Reassessing the Geocentric-Axial-Dipole (GAD) Model for Proterozoic Time with Paleomagnetic Directions from Dike Swarms, Zheng Gong, David A.D. Evans, Roger R. Fu, Sheng Xu. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL), Volume 667 (2025), Article 119508.
Maximum Likelihood for High-Noise Group Orbit Estimation and Single-Particle Cryo-EM, Zhou Fan, Roy R. Lederman, Yi Sun, Tianhao Wang, and Sheng Xu. Annals of Statistics, Volume 52, Issue 1 (2024), 52-77. [Arxiv]
Logical Differencing in Dyadic Network Formation Models with Nontransferable Utilities, Wayne Yuan Gao, Ming Li, and Sheng Xu. Journal of Econometrics, Volume 235, Issue 1 (2023), 302-324. [Arxiv]
Iterative Alpha Expansion for estimating gradient-sparse signals from linear measurements, Sheng Xu, and Zhou Fan. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (JRSS-B), Volume 83, Issue 2 (2021), 271-292. [Arxiv] [software]
On Gaussian comparison inequality and its application to spectral analysis of large random matrices, Fang Han, Sheng Xu, and Wen-Xin Zhou. Bernoulli, Volume 24, Number 3 (2018), 1787-1833. [Arxiv]
Deep Neural Tangent Kernel and Laplace Kernel Have the Same RKHS, Lin Chen, and Sheng Xu, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021. [Arxiv]
Tree-Projected Gradient Descent for Estimating Gradient-Sparse Parameters on Graphs, Sheng Xu, Zhou Fan, and Sahand Negahban, Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2020. [Arxiv][slides]
Robust estimation of transition matrices in high dimensional heavy-tailed vector autoregressive processes, Huitong Qiu, Sheng Xu, Fang Han, Han Liu, and Brian Caffo, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015.
Misspecified Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Non-Uniform Group Orbit Recovery, Sheng Xu, Anderson Ye Zhang, and Amit Singer, 2025. Submitted to Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA).
Two Datasets Are Better Than One: Method of Double Moments for 3-D Reconstruction in Cryo-EM, Joe Kileel, Oscar Mickelin, Amit Singer, and Sheng Xu, 2025. Submitted to Inverse Problems.
Bayesian Perspective for Orientation Determination in Cryo-EM with Application to Structural Heterogeneity Analysis, Sheng Xu, Amnon Balanov, Amit Singer, and Tamir Bendory, 2025. Submitted to Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology.
Two-Stage Maximum Score Estimator, Wayne Yuan Gao, Kan Xu, and Sheng Xu, 2025. Submitted to Bernoulli.
Diagonally-Weighted Generalized Method of Moments Estimation for Gaussian Mixture Modeling, Liu Zhang, Oscar Mickelin, Sheng Xu, and Amit Singer, 2025. Submitted to SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS).
Distribution-Free Symmetry Detection in Multi-Reference Alignment, Sheng Xu, Nir Sharon, John Storey, and Amit Singer, 2025. Preprint.
Rate optimal estimation of high dimensional time series, Fang Han, Sheng Xu, and Han Liu, 2017. Preprint
Efficient Estimation of Signals via Non-Convex Approaches, Ph.D. thesis, Yale University, 2022.