Quanquan Gu

Preprints

1. Local and Global Inference for High Dimensional Nonparanormal Graphical Models
   Quanquan Gu, Yuan Cao, Yang Ning, and Han Liu, arXiv:1502.02347, 2015.

2. Sharp Computational-Statistical Phase Transitions via Oracle Computational Model
   Zhaoran Wang, Quanquan Gu and Han Liu, arXiv:1512.08861, 2015.

3. Communication-efficient Distributed Estimation and Inference for Transelliptical Graphical Models
   Pan Xu and Lu Tian and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:1612.09297, 2016.

4. Robust Wirtinger Flow for Phase Retrieval with Arbitrary Corruption
   Jinghui Chen, Lingxiao Wang, Xiao Zhang and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:1704.06256, 2017.

5. On the Convergence of Adaptive Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Optimization
   Dongruo Zhou*, Yiqi Tang*, Ziyan Yang*, Yuan Cao and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:1808.05671, 2018.

6. Efficient Privacy-Preserving Nonconvex Optimization
   Lingxiao Wang, Bargav Jayaraman, David Evans and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:1910.13659, 2019.

7. Laplacian Smoothing Stochastic Gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo
   Bao Wang*, Difan Zou*, Quanquan Gu, Stanley Osher, arXiv:1911.00782, 2019.

8. How Much Over-parameterization Is Sufficient to Learn Deep ReLU Networks?
   Zixiang Chen*, Yuan Cao*, Difan Zou* and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:1911.12360, 2019.

9. Towards Understanding the Spectral Bias of Deep Learning
   Yuan Cao*, Zhiying Fang*, Yue Wu*, Ding-Xuan Zhou and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:1912.01198, 2019.

10. Double Explore-then-Commit: Asymptotic Optimality and Beyond
    Tianyuan Jin, Pan Xu, Xiaokui Xiao and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:2002.09174, 2020.

11. MOTS: Minimax Optimal Thompson Sampling
    Tianyuan Jin, Pan Xu, Jieming Shi, Xiaokui Xiao and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:2003.01803, 2020.

12. Exploring Private Federated Learning with Laplacian Smoothing
    Zhicong Liang, Bao Wang, Quanquan Gu, Stanley Osher and Yuan Yao, arXiv:2005.00218, 2020.

13. Revisiting Membership Inference Under Realistic Assumptions
    Bargav Jayaraman, Lingxiao Wang, David Evans and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:2005.10881, 2020.

14. Epidemic Model Guided Machine Learning for COVID-19 Forecasts in the United States
    Difan Zou, Lingxiao Wang, Pan Xu, Jinghui Chen, Weitong Zhang and Quanquan Gu, medRxiv:2020.05.24.20111989, 2020.

15. Provably Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Discounted MDPs with Feature Mapping
    Dongruo Zhou, Jiafan He and Quanquan Gu, arXiv:2006.13165, 2020.

16. Ensemble Forecasts of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S.
    Evan L Ray, Nutcha Wattanachit, Jarad Niemi, Abdul Hannan Kanji, Katie House, Estee Y Cramer, Johannes Bracher, Andrew Zheng, Teresa K Yamana, Xinyue Xiong, Spencer Woody, Yuanjia Wang, Lily Wang, Robert L Walraven, Vishal Tomar, Katharine Sherratt, Daniel Sheldon, Robert C Reiner, Jr, B. Aditya Prakash, Dave Osthus, Michael Lingzhi Li, Elizabeth C Lee, Ugur Koyluoglu, Pinar Keskinocak, Youyang Gu, Quanquan Gu, Glover E. George, Guido España, Sabrina Corsetti, Jagpreet Chhatwal, Sean Cavany, Hannah Biegel, Michal Ben-Nun, Jo Walker, Rachel Slayton, Velma Lopez, Matthew Biggerstaff, Michael A Johansson, Nicholas G Reich, medRxiv:2020.08.19.20177493, 2020.

