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stat.ML2020

Deep Direct Likelihood Knockoffs

Mukund Sudarshan, Wesley Tansey, Rajesh Ranganath

Predictive modeling often uses black box machine learning methods, such as deep neural networks, to achieve state-of-the-art performance. In scientific domains, the scientist often…

stat.ML2019

A Bayesian Model of Dose-Response for Cancer Drug Studies

Wesley Tansey, Christopher Tosh, David M. Blei

Exploratory cancer drug studies test multiple tumor cell lines against multiple candidate drugs. The goal in each paired (cell line, drug) experiment is to map out the dose-respons…

stat.ML2019★ 32 cited

Interpreting Black Box Models via Hypothesis Testing

Collin Burns, Jesse Thomason, Wesley Tansey

In science and medicine, model interpretations may be reported as discoveries of natural phenomena or used to guide patient treatments. In such high-stakes tasks, false discoveries…

stat.ML2018

Black Box FDR

Wesley Tansey, Yixin Wang, David M. Blei +1

Analyzing large-scale, multi-experiment studies requires scientists to test each experimental outcome for statistical significance and then assess the results as a whole. We presen…

stat.ML2017★ 3 cited

Interpretable Low-Dimensional Regression via Data-Adaptive Smoothing

Wesley Tansey, Jesse Thomason, James G. Scott

We consider the problem of estimating a regression function in the common situation where the number of features is small, where interpretability of the model is a high priority, a…

stat.ML2017

Deep Nonparametric Estimation of Discrete Conditional Distributions via Smoothed Dyadic Partitioning

Wesley Tansey, Karl Pichotta, James G. Scott

We present an approach to deep estimation of discrete conditional probability distributions. Such models have several applications, including generative modeling of audio, image, a…

stat.ML2017

GapTV: Accurate and Interpretable Low-Dimensional Regression and Classification

Wesley Tansey, James G. Scott

We consider the problem of estimating a regression function in the common situation where the number of features is small, where interpretability of the model is a high priority, a…

stat.ML2016

Diet2Vec: Multi-scale analysis of massive dietary data

Wesley Tansey, Edward W. Lowe, James G. Scott

Smart phone apps that enable users to easily track their diets have become widespread in the last decade. This has created an opportunity to discover new insights into obesity and…

stat.ML2016★ 5 cited

Better Conditional Density Estimation for Neural Networks

Wesley Tansey, Karl Pichotta, James G. Scott

The vast majority of the neural network literature focuses on predicting point values for a given set of response variables, conditioned on a feature vector. In many cases we need…

stat.ML2015

A Fast and Flexible Algorithm for the Graph-Fused Lasso

Wesley Tansey, James G. Scott

We propose a new algorithm for solving the graph-fused lasso (GFL), a method for parameter estimation that operates under the assumption that the signal tends to be locally constan…

stat.ML2015★ 9 cited

Vector-Space Markov Random Fields via Exponential Families

Wesley Tansey, Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla, Arun Sai Suggala +1

We present Vector-Space Markov Random Fields (VS-MRFs), a novel class of undirected graphical models where each variable can belong to an arbitrary vector space. VS-MRFs generalize…