STAI-X 2026 Proceedings

Cross-Cluster Weighted Forests

Authors: Maya Ramchandran; Rajarshi Mukherjee; Giovanni Parmigiani

SEEK-VEC: Robust Latent Structure Discovery via Ensemble Topic Modeling

Authors: Rebecca Danning; Tracy Ke; Rong Ma; Xihong Lin

Generative Synthetic Data for Causal Inference: Pitfalls, Remedies, and Opportunities

Authors: Yichen Xu

Segmenting Human-LLM Co-authored Text via Change Point Detection

Authors: Mengchu Li; Jin Zhu; Jinglai Li; Chengchun Shi

Gene Ontology DAG-Aware Conformal FDR Control for Multi-Label Protein Function Prediction: A Maize Application

Authors: Chong Wang

Bridging Data Gaps in Oncology: Integrating Large Language Models and Recommendation Systems for Evidence Synthesis

Authors: Tengjie Tang; Angkai Li; Xuanyu Bai; Xingye Tan; Qingli Ji; Michael Ulis; Lu Si; Le Bao

FACTOR: Fairness-Aligned Conformal Transport for Optimal Regions

Authors: Chenyin Gao; Larry Han

Online Continual Learning under Real Concept Drift: A Statistical Perspective

Authors: Haihan Xie; Yafei Wang; Jinhan Xie; Lingzhu Li; Chao Gao; Bei Jiang; Linglong Kong

Beyond straight lines: migration costs considering geography enhance tracing human genetic ancestry

Authors: Jianjun Lian; Andre Python

DEP-GAP: Depth effects correction and lithology type prediction for geophysical inversion data

Authors: Yibo Zhai; Yujian Hou; Fangda Song

KPOTD: Kernel Principal Optimal Transport Directions for Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction

Authors: Peize Wang; Wenhao Jiang; Cheng Meng

Beyond Importance: Interchange-Sobol Sensitivity Reveals Task-Specific Content Channels in Transformer Components

Authors: Yifeng Guo; Jin-Hong Du; Xiang Chen

Calibrated Cross-Modal Prediction of Single-Cell Transcriptomes from Histology Images

Authors: Jia Yao; qin zhou; Wenqi Shi; Yuqiu Yang; Munir Buhaya; Yi Jiang; Tao Wang; Yang Xie; Emina H. Huang; Guanghua Xiao

Grading the Grader: Lessons from Evaluating an Agentic Data Analysis System

Authors: Tian Zheng; Carter K. T. Hsu

Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation with Pre-training

Authors: Ruitong Zhang; Ke Deng

Symbolic Density Estimation for Discrete Distributions

Authors: Ziwen Liu; Meng Li

A Wasserstein Framework for Abnormal Batch Detection in Streaming Data under Distributional Heterogeneity

Authors: Yisha Yao; Chenqin Xu

Wahkon: A Statistically Principled Deep RKHS Superposition Network

Authors: Yongkai Chen; Wenxuan Zhong; Ping Ma

TabSODA: Tabular Diffusion based Imputation with Skip Pattern Detection and Ordinal Awareness

Authors: Yuyu Chen; Taehyo Kim; Hai Shu; Yang Feng

Robust Empirical Risk Minimization from a Single Dependent Trajectory: Non-Asymptotic Theory under Infinite Variance

Authors: Jianya Lu; Bo Pan; Yafei Wang; Lihu Xu; Bei Jiang; Linglong Kong

Generative AI and Entrepreneurship: A Spatial Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Approach

Authors: Junhui Cai; Yao Li; Gu Xian; Linda H. Zhao; Wu Zhu

Density-Informed Pseudo-Counts for Calibrated Evidential Deep Learning

Authors: Pietro Carlotti; Nevena Gligić; Arya Farahi

Conditional-Independence-Regularized Distributional Autoencoders for Mixed-Type Data

Authors: Siyuan Tang; Gongjun Xu; Ji Zhu

Enrichment learning approach to calibrate epigenetic clocks with higher-resolution DNA methylation arrays

Authors: Yahui Zhang; Peter Song

SSP-Ensemble: A Sufficient Subspace Projection Ensemble for Multiclass Classification

Authors: Jun Zhu; jiafeng chen; Peize Wang; Cheng Meng; Jingyi Zhang

A Deep Generative Framework for Right-Censored Survival Data with Distribution-Matching Regularization

Authors: Yanran Li; Zexi Cai

GAttNHP: Group Attention Neural Hawkes Process for Extrapolation Reasoning in Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Authors: Xiangni Tian; Kaixian Yu; Runpeng Dai; Niansheng Tang; Hongtu Zhu

Distance-Based Empirical Bayes: A Nonparametric B-Spline Approach using Integral Probability Metrics

Authors: Jian Sun; Zhigen Zhao

The ATLAS Penalty: Auxiliary-Transformed Location-Aware Smoothing with Applications to Spatial Transcriptomics

Authors: Qian Tang; Eric Chi; Wenyi Wang

Transformers as Provable Approximators of Sparse Principal Component Analysis

Authors: Qinyan Liu; Yan Chen; Canhong Wen

Global Average Treatment Effects for Individualized Randomization Experiments with Aggregate Data

Authors: Shuguang Yu; Ting Li; Yuchen Lu; Chengchun Shi; Fan Zhou; Zhichao Zou; Zhen Peng; Hongtu Zhu

Optimal Auditing of Sequential Decision Systems under Dynamical Constraints

Authors: Zhenghan Li; Xuan Bi; Jie Ding

STAVAT: Stratified Anytime-Valid Atom Sampling for LLM Tier Placement

Authors: Patrick Vossler; Fan Xia; Jean Feng

Optimal Self-Distillation for Rectified Flow via Linear Probing

Authors: Saptarshi Roy; Debepsita Mukherjee; Pratik Patil

VADR: Variance Adjusted Distribution Regression

Authors: Soumyabrata Bose

Learning Perturbations to Extrapolate Your LLM

Authors: Zetai Cen; Chenfei Gu; Jin Zhu; Ting Li; Yunxiao Chen; Chengchun Shi

Vector Summary Pseudo Posteriors for Simulation-Based Inference with Applications to Cosmology

Authors: Pratik Patil; Jonah C Rose; Alex M. Garcia; Min Chen; Paul Torrey; Arya Farahi

NeuroMAS: Multi-Agent Systems as Neural Networks with Joint Reinforcement Learning

Authors: Haoran Lu; Luyang Fang; Wenxuan Zhong; Ping Ma

CrossHONA: Cross-species HOmologous and Non-homologous gene-aware framework for transcriptomics integration and Annotation.

Authors: Ruohan Wang; Yu Zhu; Zixiao Gao; Ying Ma