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20142022
most citedRate-optimal graphon estimation

205 citations · 509 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

stat.ME2022

Clustering High-dimensional Data via Feature Selection

Tianqi Liu, Yu Lu, Biqing Zhu +1

High-dimensional clustering analysis is a challenging problem in statistics and machine learning, with broad applications such as the analysis of microarray data and RNA-seq data.…

math.ST2017

Structured Matrix Estimation and Completion

Olga Klopp, Yu Lu, Alexandre B. Tsybakov +1

We study the problem of matrix estimation and matrix completion under a general framework. This framework includes several important models as special cases such as the gaussian mi…

cs.LG2017★ 144 cited

Provably Optimal Algorithms for Generalized Linear Contextual Bandits

Lihong Li, Yu Lu, Dengyong Zhou

Contextual bandits are widely used in Internet services from news recommendation to advertising, and to Web search. Generalized linear models (logistical regression in particular)…

math.ST2016★ 60 cited

Statistical and Computational Guarantees of Lloyd's Algorithm and its Variants

Yu Lu, Harrison H. Zhou

Clustering is a fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning. Lloyd's algorithm, proposed in 1957, is still possibly the most widely used clustering algorithm in practice…

stat.ML2016★ 29 cited

Exact Exponent in Optimal Rates for Crowdsourcing

Chao Gao, Yu Lu, Dengyong Zhou

In many machine learning applications, crowdsourcing has become the primary means for label collection. In this paper, we study the optimal error rate for aggregating labels provid…

math.ST2015★ 60 cited

Optimal Estimation and Completion of Matrices with Biclustering Structures

Chao Gao, Yu Lu, Zongming Ma +1

Biclustering structures in data matrices were first formalized in a seminal paper by John Hartigan (1972) where one seeks to cluster cases and variables simultaneously. Such struct…