Search Results for author: Hao Wang

Found 523 papers, 170 papers with code

Parallelizing Support Vector Machines on Distributed Computers

no code implementations NeurIPS 2007 Kaihua Zhu, Hao Wang, Hongjie Bai, Jian Li, Zhihuan Qiu, Hang Cui, Edward Y. Chang

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) suffer from a widely recognized scalability problem in both memory use and computational time.

MPBART - Multinomial Probit Bayesian Additive Regression Trees

no code implementations30 Sep 2013 Bereket P. Kindo, Hao Wang, Edsel A. Peña

This article proposes Multinomial Probit Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (MPBART) as a multinomial probit extension of BART - Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (Chipman et al (2010)).

General Classification regression

Location Recommendation in Location-based Social Networks using User Check-in Data

1 code implementation1 Nov 2013 Hao Wang, Manolis Terrovitis, Nikos Mamoulis

The proposed algorithms outperform traditional recommendation algorithms and other approaches that try to exploit LBSN information.

Recommendation Systems

Collaborative Deep Learning for Recommender Systems

1 code implementation10 Sep 2014 Hao Wang, Naiyan Wang, Dit-yan Yeung

(CF-based) input and propose in this paper a hierarchical Bayesian model called collaborative deep learning (CDL), which jointly performs deep representation learning for the content information and collaborative filtering for the ratings (feedback) matrix.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems +1

Sentiment Expression via Emoticons on Social Media

no code implementations9 Nov 2015 Hao Wang, Jorge A. Castanon

The results confirms the arguments that: 1) a few emoticons are strong and reliable signals of sentiment polarity and one should take advantage of them in any senti- ment analysis; 2) a large group of the emoticons conveys com- plicated sentiment hence they should be treated with extreme caution.

Clustering Sentiment Analysis +1

A Survey on Bayesian Deep Learning

1 code implementation6 Apr 2016 Hao Wang, Dit-yan Yeung

The past decade has seen major advances in many perception tasks such as visual object recognition and speech recognition using deep learning models.

Object Recognition Recommendation Systems +3

Online Reconstruction of Indoor Scenes From RGB-D Streams

no code implementations CVPR 2016 Hao Wang, Jun Wang, Wang Liang

A system capable of performing robust online volumetric reconstruction of indoor scenes based on input from a handheld RGB-D camera is presented.

Bayesian quantile additive regression trees

1 code implementation10 Jul 2016 Bereket P. Kindo, Hao Wang, Timothy Hanson, Edsel A. Peña

Ensemble of regression trees have become popular statistical tools for the estimation of conditional mean given a set of predictors.

Binary Classification General Classification +1

Towards Bayesian Deep Learning: A Framework and Some Existing Methods

no code implementations24 Aug 2016 Hao Wang, Dit-yan Yeung

While perception tasks such as visual object recognition and text understanding play an important role in human intelligence, the subsequent tasks that involve inference, reasoning and planning require an even higher level of intelligence.

Object Recognition Recommendation Systems +1

Evolving the Structure of Evolution Strategies

no code implementations17 Oct 2016 Sander van Rijn, Hao Wang, Matthijs van Leeuwen, Thomas Bäck

Various variants of the well known Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) have been proposed recently, which improve the empirical performance of the original algorithm by structural modifications.

Natural-Parameter Networks: A Class of Probabilistic Neural Networks

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2016 Hao Wang, Xingjian Shi, Dit-yan Yeung

Another shortcoming of NN is the lack of flexibility to customize different distributions for the weights and neurons according to the data, as is often done in probabilistic graphical models.

Decision Making Under Uncertainty Link Prediction

Collaborative Recurrent Autoencoder: Recommend while Learning to Fill in the Blanks

no code implementations NeurIPS 2016 Hao Wang, Xingjian Shi, Dit-yan Yeung

To address this problem, we develop a collaborative recurrent autoencoder (CRAE) which is a denoising recurrent autoencoder (DRAE) that models the generation of content sequences in the collaborative filtering (CF) setting.

Collaborative Filtering Denoising +1

A Unified Framework for Community Detection and Network Representation Learning

no code implementations21 Nov 2016 Cunchao Tu, Xiangkai Zeng, Hao Wang, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Bo Zhang, Leyu Lin

Network representation learning (NRL) aims to learn low-dimensional vectors for vertices in a network.

Social and Information Networks Physics and Society

Combining fast\_align with Hierarchical Sub-sentential Alignment for Better Word Alignments

no code implementations WS 2016 Hao Wang, Yves Lepage

fast align is a simple and fast word alignment tool which is widely used in state-of-the-art machine translation systems.

Machine Translation Translation +1

Cluster-based Kriging Approximation Algorithms for Complexity Reduction

no code implementations4 Feb 2017 Bas van Stein, Hao Wang, Wojtek Kowalczyk, Michael Emmerich, Thomas Bäck

In addition, four Kriging approximation algorithms are proposed as candidate algorithms within the new framework.

regression

ZM-Net: Real-time Zero-shot Image Manipulation Network

no code implementations21 Mar 2017 Hao Wang, Xiaodan Liang, Hao Zhang, Dit-yan Yeung, Eric P. Xing

We cast this problem as manipulating an input image according to a parametric model whose key parameters can be conditionally generated from any guiding signal (even unseen ones).

Colorization Descriptive +2

Transfer of View-manifold Learning to Similarity Perception of Novel Objects

no code implementations31 Mar 2017 Xingyu Lin, Hao Wang, Zhihao LI, Yimeng Zhang, Alan Yuille, Tai Sing Lee

We develop a model of perceptual similarity judgment based on re-training a deep convolution neural network (DCNN) that learns to associate different views of each 3D object to capture the notion of object persistence and continuity in our visual experience.

Metric Learning Object

Crowdsourcing Argumentation Structures in Chinese Hotel Reviews

no code implementations5 May 2017 Mengxue Li, Shiqiang Geng, Yang Gao, Haijing Liu, Hao Wang

Argumentation mining aims at automatically extracting the premises-claim discourse structures in natural language texts.

Joint RNN Model for Argument Component Boundary Detection

1 code implementation5 May 2017 Minglan Li, Yang Gao, Hui Wen, Yang Du, Haijing Liu, Hao Wang

Argument Component Boundary Detection (ACBD) is an important sub-task in argumentation mining; it aims at identifying the word sequences that constitute argument components, and is usually considered as the first sub-task in the argumentation mining pipeline.

Boundary Detection Feature Engineering +1

ResumeVis: A Visual Analytics System to Discover Semantic Information in Semi-structured Resume Data

no code implementations15 May 2017 Chen Zhang, Hao Wang, Yingcai Wu

Then, a set of visualizations are devised to represent the semantic information in multiple perspectives.

Learning Robust Object Recognition Using Composed Scenes from Generative Models

no code implementations22 May 2017 Hao Wang, Xingyu Lin, Yimeng Zhang, Tai Sing Lee

Trained on imagined occluded scenarios under the object persistence constraint, our network discovered more subtle and localized image features that were neglected by the original network for object classification, obtaining better separability of different object classes in the feature space.

Object Object Recognition

Dual Based DSP Bidding Strategy and its Application

no code implementations26 May 2017 Huahui Liu, Mingrui Zhu, Xiaonan Meng, Yi Hu, Hao Wang

In recent years, RTB(Real Time Bidding) becomes a popular online advertisement trading method.

