| Achieving optimal misclassification proportion in stochastic block models C Gao, Z Ma, AY Zhang, HH Zhou Journal of Machine Learning Research 18 (60), 1-45, 2017 | 287 | 2017 |
| Minimax rates of community detection in stochastic block models AY Zhang, HH Zhou The Annals of Statistics 44 (5), 2252-2280, 2016 | 241 | 2016 |
| Community detection in degree-corrected block models C Gao, Z Ma, AY Zhang, HH Zhou The Annals of Statistics 46 (5), 2153-2185, 2018 | 198 | 2018 |
| Optimality of spectral clustering in the Gaussian mixture model M Löffler, AY Zhang, HH Zhou The Annals of Statistics 49 (5), 2506-2530, 2021 | 102 | 2021 |
| Theoretical and computational guarantees of mean field variational inference for community detection AY Zhang, HH Zhou The Annals of Statistics 48 (5), 2575-2598, 2020 | 83 | 2020 |
| Partial recovery for top-k ranking: Optimality of MLE and SubOptimality of the spectral method P Chen, C Gao, AY Zhang The Annals of Statistics 50 (3), 1618-1652, 2022 | 49 | 2022 |
| Iterative algorithm for discrete structure recovery C Gao, AY Zhang The Annals of Statistics 50 (2), 1066-1094, 2022 | 37 | 2022 |
| Optimal full ranking from pairwise comparisons P Chen, C Gao, AY Zhang The Annals of Statistics 50 (3), 1775-1805, 2022 | 31 | 2022 |
| Uncertainty quantification in the Bradley–Terry–Luce model C Gao, Y Shen, AY Zhang Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA 12 (2), 1073-1140, 2023 | 29 | 2023 |
| Leave-one-out singular subspace perturbation analysis for spectral clustering AY Zhang, HH Zhou The Annals of Statistics (Accepted), 2024 | 18 | 2024 |
| Achieving optimal clustering in Gaussian mixture models with anisotropic covariance structures X Chen, AY Zhang Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024 (Accepted), 2024 | 15* | 2024 |
| Optimal orthogonal group synchronization and rotation group synchronization C Gao, AY Zhang Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA 12 (2), 591-632, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
| Exact minimax estimation for phase synchronization C Gao, AY Zhang IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 67 (12), 8236-8247, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| SDP achieves exact minimax optimality in phase synchronization C Gao, AY Zhang IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 68 (8), 5374-5390, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Exact minimax optimality of spectral methods in phase synchronization and orthogonal group synchronization AY Zhang The Annals of Statistics (Accepted), 2024 | 9 | 2024 |
| A Spectral Approach to Item Response Theory D Nguyen, AY Zhang Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| Fundamental limits of spectral clustering in stochastic block models AY Zhang IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 70 (10), 7320-7348, 2024 | 5 | 2024 |
| Efficient and accurate learning of mixtures of Plackett-Luce models D Nguyen, AY Zhang AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| A novel and optimal spectral method for permutation synchronization D Nguyen, AY Zhang arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12051, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| Optimal and private learning from human response data D Nguyen, AY Zhang International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS …, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
