high-dimensional and non-parametric statistics
statistical inference
reinforcement learning
bioinformatics and statistical genomics
Approximate message passing from random initialization with applications to Z2 synchronization.
Gen Li, Wei Fan, Yuting Wei
A non-asymptotic framework for approximate message passing in spiked models.
Gen Li, Yuting Wei
Mitigating multiple descents: A model-agnostic framework for risk monotonization.
Pratik Patil, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, Yuting Wei, Alessandro Rinaldo
Settling the sample complexity of model-based offline reinforcement learning.
Gen Li, Laixi Shi, Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi, Yuting Wei
Minimum L1 interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent.
Yue Li, Yuting Wei
Fast policy extragradient methods for competitive games with entropy regularization.
Shicong Cen, Yuting Wei, Yuejie Chi
Short version accepted to NeurIPS, 2021
The Lasso with general Gaussian designs with applications to hypothesis testing.
Michael Celentano, Andrea Montanari, Yuting Wei (alphabetical order) (slides)
Is Q-Learning minimax optimal? A tight sample complexity analysis.
Gen Li, Changxiao Cai, Yuxin Chen, Yuting Wei, Yuejie Chi
Short version accepted to ICML, 2021
Accepted to Operations Research, 2023+
Breaking the sample size barrier in model-based reinforcement learning with a generative model.
Gen Li, Yuting Wei, Yuejie Chi, Yuxin Chen
Short version accepted to NeurIPS, 2020 (slides)
Softmax policy gradient methods can take exponential time to converge.
Short version accepted to Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2021
Accepted to Mathematical Programming, 2023+
Derandomizing Knockoffs.
Zhimei Ren, Yuting Wei, Emmanuel Candès
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2023+ (code)
Minimax-optimal multi-agent RL in zero-sum Markov games with a generative model.
Gen Li, Yuejie Chi, Yuting Wei, Yuxin Chen
NeurIPS, oral presentation, 2022
Pessimistic Q-Learning for offline reinforcement learning: Towards optimal sample complexity.
Laixi Shi, Gen Li, Yuting Wei, Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi
ICML, 2022
Uniform consistency of cross validation estimators for high-dimensional ridge regression.
Pratik Patil, Yuting Wei, Alessandro Rinaldo, Ryan Tibshirani
AISTATS, oral presentation, 2021
Sample-efficient reinforcement learning is feasible for linearly realizable MDPs with limited revisiting.
Gen Li, Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi, Yuantao Gu, Yuting Wei
NeurIPS, 2021 (slides)
Integration and transfer learning of single-cell transcriptomes via cFIT.
Minshi Peng, Yue Li, Brie Wamsley, Yuting Wei, Kathryn Roeder
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2021 (code)
Fast global convergence of natural policy gradient methods with entropy regularization.
Shicong Cen, Chen Cheng, Yuxin Chen, Yuting Wei, Yuejie Chi
Operations Research, 2022 (INFORMS George Nicholson award finalist)
Sample complexity of asynchronous Q-learning: sharper analysis and variance reduction.
Gen Li, Yuting Wei, Yuejie Chi, Yuantao Gu, Yuxin Chen
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2021
Tackling small eigen-gaps: Fine-grained eigenvector estimation and inference under heteroscedastic noise.
Chen Cheng, Yuting Wei, Yuxin Chen
Debiasing evaluations that are biased by evaluations.
Jingyan Wang, Ivan Stelmakh, Yuting Wei, Nihar B. Shah
Short version accepted to AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
Randomized tests for high-dimensional regression: A more efficient and powerful solution.
Yue Li, Ilmun Kim, Yuting Wei
NeurIPS, 2020
Sharp statistical guarantees for adversarially robust Gaussian classification.
Chen Dan, Yuting Wei, Pradeep Ravikumar
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
From Gauss to Kolmogorov: Localized measures of complexity for ellipses.
Yuting Wei, Billy Fang and Martin Wainwright
Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2020
The local geometry of testing in ellipses: Tight control via localized Kolmogorov widths.
Yuting Wei and Martin Wainwright
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2020
Early stopping for kernel boosting algorithms: A general analysis with localized complexities.
Yuting Wei∗, Fanny Yang∗ and Martin Wainwright
Short version accepted to Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), spotlight presentation, 2017
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2019
The geometry of hypothesis testing over convex cones: Generalized likelihood tests and minimax radii.
Yuting Wei, Martin Wainwright and Adityanand Guntuboyina
The Annals of Statistics, 2019
Adaptive estimation of planar convex sets.
Tony Cai, Adityanand Guntuboyina and Yuting Wei (alphabetical order).
The Annals of Statistics, 2018
Sharp minimax bounds for testing discrete monotone distributions.
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2016
Cell type hierarchy reconstruction via reconciliation of multi-resolution cluster tree.
Minshi Peng, Brie Wamsley, Andrew Elkins, Daniel M Geschwind, Yuting Wei, Kathryn Roeder
Accepted to Nucleic Acids Research, 2021 (code)
MHC binding prediction with KernelRLSpan and its variations.
Wen-Jun Shen∗, Yuting Wei∗, Xin Guo∗, Stephen Smale, Hau-San Wong and Shuai Cheng Li
Journal of Immunological Methods, 2014
Thesis: A geometric perspective on some topics in statistical learning
Advisor: Martin Wainwright, Adityanand Guntuboyina