Face R-CNN

no code implementations4 Jun 2017 Hao Wang, Zhifeng Li, Xing Ji, Yitong Wang

Faster R-CNN is one of the most representative and successful methods for object detection, and has been becoming increasingly popular in various objection detection applications.

Face Detection object-detection +1

Real-Time Neural Style Transfer for Videos

no code implementations CVPR 2017 Hao-Zhi Huang, Hao Wang, Wenhan Luo, Lin Ma, Wenhao Jiang, Xiaolong Zhu, Zhifeng Li, Wei Liu

More specifically, a hybrid loss is proposed to capitalize on the content information of input frames, the style information of a given style image, and the temporal information of consecutive frames.

Style Transfer Video Style Transfer

A Transition-based System for Universal Dependency Parsing

no code implementations CONLL 2017 Hao Wang, Hai Zhao, Zhisong Zhang

This paper describes the system for our participation in the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies.

Transfer Learning Transition-Based Dependency Parsing

Exploit imaging through opaque wall via deep learning

no code implementations9 Aug 2017 Meng Lyu, Hao Wang, Guowei Li, Guohai Situ

Imaging through scattering media is encountered in many disciplines or sciences, ranging from biology, mesescopic physics and astronomy.

Astronomy

Detecting Faces Using Inside Cascaded Contextual CNN

no code implementations ICCV 2017 Kaipeng Zhang, Zhanpeng Zhang, Hao Wang, Zhifeng Li, Yu Qiao, Wei Liu

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve substantial improvements in face detection in the wild.

Face Detection

Privacy with Estimation Guarantees

no code implementations2 Oct 2017 Hao Wang, Lisa Vo, Flavio P. Calmon, Muriel Médard, Ken R. Duffy, Mayank Varia

Here, an analyst is allowed to reconstruct (in a mean-squared error sense) certain functions of the data (utility), while other private functions should not be reconstructed with distortion below a certain threshold (privacy).

Robust and Precise Vehicle Localization based on Multi-sensor Fusion in Diverse City Scenes

no code implementations15 Nov 2017 Guowei Wan, Xiaolong Yang, Renlan Cai, Hao Li, Hao Wang, Shiyu Song

We present a robust and precise localization system that achieves centimeter-level localization accuracy in disparate city scenes.

Autonomous Driving Sensor Fusion

Fast BTG-Forest-Based Hierarchical Sub-sentential Alignment

no code implementations20 Nov 2017 Hao Wang, Yves Lepage

In this paper, we propose a novel BTG-forest-based alignment method.

Translation

Parameter-free $\ell_p$-Box Decoding of LDPC Codes

1 code implementation29 Nov 2017 Qiong Wu, Fan Zhang, Hao Wang, Jun Lin, Yang Liu

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) decoding of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes has received many attentions due to its excellent performance at the error floor region.

Information Theory Information Theory

On the Direction of Discrimination: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Disparate Impact in Machine Learning

no code implementations16 Jan 2018 Hao Wang, Berk Ustun, Flavio P. Calmon

In the context of machine learning, disparate impact refers to a form of systematic discrimination whereby the output distribution of a model depends on the value of a sensitive attribute (e. g., race or gender).

Attribute BIG-bench Machine Learning +1

Budget Constrained Bidding by Model-free Reinforcement Learning in Display Advertising

no code implementations23 Feb 2018 Di Wu, Xiujun Chen, Xun Yang, Hao Wang, Qing Tan, Xiaoxun Zhang, Jian Xu, Kun Gai

Our analysis shows that the immediate reward from environment is misleading under a critical resource constraint.

Marketing reinforcement-learning +1

Multi-scale Location-aware Kernel Representation for Object Detection

2 code implementations CVPR 2018 Hao Wang, Qilong Wang, Mingqi Gao, Peihua Li, WangMeng Zuo

Our MLKP can be efficiently computed on a modified multi-scale feature map using a low-dimensional polynomial kernel approximation. Moreover, different from existing orderless global representations based on high-order statistics, our proposed MLKP is location retentive and sensitive so that it can be flexibly adopted to object detection.

General Classification Object +2

l0-norm Based Centers Selection for Training Fault Tolerant RBF Networks and Selecting Centers

no code implementations30 May 2018 Hao Wang, Chi-Sing Leung, Hing Cheung So, Ruibin Feng, Zifa Han

The aim of this paper is to train an RBF neural network and select centers under concurrent faults.

Fast L1-Minimization Algorithm for Sparse Approximation Based on an Improved LPNN-LCA framework

no code implementations30 May 2018 Hao Wang, Ruibin Feng, Chi-Sing Leung

Simulation results show that the proposed sparse approximation method has the real-time solutions with satisfactory MSEs.

A Neural Question Answering Model Based on Semi-Structured Tables

no code implementations COLING 2018 Hao Wang, Xiaodong Zhang, Shuming Ma, Xu sun, Houfeng Wang, Mengxiang Wang

Then the system measures the relevance between each question and candidate table cells, and choose the most related cell as the source of answer.

Knowledge Graphs Multiple-choice +1

Towards a Theory-Guided Benchmarking Suite for Discrete Black-Box Optimization Heuristics: Profiling $(1+λ)$ EA Variants on OneMax and LeadingOnes

no code implementations17 Aug 2018 Carola Doerr, Furong Ye, Sander van Rijn, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck

Marking an important step towards filling this gap, we adjust the COCO software to pseudo-Boolean optimization problems, and obtain from this a benchmarking environment that allows a fine-grained empirical analysis of discrete black-box heuristics.

Benchmarking Evolutionary Algorithms

Deep Inferential Spatial-Temporal Network for Forecasting Air Pollution Concentrations

no code implementations11 Sep 2018 Hao Wang, Bojin Zhuang, Yang Chen, Ni Li, Dongxia Wei

Air pollution poses a serious threat to human health as well as economic development around the world.

IntelligentCrowd: Mobile Crowdsensing via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations20 Sep 2018 Yize Chen, Hao Wang

The prosperity of smart mobile devices has made mobile crowdsensing (MCS) a promising paradigm for completing complex sensing and computation tasks.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1

Automatic Configuration of Deep Neural Networks with EGO

1 code implementation10 Oct 2018 Bas van Stein, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck

In this paper an Efficient Global Optimization (EGO) algorithm is adapted to automatically optimize and configure convolutional neural network architectures.

Data Augmentation Image Classification

IOHprofiler: A Benchmarking and Profiling Tool for Iterative Optimization Heuristics

5 code implementations11 Oct 2018 Carola Doerr, Hao Wang, Furong Ye, Sander van Rijn, Thomas Bäck

Given as input algorithms and problems written in C or Python, it provides as output a statistical evaluation of the algorithms' performance by means of the distribution on the fixed-target running time and the fixed-budget function values.

Benchmarking

Orthogonal Deep Features Decomposition for Age-Invariant Face Recognition

no code implementations ECCV 2018 Yitong Wang, Dihong Gong, Zheng Zhou, Xing Ji, Hao Wang, Zhifeng Li, Wei Liu, Tong Zhang

Extensive experiments conducted on the three public domain face aging datasets (MORPH Album 2, CACD-VS and FG-NET) have shown the effectiveness of the proposed approach and the value of the constructed CAF dataset on AIFR.

