Search Results for author: Lei Yang

Found 92 papers, 33 papers with code

面向垂直领域的阅读理解数据增强方法(Method for reading comprehension data enhancement in vertical field)

no code implementations CCL 2020 Zhengwei Lv, Lei Yang, Zhizhong Shi, Xiao Liang, Tao Lei, Duoxing Liu

阅读理解问答系统是利用语义理解等自然语言处理技术, 根据输入问题, 对非结构化文档数据进行分析, 生成一个答案, 具有很高的研究和应用价值。在垂直领域应用过程中, 阅读理解问答数据标注成本高且用户问题表达复杂多样, 使得阅读理解问答系统准确率低、鲁棒性差。针对这一问题, 本文提出一种面向垂直领域的阅读理解问答数据的增强方法, 该方法基于真实用户问题, 构造阅读理解训练数据, 一方面降低标注成本, 另一方面增加训练数据多样性, 提升模型的准确率和鲁棒性。本文用汽车领域数据对该方法进行实验验证, 其结果表明该方法对垂直领域阅读理解模型的准确率和鲁棒性均能有效提升。

Reading Comprehension

RenderMe-360: A Large Digital Asset Library and Benchmarks Towards High-fidelity Head Avatars

1 code implementation22 May 2023 Dongwei Pan, Long Zhuo, Jingtan Piao, Huiwen Luo, Wei Cheng, Yuxin Wang, Siming Fan, Shengqi Liu, Lei Yang, Bo Dai, Ziwei Liu, Chen Change Loy, Chen Qian, Wayne Wu, Dahua Lin, Kwan-Yee Lin

It is a large-scale digital library for head avatars with three key attributes: 1) High Fidelity: all subjects are captured by 60 synchronized, high-resolution 2K cameras in 360 degrees.

Image Matting Novel View Synthesis +1

NeRF$^\textbf{2}$: Neural Radio-Frequency Radiance Fields

no code implementations10 May 2023 Xiaopeng Zhao, Zhenlin An, Qingrui Pan, Lei Yang

Inspired by the great success of using a neural network to describe the optical field in computer vision, we propose a neural radio-frequency radiance field, NeRF$^\textbf{2}$, which represents a continuous volumetric scene function that makes sense of an RF signal's propagation.

Indoor Localization

Boundary-aware Backward-Compatible Representation via Adversarial Learning in Image Retrieval

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Tan Pan, Furong Xu, Xudong Yang, Sifeng He, Chen Jiang, Qingpei Guo, Feng Qian Xiaobo Zhang, Yuan Cheng, Lei Yang, Wei Chu

For traditional model upgrades, the old model will not be replaced by the new one until the embeddings of all the images in the database are re-computed by the new model, which takes days or weeks for a large amount of data.

Image Retrieval Retrieval

Search-Map-Search: A Frame Selection Paradigm for Action Recognition

no code implementations CVPR 2023 Mingjun Zhao, Yakun Yu, Xiaoli Wang, Lei Yang, Di Niu

To overcome the limitations of existing methods, we propose a Search-Map-Search learning paradigm which combines the advantages of heuristic search and supervised learning to select the best combination of frames from a video as one entity.

Action Recognition Video Understanding

Zolly: Zoom Focal Length Correctly for Perspective-Distorted Human Mesh Reconstruction

1 code implementation24 Mar 2023 Wenjia Wang, Yongtao Ge, Haiyi Mei, Zhongang Cai, Qingping Sun, Yanjun Wang, Chunhua Shen, Lei Yang, Taku Komura

As it is hard to calibrate single-view RGB images in the wild, existing 3D human mesh reconstruction (3DHMR) methods either use a constant large focal length or estimate one based on the background environment context, which can not tackle the problem of the torso, limb, hand or face distortion caused by perspective camera projection when the camera is close to the human body.

3D Reconstruction

SHERF: Generalizable Human NeRF from a Single Image

1 code implementation22 Mar 2023 Shoukang Hu, Fangzhou Hong, Liang Pan, Haiyi Mei, Lei Yang, Ziwei Liu

To this end, we propose a bank of 3D-aware hierarchical features, including global, point-level, and pixel-aligned features, to facilitate informative encoding.

