Search Results for author: Zhi Tian

Found 51 papers, 22 papers with code

Distributed Swarm Learning for Edge Internet of Things

no code implementations29 Mar 2024 Yue Wang, Zhi Tian, FXin Fan, Zhipeng Cai, Cameron Nowzari, Kai Zeng

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the widespread deployment of smart IoT devices at wireless edge for collaborative machine learning tasks, ushering in a new era of edge learning.

Unraveling the Mystery of Scaling Laws: Part I

no code implementations11 Mar 2024 Hui Su, Zhi Tian, Xiaoyu Shen, Xunliang Cai

However, the original scaling law paper by OpenAI did not disclose the complete details necessary to derive the precise scaling law formulas, and their conclusions are only based on models containing up to 1. 5 billion parameters.

RobustCalib: Robust Lidar-Camera Extrinsic Calibration with Consistency Learning

no code implementations2 Dec 2023 Shuang Xu, Sifan Zhou, Zhi Tian, Jizhou Ma, Qiong Nie, Xiangxiang Chu

Current traditional methods for LiDAR-camera extrinsics estimation depend on offline targets and human efforts, while learning-based approaches resort to iterative refinement for calibration results, posing constraints on their generalization and application in on-board systems.

Byzantine-Robust Distributed Online Learning: Taming Adversarial Participants in An Adversarial Environment

1 code implementation16 Jul 2023 Xingrong Dong, Zhaoxian Wu, Qing Ling, Zhi Tian

But we prove that, even with a class of state-of-the-art robust aggregation rules, in an adversarial environment and in the presence of Byzantine participants, distributed online gradient descent can only achieve a linear adversarial regret bound, which is tight.

Decision Making

SegViTv2: Exploring Efficient and Continual Semantic Segmentation with Plain Vision Transformers

1 code implementation9 Jun 2023 BoWen Zhang, Liyang Liu, Minh Hieu Phan, Zhi Tian, Chunhua Shen, Yifan Liu

This paper investigates the capability of plain Vision Transformers (ViTs) for semantic segmentation using the encoder-decoder framework and introduces \textbf{SegViTv2}.

Continual Learning Continual Semantic Segmentation +2

Super-Resolution Harmonic Retrieval of Non-Circular Signals

no code implementations17 Jan 2023 Yu Zhang, Yue Wang, Zhi Tian, Geert Leus, Gong Zhang

This paper proposes a super-resolution harmonic retrieval method for uncorrelated strictly non-circular signals, whose covariance and pseudo-covariance present Toeplitz and Hankel structures, respectively.

Retrieval Super-Resolution

Compressive Spectrum Sensing Using Sampling-Controlled Block Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

no code implementations14 Nov 2022 Liyang Lu, Wenbo Xu, Yue Wang, Zhi Tian

To this end, the minimum number of required measurements for successful recovery is first derived in terms of its probabilistic lower bound.

Compressive Spectrum Sensing Using Blind-Block Orthogonal Least Squares

no code implementations14 Nov 2022 Liyang Lu, Wenbo Xu, Yue Wang, Zhi Tian

In this paper, we propose a blind-block orthogonal least squares-based compressive spectrum sensing (B-BOLS-CSS) algorithm, which utilizes a novel blind stopping rule to cut the cords to these prior information.

Compressive Sensing

Robust Distributed Learning Against Both Distributional Shifts and Byzantine Attacks

no code implementations29 Oct 2022 Guanqiang Zhou, Ping Xu, Yue Wang, Zhi Tian

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm that equips distributed learning with robustness measures against both distributional shifts and byzantine attacks.

Distributed Swarm Learning for Internet of Things at the Edge: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Biological Intelligence

no code implementations29 Oct 2022 Yue Wang, Zhi Tian, Xin Fan, Yan Huo, Cameron Nowzari, Kai Zeng

With the proliferation of versatile Internet of Things (IoT) services, smart IoT devices are increasingly deployed at the edge of wireless networks to perform collaborative machine learning tasks using locally collected data, giving rise to the edge learning paradigm.