Age-Invariant Face Recognition Benchmarking +1

Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Sparse Optimization via Adaptively Iterative Reweighted Methods

no code implementations24 Oct 2018 Hao Wang, Fan Zhang, Yuanming Shi, Yaohua Hu

We propose a general formulation of nonconvex and nonsmooth sparse optimization problems with convex set constraint, which can take into account most existing types of nonconvex sparsity-inducing terms, bringing strong applicability to a wide range of applications.

A Hardware Friendly Unsupervised Memristive Neural Network with Weight Sharing Mechanism

no code implementations1 Jan 2019 Zhiri Tang, Ruohua Zhu, Peng Lin, Jin He, Hao Wang, Qijun Huang, Sheng Chang, Qiming Ma

Memristive neural networks (MNNs), which use memristors as neurons or synapses, have become a hot research topic recently.

Repairing without Retraining: Avoiding Disparate Impact with Counterfactual Distributions

1 code implementation29 Jan 2019 Hao Wang, Berk Ustun, Flavio P. Calmon

When the performance of a machine learning model varies over groups defined by sensitive attributes (e. g., gender or ethnicity), the performance disparity can be expressed in terms of the probability distributions of the input and output variables over each group.

counterfactual Fairness

Bidirectional Inference Networks: A Class of Deep Bayesian Networks for Health Profiling

no code implementations6 Feb 2019 Hao Wang, Chengzhi Mao, Hao He, Ming-Min Zhao, Tommi S. Jaakkola, Dina Katabi

We consider the problem of inferring the values of an arbitrary set of variables (e. g., risk of diseases) given other observed variables (e. g., symptoms and diagnosed diseases) and high-dimensional signals (e. g., MRI images or EEG).

Computational Efficiency EEG +2

Stacked Semantic-Guided Network for Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval

no code implementations3 Apr 2019 Hao Wang, Cheng Deng, Xinxu Xu, Wei Liu, Xinbo Gao, DaCheng Tao

Previous works mostly focus on a generative approach that takes a highly abstract and sparse sketch as input and then synthesizes the corresponding natural image.

Decoder Retrieval +2

Decorrelated Adversarial Learning for Age-Invariant Face Recognition

1 code implementation CVPR 2019 Hao Wang, Dihong Gong, Zhifeng Li, Wei Liu

To reduce such a discrepancy, in this paper we propose a novel algorithm to remove age-related components from features mixed with both identity and age information.

Age-Invariant Face Recognition MORPH

Fully Memristive Neural Network Merging Image Preprocessing and Pattern Recognition

no code implementations28 Apr 2019 Zhiri Tang, Yan-Hua Chen, Ruohua Zhu, Hao Wang, Jin He, Qijun Huang, Sheng Chang

With the development of research on novel memristor model and device, fully memristive neural networks have become a hot research topic recently.

Emerging Technologies

ProbGAN: Towards Probabilistic GAN with Theoretical Guarantees

1 code implementation ICLR 2019 Hao He, Hao Wang, Guang-He Lee, Yonglong Tian

Probabilistic modelling is a principled framework to perform model aggregation, which has been a primary mechanism to combat mode collapse in the context of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN).

Image Generation

AI-Powered Text Generation for Harmonious Human-Machine Interaction: Current State and Future Directions

no code implementations1 May 2019 Qiuyun Zhang, Bin Guo, Hao Wang, Yunji Liang, Shaoyang Hao, Zhiwen Yu

In the last two decades, the landscape of text generation has undergone tremendous changes and is being reshaped by the success of deep learning.

Text Generation

Learning Cross-Modal Embeddings with Adversarial Networks for Cooking Recipes and Food Images

2 code implementations CVPR 2019 Hao Wang, Doyen Sahoo, Chenghao Liu, Ee-Peng Lim, Steven C. H. Hoi

Food computing is playing an increasingly important role in human daily life, and has found tremendous applications in guiding human behavior towards smart food consumption and healthy lifestyle.

Cross-Modal Retrieval Nutrition +2

Semantic Adversarial Network for Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval

no code implementations7 May 2019 Xinxun Xu, Hao Wang, Leida Li, Cheng Deng

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a specific cross-modal retrieval task for retrieving natural images with free-hand sketches under zero-shot scenario.

Cross-Modal Retrieval Retrieval +1

WPU-Net: Boundary Learning by Using Weighted Propagation in Convolution Network

1 code implementation22 May 2019 Boyuan Ma, Chuni Liu, Xiaojuan Ban, Hao Wang, Weihua Xue, Haiyou Huang

In this work, we propose WPU-net that redesigns the architecture and weighted loss of U-Net, which forces the network to integrate information from adjacent slices and pays more attention to the topology in boundary detection task.

Boundary Detection Object Tracking

MCNE: An End-to-End Framework for Learning Multiple Conditional Network Representations of Social Network

no code implementations27 May 2019 Hao Wang, Tong Xu, Qi Liu, Defu Lian, Enhong Chen, Dongfang Du, Han Wu, Wen Su

Recently, the Network Representation Learning (NRL) techniques, which represent graph structure via low-dimension vectors to support social-oriented application, have attracted wide attention.

Multi-Task Learning Representation Learning

Spectral Perturbation Meets Incomplete Multi-view Data

no code implementations31 May 2019 Hao Wang, Linlin Zong, Bing Liu, Yan Yang, Wei Zhou

In this work, we show a strong link between perturbation risk bounds and incomplete multi-view clustering.

Clustering Incomplete multi-view clustering +1

Data Augmentation for Object Detection via Progressive and Selective Instance-Switching

1 code implementation2 Jun 2019 Hao Wang, Qilong Wang, Fan Yang, Weiqi Zhang, WangMeng Zuo

For guiding our IS to obtain better object performance, we explore issues of instance imbalance and class importance in datasets, which frequently occur and bring adverse effect on detection performance.

Data Augmentation Instance Segmentation +2

Forward and Backward Knowledge Transfer for Sentiment Classification

no code implementations8 Jun 2019 Hao Wang, Bing Liu, Shuai Wang, Nianzu Ma, Yan Yang

That is, it is possible to improve the NB classifier for a task by improving its model parameters directly by using the retained knowledge from other tasks.

Classification General Classification +3

Confluent-Drawing Parallel Coordinates: Web-Based Interactive Visual Analytics of Large Multi-Dimensional Data

no code implementations14 Jun 2019 Wenqiang Cui, Girts Strazdins, Hao Wang

In this paper, we propose a confluent drawing approach of parallel coordinates to support the web-based interactive visual analytics of large multi-dimensional data.

Clustering

Virtual Energy Storage Sharing and Capacity Allocation

no code implementations3 Jul 2019 Dongwei Zhao, Hao Wang, Jianwei Huang, Xiaojun Lin

In our simulation results, the proposed storage virtualization model can reduce the physical energy storage investment of the aggregator by 54. 3% and reduce the users' total costs by 34. 7%, compared to the case where users acquire their own physical storage.

energy management Management

Semi-supervised representation learning via dual autoencoders for domain adaptation

1 code implementation4 Aug 2019 Shuai Yang, Hao Wang, Yuhong Zhang, Pei-Pei Li, Yi Zhu, Xuegang Hu

Domain adaptation aims to exploit the knowledge in source domain to promote the learning tasks in target domain, which plays a critical role in real-world applications.

