Chang Deng

I am a fifth- and final-year PhD student in Econometrics and Statistics at Chicago Booth. My research focuses on causal discovery.

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* Equal contribution.

  1. Nonasymptotic causal structure learning in generalized linear DAGs with continuous optimization. C Deng*, I Lee*, B Aragam. (Preprint 2026)

  2. Differentiable structure learning and causal discovery for general binary data. C Deng, B Aragam. (NeurIPS 2025)

  3. Markov equivalence and consistency in differentiable structure learning. C Deng, K Bello, P Ravikumar, B Aragam. (NeurIPS 2024)

  4. Data-driven forecasting and reference prices with exposure effect. O Baron, C Deng, S He, H Yuan. (Naval Research Logistics 2024)

  5. High-dimensional sparse single–index regression via Hilbert–Schmidt independence criterion. X Chen, C Deng, S He, R Wu, J Zhang. (Statistics and Computing 2024)

  6. Global optimality in bivariate gradient-based DAG learning. C Deng, K Bello, B Aragam, P Ravikumar. (NeurIPS 2023)

  7. Optimizing NOTEARS objective via topological swaps. C Deng, K Bello, B Aragam, P Ravikumar. (ICML 2023)  |  Code  |  Proceedings

  8. A simple approach to balance task loss in multi-task learning. S Liang, C Deng, Y Zhang. (IEEE Big Data 2021)

  9. Deep multi-task augmented feature learning via hierarchical graph neural network. P Guo, C Deng, L Xu, X Huang, Y Zhang. (ECML PKDD 2021)

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