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Large-scale multiple testing with correlated and heavy-tailed data arises in a wide range of research areas from genomics, medical imaging to finance. Conventional methods for estimating the false discovery proportion (FDP) often ignore the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-19 Jianqing Fan , Yuan Ke , Qiang Sun , Wen-Xin Zhou

Dynamic diagnosis is desirable when medical tests are costly or time-consuming. In this work, we use reinforcement learning (RL) to find a dynamic policy that selects lab test panels sequentially based on previous observations, ensuring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Zheng Yu , Yikuan Li , Joseph Kim , Kaixuan Huang , Yuan Luo , Mengdi Wang

We develop a technique to improve the power of any e-value by a simple randomization involving one independent uniform random variable. Using this framework, we show that two procedures for false discovery rate (FDR) control -- the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-15 Ziyu Xu , Aaditya Ramdas

RL with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). Current methods rely primarily on policy optimization frameworks like PPO and GRPO, which follow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoran He , Yuxiao Ye , Qingpeng Cai , Chen Hu , Binxing Jiao , Daxin Jiang , Ling Pan

In complex reinforcement learning (RL) problems, policies with similar rewards may have substantially different behaviors. It remains a fundamental challenge to optimize rewards while also discovering as many diverse strategies as possible,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Wei Fu , Weihua Du , Jingwei Li , Sunli Chen , Jingzhao Zhang , Yi Wu

Modern data analysis frequently involves large-scale hypothesis testing, which naturally gives rise to the problem of maintaining control of a suitable type I error rate, such as the false discovery rate (FDR). In many biomedical and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-25 David S. Robertson , James M. S. Wason , Aaditya Ramdas

When testing multiple hypotheses, a suitable error rate should be controlled even in exploratory trials. Conventional methods to control the False Discovery Rate (FDR) assume that all p-values are available at the time point of test…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-21 Sonja Zehetmayer , Martin Posch , Franz Koenig

Estimating local false discovery rates (fdr) is central to large-scale multiple hypothesis testing, yet different methods often produce divergent results, and there is little guidance for selecting among them. Because ground truth…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-17 Jenna M. Landy , Giovanni Parmigiani

This paper presents a survey on some recent advances for the type I error rate control in multiple testing methodology. We consider the problem of controlling the $k$-family-wise error rate (kFWER, probability to make $k$ false discoveries…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-03-15 Etienne Roquain

Multiple hypothesis testing is a fundamental problem in high dimensional inference, with wide applications in many scientific fields. In genome-wide association studies, tens of thousands of tests are performed simultaneously to find if any…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-12-21 Xu Han , Weijie Gu , Jianqing Fan

In the high dimensional regression analysis when the number of predictors is much larger than the sample size, an important question is to select the important variable which are relevant to the response variable of interest. Variable…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-09 Pengsheng Ji , Zhigen Zhao

The present paper introduces new adaptive multiple tests which rely on the estimation of the number of true null hypotheses and which control the false discovery rate (FDR) at level alpha for finite sample size. We derive exact formulas for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Philipp Heesen , Arnold Janssen

The problem of large-scale spatial multiple testing is often encountered in various scientific research fields, where the signals are usually enriched on some regions while sparse on others. To integrate spatial structure information from…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-28 Pengfei Wang , Pengyu Yan , Canhui Li

Incorporating auxiliary information alongside primary data can significantly enhance the accuracy of simultaneous inference. However, existing multiple testing methods face challenges in efficiently incorporating complex side information,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-11 Ziyi Liang , T. Tony Cai , Wenguang Sun , Yin Xia

In multiple testing problems, where a large number of hypotheses are tested simultaneously, false discovery rate (FDR) control can be achieved with the well-known Benjamini-Hochberg procedure, which adapts to the amount of signal present in…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-14 Ang Li , Rina Foygel Barber

This work studies distributed multiple testing with false discovery rate (FDR) control in the presence of Byzantine attacks, where an adversary captures a fraction of the nodes and corrupts their reported p-values. We focus on two baseline…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Daofu Zhang , Mehrdad Pournaderi , Yu Xiang , Pramod Varshney

Complex large-scale studies, such as those related to microarray data and fMRI studies, often involve testing multiple hierarchically ordered hypotheses. However, most existing false discovery rate (FDR) controlling procedures do not…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-15 Gavin Lynch , Wenge Guo

When testing many hypotheses, often we do not have strong expectations about the directions of the effects. In some situations however, the alternative hypotheses are that the parameters lie in a certain direction or interval, and it is in…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-02 Jesse Hemerik

Robust reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn policies that remain effective despite uncertainties in its environment, which frequently arise in real-world applications due to variations in environment dynamics. The robust RL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Linh Le Pham Van , Minh Hoang Nguyen , Hung Le , Hung The Tran , Sunil Gupta

Clustered effects are often encountered in multiple hypothesis testing of spatial signals. In this paper, we propose a new method, termed \textit{two-dimensional spatial multiple testing} (2d-SMT) procedure, to control the false discovery…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-13 Linsui Deng , Kejun He , Xianyang Zhang