Selected Publications

2020

1. A Finite Time Analysis of Two Time-Scale Actor Critic Methods
   Yue Wu, Weitong Zhang, Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 33, 2020. [arXiv]

2. Agnostic Learning of a Single Neuron with Gradient Descent
   Spencer Frei, Yuan Cao and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 33, 2020. [arXiv]

3. A Generalized Neural Tangent Kernel Analysis for Two-layer Neural Networks
   Zixiang Chen, Yuan Cao, Quanquan Gu and Tong Zhang, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 33, 2020. [arXiv]

4. Neural Contextual Bandits with UCB-Based Exploration
   Dongruo Zhou, Lihong Li and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020. [arXiv]

5. A Finite-Time Analysis of Q-Learning with Neural Network Function Approximation
   Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020. [arXiv]

6. Optimization Theory for ReLU Neural Networks Trained with Normalization Layers
   Yonatan Dukler, Quanquan Gu and Guido Montufar, in Proc. of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020. [arXiv]

7. Is Neuron Coverage a Meaningful Measure for Testing Deep Neural Networks?
   Fabrice Harel-Canada, Lingxiao Wang, Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Quanquan Gu and Miryung Kim, in Proc of ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Sacramento, California, USA, 2020.

8. RayS: A Ray Searching Method for Hard-label Adversarial Attack
   Jinghui Chen and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Diego, CA, USA, 2020. [arXiv]

9. Stochastic Nested Variance Reduction for Nonconvex Optimization
   Dongruo Zhou, Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2020.
   The short version of this paper has been published in NeurIPS 2018. The journal version adds the finding local minima extension proposed in this manuscript [arXiv]

10. Closing the Generalization Gap of Adaptive Gradient Methods in Training Deep Neural Networks
    Jinghui Chen, Dongruo Zhou, Yiqi Tang, Ziyan Yang, Yuan Cao and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Yokohama, Japan , 2020. [arXiv]

11. DP-LSSGD: A Stochastic Optimization Method to Lift the Utility in Privacy-Preserving ERM
    Bao Wang, Quanquan Gu, March Boedihardjo, Lingxiao Wang, Farzin Barekat and Stanley J. Osher, In Proc of the Mathematical and Scientific Machine Learning Conference (MSML), Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 2020. [arXiv]

12. Understanding the Intrinsic Robustness of Image Distributions using Conditional Generative Models
    Xiao Zhang*, Jinghui Chen*, Quanquan Gu and David Evans, In Proc of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2020. [arXiv]

13. Accelerated Factored Gradient Descent for Low-Rank Matrix Factorization
    Dongruo Zhou, Yuan Cao and Quanquan Gu, In Proc of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Palermo, Sicily, Italy,, 2020.

14. Stochastic Recursive Variance-Reduced Cubic Regularization Methods
    Dongruo Zhou and Quanquan Gu, In Proc of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Palermo, Sicily, Italy,, 2020.

    [arXiv]

15. On the Global Convergence of Training Deep Linear ResNets
    Difan Zou, Philip M. Long and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020. [arXiv]

16. Sample Efficient Policy Gradient Methods with Recursive Variance Reduction
    Pan Xu, Felicia Gao and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020. [arXiv]

    The short version of this paper was presented in NeurIPS 2019 Optimization Foundations of Reinforcement Learning Workshop, Vancouver, Canada.

17. Improving Neural Language Generation with Spectrum Control
    Lingxiao Wang, Jing Huang, Kevin Huang, Ziniu Hu, Guangtao Wang and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020.

18. Improving Adversarial Robustness Requires Revisiting Misclassified Examples
    Yisen Wang*, Difan Zou*, Jinfeng Yi, James Bailey, Xingjun Ma and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020.

19. A Frank-Wolfe Framework for Efficient and Effective Adversarial Attacks
    Jinghui Chen, Dongruo Zhou, Jinfeng Yi and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), New York, New York, USA, 2020. [arXiv]

20. Generalization Error Bounds of Gradient Descent for Learning Over-parameterized Deep ReLU Networks
    Yuan Cao and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), New York, New York, USA, 2020. [arXiv]

21. A Knowledge Transfer Framework for Differentially Private Sparse Learning
    Lingxiao Wang and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), New York, New York, USA, 2020. Oral presentation [arXiv]

22. Rank Aggregation via Heterogeneous Thurstone Preference Models
    Tao Jin*, Pan Xu*, Quanquan Gu and Farzad Farnoud, in Proc. of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), New York, New York, USA, 2020. Oral presentation [arXiv]

2019

1. Generalization Bounds of Stochastic Gradient Descent for Wide and Deep Neural Networks
   Yuan Cao and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 32, Vancouver, Canada, 2019. Spotlight presentation [arXiv]

2. An Improved Analysis of Training Over-parameterized Deep Neural Networks
   Difan Zou and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 32, Vancouver, Canada, 2019. [arXiv]

3. Algorithm-Dependent Generalization Bounds for Overparameterized Deep Residual Networks
   Spencer Frei, Yuan Cao and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 32, Vancouver, Canada, 2019. [arXiv]

4. Tight Sample Complexity of Learning One-hidden-layer Convolutional Neural Networks
   Yuan Cao and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 32, Vancouver, Canada, 2019. [arXiv]

5. Layer-Dependent Importance Sampling for Training Deep and Large Graph Convolutional Networks
   Difan Zou*, Ziniu Hu*, Yewen Wang, Song Jiang, Yizhou Sun and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 32, Vancouver, Canada, 2019.

6. Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Methods with Recursive Variance Reduction
   Difan Zou and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 32, Vancouver, Canada, 2019.

7. Stochastic Gradient Descent Optimizes Over-parameterized Deep ReLU Networks
   Difan Zou*, Yuan Cao*, Dongruo Zhou and Quanquan Gu, Machine Learning Journal (MLJ), 2019. [arXiv]

8. Stochastic Variance-Reduced Cubic Regularized Newton Methods
   Dongruo Zhou, Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2019.
   The short version of this paper has been published in ICML 2018. The journal version adds the sample efficient extension proposed in this manuscript [arXiv]

9. An Improved Convergence Analysis of Stochastic Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient
   Pan Xu, Felicia Gao and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 35th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Tel Aviv, Israel, 2019. Oral presentation [arXiv]

10. Differentially Private Iterative Gradient Hard Thresholding for Sparse Learning
    Lingxiao Wang and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macao, China , 2019.

11. Lower Bounds for Smooth Nonconvex Finite-Sum Optimization
    Dongruo Zhou and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2019. [arXiv]

12. On the Convergence and Robustness of Adversarial Training
    Yisen Wang, Xingjun Ma, James Bailey, Jinfeng Yi, Bowen Zhou and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2019. Long talk

13. Learning One-hidden-layer ReLU Networks via Gradient Descent
    Xiao Zhang*, Yaodong Yu*, Lingxiao Wang* and Quanquan Gu, In Proc of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 2019. [arXiv]

14. Sampling from Non-Log-Concave Distributions via Variance-Reduced Gradient Langevin Dynamics
    Difan Zou, Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, In Proc of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 2019.

2018

1. Stochastic Nested Variance Reduction for Nonconvex Optimization
   Dongruo Zhou, Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 31, Montréal, Canada, 2018. Spotlight presentation [arXiv] [Slides]

2. Global Convergence of Langevin Dynamics Based Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization
   Pan Xu*, Jinghui Chen*, Difan Zou and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 31, Montréal, Canada, 2018. Spotlight presentation [arXiv]

3. Third-order Smoothness Helps: Even Faster Stochastic Optimization Algorithms for Finding Local Minima
   Yaodong Yu*, Pan Xu* and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 31, Montréal, Canada, 2018. [arXiv]

4. Distributed Learning without Distress: Privacy-Preserving Empirical Risk Minimization
   Bargav Jayaraman, Lingxiao Wang, David Evans and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 31, Montréal, Canada, 2018.

5. Subsampled Stochastic Variance-Reduced Gradient Langevin Dynamics
   Difan Zou*, Pan Xu* and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 34th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Monterey, California, 2018.

6. Differentially Private Hypothesis Transfer Learning,
   Yang Wang, Quanquan Gu and Donald Brown, in Proc. of 28th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD’18), Dublin, Ireland, 2018.

7. Fast and Sample Efficient Inductive Matrix Completion via Multi-Phase Procrustes Flow
   Xiao Zhang*, Simon S. Du* and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018. [arXiv]

8. A Primal-Dual Analysis of Global Optimality in Nonconvex Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
   Xiao Zhang*, Lingxiao Wang*, Yaodong Yu and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.

9. Stochastic Variance-Reduced Hamilton Monte Carlo Methods
   Difan Zou*, Pan Xu* and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018. [arXiv]

10. Covariate Adjusted Precision Matrix Estimation via Nonconvex Optimization
    Jinghui Chen, Pan Xu, Lingxiao Wang, Jian Ma and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018. Long talk [arXiv]

11. Continuous and Discrete-Time Accelerated Stochastic Mirror Descent for Strongly Convex Functions
    Pan Xu* and Tianhao Wang* and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.

12. Stochastic Variance-Reduced Cubic Regularized Newton Methods
    Dongruo Zhou, Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018. [arXiv]

13. Accelerated Stochastic Mirror Descent: From Continuous-time Dynamics to Discrete-time Algorithms
    Pan Xu* and Tianhao Wang* and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, 2018.