Denoising Representation Learning +1

Learning with Noisy Labels for Sentence-level Sentiment Classification

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Hao Wang, Bing Liu, Chaozhuo Li, Yan Yang, Tianrui Li

We propose a novel DNN model called NetAb (as shorthand for convolutional neural Networks with Ab-networks) to handle noisy labels during training.

Classification General Classification +4

Big Data Analytics for Manufacturing Internet of Things: Opportunities, Challenges and Enabling Technologies

no code implementations1 Sep 2019 Hong-Ning Dai, Hao Wang, Guangquan Xu, Jiafu Wan, Muhammad Imran

The recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have promoted the evolution of conventional computer-aided manufacturing industry to smart data-driven manufacturing.

Big Data Analytics for Large Scale Wireless Networks: Challenges and Opportunities

no code implementations2 Sep 2019 Hong-Ning Dai, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Hao Wang, Zibin Zheng, Athanasios V. Vasilakos

We then present a detailed survey of the technical solutions to the challenges in BDA for large scale wireless networks according to each stage in the life cycle of BDA.

Conditional Text Generation for Harmonious Human-Machine Interaction

no code implementations8 Sep 2019 Bin Guo, Hao Wang, Yasan Ding, Wei Wu, Shaoyang Hao, Yueqi Sun, Zhiwen Yu

In recent years, with the development of deep learning, text generation technology has undergone great changes and provided many kinds of services for human beings, such as restaurant reservation and daily communication.

Conditional Text Generation

Detection of fraudulent users in P2P financial market

no code implementations24 Sep 2019 Hao Wang

In this paper we illustrate how we tackle the fraud detection problem at HC Financial.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Fraud Detection

DG-GAN: the GAN with the duality gap

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 Cheng Peng, Hao Wang, Xiao Wang, Zhouwang Yang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful, but difficult to understand and train because GANs is a min-max problem.

Training-Free Uncertainty Estimation for Dense Regression: Sensitivity as a Surrogate

no code implementations28 Sep 2019 Lu Mi, Hao Wang, Yonglong Tian, Hao He, Nir Shavit

Uncertainty estimation is an essential step in the evaluation of the robustness for deep learning models in computer vision, especially when applied in risk-sensitive areas.

regression

Optimal Delivery with Budget Constraint in E-Commerce Advertising

no code implementations29 Sep 2019 Chao Wei, Weiru Zhang, Shengjie Sun, Fei Li, Xiaonan Meng, Yi Hu, Hao Wang

Online advertising in E-commerce platforms provides sellers an opportunity to achieve potential audiences with different target goals.

Towards Efficient Local Causal Structure Learning

1 code implementation3 Oct 2019 Shuai Yang, Hao Wang, Kui Yu, Fuyuan Cao, Xindong Wu

To tackle this issue, we propose a novel Efficient Local Causal Structure learning algorithm, named ELCS.

Causal Discovery

FIS-GAN: GAN with Flow-based Importance Sampling

no code implementations6 Oct 2019 Shiyu Yi, Donglin Zhan, Wenqing Zhang, Denglin Jiang, Kang An, Hao Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) training process, in most cases, apply Uniform or Gaussian sampling methods in the latent space, which probably spends most of the computation on examples that can be properly handled and easy to generate.

Density Estimation Stochastic Optimization

Joint Hölder continuity of local time for a class of interacting branching measure valued diffusions

no code implementations7 Oct 2019 Donald Andrew Dawson, Jean Vaillancourt, Hao Wang

Using a Tanaka representation of the local time for a class of superprocesses with dependent spatial motion, as well as sharp estimates from the theory of uniformly parabolic partial differential equations, the joint H\"older continuity in time and space of said local times is obtained in two and three dimensional Euclidean space.

Probability Primary 60J68, 60J80, Secondary 60H15, 60K35, 60K37

Spatial Information Inference Net: Road Extraction Using Road-Specific Contextual Information

1 code implementation ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2019 Chao Tao, Ji Qi, Yansheng Li, Hao Wang, Haifeng Li

The validation experiments using three large datasets of very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery show that the proposed method can improve road extraction accuracy and provide an output that is more in line with human expectations.

Road Segmentation Segmentation

Causality-based Feature Selection: Methods and Evaluations

1 code implementation17 Nov 2019 Kui Yu, Xianjie Guo, Lin Liu, Jiuyong Li, Hao Wang, Zhaolong Ling, Xindong Wu

It has been shown that the knowledge about the causal relationships between features and the class variable has potential benefits for building interpretable and robust prediction models, since causal relationships imply the underlying mechanism of a system.

feature selection

Inexact Primal-Dual Gradient Projection Methods for Nonlinear Optimization on Convex Set

no code implementations18 Nov 2019 Fan Zhang, Hao Wang, Jiashan Wang, Kai Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel primal-dual inexact gradient projection method for nonlinear optimization problems with convex-set constraint.

All You Need Is Boundary: Toward Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting

no code implementations21 Nov 2019 Hao Wang, Pu Lu, HUI ZHANG, Mingkun Yang, Xiang Bai, Yongchao Xu, Mengchao He, Yongpan Wang, Wenyu Liu

Recently, end-to-end text spotting that aims to detect and recognize text from cluttered images simultaneously has received particularly growing interest in computer vision.

Instance Segmentation Scene Text Detection +3

Chinese Spelling Error Detection Using a Fusion Lattice LSTM

no code implementations25 Nov 2019 Hao Wang, Bing Wang, Jianyong Duan, Jiajun Zhang

Spelling error detection serves as a crucial preprocessing in many natural language processing applications.

Relating lp regularization and reweighted l1 regularization

no code implementations2 Dec 2019 Hao Wang, Hao Zeng, Jiashan Wang

We propose a general framework of iteratively reweighted l1 methods for solving lp regularization problems.

Enhancing Relation Extraction Using Syntactic Indicators and Sentential Contexts

1 code implementation4 Dec 2019 Qiongxing Tao, Xiangfeng Luo, Hao Wang

To leverage both syntactic indicators and sentential contexts, we propose an indicator-aware approach for relation extraction.

Relation Relation Extraction +1

Sequential vs. Integrated Algorithm Selection and Configuration: A Case Study for the Modular CMA-ES

no code implementations12 Dec 2019 Diederick Vermetten, Hao Wang, Carola Doerr, Thomas Bäck

In this work we compare sequential and integrated algorithm selection and configuration approaches for the case of selecting and tuning the best out of 4608 variants of the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) tested on the Black Box Optimization Benchmark (BBOB) suite.

Hyperparameter Optimization

Benchmarking Discrete Optimization Heuristics with IOHprofiler

no code implementations19 Dec 2019 Carola Doerr, Furong Ye, Naama Horesh, Hao Wang, Ofer M. Shir, Thomas Bäck

Automated benchmarking environments aim to support researchers in understanding how different algorithms perform on different types of optimization problems.

Benchmarking

Causal Discovery from Incomplete Data: A Deep Learning Approach

no code implementations15 Jan 2020 Yuhao Wang, Vlado Menkovski, Hao Wang, Xin Du, Mykola Pechenizkiy

As systems are getting more autonomous with the development of artificial intelligence, it is important to discover the causal knowledge from observational sensory inputs.

