Yihong Wu

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20102026

most citedSparse PCA: Optimal rates and adaptive estimation

307 citations · 907 across the 65 of their papers we have counts for

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math.ST2015★ 1 cited

Estimating the number of unseen species: A bird in the hand is worth $lo g n$ in the bush

Alon Orlitsky, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Yihong Wu

Estimating the number of unseen species is an important problem in many scientific endeavors. Its most popular formulation, introduced by Fisher, uses $n$ samples to predict the nu…

math.ST2015★ 22 cited

Chebyshev polynomials, moment matching, and optimal estimation of the unseen

Yihong Wu, Pengkun Yang

We consider the problem of estimating the support size of a discrete distribution whose minimum non-zero mass is at least $\frac{1}{k}$ . Under the independent sampling model, we s…

Estimating the number of unseen species: A bird in the hand is worth logn in the bush

Chebyshev polynomials, moment matching, and optimal estimation of the unseen

Estimating the number of unseen species: A bird in the hand is worth $lo g n$ in the bush