Search Results for author: Weicong Ding

Found 11 papers, 3 papers with code

PASTO: Strategic Parameter Optimization in Recommendation Systems -- Probabilistic is Better than Deterministic

no code implementations20 Aug 2021 Weicong Ding, Hanlin Tang, Jingshuo Feng, Lei Yuan, Sen yang, Guangxu Yang, Jie Zheng, Jing Wang, Qiang Su, Dong Zheng, Xuezhong Qiu, Yongqi Liu, Yuxuan Chen, Yang Liu, Chao Song, Dongying Kong, Kai Ren, Peng Jiang, Qiao Lian, Ji Liu

In this setting with multiple and constrained goals, this paper discovers that a probabilistic strategic parameter regime can achieve better value compared to the standard regime of finding a single deterministic parameter.

Recommendation Systems

A Simple Approach to Learn Polysemous Word Embeddings

2 code implementations6 Jul 2017 Yifan Sun, Nikhil Rao, Weicong Ding

Evaluating these methods is also problematic, as rigorous quantitative evaluations in this space is limited, especially when compared with single-sense embeddings.

Representation Learning Word Embeddings +2

Matrix Completion via Factorizing Polynomials

no code implementations4 May 2017 Vatsal Shah, Nikhil Rao, Weicong Ding

While there has been recent research on incorporating explicit side information in the low-rank matrix factorization setting, often implicit information can be gleaned from the data, via higher-order interactions among entities.

Matrix Completion Recommendation Systems

Dynamic Word Embeddings for Evolving Semantic Discovery

2 code implementations2 Mar 2017 Zijun Yao, Yifan Sun, Weicong Ding, Nikhil Rao, Hui Xiong

Word evolution refers to the changing meanings and associations of words throughout time, as a byproduct of human language evolution.

Representation Learning Word Embeddings

Node Embedding via Word Embedding for Network Community Discovery

1 code implementation9 Nov 2016 Weicong Ding, Christy Lin, Prakash Ishwar

Neural node embeddings have recently emerged as a powerful representation for supervised learning tasks involving graph-structured data.

Clustering Graph Generation

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions and a Provably Efficient Algorithm for Separable Topic Discovery

no code implementations23 Aug 2015 Weicong Ding, Prakash Ishwar, Venkatesh Saligrama

We develop necessary and sufficient conditions and a novel provably consistent and efficient algorithm for discovering topics (latent factors) from observations (documents) that are realized from a probabilistic mixture of shared latent factors that have certain properties.

Topic Models

Learning Mixed Membership Mallows Models from Pairwise Comparisons

no code implementations3 Apr 2015 Weicong Ding, Prakash Ishwar, Venkatesh Saligrama

Our key algorithmic insight for estimation is to establish a statistical connection between M4 and topic models by viewing pairwise comparisons as words, and users as documents.

Topic Models

A Topic Modeling Approach to Ranking

no code implementations11 Dec 2014 Weicong Ding, Prakash Ishwar, Venkatesh Saligrama

We propose a topic modeling approach to the prediction of preferences in pairwise comparisons.

Sensing-Aware Kernel SVM

no code implementations2 Dec 2013 Weicong Ding, Prakash Ishwar, Venkatesh Saligrama, W. Clem Karl

We propose a novel approach for designing kernels for support vector machines (SVMs) when the class label is linked to the observation through a latent state and the likelihood function of the observation given the state (the sensing model) is available.

General Classification Image Classification

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Novel Word Detection in Separable Topic Models

no code implementations30 Oct 2013 Weicong Ding, Prakash Ishwar, Mohammad H. Rohban, Venkatesh Saligrama

The simplicial condition and other stronger conditions that imply it have recently played a central role in developing polynomial time algorithms with provable asymptotic consistency and sample complexity guarantees for topic estimation in separable topic models.

Topic Models

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