Causal Discovery Imputation

To Split or Not to Split: The Impact of Disparate Treatment in Classification

no code implementations12 Feb 2020 Hao Wang, Hsiang Hsu, Mario Diaz, Flavio P. Calmon

To evaluate the effect of disparate treatment, we compare the performance of split classifiers (i. e., classifiers trained and deployed separately on each group) with group-blind classifiers (i. e., classifiers which do not use a sensitive attribute).

Attribute General Classification

Sparse Optimization for Green Edge AI Inference

no code implementations24 Feb 2020 Xiangyu Yang, Sheng Hua, Yuanming Shi, Hao Wang, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief

By exploiting the inherent connections between the set of task selection and group sparsity structural transmit beamforming vector, we reformulate the optimization as a group sparse beamforming problem.

Combinatorial Optimization Edge-computing

Towards information-rich, logical text generation with knowledge-enhanced neural models

no code implementations2 Mar 2020 Hao Wang, Bin Guo, Wei Wu, Zhiwen Yu

Text generation system has made massive promising progress contributed by deep learning techniques and has been widely applied in our life.

Text Generation

Cross-Modal Food Retrieval: Learning a Joint Embedding of Food Images and Recipes with Semantic Consistency and Attention Mechanism

no code implementations9 Mar 2020 Hao Wang, Doyen Sahoo, Chenghao Liu, Ke Shu, Palakorn Achananuparp, Ee-Peng Lim, Steven C. H. Hoi

Food retrieval is an important task to perform analysis of food-related information, where we are interested in retrieving relevant information about the queried food item such as ingredients, cooking instructions, etc.

Cross-Modal Retrieval Retrieval

Progressive Domain-Independent Feature Decomposition Network for Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval

no code implementations22 Mar 2020 Xinxun Xu, Muli Yang, Yanhua Yang, Hao Wang

Specifically, with the supervision of original semantic knowledge, PDFD decomposes visual features into domain features and semantic ones, and then the semantic features are projected into common space as retrieval features for ZS-SBIR.

Cross-Modal Retrieval Retrieval +1

Secret Sharing based Secure Regressions with Applications

no code implementations10 Apr 2020 Chaochao Chen, Liang Li, Wenjing Fang, Jun Zhou, Li Wang, Lei Wang, Shuang Yang, Alex Liu, Hao Wang

Nowadays, the utilization of the ever expanding amount of data has made a huge impact on web technologies while also causing various types of security concerns.

regression

Towards Persona-Based Empathetic Conversational Models

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Peixiang Zhong, Chen Zhang, Hao Wang, Yong liu, Chunyan Miao

To this end, we propose a new task towards persona-based empathetic conversations and present the first empirical study on the impact of persona on empathetic responding.

Benchmarking a $(μ+λ)$ Genetic Algorithm with Configurable Crossover Probability

no code implementations10 Jun 2020 Furong Ye, Hao Wang, Carola Doerr, Thomas Bäck

Moreover, we observe that the ``fast'' mutation scheme with its are power-law distributed mutation strengths outperforms standard bit mutation on complex optimization tasks when it is combined with crossover, but performs worse in the absence of crossover.

Benchmarking

Towards Dynamic Algorithm Selection for Numerical Black-Box Optimization: Investigating BBOB as a Use Case

1 code implementation11 Jun 2020 Diederick Vermetten, Hao Wang, Carola Doerr, Thomas Bäck

One of the most challenging problems in evolutionary computation is to select from its family of diverse solvers one that performs well on a given problem.

A Modular Hybridization of Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution

1 code implementation21 Jun 2020 Rick Boks, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck

In swarm intelligence, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Differential Evolution (DE) have been successfully applied in many optimization tasks, and a large number of variants, where novel algorithm operators or components are implemented, has been introduced to boost the empirical performance.

Continuously Index Domain Adaptation

1 code implementation ICML 2020 Hao Wang, Hao He, Dina Katabi

Our empirical results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art domain adaption methods on both synthetic and real-world medical datasets.

Continuously Indexed Domain Adaptation

High Dimensional Bayesian Optimization Assisted by Principal Component Analysis

1 code implementation2 Jul 2020 Elena Raponi, Hao Wang, Mariusz Bujny, Simonetta Boria, Carola Doerr

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a surrogate-assisted global optimization technique that has been successfully applied in various fields, e. g., automated machine learning and design optimization.

Bayesian Optimization Computational Efficiency +2

Continuously Indexed Domain Adaptation

1 code implementation ICML 2020 Hao Wang, Hao He, Dina Katabi

Our empirical results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art domain adaption methods on both synthetic and real-world medical datasets.

Continuously Indexed Domain Adaptation

Task-agnostic Temporally Consistent Facial Video Editing

no code implementations3 Jul 2020 Meng Cao, Hao-Zhi Huang, Hao Wang, Xuan Wang, Li Shen, Sheng Wang, Linchao Bao, Zhifeng Li, Jiebo Luo

Compared with the state-of-the-art facial image editing methods, our framework generates video portraits that are more photo-realistic and temporally smooth.

3D Reconstruction Video Editing

Deep Graph Random Process for Relational-Thinking-Based Speech Recognition

no code implementations ICML 2020 Hengguan Huang, Fuzhao Xue, Hao Wang, Ye Wang

Lying at the core of human intelligence, relational thinking is characterized by initially relying on innumerable unconscious percepts pertaining to relations between new sensory signals and prior knowledge, consequently becoming a recognizable concept or object through coupling and transformation of these percepts.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

ASGN: An Active Semi-supervised Graph Neural Network for Molecular Property Prediction

1 code implementation7 Jul 2020 Zhongkai Hao, Chengqiang Lu, Zheyuan Hu, Hao Wang, Zhenya Huang, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen, Cheekong Lee

Here we propose a novel framework called Active Semi-supervised Graph Neural Network (ASGN) by incorporating both labeled and unlabeled molecules.

Active Learning Molecular Property Prediction +1

IOHanalyzer: Detailed Performance Analyses for Iterative Optimization Heuristics

3 code implementations8 Jul 2020 Hao Wang, Diederick Vermetten, Furong Ye, Carola Doerr, Thomas Bäck

An R programming interface is provided for users preferring to have a finer control over the implemented functionalities.

Bayesian Optimization Benchmarking +1

Decomposing Generation Networks with Structure Prediction for Recipe Generation

no code implementations27 Jul 2020 Hao Wang, Guosheng Lin, Steven C. H. Hoi, Chunyan Miao

Recipe generation from food images and ingredients is a challenging task, which requires the interpretation of the information from another modality.

Image Captioning Recipe Generation +1

Learning-based Computer-aided Prescription Model for Parkinson's Disease: A Data-driven Perspective

no code implementations31 Jul 2020 Yinghuan Shi, Wanqi Yang, Kim-Han Thung, Hao Wang, Yang Gao, Yang Pan, Li Zhang, Dinggang Shen

Then, we build a novel computer-aided prescription model by learning the relation between observed symptoms and prescription drug.

Domain-specific Communication Optimization for Distributed DNN Training

no code implementations16 Aug 2020 Hao Wang, Jingrong Chen, Xinchen Wan, Han Tian, Jiacheng Xia, Gaoxiong Zeng, Weiyan Wang, Kai Chen, Wei Bai, Junchen Jiang

Communication overhead poses an important obstacle to distributed DNN training and draws increasing attention in recent years.

