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Zhenhan Fang
dblp:404/7034
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 61% Trustworthy machine learning · 30% Generative modeling · 9% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › statistical inference › density estimation
conditional density estimation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | CONTRA: Conformal Prediction Region via Normalizing Flow Transformation · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation
conformal prediction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | CONTRA: Conformal Prediction Region via Normalizing Flow Transformation · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › statistical inference
density estimation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | CONTRA: Conformal Prediction Region via Normalizing Flow Transformation · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
normalizing flow |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | CONTRA: Conformal Prediction Region via Normalizing Flow Transformation · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
normalizing flow · 0.9conformal prediction · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | CONTRA: Conformal Prediction Region via Normalizing Flow TransformationabstractDensity estimation and reliable prediction regions for outputs are crucial in supervised and unsupervised learning. While conformal prediction effectively generates coverage-guaranteed regions, it struggles with multi-dimensional outputs due to reliance on one-dimensional nonconformity scores. To address this, we introduce CONTRA: CONformal prediction region via normalizing flow TRAnsformation. CONTRA utilizes the latent spaces of normalizing flows to define nonconformity scores based on distances from the center. This allows for the mapping of high-density regions in latent space to sharp prediction regions in the output space, surpassing traditional hyperrectangular or elliptical conformal regions. Further, for scenarios where other predictive models are favored over flow-based models, we extend CONTRA to enhance any such model with a reliable prediction region by training a simple normalizing flow on the residuals. We demonstrate that both CONTRA and its extension maintain guaranteed coverage probability and outperform existing methods in generating accurate prediction regions across various datasets. We conclude that CONTRA is an effective tool for (conditional) density estimation, addressing the under-explored challenge of delivering multi-dimensional prediction regions. Zhenhan Fang, Aixin Tan |
ICLR | 1 |