Research

Publications

• Ma, T., Verchand, K. A., Gao, C. and Samworth, R. J. (2026) Adaptive confidence intervals with missing data Preprint, arXiv:2609.28336.

• Ma, T., Wang, T. and Samworth, R. J. (2026) Optimal in-context adaptivity and distributional robustness of transformers. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), to appear.
  —(Student Paper Award, ASA Nonparametric Statistics Section, JSM 2026)

• Ma, T., Wang, T. and Samworth, R. J. (2026) Deep learning with missing data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B. [code]
  —(Student Travel Award, ICSDS 2025)

• Ma, T., Verchand, K. A., Berrett, T. B., Wang, T. and Samworth, R. J. (2026) Estimation beyond Missing (Completely) at Random. Annals of Statistics.
  —(IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, 2025)

• Ching, M., Popescu, I., Smith, N., Ma, T., Underwood, W. G. and Samworth, R. J. (2026) Efficient and minimax optimal in-context nonparametric regression with transformers. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

• Ma, T., Verchand, K. A., Samworth, R. J. (2026) High-probability minimax lower bounds. Statistical Science.