Publications
Preprints:
Reverse Markov Learning: Multi-Step Generative Models for Complex Distributions
X. Shen, N. Meinshausen, T. Zhang (2025)
paper
Distributional Instrumental Variable Method
A. Holovchak, S. Saengkyongam, N. Meinshausen, X. Shen (2025)
paper
Distributional Principal Autoencoders
X. Shen, N. Meinshausen (2024)
paper | code | slides
Causality-Oriented Robustness: Exploiting General Additive Interventions
X. Shen, P. Bühlmann, A. Taeb (2023)
paper | code | slides
Asymptotic Statistical Analysis of f-divergence GAN
X. Shen, K. Chen, T. Zhang (2022)
paper
To ArXiv or not to ArXiv: A Study Quantifying Pros and Cons of Posting Preprints
C. Rastogi, I. Stelmakh, X. Shen, M. Meila, F. Echenique, S. Chawla, N. B Shah (2022)
paper
Bidirectional Generative Modeling Using Adversarial Gradient Estimation
X. Shen, T. Zhang, K. Chen (2020)
paper | code
Journal Publications:
Engression: Extrapolation through the Lens of Distributional Regression
X. Shen, N. Meinshausen
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 2024 | paper | code | slides
Invariant Probabilistic Prediction
A. Henzi, X. Shen, M. Law, P. Bühlmann
Biometrika, 2024 | paper | code | slides
Weakly Supervised Disentangled Generative Causal Representation Learning
X. Shen, F. Liu, H. Dong, Q. Lian, Z. Chen, T. Zhang
Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 23, pp. 1-55, 2022 | paper | code | slides
Surprise Sampling: Improving and Extending the Local Case-Control Sampling
X. Shen, K. Chen, W. Yu
Electronic Journal of Statistics, vol. 15, pp. 2454-2482, 2021 | paper
Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to the Hengduan Mountains
Y. Chang, K. Gelwick, S. Willett, X. Shen, C. Albouy, A. Luo, Z. Wang, N. Zimmermann, L. Pellissier
New Phytologist, 2023 | paper
In vivo single-cell lineage tracing in zebrafish using high-resolution infrared laser-mediated gene induction microscopy
S. He, Y. Tian, S. Feng, Y. Wu, X. Shen, K. Chen, Y. He, et al.
Elife, vol. 9, e52024, 2020 | paper
Conference Publications:
Covariate-Shift Generalization via Random Sample Weighting
Y. He, X. Shen, R. Xu, T. Zhang, Y. Jiang, W. Zou, P. Cui
AAAI, 2023 | paper
Reframed GES with a Neural Conditional Dependence Measure
X. Shen, S. Zhu, J. Zhang, S. Hu, Z. Chen
UAI, 2022 | paper | code
TILGAN: Transformer-based Implicit Latent GAN for Diverse and Coherent Text Generation
S. Diao*, X. Shen*, K. S. Shum, Y. Song, T. Zhang
Findings of ACL, 2021 (*equal contribution) | paper | code
CausalVAE: Disentangled Representation Learning via Neural Structural Causal Models
M. Yang, F. Liu, Z. Chen, X. Shen, J. Hao, J. Wang
CVPR, 2021 | paper | code
Thesis:
PhD Thesis: Statistical and Structural Properties of Generative Models
Academic Services
Co-organizer of the Young Data Science Researcher Seminar Zürich 2022-
Workflow Chair of ICML 2021
Reviewer of JRSSB, JASA, JMLR, TNNLS, Neural Computation, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, UAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CLeaR
Industry Experience
Research Intern, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Hong Kong
Topic: Causal Machine Learning
Mentor: Jiji Zhang, Zhitang Chen
July 2020 - Dec. 2020
Research Intern, Beijing Seniverse Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing
Topic: weather forecasting
Dec. 2017 - Apr. 2018
Teaching
ETH Zurich:
Lecturer of AI Center Projects in Machine Learning Research (Spring 2023)
Teaching assistant at HKUST:
MATH 3424: Regression Analysis (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
MATH 3423: Statistical Inference (Spring 2020)
MATH 1013: Calculus IB (Fall 2019)
MATH 4426: Survival Analysis (Spring 2019)
Awards
ETH AI Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2022 - 2023
Din-Yu Hsieh Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics, HKUST, 2019 - 2021
Postgraduate Scholarship, HKUST, 2018 - 2022
Excellent Graduate of Fudan University, 2018
China National Scholarship, 2016 - 2017
Other Activities
Member of HKUST & Fudan Table Tennis Team
Member of Fudan Chinese Orchestra
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