CB-DSL: Communication-efficient and Byzantine-robust Distributed Swarm Learning on Non-i.i.d. Data

no code implementations10 Aug 2022 Xin Fan, Yue Wang, Yan Huo, Zhi Tian

data issues and Byzantine attacks, global data samples are introduced in CB-DSL and shared among IoT workers, which not only alleviates the local data heterogeneity effectively but also enables to fully utilize the exploration-exploitation mechanism of swarm intelligence.

Two-Stream Networks for Object Segmentation in Videos

no code implementations8 Aug 2022 Hannan Lu, Zhi Tian, Lirong Yang, Haibing Ren, WangMeng Zuo

The compact instance stream effectively improves the segmentation accuracy of the unseen pixels, while fusing two streams with the adaptive routing map leads to an overall performance boost.

Object Retrieval +5

QC-ODKLA: Quantized and Communication-Censored Online Decentralized Kernel Learning via Linearized ADMM

no code implementations4 Aug 2022 Ping Xu, Yue Wang, Xiang Chen, Zhi Tian

We then propose a novel learning framework named Online Decentralized Kernel learning via Linearized ADMM (ODKLA) to efficiently solve the online decentralized kernel learning problem.

Quantization

Fully Convolutional One-Stage 3D Object Detection on LiDAR Range Images

no code implementations27 May 2022 Zhi Tian, Xiangxiang Chu, Xiaoming Wang, Xiaolin Wei, Chunhua Shen

In this work, we tackle this challenging issue with a novel range view projection mechanism, and for the first time demonstrate the benefits of fusing multi-frame point clouds for a range-view based detector.

3D Object Detection Autonomous Driving +2

Blind Orthogonal Least Squares based Compressive Spectrum Sensing

no code implementations11 Apr 2022 Liyang Lu, Wenbo Xu, Yue Wang, Zhi Tian

As an enabling technique of cognitive radio (CR), compressive spectrum sensing (CSS) based on compressive sensing (CS) can detect the spectrum opportunities from wide frequency bands efficiently and accurately by using sub-Nyquist sampling rate.

Compressive Sensing

Adaptive-Gravity: A Defense Against Adversarial Samples

no code implementations7 Apr 2022 Ali Mirzaeian, Zhi Tian, Sai Manoj P D, Banafsheh S. Latibari, Ioannis Savidis, Houman Homayoun, Avesta Sasan

We conceptualize the model parameters/features associated with each class as a mass characterized by its centroid location and the spread (standard deviation of the distance) of features around the centroid.

Fed2: Feature-Aligned Federated Learning

no code implementations28 Nov 2021 Fuxun Yu, Weishan Zhang, Zhuwei Qin, Zirui Xu, Di Wang, ChenChen Liu, Zhi Tian, Xiang Chen

Federated learning learns from scattered data by fusing collaborative models from local nodes.

Federated Learning

NAS-FCOS: Efficient Search for Object Detection Architectures

1 code implementation24 Oct 2021 Ning Wang, Yang Gao, Hao Chen, Peng Wang, Zhi Tian, Chunhua Shen, Yanning Zhang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potential in effectively reducing manual effort in network design by automatically discovering optimal architectures.

Neural Architecture Search Object +2

BEV-SGD: Best Effort Voting SGD for Analog Aggregation Based Federated Learning against Byzantine Attackers

no code implementations18 Oct 2021 Xin Fan, Yue Wang, Yan Huo, Zhi Tian

As a promising distributed learning technology, analog aggregation based federated learning over the air (FLOA) provides high communication efficiency and privacy provisioning under the edge computing paradigm.

Edge-computing Federated Learning

Dynamic Neural Representational Decoders for High-Resolution Semantic Segmentation

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 BoWen Zhang, Yifan Liu, Zhi Tian, Chunhua Shen

This neural representation enables our decoder to leverage the smoothness prior in the semantic label space, and thus makes our decoder more efficient.