Scheduling

When Homomorphic Encryption Marries Secret Sharing: Secure Large-Scale Sparse Logistic Regression and Applications in Risk Control

no code implementations20 Aug 2020 Chaochao Chen, Jun Zhou, Li Wang, Xibin Wu, Wenjing Fang, Jin Tan, Lei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Hao Wang, Cheng Hong

In this paper, we first present CAESAR, which combines HE and SS to build secure large-scale sparse logistic regression model and achieves both efficiency and security.

regression

Structure-Aware Generation Network for Recipe Generation from Images

1 code implementation ECCV 2020 Hao Wang, Guosheng Lin, Steven C. H. Hoi, Chunyan Miao

We investigate an open research task of generating cooking instructions based on only food images and ingredients, which is similar to the image captioning task.

Image Captioning Recipe Generation +1

Detection Defense Against Adversarial Attacks with Saliency Map

no code implementations6 Sep 2020 Dengpan Ye, Chuanxi Chen, Changrui Liu, Hao Wang, Shunzhi Jiang

Our experimental results of some representative adversarial attacks on common datasets including ImageNet and popular models show that our method can detect all the attacks with high detection success rate effectively.

Contract-based Time-of-use Pricing for Energy Storage Investment

no code implementations26 Sep 2020 Dongwei Zhao, Hao Wang, Jianwei Huang, Xiaojun Lin

We also show that the proposed contracts can reduce the system social cost by over 30%, compared with no storage investment benchmark.

Systems and Control Systems and Control

Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification with Self-Supervised Paradigm under Limited Labeled Samples

no code implementations2 Oct 2020 Chao Tao, Ji Qi, Weipeng Lu, Hao Wang, Haifeng Li

With the development of deep learning, supervised learning methods perform well in remote sensing images (RSIs) scene classification.

Classification General Classification +2

Towards Natural Bilingual and Code-Switched Speech Synthesis Based on Mix of Monolingual Recordings and Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion

1 code implementation16 Oct 2020 Shengkui Zhao, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Hao Wang, Bin Ma

With these data, three neural TTS models -- Tacotron2, Transformer and FastSpeech are applied for building bilingual and code-switched TTS.

Speech Synthesis Voice Conversion

COSEA: Convolutional Code Search with Layer-wise Attention

no code implementations19 Oct 2020 Hao Wang, Jia Zhang, Yingce Xia, Jiang Bian, Chao Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu

However, most existing studies overlook the code's intrinsic structural logic, which indeed contains a wealth of semantic information, and fails to capture intrinsic features of codes.

Code Search

Cooperative Energy Management of HVAC via Transactive Energy

no code implementations26 Oct 2020 Qing Yang, Hao Wang

However, how to scale up HVAC energy management for a group of users while persevering users' privacy remains a big challenge.

energy trading Management +1

Activity Detection And Modeling Using Smart Meter Data: Concept And Case Studies

no code implementations26 Oct 2020 Hao Wang, Gonzague Henri, Chin-Woo Tan, Ram Rajagopal

Electricity consumed by residential consumers counts for a significant part of global electricity consumption and utility companies can collect high-resolution load data thanks to the widely deployed advanced metering infrastructure.

Action Detection Activity Detection

Neural Network Design: Learning from Neural Architecture Search

1 code implementation1 Nov 2020 Bas van Stein, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to optimize deep neural networks' architecture for better accuracy or smaller computational cost and has recently gained more research interests.

Benchmarking Image Classification +1

MatRec: Matrix Factorization for Highly Skewed Dataset

no code implementations9 Nov 2020 Hao Wang, Bing Ruan

Recommender systems is one of the most successful AI technologies applied in the internet cooperations.

Learning-To-Rank Recommendation Systems

Learning causal representations for robust domain adaptation

no code implementations12 Nov 2020 Shuai Yang, Kui Yu, Fuyuan Cao, Lin Liu, Hao Wang, Jiuyong Li

In this paper, we study the cases where at the training phase the target domain data is unavailable and only well-labeled source domain data is available, called robust domain adaptation.

Domain Adaptation

Face Forgery Detection by 3D Decomposition

no code implementations CVPR 2021 Xiangyu Zhu, Hao Wang, Hongyan Fei, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li

Detecting digital face manipulation has attracted extensive attention due to fake media's potential harms to the public.

Argumentation Mining on Essays at Multi Scales

no code implementations COLING 2020 Hao Wang, Zhen Huang, Yong Dou, Yu Hong

Recent research mainly models the task as a sequence tagging problem and deal with all the argumentation components at word level.

On Statistical Analysis of MOEAs with Multiple Performance Indicators

1 code implementation1 Dec 2020 Hao Wang, Carlos Igncio Hernández Castellanos, Tome Eftimov

Assessing the empirical performance of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) is vital when we extensively test a set of MOEAs and aim to determine a proper ranking thereof.

Evolutionary Algorithms

Learning Spatial Attention for Face Super-Resolution

1 code implementation2 Dec 2020 Chaofeng Chen, Dihong Gong, Hao Wang, Zhifeng Li, Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Visualization of the attention maps shows that our spatial attention network can capture the key face structures well even for very low resolution faces (e. g., $16\times16$).

Face Parsing Image Super-Resolution +2

Federated Learning for Personalized Humor Recognition

no code implementations3 Dec 2020 Xu Guo, Han Yu, Boyang Li, Hao Wang, Pengwei Xing, Siwei Feng, Zaiqing Nie, Chunyan Miao

In this paper, we propose the FedHumor approach for the recognition of humorous content in a personalized manner through Federated Learning (FL).

Federated Learning Language Modelling

Keyword-Guided Neural Conversational Model

1 code implementation15 Dec 2020 Peixiang Zhong, Yong liu, Hao Wang, Chunyan Miao

We study the problem of imposing conversational goals/keywords on open-domain conversational agents, where the agent is required to lead the conversation to a target keyword smoothly and fast.

Knowledge Graphs Retrieval +1

CARE: Commonsense-Aware Emotional Response Generation with Latent Concepts

no code implementations15 Dec 2020 Peixiang Zhong, Di Wang, Pengfei Li, Chen Zhang, Hao Wang, Chunyan Miao

Experimental results on two large-scale datasets support our hypothesis and show that our model can produce more accurate and commonsense-aware emotional responses and achieve better human ratings than state-of-the-art models that only specialize in one aspect.

Response Generation

Catalytically Potent and Selective Clusterzymes for Modulation of Neuroinflammation Through Single-Atom Substitutions

no code implementations17 Dec 2020 Haile Liu, Yonghui Li, Si Sun, Qi Xin, Shuhu Liu, Xiaoyu Mu, Xun Yuan, Ke Chen, Hao Wang, Kalman Varga, Wenbo Mi, Jiang Yang, Xiao-Dong Zhang

Emerging artificial enzymes with reprogrammed and augmented catalytic activity and substrate selectivity have long been pursued with sustained efforts.

Biological Physics Medical Physics

Generative Interventions for Causal Learning

1 code implementation CVPR 2021 Chengzhi Mao, Augustine Cha, Amogh Gupta, Hao Wang, Junfeng Yang, Carl Vondrick

We introduce a framework for learning robust visual representations that generalize to new viewpoints, backgrounds, and scene contexts.

