BDAL-RUC Research Map Our work connects scalable statistical computation, representative design, Hilbert and space-filling transport metrics, optimal transport geometry, cross-domain soft alignment, and statistical methods for industrial and AI systems. We aim to build reusable methodology that is both theoretically interpretable and computationally effective.
34 Publications listed
1 / 3 / 15 RUC A+ / A / A- journals
5 NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR
Representative Work SparSink HCPD POTD Core-Elements SEINT MP-MoE
Quick Navigation Subsampling, Sparsification, and Representative Design From sample-level subsampling to element-, operator-, and interaction-level sparsification.
Hilbert and Space-Filling Transport Metrics Using low-dimensional order, mass coordinates, and original-space costs to preserve geometry efficiently.
OT Geometry, Dimension Reduction, and Invariant Representation Using OT as a geometric proxy for discriminative directions and invariant representations.
Cross-Domain Soft Alignment and Applied OT Using OT and UOT to build soft correspondences for cross-domain inference, registration, and representative objects.
Statistics for Industrial and AI Systems Turning statistical computation and functional-unit selection into practical algorithms for imaging, deep learning, and MoE systems.
Background Reviews Mapping the technical landscape of subsampling, projection OT, and OT sparsification.
Other Papers and Low-Weight Complements Collecting interval-valued objects, applied collaborations, and related works outside the core themes.
Papers by Research Theme Subsampling, Sparsification, and Representative Design This line studies representative design, subsampling, and element- or interaction-level sparsification to reduce large-scale computation while preserving statistical properties.
JCGS 2026
TL;DR: Uses one-sided element sparsification to approximate covariance structure and accelerate large-scale PLS via rewritten kernel updates.
JCGS 2026
TL;DR: Embeds element-level subsampling into alternating least-squares updates to accelerate matrix factorization with error control.
Math. Comp. 2024
Yukuan Hu, Mengyu Li , Xin Liu, Cheng Meng (alphabetical order)
TL;DR: Develops sampling-based solvers for multi-block transport polytopes to reduce the cost of multi-marginal structural optimization.
JCGS 2024
TL;DR: Extends element-level sparsification to billion-scale additive models with matching penalized estimation and tuning criteria.
Stat. Comput. 2024
TL;DR: Moves subsampling from rows to matrix elements and rewrites the estimator to preserve large-sample properties.
JCGS 2023
Jingyi Zhang, Cheng Meng, Jun Yu, Mengrui Zhang, Wenxuan Zhong, and Ping Ma*
TL;DR: Uses optimal transport to select representative subsamples that improve distributional coverage for kernel density estimation.
JMLR 2023
TL;DR: Derives computable sampling upper bounds from OT structure to sparsify pairwise interactions in Sinkhorn.
JCGS 2022
TL;DR: Extends SparSink-style importance sparsification to the computation of Gromov-Wasserstein distances.
JCGS 2021
Cheng Meng, Rui Xie, Abhyuday Mandal, Xinlian Zhang, Wenxuan Zhong, and Ping Ma*
TL;DR: Uses space-filling subsampling to improve robustness and coverage under model misspecification.
Biometrika 2020
Cheng Meng, Xinlian Zhang, Jingyi Zhang, Wenxuan Zhong, Ping Ma*
TL;DR: Uses low-discrepancy space-filling basis selection to accelerate smoothing spline approximation.
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Hilbert and Space-Filling Transport Metrics This line uses Hilbert and space-filling orders to build lightweight structures for distribution comparison and high-dimensional geometric computation.
IEEE TNNLS 2025
TL;DR: Uses space-filling curves to generate lightweight couplings in hyperbolic space while evaluating original geometric costs.
IEEE TPAMI 2024
Tao Li , Cheng Meng, Hongteng Xu, Jun Yu (alphabetical order)
TL;DR: Uses Hilbert ordering to generate transport couplings, then evaluates costs in the original space for distribution comparison.
JCGS 2022
Cheng Meng, Jun Yu, Yongkai Chen, Wenxuan Zhong, Ping Ma*
TL;DR: Uses Hilbert-curve ordering for basis selection, balancing coverage and efficiency in multivariate smoothing splines.