Segmentation Semantic Segmentation +1

Twins: Revisiting the Design of Spatial Attention in Vision Transformers

8 code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Xiangxiang Chu, Zhi Tian, Yuqing Wang, Bo Zhang, Haibing Ren, Xiaolin Wei, Huaxia Xia, Chunhua Shen

Very recently, a variety of vision transformer architectures for dense prediction tasks have been proposed and they show that the design of spatial attention is critical to their success in these tasks.

Image Classification Semantic Segmentation

Joint Optimization of Communications and Federated Learning Over the Air

no code implementations8 Apr 2021 Xin Fan, Yue Wang, Yan Huo, Zhi Tian

Federated learning (FL) is an attractive paradigm for making use of rich distributed data while protecting data privacy.

Federated Learning

1-Bit Compressive Sensing for Efficient Federated Learning Over the Air

no code implementations30 Mar 2021 Xin Fan, Yue Wang, Yan Huo, Zhi Tian

For distributed learning among collaborative users, this paper develops and analyzes a communication-efficient scheme for federated learning (FL) over the air, which incorporates 1-bit compressive sensing (CS) into analog aggregation transmissions.

Compressive Sensing Dimensionality Reduction +3

TFPose: Direct Human Pose Estimation with Transformers

no code implementations29 Mar 2021 Weian Mao, Yongtao Ge, Chunhua Shen, Zhi Tian, Xinlong Wang, Zhibin Wang

We propose a human pose estimation framework that solves the task in the regression-based fashion.

Ranked #26 on Pose Estimation on MPII Human Pose (using extra training data)

Pose Estimation regression

Instance and Panoptic Segmentation Using Conditional Convolutions

no code implementations5 Feb 2021 Zhi Tian, BoWen Zhang, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen

In the literature, top-performing instance segmentation methods typically follow the paradigm of Mask R-CNN and rely on ROI operations (typically ROIAlign) to attend to each instance.

Instance Segmentation Panoptic Segmentation +1

Unifying Instance and Panoptic Segmentation with Dynamic Rank-1 Convolutions

no code implementations19 Nov 2020 Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen, Zhi Tian

To our knowledge, DR1Mask is the first panoptic segmentation framework that exploits a shared feature map for both instance and semantic segmentation by considering both efficacy and efficiency.

Instance Segmentation Multi-Task Learning +2

The Capacity of Multi-user Private Information Retrieval for Computationally Limited Databases

no code implementations18 Sep 2020 William Barnhart, Zhi Tian

This scheme is of particular significance when there is only one accessible database -- a special case that turns out to be more challenging for PIR in the multi-database case.

Information Retrieval Privacy Preserving +1

Heterogeneous Federated Learning

no code implementations15 Aug 2020 Fuxun Yu, Weishan Zhang, Zhuwei Qin, Zirui Xu, Di Wang, ChenChen Liu, Zhi Tian, Xiang Chen

Specifically, we design a feature-oriented regulation method ({$\Psi$-Net}) to ensure explicit feature information allocation in different neural network structures.

Federated Learning

Third-Order Statistics Reconstruction from Compressive Measurements

no code implementations30 Jul 2020 Yanbo Wang, Zhi Tian

Estimation of third-order statistics relies on the availability of a huge amount of data records, which can pose severe challenges on the data collecting hardware in terms of considerable storage costs, overwhelming energy consumption, and unaffordably high sampling rate especially when dealing with high-dimensional data such as wideband signals.

Compressive Sensing

FCOS: A simple and strong anchor-free object detector

no code implementations14 Jun 2020 Zhi Tian, Chunhua Shen, Hao Chen, Tong He

In computer vision, object detection is one of most important tasks, which underpins a few instance-level recognition tasks and many downstream applications.

Object Object Detection +1

Conditional Convolutions for Instance Segmentation

7 code implementations ECCV 2020 Zhi Tian, Chunhua Shen, Hao Chen

We propose a simple yet effective instance segmentation framework, termed CondInst (conditional convolutions for instance segmentation).