Ranked #44 on Image Classification on ObjectNet (using extra training data)

Image Classification Out-of-Distribution Generalization

HCGrid: A Convolution-based Gridding Framework for RadioAstronomy in Hybrid Computing Environments

1 code implementation24 Dec 2020 Hao Wang, Ce Yu, Bo Zhang, Jian Xiao, Qi Luo

Gridding operation, which is to map non-uniform data samples onto a uniformly distributedgrid, is one of the key steps in radio astronomical data reduction process.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Self-Supervised Vessel Segmentation via Adversarial Learning

1 code implementation ICCV 2021 Yuxin Ma, Yang Hua, Hanming Deng, Tao Song, Hao Wang, Zhengui Xue, Heng Cao, Ruhui Ma, Haibing Guan

Vessel segmentation is critically essential for diagnosinga series of diseases, e. g., coronary artery disease and retinal disease.

Domain Adaptation Segmentation

Recurrent Exploration Networks for Recommender Systems

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Hao Wang, Yifei Ma, Hao Ding, Bernie Wang

Recurrent neural networks have proven effective in modeling sequential user feedbacks for recommender systems.

Recommendation Systems Representation Learning

Towards An Efficient Approach for the Nonconvex $\ell_p$ Ball Projection: Algorithm and Analysis

3 code implementations5 Jan 2021 Xiangyu Yang, Jiashan Wang, Hao Wang

This paper primarily focuses on computing the Euclidean projection of a vector onto the $\ell_{p}$ ball in which $p\in(0, 1)$.

Learning Guided Electron Microscopy with Active Acquisition

1 code implementation7 Jan 2021 Lu Mi, Hao Wang, Yaron Meirovitch, Richard Schalek, Srinivas C. Turaga, Jeff W. Lichtman, Aravinthan D. T. Samuel, Nir Shavit

Single-beam scanning electron microscopes (SEM) are widely used to acquire massive data sets for biomedical study, material analysis, and fabrication inspection.

Privacy-Preserving Transactive Energy Management for IoT-aided Smart Homes via Blockchain

no code implementations11 Jan 2021 Qing Yang, Hao Wang

Further, we design an efficient blockchain system tailored for IoT devices and develop the smart contract to support the holistic transactive energy management system.

energy trading Management +1

Network Clustering for Multi-task Learning

no code implementations22 Jan 2021 Dehong Gao, Wenjing Yang, Huiling Zhou, Yi Wei, Yi Hu, Hao Wang

The majority of current MTL studies adopt the hard parameter sharing structure, where hard layers tend to learn general representations over all tasks and specific layers are prone to learn specific representations for each task.

Clustering Document Classification +1

Towards Natural and Controllable Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion Based on Neural TTS Model and Phonetic Posteriorgram

no code implementations3 Feb 2021 Shengkui Zhao, Hao Wang, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Bin Ma

Cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) is an important and challenging problem due to significant mismatches of the phonetic set and the speech prosody of different languages.

Voice Conversion

Domain Adaptation for Time Series Forecasting via Attention Sharing

1 code implementation13 Feb 2021 Xiaoyong Jin, Youngsuk Park, Danielle C. Maddix, Hao Wang, Yuyang Wang

Recently, deep neural networks have gained increasing popularity in the field of time series forecasting.

Domain Adaptation Time Series +1

Temporal Memory Attention for Video Semantic Segmentation

1 code implementation17 Feb 2021 Hao Wang, Weining Wang, Jing Liu

Video semantic segmentation requires to utilize the complex temporal relations between frames of the video sequence.

Segmentation Semantic Segmentation +1

Delving into Deep Imbalanced Regression

1 code implementation18 Feb 2021 Yuzhe Yang, Kaiwen Zha, Ying-Cong Chen, Hao Wang, Dina Katabi

We define Deep Imbalanced Regression (DIR) as learning from such imbalanced data with continuous targets, dealing with potential missing data for certain target values, and generalizing to the entire target range.

regression

Back to Prior Knowledge: Joint Event Causality Extraction via Convolutional Semantic Infusion

no code implementations19 Feb 2021 Zijian Wang, Hao Wang, Xiangfeng Luo, Jianqi Gao

Joint event and causality extraction is a challenging yet essential task in information retrieval and data mining.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

Residual-Aided End-to-End Learning of Communication System without Known Channel

no code implementations22 Feb 2021 Hao Jiang, Shuangkaisheng Bi, Linglong Dai, Hao Wang, Jiankun Zhang

However, the gradient vanishing and overfitting problems of GAN will result in the serious performance degradation of E2E learning of communication system.

Generative Adversarial Network

Calibrating User Response Predictions in Online Advertising

no code implementations PKKDD 2020 Chao Deng, Hao Wang, Qing Tan, Jian Xu, and Kun Gai

Due to the sparsity and latency of the user response behaviors such as clicks and conversions, traditional calibration methods may not work well in real-world online advertising systems.

Tuning as a Means of Assessing the Benefits of New Ideas in Interplay with Existing Algorithmic Modules

1 code implementation25 Feb 2021 Jacob de Nobel, Diederick Vermetten, Hao Wang, Carola Doerr, Thomas Bäck

However, when introducing a new component into an existing algorithm, assessing its potential benefits is a challenging task.

Towards Efficient Local Causal Structure Learning

no code implementations28 Feb 2021 Shuai Yang, Hao Wang, Kui Yu, Fuyuan Cao, Xindong Wu

Local causal structure learning aims to discover and distinguish direct causes (parents) and direct effects (children) of a variable of interest from data.

Potential Advantages of Peak Picking Multi-Voltage Threshold Digitizer in Energy Determination in Radiation Measurement

no code implementations8 Mar 2021 Kezhang Zhu, Junhua Mei, Yuming Su, Pingping Dai, Nicola D'Ascenzo, Hao Wang, Peng Xiao, Lin Wan, Qingguo Xie

After processing 30, 000 randomly-chosen pulses sampled by the oscilloscope with a 22Na point source, our method achieves an energy resolution of 17. 50% within a 450-650 KeV energy window, which is 2. 44% better than the result of traditional MVT with same thresholds; and we get a count number at 15225 in the same energy window while the result of MVT is at 14678.

Any Part of Bayesian Network Structure Learning

no code implementations23 Mar 2021 Zhaolong Ling, Kui Yu, Hao Wang, Lin Liu, Jiuyong Li

We study an interesting and challenging problem, learning any part of a Bayesian network (BN) structure.

feature selection

Adversarial Attacks are Reversible with Natural Supervision

1 code implementation ICCV 2021 Chengzhi Mao, Mia Chiquier, Hao Wang, Junfeng Yang, Carl Vondrick

We find that images contain intrinsic structure that enables the reversal of many adversarial attacks.

Uniting Heterogeneity, Inductiveness, and Efficiency for Graph Representation Learning

no code implementations4 Apr 2021 Tong Chen, Hongzhi Yin, Jie Ren, Zi Huang, Xiangliang Zhang, Hao Wang

In WIDEN, we propose a novel inductive, meta path-free message passing scheme that packs up heterogeneous node features with their associated edges from both low- and high-order neighbor nodes.

Graph Representation Learning Transductive Learning

Scene Text Retrieval via Joint Text Detection and Similarity Learning

1 code implementation CVPR 2021 Hao Wang, Xiang Bai, Mingkun Yang, Shenggao Zhu, Jing Wang, Wenyu Liu

Such a task is usually realized by matching a query text to the recognized words, outputted by an end-to-end scene text spotter.

