Education
Statistics, Ph.D, Stanford University
Mathematics, B.S., Peking University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Statistics
Highlighted Publications
Cheng, C., & Montanari, A. (2024). Dimension free ridge regression. Annals of Statistics, 52(6), 2879-2912. https://doi.org/10.1214/24-AOS2449
Cen, S., Cheng, C., Chen, Y., Wei, Y., & Chi, Y. (2022). Fast Global Convergence of Natural Policy Gradient Methods with Entropy Regularization. Operations Research, 70(4), 2563-2578. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2021.2151
Cheng, C., Duchi, J., & Kuditipudi, R. (2022). Memorize to generalize: on the necessity of interpolation in high dimensional linear regression. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 178, 5528-5560.
Chen, Y., Cheng, C., & Fan, J. (2021). Asymmetry helps: Eigenvalue and eigenvector analyses of asymmetrically perturbed low-rank matrices. Annals of Statistics, 49(1), 435-458. https://doi.org/10.1214/20-AOS1963
Recent Publications
Areces, F., Cheng, C., Duchi, J., & Kuditipudi, R. (2024). Two fundamental limits for uncertainty quantification in predictive inference. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 247, 186-218.
Cheng, C., & Montanari, A. (2024). Dimension free ridge regression. Annals of Statistics, 52(6), 2879-2912. https://doi.org/10.1214/24-AOS2449
Cheng, C., Cheng, G., & Duchi, J. (2023). Collaboratively Learning Linear Models with Structured Missing Data. In A. Oh, T. Neumann, A. Globerson, K. Saenko, M. Hardt, & S. Levine (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 - 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2023 (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems; Vol. 36). Neural information processing systems foundation.
Cen, S., Cheng, C., Chen, Y., Wei, Y., & Chi, Y. (2022). Fast Global Convergence of Natural Policy Gradient Methods with Entropy Regularization. Operations Research, 70(4), 2563-2578. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2021.2151
Cheng, C., Duchi, J., & Kuditipudi, R. (2022). Memorize to generalize: on the necessity of interpolation in high dimensional linear regression. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 178, 5528-5560.