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A concept-based classifier can explain the decision process of a deep learning model by human-understandable concepts in image classification problems. However, sometimes concept-based explanations may cause false positives, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Kaiwen Xu , Kazuto Fukuchi , Youhei Akimoto , Jun Sakuma

One important partition of algorithms for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in multiple testing is into offline and online algorithms. The first generally achieve significantly higher power of discovery, while the latter allow…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-05 Tijana Zrnic , Daniel L. Jiang , Aaditya Ramdas , Michael I. Jordan

Much effort has been made to improve the famous step up test of Benjamini and Hochberg given by linear critical values $\frac{i\alpha}{n}$. It is pointed out by Gavrilov, Benjamini and Sarkar that step down multiple tests based on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Julia Benditkis , Arnold Janssen

A systematic multiple hypothesis testing approach is applied to the search for astrophysical sources of high energy neutrinos. The method is based on the maximisation of the detection power maintaining the control of the confidence level of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 Bruny Baret , Mathieu Labare , Daniel Bertrand

Model-X knockoff has garnered significant attention among various feature selection methods due to its guarantees for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR). Since its introduction in parametric design, knockoff techniques have evolved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Hongyu Shen , Yici Yan , Zhizhen Zhao

Practical employment of Bayesian trial designs is still rare. Even if accepted in principle, the regulators have commonly required that such designs be calibrated according to an upper bound for the frequentist type I error rate. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Elja Arjas , Dario Gasbarra

Genomic data are subject to various sources of confounding, such as demographic variables, biological heterogeneity, and batch effects. To identify genomic features associated with a variable of interest in the presence of confounders, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-08 Asmita Roy , Jun Chen , Xianyang Zhang

Many important tasks of large-scale recommender systems can be naturally cast as testing multiple linear forms for noisy matrix completion. These problems, however, present unique challenges because of the subtle bias-and-variance tradeoff…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-12 Wanteng Ma , Lilun Du , Dong Xia , Ming Yuan

This paper studies the estimation of high dimensional Gaussian graphical model (GGM). Typically, the existing methods depend on regularization techniques. As a result, it is necessary to choose the regularized parameter. However, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-06-06 Weidong Liu

The probability of false discovery proportion (FDP) exceeding $\gamma\in[0,1)$, defined as $\gamma$-FDP, has received much attention as a measure of false discoveries in multiple testing. Although this measure has received acceptance due to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Wenge Guo , Li He , Sanat K. Sarkar

We propose an online false discovery rate (FDR) controlling method based on conditional local FDR (LIS), designed for infectious disease datasets that are discrete and exhibit complex dependencies. Unlike existing online FDR methods, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-23 Seohwa Hwang , Junyong Park

In many multiple testing applications in genetics, the signs of test statistics provide useful directional information, such as whether genes are potentially up- or down-regulated between two experimental conditions. However, most existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-22 Zhaoyang Tian , Kun Liang , Pengfei Li

Mathematical reasoning is a key benchmark for large language models. Reinforcement learning is a standard post-training mechanism for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models, yet performance remains sensitive to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Arash Ahmadi , Sarah Sharif , Yaser , Banad

In the setting of multiple testing, compound p-values generalize p-values by asking for superuniformity to hold only \emph{on average} across all true nulls. We study the properties of the Benjamini--Hochberg procedure applied to compound…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Rina Foygel Barber , Richard J Samworth

Consider the problem of testing multiple null hypotheses. A classical approach to dealing with the multiplicity problem is to restrict attention to procedures that control the familywise error rate ($FWER$), the probability of even one…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Joseph P. Romano , Azeem M. Shaikh

We consider controlling the false discovery rate for testing many time series with an unknown cross-sectional correlation structure. Given a large number of hypotheses, false and missing discoveries can plague an analysis. While many…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-10 Junpei Komiyama , Masaya Abe , Kei Nakagawa , Kenichiro McAlinn

This paper outlines a unified framework for high dimensional variable selection for classification problems. Traditional approaches to finding interesting variables mostly utilize only partial information through moments (like mean…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-25 S. Mukhopadhyay , Emanuel Parzen , S. N. Lahiri

We provide the first differentially private algorithms for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in multiple hypothesis testing, with essentially no loss in power under certain conditions. Our general approach is to adapt a well-known…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Cynthia Dwork , Weijie Su , Li Zhang

In many applications, the process of identifying a specific feature of interest often involves testing multiple hypotheses for their joint statistical significance. Examples include mediation analysis which simultaneously examines the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-30 Linsui Deng , Kejun He , Xianyang Zhang

Conformal selection (CS) uses calibration data to identify test inputs whose unobserved outcomes are likely to satisfy a pre-specified minimal quality requirement, while controlling the false discovery rate (FDR). Existing methods fix the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Meiyi Zhu , Osvaldo Simeone