Retrieval Scene Text Detection +3

An Iteratively Reweighted Method for Sparse Optimization on Nonconvex $\ell_{p}$ Ball

no code implementations7 Apr 2021 Hao Wang, Xiangyu Yang, Wei Jiang

Specifically, if the current iterate is in the interior of the feasible set, then the weighted $\ell_{1}$ ball is formed by linearizing the $\ell_{p}$ norm at the current iterate.

Explorative Data Analysis of Time Series based AlgorithmFeatures of CMA-ES Variants

no code implementations16 Apr 2021 Jacob de Nobel, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck

From our analysis, we saw that the features can classify the CMA-ES variants, or the function groups decently, and show a potential for predicting the performance of those variants.

Clustering feature selection +2

Relational Learning with Gated and Attentive Neighbor Aggregator for Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion

1 code implementation27 Apr 2021 Guanglin Niu, Yang Li, Chengguang Tang, Ruiying Geng, Jian Dai, Qiao Liu, Hao Wang, Jian Sun, Fei Huang, Luo Si

Moreover, modeling and inferring complex relations of one-to-many (1-N), many-to-one (N-1), and many-to-many (N-N) by previous knowledge graph completion approaches requires high model complexity and a large amount of training instances.

Few-Shot Learning Relational Reasoning

Blockchain-Based Decentralized Energy Management Platform for Residential Distributed Energy Resources in A Virtual Power Plant

no code implementations1 May 2021 Qing Yang, Hao Wang, Taotao Wang, Shengli Zhang, Xiaoxiao Wu, Hui Wang

In this paper, we develop a blockchain-based VPP energy management platform to facilitate a rich set of transactive energy activities among residential users with renewables, energy storage, and flexible loads in a VPP.

energy trading Management +1

Distributed Energy Trading Management for Renewable Prosumers with HVAC and Energy Storage

no code implementations1 May 2021 Qing Yang, Hao Wang

This work develops a novel distributed method for the residential transactive energy system that enables multiple users to interactively optimize their energy management of HVAC systems and behind-the-meter batteries.

Distributed Optimization energy trading +1

Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy Assisted by Principal Component Analysis

no code implementations8 May 2021 Yangjie Mei, Hao Wang

Over the past decades, more and more methods gain a giant development due to the development of technology.

Benchmarking Dimensionality Reduction +1

Is there Anisotropy in Structural Bias?

no code implementations10 May 2021 Diederick Vermetten, Anna V. Kononova, Fabio Caraffini, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck

We find that anisotropy is very rare, and even in cases where it is present, there are clear tests for SB which do not rely on any assumptions of isotropy, so we can safely expand the suite of SB tests to encompass these kinds of deficiencies not found by the original tests.

Speech2Slot: An End-to-End Knowledge-based Slot Filling from Speech

no code implementations10 May 2021 Pengwei Wang, Xin Ye, Xiaohuan Zhou, Jinghui Xie, Hao Wang

In contrast to conventional pipeline Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) which consists of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU), end-to-end SLU infers the semantic meaning directly from speech and overcomes the error propagation caused by ASR.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +8

Learning to Ask Appropriate Questions in Conversational Recommendation

no code implementations11 May 2021 Xuhui Ren, Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen, Hao Wang, Zi Huang, Kai Zheng

Hence, the ability to generate suitable clarifying questions is the key to timely tracing users' dynamic preferences and achieving successful recommendations.

Question Generation Question-Generation +1

Quantifying the Impact of Boundary Constraint Handling Methods on Differential Evolution

no code implementations14 May 2021 Rick Boks, Anna V. Kononova, Hao Wang

Constraint handling is one of the most influential aspects of applying metaheuristics to real-world applications, which can hamper the search progress if treated improperly.

Benchmarking

KECRS: Towards Knowledge-Enriched Conversational Recommendation System

no code implementations18 May 2021 Tong Zhang, Yong liu, Peixiang Zhong, Chen Zhang, Hao Wang, Chunyan Miao

The chit-chat-based conversational recommendation systems (CRS) provide item recommendations to users through natural language interactions.

Entity Embeddings Knowledge Graphs +3

Zero-Shot Recommender Systems

no code implementations18 May 2021 Hao Ding, Yifei Ma, Anoop Deoras, Yuyang Wang, Hao Wang

This poses a chicken-and-egg problem for early-stage products, whose amount of data, in turn, relies on the performance of their RS.

Recommendation Systems Zero-Shot Learning

Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Cross-Resolution Person Re-identification

1 code implementation25 May 2021 Guoqing Zhang, Yu Ge, Zhicheng Dong, Hao Wang, yuhui Zheng, ShengYong Chen

Compared with the state-of-the-art methods, our proposed PS-HRNet improves 3. 4\%, 6. 2\%, 2. 5\%, 1. 1\% and 4. 2\% at Rank-1 on MLR-Market-1501, MLR-CUHK03, MLR-VIPeR, MLR-DukeMTMC-reID, and CAVIAR datasets, respectively.

Person Re-Identification Representation Learning +1

Smart Online Charging Algorithm for Electric Vehicles via Customized Actor-Critic Learning

no code implementations1 Jun 2021 Yongsheng Cao, Hao Wang, Demin Li, Guanglin Zhang

First, we formulate an EV charging problem to minimize the electricity bill of the EV fleet and study the EV charging problem in an online setting without knowing future information.

Computational Efficiency energy management +2

Zipf Matrix Factorization : Matrix Factorization with Matthew Effect Reduction

1 code implementation1 Jun 2021 Hao Wang

We demonstrate that our approach can boost the fairness of the algorithm and enhances performance evaluated by traditional metrics.

Fairness Learning-To-Rank +1

Characterizing Residential Load Patterns by Household Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors

no code implementations4 Jun 2021 Zhuo Wei, Hao Wang

We develop a deep neural network (DNN) to analyze the relationship between users' load patterns and their demographic and socioeconomic features.

GraphMI: Extracting Private Graph Data from Graph Neural Networks

1 code implementation5 Jun 2021 Zaixi Zhang, Qi Liu, Zhenya Huang, Hao Wang, Chengqiang Lu, Chuanren Liu, Enhong Chen

Then we design a graph auto-encoder module to efficiently exploit graph topology, node attributes, and target model parameters for edge inference.

DMBGN: Deep Multi-Behavior Graph Networks for Voucher Redemption Rate Prediction

1 code implementation7 Jun 2021 Fengtong Xiao, Lin Li, Weinan Xu, Jingyu Zhao, Xiaofeng Yang, Jun Lang, Hao Wang

In this paper, we propose a Deep Multi-behavior Graph Networks (DMBGN) to shed light on this field for the voucher redemption rate prediction.

Marketing

Initialization Matters: Regularizing Manifold-informed Initialization for Neural Recommendation Systems

no code implementations9 Jun 2021 Yinan Zhang, Boyang Li, Yong liu, Hao Wang, Chunyan Miao

In this work, we propose a new initialization scheme for user and item embeddings called Laplacian Eigenmaps with Popularity-based Regularization for Isolated Data (LEPORID).

Recommendation Systems

Automated Configuration of Genetic Algorithms by Tuning for Anytime Performance

1 code implementation11 Jun 2021 Furong Ye, Carola Doerr, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck

Finding the best configuration of algorithms' hyperparameters for a given optimization problem is an important task in evolutionary computation.

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