14. A Unified Framework for Nonconvex Low-Rank plus Sparse Matrix Recovery
    Xiao Zhang* and Lingxiao Wang* and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, 2018. [arXiv]

15. Continuous-trait Probabilistic Model for Comparing Multi-species Functional Genomic Data
    Yang Yang, Quanquan Gu, Takayo Sasaki, Rachel O’neill, David Gilbert and Jian Ma, in Proc. of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), 2018.

2017

1. Speeding Up Latent Variable Gaussian Graphical Model Estimation via Nonconvex Optimization
   Pan Xu and Jian Ma and Quanquan Gu, In Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 30, Long Beach, CA, USA, 2017.

2. Fast Newton Hard Thresholding Pursuit for Sparsity Constrained Nonconvex Optimization
   Jinghui Chen and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2017.

3. Uncertainty Assessment and False Discovery Rate Control in High-Dimensional Granger Causal Inference
   Aditya Chaudhry, Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Sydney, Australia, 2017.

4. Variance-Reduced Stochastic Gradient High-dimensional Expectation-Maximization Algorithm
   Rongda Zhu, Lingxiao Wang, Chengxiang Zhai, Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Sydney, Australia, 2017.

5. A Unified Variance Reduction-Based Framework for Nonconvex Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
   Lingxiao Wang* and Xiao Zhang* and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Sydney, Australia, 2017. Subsume this paper

6. Robust Gaussian Graphical Model Estimation with Arbitrary Corruption
   Lingxiao Wang, Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Sydney, Australia, 2017.

7. Communication-efficient Distributed Sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis
   Lu Tian, Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 2017.

8. A Unified Computational and Statistical Framework for Nonconvex Low-Rank Matrix Estimation
   Lingxiao Wang* and Xiao Zhang* and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 2017.

9. Efficient Algorithm for Sparse Tensor-variate Gaussian Graphical Models via Gradient Descent
   Pan Xu, Tingting Zhang and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA , 2017.

10. High-dimensional Time Series Clustering via Cross-Predictability
    Dezhi Hong, Quanquan Gu and Kamin Whitehouse, in Proc of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA , 2017.

2016

1. Semiparametric Differential Graph Models
   Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, In Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 29, Barcelona, Spain, 2016.

2. Identifying gene regulatory network rewiring using latent differential graphical models
   Dechao Tian and Quanquan Gu and Jian Ma, Nucleic Acids Research, 2016.

3. Accelerated Stochastic Block Coordinate Descent with Optimal Sampling
   Aston Zhang and Quanquan Gu in Proc of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016.

4. Accelerated Stochastic Block Coordinate Gradient Descent for Sparsity Constrained Nonconvex Optimization
   Jinghui Chen and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 32th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI'16), New York / New Jersey, USA, 2016.

5. Forward Backward Greedy Algorithms for Multi-Task Learning with Faster Rates
   Lu Tian, Pan Xu and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 32th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI'16), New York / New Jersey, USA, 2016.

6. Towards Faster Rates and Oracle Property for Low-Rank Matrix Estimation
   Huan Gui, Jiawei Han and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 33th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), New York, USA, 2016.

7. Statistical Limits of Convex Relaxations
   Zhaoran Wang, Quanquan Gu, and Han Liu, in Proc. of the 33th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), New York, USA, 2016.

8. Contextual Bandits in A Collaborative Environment
   Qingyun Wu, Huazheng Wang, Quanquan Gu and Hongning Wang, The 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, 2016.

9. Low-Rank and Sparse Structure Pursuit via Alternating Minimization
   Quanquan Gu, Zhaoran Wang and Han Liu, in Proc of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Cadiz, Spain, 2016.

   Oral presentation

10. Optimal Statistical and Computational Rates for One Bit Matrix Completion
    Renkun Ni and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Cadiz, Spain, 2016.

11. Precision Matrix Estimation in High Dimensional Gaussian Graphical Models with Faster Rates
    Lingxiao Wang, Xiang Ren and Quanquan Gu, in Proc of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Cadiz, Spain, 2016.

12. Aggregating Private Sparse Learning Models Using Multi-Party Computation
    Lu Tian*, Bargav Jayaraman*, Quanquan Gu and David Evans, NIPS Workshop on Private Multi-Party Machine Learning, Cadiz, Spain, 2016.

