{"title":"Low-Rank Contextual Reinforcement Learning from Heterogeneous Human Feedback","authors":"Seong Jin Lee, Will Wei Sun, Yufeng Liu","doi":"10.1080/01621459.2026.2674413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2026.2674413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Statistical Association","volume":"159 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148767387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discussion of “The ICML 2023 Ranking Experiment” by Su et al.","authors":"Andreas Haupt, Sanmi Koyejo","doi":"10.1080/01621459.2025.2588464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2588464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Statistical Association","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148767391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discussion of “The ICML 2023 Ranking Experiment: Examining Author Self-Assessment in ML/AI Peer Review”","authors":"Ying Wang, Mengye Ren","doi":"10.1080/01621459.2026.2638494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2026.2638494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Statistical Association","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148767384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discussion of “The ICML 2023 Ranking Experiment: Examining Author Self-Assessment in ML/AI Peer Review”","authors":"Linjun Zhang, Lexin Li","doi":"10.1080/01621459.2025.2612634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2612634","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Statistical Association","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148767390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments: Can Statistics and AI Technologies Help Our Troubled Review System?","authors":"Xiao-Li Meng","doi":"10.1080/01621459.2026.2657554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2026.2657554","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Statistical Association","volume":"376 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148767385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Authors to Reviewers: Leveraging Rankings to Improve Peer Review","authors":"Weichen Wang, Chengchun Shi","doi":"10.1080/01621459.2025.2568056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2568056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Statistical Association","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148767388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing Genetic Risk Scores: Robust Bayesian Approach through Projected Summary Statistics and Flexible Shrinkage.","authors":"Yuzheng Dun,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Jin Jin,Akihiko Nishimura","doi":"10.1080/01621459.2026.2663587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2026.2663587","url":null,"abstract":"Polygenic risk scores (PRS) developed from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) can be used for risk stratification by quantifying the genetic contribution to disease, and many clinical applications have been proposed. Bayesian methods are popular for building PRS because of their natural ability to regularize models and incorporate external information. In this article, we present new theoretical results, methods, and extensive numerical studies to advance Bayesian methods for PRS applications. We identify a potential risk, under a common Bayesian PRS framework, of posterior impropriety when integrating the required GWAS summary statistics and linkage disequilibrium (LD) data from distinct sources. As a principled remedy, we propose a projection of the summary statistics that ensures compatibility between the two sources and in turn a proper behavior of the posterior. We further introduce a new PRS method, with accompanying software, under the less-explored Bayesian bridge prior to more flexibly model varying sparsity levels in effect-size distributions. We extensively benchmark it against alternative Bayesian methods using synthetic and real datasets, quantifying the impact of prior specification and LD estimation strategy. Our proposed PRS-Bridge, equipped with the projection technique and flexible prior, demonstrates the most consistent and generally superior performance across a variety of scenarios.","PeriodicalId":17227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Statistical Association","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148432652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhanced Marginal Sensitivity Model and Bounds","authors":"Yi Zhang, Wenfu Xu, Zhiqiang Tan","doi":"10.1080/01621459.2026.2699465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2026.2699465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Statistical Association","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148416286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}