Xiaohui Chen
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Works on high-dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning theory and optimal transport.
Xiaohui Chen's lab at USC works on learning theory & optimization and planning, control & multi-robot systems. 16 papers since 2023, 10 at top venues, mostly ICLR and ICML. 5 PhD students and 1 master's student. 6 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 63%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 6
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 4 papers2025 · T1 2
- 5 papers2024 · T1 3
- 2 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, ICML, ISIT, JMLR, Nature Communications
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Learning theory & optimization5 papers
- optimal4 papers
- optimal transport3 papers
- transport3 papers
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)A Unified Approach for Computing Wasserstein Barycenters of Discrete and Continuous Measures (opens in a new tab)
- TMLR (T1)Convergence analysis of the Wasserstein proximal algorithm beyond geodesic convexity (opens in a new tab)
- FMSDHierarchical Synthetic Tabular Data Generation: A Hybrid Top-Down and Bottom-Up Framework (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Scalable Second-order Riemannian Optimization for K-means Clustering (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Sobolev Gradient Ascent for Optimal Transport: Barycenter Optimization and Convergence Analysis (opens in a new tab)
20254 papers
- ISITEmbedding Empirical Distributions for Computing Optimal Transport Maps (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Communications (T1)Holographic deep thermalization for secure and efficient quantum random state generation (opens in a new tab)
- TAG-DSNeural Local Wasserstein Regression (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Optimal transport barycenter via nonconvex concave minimax optimization (opens in a new tab)
20245 papers
- BernoulliCentral limit theorems for high dimensional dependent data (opens in a new tab)
- Physical Review LettersGenerative quantum machine learning via denoising diffusion probabilistic models (opens in a new tab)
- UAI (T1)GeONet: a neural operator for learning the Wasserstein geodesic (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Statistically Optimal K-means Clustering via Nonnegative Low-rank Semidefinite Programming (opens in a new tab)
- JMLR (T1)Wasserstein proximal coordinate gradient algorithms (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went6 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 4
Also to
- Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
- Purdue University
- Queen's University
Apply to USCFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Viterbi)
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