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Label noise in data has long been an important problem in supervised learning applications as it affects the effectiveness of many widely used classification methods. Recently, important real-world applications, such as medical diagnosis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-02 Shunan Yao , Bradley Rava , Xin Tong , Gareth James

Most existing binary classification methods target on the optimization of the overall classification risk and may fail to serve some real-world applications such as cancer diagnosis, where users are more concerned with the risk of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-18 Anqi Zhao , Yang Feng , Lie Wang , Xin Tong

The Neyman-Pearson (NP) binary classification paradigm constrains the more severe type of error (e.g., the type I error) under a preferred level while minimizing the other (e.g., the type II error). This paradigm is suitable for…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-07 Jingming Wang , Lucy Xia , Zhigang Bao , Xin Tong

This paper addresses the challenges in classifying textual data obtained from open online platforms, which are vulnerable to distortion. Most existing classification methods minimize the overall classification error and may yield an…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-17 Lucy Xia , Richard Zhao , Yanhui Wu , Xin Tong

In many classification problems, misclassification costs are highly asymmetric, while training labels are often corrupted due to measurement error, annotator variability, or adversarial noise. The Neyman-Pearson multiclass classification…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-22 Qiong Zhang , Qinglong Tian , Pengfei Li

Asymmetric binary classification problems, in which the type I and II errors have unequal severity, are ubiquitous in real-world applications. To handle such asymmetry, researchers have developed the cost-sensitive and Neyman-Pearson…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-01 Wei Vivian Li , Xin Tong , Jingyi Jessica Li

In many binary classification applications such as disease diagnosis and spam detection, practitioners often face great needs to control type I errors (i.e., the conditional probability of misclassifying a class 0 observation as class 1) so…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-01 Xin Tong , Yang Feng , Jingyi Jessica Li

This paper proposes a novel framework for causal discovery with asymmetric error control, called Neyman-Pearson causal discovery. Despite the importance of applications where different types of edge errors may have different importance,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Joni Shaska , Urbashi Mitra

Most existing classification methods aim to minimize the overall misclassification error rate. However, in applications such as loan default prediction, different types of errors can have varying consequences. To address this asymmetry…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-18 Ye Tian , Yang Feng

The Neyman-Pearson (NP) paradigm in binary classification seeks classifiers that achieve a minimal type II error while enforcing the prioritized type I error controlled under some user-specified level $\alpha$. This paradigm serves…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-30 Xin Tong , Lucy Xia , Jiacheng Wang , Yang Feng

Accurate diagnosis of neurological disorders is contingent upon advanced imaging modalities such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which commonly utilize sparse imaging techniques to reconstruct images from limited data, thus reducing…

COVID-19 has a spectrum of disease severity, ranging from asymptomatic to requiring hospitalization. Understanding the mechanisms driving disease severity is crucial for developing effective treatments and reducing mortality rates. One way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Lijia Wang , Y. X. Rachel Wang , Jingyi Jessica Li , Xin Tong

High-dimensional tensor-valued predictors arise in modern applications, increasingly as learned representations from neural networks. Existing tensor classification methods rely on sparsity or Tucker structures and often lack theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Elynn Chen , Yuefeng Han , Jiayu Li

This paper studies a tensor-structured linear regression model with a scalar response variable and tensor-structured predictors, such that the regression parameters form a tensor of order $d$ (i.e., a $d$-fold multiway array) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Talal Ahmed , Haroon Raja , Waheed U. Bajwa

Tensor decomposition is an important technique for capturing the high-order interactions among multiway data. Multi-linear tensor composition methods, such as the Tucker decomposition and the CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP), assume that the complex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-04 Bin Liu , Zenglin Xu , Yingming Li

Tensor-valued data arise naturally in neuroimaging, genomics, climate science, and spatiotemporal networks, where multilinear dependencies across modes carry information that is destroyed under vectorization. Existing approaches either…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Elynn Chen , Jiayu Li , Zheshi Zheng , Jian Pei

Many problems in high-dimensional statistics appear to have a statistical-computational gap: a range of values of the signal-to-noise ratio where inference is information-theoretically possible, but (conjecturally) computationally…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Dmitriy Kunisky , Cristopher Moore , Alexander S. Wein

Tensor completion is a fundamental tool for incomplete data analysis, where the goal is to predict missing entries from partial observations. However, existing methods often make the explicit or implicit assumption that the observed entries…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-18 Yuning Qiu , Guoxu Zhou , Qibin Zhao , Shengli Xie

We introduce a new tensor norm, the average spectrum norm, to study sample complexity of tensor completion problems based on the canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD). Properties of the average spectrum norm and its dual norm are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Oscar López , Richard Lehoucq , Carlos Llosa-Vite , Arvind Prasadan , Daniel M. Dunlavy

The online analysis of multi-way data stored in a tensor $\mathcal{X} \in \mathbb{R} ^{I_1 \times \dots \times I_N} $ has become an essential tool for capturing the underlying structures and extracting the sensitive features which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Ali Anaissi , Basem Suleiman , Seid Miad Zandavi
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