Instance Segmentation Segmentation +1

DiverseDepth: Affine-invariant Depth Prediction Using Diverse Data

2 code implementations3 Feb 2020 Wei Yin, Xinlong Wang, Chunhua Shen, Yifan Liu, Zhi Tian, Songcen Xu, Changming Sun, Dou Renyin

Compared with previous learning objectives, i. e., learning metric depth or relative depth, we propose to learn the affine-invariant depth using our diverse dataset to ensure both generalization and high-quality geometric shapes of scenes.

Depth Estimation Depth Prediction

COKE: Communication-Censored Decentralized Kernel Learning

no code implementations28 Jan 2020 Ping Xu, Yue Wang, Xiang Chen, Zhi Tian

This paper studies the decentralized optimization and learning problem where multiple interconnected agents aim to learn an optimal decision function defined over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space by jointly minimizing a global objective function, with access to their own locally observed dataset.

BlendMask: Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up for Instance Segmentation

9 code implementations CVPR 2020 Hao Chen, Kunyang Sun, Zhi Tian, Chunhua Shen, Yongming Huang, Youliang Yan

The proposed BlendMask can effectively predict dense per-pixel position-sensitive instance features with very few channels, and learn attention maps for each instance with merely one convolution layer, thus being fast in inference.

Real-time Instance Segmentation Segmentation +1

DirectPose: Direct End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation

8 code implementations18 Nov 2019 Zhi Tian, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen

We propose the first direct end-to-end multi-person pose estimation framework, termed DirectPose.

Multi-Person Pose Estimation

Convolutional Character Networks

1 code implementation ICCV 2019 Linjie Xing, Zhi Tian, Weilin Huang, Matthew R. Scott

We evaluate CharNet on three standard benchmarks, where it consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches [25, 24] by a large margin, e. g., with improvements of 65. 33%->71. 08% (with generic lexicon) on ICDAR 2015, and 54. 0%->69. 23% on Total-Text, on end-to-end text recognition.

Scene Text Detection Text Detection

Communication-Censored Linearized ADMM for Decentralized Consensus Optimization

no code implementations15 Sep 2019 Weiyu Li, Yaohua Liu, Zhi Tian, Qing Ling

COLA is proven to be convergent when the local cost functions have Lipschitz continuous gradients and the censoring threshold is summable.

CoLA

FCOS: Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detection

86 code implementations ICCV 2019 Zhi Tian, Chunhua Shen, Hao Chen, Tong He

By eliminating the predefined set of anchor boxes, FCOS completely avoids the complicated computation related to anchor boxes such as calculating overlapping during training.

Object Object Detection +2

Knowledge Adaptation for Efficient Semantic Segmentation

1 code implementation CVPR 2019 Tong He, Chunhua Shen, Zhi Tian, Dong Gong, Changming Sun, Youliang Yan

To tackle this dilemma, we propose a knowledge distillation method tailored for semantic segmentation to improve the performance of the compact FCNs with large overall stride.

Knowledge Distillation Segmentation +1

Decoders Matter for Semantic Segmentation: Data-Dependent Decoding Enables Flexible Feature Aggregation

no code implementations CVPR 2019 Zhi Tian, Tong He, Chunhua Shen, Youliang Yan

In this work, we propose a data-dependent upsampling (DUpsampling) to replace bilinear, which takes advantages of the redundancy in the label space of semantic segmentation and is able to recover the pixel-wise prediction from low-resolution outputs of CNNs.

Segmentation Semantic Segmentation

An end-to-end TextSpotter with Explicit Alignment and Attention

2 code implementations CVPR 2018 Tong He, Zhi Tian, Weilin Huang, Chunhua Shen, Yu Qiao, Changming Sun

This allows the two tasks to work collaboratively by shar- ing convolutional features, which is critical to identify challenging text instances.

Text Detection

Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network

27 code implementations12 Sep 2016 Zhi Tian, Weilin Huang, Tong He, Pan He, Yu Qiao

We propose a novel Connectionist Text Proposal Network (CTPN) that accurately localizes text lines in natural image.

Scene Text Detection

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