3D Human Reconstruction

BEVHeight: A Robust Framework for Vision-based Roadside 3D Object Detection

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Lei Yang, Kaicheng Yu, Tao Tang, Jun Li, Kun Yuan, Li Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Peng Chen

In essence, instead of predicting the pixel-wise depth, we regress the height to the ground to achieve a distance-agnostic formulation to ease the optimization process of camera-only perception methods.

3D Object Detection Autonomous Driving +1

On-Device Unsupervised Image Segmentation

no code implementations24 Feb 2023 Junhuan Yang, Yi Sheng, Yuzhou Zhang, Weiwen Jiang, Lei Yang

What's more, for a larger size image in the BBBC005 dataset, the existing approach cannot be accommodated to Raspberry PI due to out of memory; on the other hand, SegHDC can obtain segmentation results within 3 minutes while achieving a 0. 9587 IoU score.

Image Segmentation Semantic Segmentation +1

Web Photo Source Identification based on Neural Enhanced Camera Fingerprint

1 code implementation18 Feb 2023 Feng Qian, Sifeng He, Honghao Huang, Huanyu Ma, Xiaobo Zhang, Lei Yang

With the growing popularity of smartphone photography in recent years, web photos play an increasingly important role in all walks of life.

Metric Learning

Dynamic Storyboard Generation in an Engine-based Virtual Environment for Video Production

no code implementations30 Jan 2023 Anyi Rao, Xuekun Jiang, Yuwei Guo, Linning Xu, Lei Yang, Libiao Jin, Dahua Lin, Bo Dai

Amateurs working on mini-films and short-form videos usually spend lots of time and effort on the multi-round complicated process of setting and adjusting scenes, plots, and cameras to deliver satisfying video shots.

Development of A Real-time POCUS Image Quality Assessment and Acquisition Guidance System

no code implementations16 Dec 2022 Zhenge Jia, Yiyu Shi, Jingtong Hu, Lei Yang, Benjamin Nti

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is one of the most commonly applied tools for cardiac function imaging in the clinical routine of the emergency department and pediatric intensive care unit.

Image Quality Assessment

TransVCL: Attention-enhanced Video Copy Localization Network with Flexible Supervision

2 code implementations23 Nov 2022 Sifeng He, Yue He, Minlong Lu, Chen Jiang, Xudong Yang, Feng Qian, Xiaobo Zhang, Lei Yang, Jiandong Zhang

Previous methods typically start from frame-to-frame similarity matrix generated by cosine similarity between frame-level features of the input video pair, and then detect and refine the boundaries of copied segments on similarity matrix under temporal constraints.

Retrieval Video Retrieval

DCVQE: A Hierarchical Transformer for Video Quality Assessment

no code implementations10 Oct 2022 Zutong Li, Lei Yang

Inspired by our observation on the actions of human annotation, we put forward a Divide and Conquer Video Quality Estimator (DCVQE) for NR-VQA.

Video Quality Assessment Visual Question Answering (VQA)

A Keypoint Based Enhancement Method for Audio Driven Free View Talking Head Synthesis

no code implementations7 Oct 2022 Yichen Han, Ya Li, Yingming Gao, Jinlong Xue, Songpo Wang, Lei Yang

Then we used keypoint decomposition to extract video synthesis controlling parameters from the backend output and the source image.

Benchmarking and Analyzing 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation Beyond Algorithms

1 code implementation21 Sep 2022 Hui En Pang, Zhongang Cai, Lei Yang, Tianwei Zhang, Ziwei Liu

Experiments with 10 backbones, ranging from CNNs to transformers, show the knowledge learnt from a proximity task is readily transferable to human mesh recovery.

3D human pose and shape estimation Benchmarking +1

CAMO-MOT: Combined Appearance-Motion Optimization for 3D Multi-Object Tracking with Camera-LiDAR Fusion

no code implementations6 Sep 2022 Li Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Wenyuan Qin, Xiaoyu Li, Lei Yang, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhu, Hong Wang, Jun Li, Huaping Liu

As such, we propose a novel camera-LiDAR fusion 3D MOT framework based on the Combined Appearance-Motion Optimization (CAMO-MOT), which uses both camera and LiDAR data and significantly reduces tracking failures caused by occlusion and false detection.