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OT Geometry, Dimension Reduction, and Invariant Representation This line treats optimal transport as a geometric proxy for direction recovery, projection pursuit, feature screening, and rigid-motion invariant metrics.
STAI-X (top statistics conference) 2026
Jiafeng Chen, Cheng Meng, Peize Wang, Jingyi Zhang, Jun Zhu *
TL;DR: Builds supervised pair-specific sufficient projections for multiclass classification instead of relying on random subspace ensembles.
STAI-X (top statistics conference) 2026
Peize Wang, Wenhao Jiang, Cheng Meng*
TL;DR: Lifts POTD displacement covariance into an RKHS to recover nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction structures.
ICLR (top ML conference) 2026
TL;DR: Constructs information-preserving rigid-motion invariant representations for low-cost transport metrics.
JCGS 2023
TL;DR: Uses sliced-Wasserstein dependency for model-free feature screening and nonlinear variable importance.
NeurIPS (top ML conference) 2020
Cheng Meng, Jun Yu, Jingyi Zhang, Ping Ma, Wenxuan Zhong*
TL;DR: Uses OT displacements between class distributions as proxies for recovering sufficient dimension reduction directions.
NeurIPS (top ML conference) 2019
Cheng Meng, Yuan Ke, Jingyi Zhang, Mengrui Zhang, Wenxuan Zhong, Ping Ma*
TL;DR: Uses residual-driven projection pursuit directions to build high-dimensional OT map approximations step by step.
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Cross-Domain Soft Alignment and Applied OT This line uses OT, UOT, and partial OT to create soft correspondences or representative objects for unpaired inference, image registration, and 3D representation compression.
Pattern Recognit. 2025
TL;DR: Alternates transformation estimation with unbalanced OT soft alignment for multimodal image registration.
Bioinformatics 2025
Mengyu Li , Bencong Zhu, Cheng Meng* , Xiaodan Fan*
TL;DR: Uses two layers of OT to create soft correspondences for differential gene regulatory network inference with unpaired samples.
NeurIPS (Spotlight, top ML conference) 2025
TL;DR: Compresses 3D Gaussian representations from an OT perspective by reducing redundant Gaussian components.
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Statistics for Industrial and AI Systems This line translates statistical computation, leverage approximation, active learning, and functional-unit selection into deployable algorithms for real applications.
ICML (top ML conference) 2026
TL;DR: Views MoE expert routing as functional-unit pruning to select strong and complementary experts and reduce echo chambers.
Big Data Min. Anal. 2025
Luyang Fang, Cheng Meng, Lin Zhao, Tao Wang, Tianming Liu, Wenxuan Zhong* , Ping Ma*
TL;DR: Uses active learning to select high-value samples and improve deep neural network training efficiency.
JCGS 2025
TL;DR: Uses two-dimensional autoregressive structure to approximate leverage scores for efficient image anomaly detection.
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Background Reviews These papers serve as background entry points for large-scale subsampling, projection-based optimal transport, and optimal transport sparsification.
WIREs Computational Statistics 2026
TL;DR: Reviews large-scale OT sparsification methods as a background entry point for the SparSink line.
WIREs Computational Statistics 2022
Jingyi Zhang, Ping Ma, Wenxuan Zhong, Cheng Meng*
TL;DR: Reviews projection-based high-dimensional OT techniques as a background entry point for sliced and projection OT.
IJCPS 2021
TL;DR: Reviews large-scale least-squares subsampling methods as a background entry point for leverage and optimal subsampling.
Handbook of Research on Applied Cybernetics and Systems Science 2017
Cheng Meng, Ye Wang, Xinlian Zhang, Abhyuday Mandal, Wenxuan Zhong, Ping Ma*
TL;DR: Reviews statistical modeling and computation tools for big data analytics as an early background entry point.
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Other Papers and Low-Weight Complements These works are related to applied collaborations or complementary geometric-statistical settings, but are not forced into the core themes above.
Stat. Comput. 2025
TL;DR: Constructs correlation measures for interval-valued random objects as a geometric dependence-analysis tool.
Stat. Sinica 2024
Yixin Han, Jun Yu, Nan Zhang, Cheng Meng, Ping Ma, Wenxuan Zhong, Changliang Zou*
TL;DR: Revisits support vector machine classification from a leverage-score perspective.
