Selected Publications

  • Wang, Y. (2022). When quantum computation meets data science: Making data science quantum (featured discussion). Harvard Data Science Review, Issue 4.1/Winter 2022. Read Article online or Browse Issue 4.1 online

  • Wang, Y. and Song, X. (2020). Quantum science and quantum technology. Statistical Science 35, 51-74. Download: pdf file

  • Wang, Y. (2012). Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. Statistical Science 27, 373-394. Download: pdf file

  • Wang, Y. and Liu, H. (2022). Quantum computing in a statistical context. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 9, 479-504. Read Article

  • Wang, Y., Wu, S. and Zou, J. (2016). Quantum Annealing With Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations and D-Wave Quantum Computers. Statistical Science 31, 362-398. Download: pdf file

  • Wang, Y. and Wu, S. (2020). Asymptotic Analysis via Stochastic Differential Equations of Gradient Descent Algorithms in Statistical and Computational Paradigms. Journal of Machine Learning Research 21(199):1-103. Download: pdf file (more complete arXiv version: arXiv:1711.09514 Download: pdf file)

  • Luo, V. and Wang, Y. (2020). How many factors influence minima in SGD? arXiv:2009.11858 Download: pdf file

  • Hu, J. and Wang, Y. (2021). Quantum annealing via path-integral Monte Carlo with data augmentation. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 30, 284-296. Download: pdf file code

  • Zhou, Y. , Zheng, L., Zhang, A. andWang , Y. (2022). Optimal high-order tensor SVD via tensor-train orthogonal iteration. IEEE Transaction on Information Theory 68 (6), 3991-4019.

  • Wang, Y., Wu, S. and Liu, H. (2022+). Statistical analysis of quantum annealing. Statistica Sinica. Download: pdf file

  • Kim, D. and Wang, Y. (2017). Hypothesis Tests for Large Density Matrices of Quantum Systems Based on Pauli Measurements. Physica A 469, 31-51. Download: pdf file

  • Optimal Large-Scale Quantum State Tomography With Pauli Measurements (2016, with Cai, Kim, Yuan and Zhou). Ann. Statist. 44, 682-712. Download: pdf file

  • Wang, Y. and Xu, C. (2015). Density Matrix Estimation in Quantum Homodyne Tomography. Statistica Sinica 25, 953-973. Download: pdf file

  • Wang, Y. (2013). Asymptotic Equivalence of Quantum State Tomography and Noisy Matrix Completion. Annals of Statistics 41, 2462-2504. Download: pdf file

  • Wang, Y. (2011). Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation. Annals of Applied Statistics 5, 669-683. Download: pdf file
  • Wang, Y. (1994). Quantum Gaussian Processes. Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica 10, 315-327.