James J. Crowley +14

We have developed a statistical method named IsoDOT to assess differential isoform expression (DIE) and differential isoform usage (DIU) using RNA-seq data. Here isoform usage refe…

stat.ME2013★ 69 cited

Statistical Significance of Clustering using Soft Thresholding

Hanwen Huang, Yufeng Liu, Ming Yuan +1

Clustering methods have led to a number of important discoveries in bioinformatics and beyond. A major challenge in their use is determining which clusters represent important unde…

stat.AP2012★ 11 cited

Local kernel canonical correlation analysis with application to virtual drug screening

Daniel Samarov, J. S. Marron, Yufeng Liu +2

Drug discovery is the process of identifying compounds which have potentially meaningful biological activity. A major challenge that arises is that the number of compounds to searc…

stat.ME2008★ 54 cited

Variable selection for the multicategory SVM via adaptive sup-norm regularization

Hao Helen Zhang, Yufeng Liu, Yichao Wu +1

The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a popular classification paradigm in machine learning and has achieved great success in real applications. However, the standard SVM can not sel…