Plant Phenomics 2024
Tian Qiu, Tao Wang , Tao Han, Kaspar Kuehn, Lailiang Cheng, Cheng Meng, Xiangtao Xu, Kenong Xu, and Jiang Yu*
TL;DR: Builds geometry-based characterization and quantification methods for 3D apple-tree architecture in orchards.
IEEE SPL 2023
TL;DR: Builds a Hausdorff regression framework for interval-valued privacy data.
Comput. Electron. Agric. 2021
Shangpeng Sun, Changying Li, Peng W. Chee, Andrew H. Paterson, Cheng Meng, Jingyi Zhang, Ping Ma, Jon S. Robertson, Jeevan Adhikari*
TL;DR: Applies high-resolution 3D LiDAR to characterize cotton main stalks and nodes.
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View All Publications by Year 2026 STAI-X (top statistics conference) 2026
Jiafeng Chen, Cheng Meng, Peize Wang, Jingyi Zhang, Jun Zhu *
STAI-X (top statistics conference) 2026
Peize Wang, Wenhao Jiang, Cheng Meng*
JCGS 2026
ICML (top ML conference) 2026
JCGS 2026
ICLR (top ML conference) 2026
WIREs Computational Statistics 2026
2025 Pattern Recognit. 2025
Big Data Min. Anal. 2025
Luyang Fang, Cheng Meng, Lin Zhao, Tao Wang, Tianming Liu, Wenxuan Zhong* , Ping Ma*
Stat. Comput. 2025
IEEE TNNLS 2025
JCGS 2025
Bioinformatics 2025
Mengyu Li , Bencong Zhu, Cheng Meng* , Xiaodan Fan*
NeurIPS (Spotlight, top ML conference) 2025
2024 Math. Comp. 2024
Yukuan Hu, Mengyu Li , Xin Liu, Cheng Meng (alphabetical order)
JCGS 2024
Stat. Sinica 2024
Yixin Han, Jun Yu, Nan Zhang, Cheng Meng, Ping Ma, Wenxuan Zhong, Changliang Zou*
IEEE TPAMI 2024
Tao Li , Cheng Meng, Hongteng Xu, Jun Yu (alphabetical order)
Stat. Comput. 2024
Plant Phenomics 2024
Tian Qiu, Tao Wang , Tao Han, Kaspar Kuehn, Lailiang Cheng, Cheng Meng, Xiangtao Xu, Kenong Xu, and Jiang Yu*
2023 JCGS 2023
Jingyi Zhang, Cheng Meng, Jun Yu, Mengrui Zhang, Wenxuan Zhong, and Ping Ma*
JCGS 2023
JMLR 2023
IEEE SPL 2023
2022 JCGS 2022
Cheng Meng, Jun Yu, Yongkai Chen, Wenxuan Zhong, Ping Ma*
WIREs Computational Statistics 2022
Jingyi Zhang, Ping Ma, Wenxuan Zhong, Cheng Meng*
JCGS 2022
2021 IJCPS 2021
JCGS 2021
Cheng Meng, Rui Xie, Abhyuday Mandal, Xinlian Zhang, Wenxuan Zhong, and Ping Ma*
Comput. Electron. Agric. 2021
Shangpeng Sun, Changying Li, Peng W. Chee, Andrew H. Paterson, Cheng Meng, Jingyi Zhang, Ping Ma, Jon S. Robertson, Jeevan Adhikari*
2020 NeurIPS (top ML conference) 2020
Cheng Meng, Jun Yu, Jingyi Zhang, Ping Ma, Wenxuan Zhong*
Biometrika 2020
Cheng Meng, Xinlian Zhang, Jingyi Zhang, Wenxuan Zhong, Ping Ma*
2019 NeurIPS (top ML conference) 2019
Cheng Meng, Yuan Ke, Jingyi Zhang, Mengrui Zhang, Wenxuan Zhong, Ping Ma*
2017 Handbook of Research on Applied Cybernetics and Systems Science 2017
Cheng Meng, Ye Wang, Xinlian Zhang, Abhyuday Mandal, Wenxuan Zhong, Ping Ma*