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20242026
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13 papers

stat.ME2026

Estimation of Functional Principal Components from Sparse Functional Data

Uche Mbaka, Jiguo Cao, Michelle Carey

Sparse functional data arise when measurements are observed infrequently and at irregular time points for each subject, often in the presence of measurement error. These characteri…

stat.ME2026

Generalized Bayesian Multidimensional Scaling and Model Comparison

Jiarui Zhang, Jiguo Cao, Liangliang Wang

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is widely used to reconstruct a low-dimensional representation of high-dimensional data while preserving pairwise distances. However, Bayesian MDS ap…

cs.LG2026

Learning Data-Efficient and Generalizable Neural Operators via Fundamental Physics Knowledge

Siying Ma, Mehrdad M. Zadeh, Mauricio Soroco +3

Recent advances in scientific machine learning (SciML) have enabled neural operators (NOs) to serve as powerful surrogates for modeling the dynamic evolution of physical systems go…

stat.ME2026

Locally sparse estimation for simultaneous functional quantile regression

Boyi Hu, Jiguo Cao

Motivated by the study of how daily temperature affects soybean yield, this article proposes a simultaneous functional quantile regression (FQR) model featuring a locally sparse bi…

stat.ME2025

Convolution-smoothing based locally sparse estimation for functional quantile regression

Hua Liu, Boyi Hu, Jinhong You +1

Motivated by an application to study the impact of temperature, precipitation and irrigation on soybean yield, this article proposes a sparse semi-parametric functional quantile mo…

eess.IV2025

Dynamic Survival Prediction using Longitudinal Images based on Transformer

Bingfan Liu, Haolun Shi, Jiguo Cao

Survival analysis utilizing multiple longitudinal medical images plays a pivotal role in the early detection and prognosis of diseases by providing insight beyond single-image eval…