2015

1. High Dimensional Expectation-Maximization Algorithm: Statistical Optimization and Asymptotic Normality
   Zhaoran Wang, Quanquan Gu, Yang Ning, and Han Liu, in Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 28, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2015.

2. Robust Classification of Information Networks by Consistent Graph Learning
   Shi Zhi, Jiawei Han, and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of European Conf. on Machine Learning (ECML), Porto, Portugal, 2015.

3. Towards a Lower Sample Complexity for Robust One-bit Compressed Sensing
   Rongda Zhu and Quanquan Gu, in Proc. of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Lille, France, 2015.

4. Mining drug–disease relationships as a complement to medical genetics-based drug repositioning: Where a recommendation system meets genome-wide association studies,
   Haiping Wang, Quanquan Gu, Jia Wei, Zhiwei Cao and Qi Liu, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 451-454, 2015. (Impact Factor: 7.9)

2014

1. Sparse PCA with Oracle Property
   Quanquan Gu, Zhaoran Wang and Han Liu, In Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 27, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2014.

2. Robust Tensor Decomposition with Gross Corruption
   Quanquan Gu*, Huan Gui* and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 27, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2014.

3. Batch-Mode Active Learning via Error Bound Minimization
   Quanquan Gu, Tong Zhang and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 2014.

4. Online Spectral Learning on a Graph with Bandit Feedback
   Quanquan Gu and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Shenzhen, China, 2014.

5. A network-assisted co-clustering algorithm to discover cancer subtypes based on gene expression
   Yiyi Liu, Quanquan Gu, Jack P Hou, Jiawei Han and Jian Ma, BMC Bioinformatics, 2014.

2013

1. Selective Sampling on Graphs for Classification
   Quanquan Gu, Charu Aggarwal, Jialu Liu and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Chicago, USA, 2013.

2. Unsupervised Link Selection in Networks
   Quanquan Gu, Charu Aggarwal and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Scottsdale, AZ, 2013.

3. Clustered Support Vector Machines
   Quanquan Gu and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Scottsdale, AZ, 2013.

2012

1. Towards Active Learning on Graphs: An Error Bound Minimization Approach
   Quanquan Gu and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Brussels, Belgium, 2012.

2. Selective Labeling via Error Bound Minimization
   Quanquan Gu, Tong Zhang, Chris Ding and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 25, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, United States, 2012.

3. Locality Preserving Feature Learning
   Quanquan Gu, Marina Danilevsky, Zhenhui Li and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), La Palma, Canary Islands, 2012.

2011

1. Linear Discriminant Dimensionality Reduction
   Quanquan Gu, Zhenhui Li and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 21st European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), Athens, Greece, 2011.

2. Generalized Fisher Score for Feature Selection
   Quanquan Gu, Zhenhui Li and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 27th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Barcelona, Spain, 2011.

3. Learning a Kernel for Multi-Task Clustering
   Quanquan Gu, Zhenhui Li and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), San Francisco, California, USA, 2011.

4. Joint Feature Selection and Subspace Learning
   Quanquan Gu, Zhenhui Li and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Barcelona, Spain, 2011.

5. On Trivial Solution and Scale Transfer Problems in Graph Regularized NMF
   Quanquan Gu, Chris Ding and Jiawei Han, In Proc. of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Barcelona, Spain, 2011.

2010 and Before

1. Collaborative Filtering: Weighted Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Incorporating User and Item Graphs
   Quanquan Gu, Jie Zhou and Chris Ding, In Proc. of the 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Columbus, OH, USA, 2010. [Code]

2. Learning a Shared Subspace for Multi-Task Clustering and Transductive Transfer Classification
   Quanquan Gu and Jie Zhou, In Proc. of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Miami, Florida, USA, 2009. (full paper) [Code]

3. Transductive Classification via Dual Regularization
   Quanquan Gu and Jie Zhou, In Proc. of the 19th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), Bled, Slovenia, 2009.

4. Co-clustering on Manifolds
   Quanquan Gu and Jie Zhou, In Proc. of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Paris, France, 2009. [Code]

5. Local Learning Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
   Quanquan Gu and Jie Zhou, In Proc. of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Pasadena, California, USA, 2009. [Code]

6. Local Relevance Weighted Maximum Margin Criterion for Text Classification
   Quanquan Gu and Jie Zhou, In Proc. of the 9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Sparks, Nevada, USA, 2009.

Dissertation

• Online and Active Learning of Big Networks: Theory and Algorithms, Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August, 2014.