@article{unifiedunbiasedvarianceestimationformaxi, title = {Unified Unbiased Variance Estimation for Maximum Mean Discrepancy: Robust Finite-Sample Performance with Imbalanced Data and Exact Acceleration under Null and Alternative Hypotheses}, author = {Shijie Zhong and Yikun Yang and Da Gong and Jiangfeng Fu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2601.13874}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13874}, }