3D Multi-Object Tracking Autonomous Driving +1

MotionDiffuse: Text-Driven Human Motion Generation with Diffusion Model

1 code implementation31 Aug 2022 Mingyuan Zhang, Zhongang Cai, Liang Pan, Fangzhou Hong, Xinying Guo, Lei Yang, Ziwei Liu

Instead of a deterministic language-motion mapping, MotionDiffuse generates motions through a series of denoising steps in which variations are injected.

Denoising Motion Synthesis

Federated Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning and Masked Autoencoder for Dermatological Disease Diagnosis

no code implementations24 Aug 2022 Yawen Wu, Dewen Zeng, Zhepeng Wang, Yi Sheng, Lei Yang, Alaina J. James, Yiyu Shi, Jingtong Hu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods, contrastive learning (CL) and masked autoencoders (MAE), can leverage the unlabeled data to pre-train models, followed by fine-tuning with limited labels.

Contrastive Learning Federated Learning +1

Mix-Teaching: A Simple, Unified and Effective Semi-Supervised Learning Framework for Monocular 3D Object Detection

1 code implementation10 Jul 2022 Lei Yang, Xinyu Zhang, Li Wang, Minghan Zhu, Chuang Zhang, Jun Li

Besides, by leveraging full training set and the additional 48K raw images of KITTI, it can further improve the MonoFlex by +4. 65% improvement on AP@0. 7 for car detection, reaching 18. 54% AP@0. 7, which ranks the 1st place among all monocular based methods on KITTI test leaderboard.

Autonomous Driving Model Optimization +2

Not All Models Are Equal: Predicting Model Transferability in a Self-challenging Fisher Space

1 code implementation7 Jul 2022 Wenqi Shao, Xun Zhao, Yixiao Ge, Zhaoyang Zhang, Lei Yang, Xiaogang Wang, Ying Shan, Ping Luo

It is challenging because the ground-truth model ranking for each task can only be generated by fine-tuning the pre-trained models on the target dataset, which is brute-force and computationally expensive.

Learn to Predict How Humans Manipulate Large-sized Objects from Interactive Motions

no code implementations25 Jun 2022 Weilin Wan, Lei Yang, Lingjie Liu, Zhuoying Zhang, Ruixing Jia, Yi-King Choi, Jia Pan, Christian Theobalt, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang

We also observe that an object's intrinsic physical properties are useful for the object motion prediction, and thus design a set of object dynamic descriptors to encode such intrinsic properties.

Human-Object Interaction Detection motion prediction

RT-DNAS: Real-time Constrained Differentiable Neural Architecture Search for 3D Cardiac Cine MRI Segmentation

no code implementations8 Jun 2022 Qing Lu, Xiaowei Xu, Shunjie Dong, Cong Hao, Lei Yang, Cheng Zhuo, Yiyu Shi

Accurately segmenting temporal frames of cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial step in various real-time MRI guided cardiac interventions.

MRI segmentation Neural Architecture Search

AvatarCLIP: Zero-Shot Text-Driven Generation and Animation of 3D Avatars

1 code implementation17 May 2022 Fangzhou Hong, Mingyuan Zhang, Liang Pan, Zhongang Cai, Lei Yang, Ziwei Liu

Our key insight is to take advantage of the powerful vision-language model CLIP for supervising neural human generation, in terms of 3D geometry, texture and animation.

Language Modelling Motion Synthesis +1

DeciWatch: A Simple Baseline for 10x Efficient 2D and 3D Pose Estimation

1 code implementation16 Mar 2022 Ailing Zeng, Xuan Ju, Lei Yang, Ruiyuan Gao, Xizhou Zhu, Bo Dai, Qiang Xu

This paper proposes a simple baseline framework for video-based 2D/3D human pose estimation that can achieve 10 times efficiency improvement over existing works without any performance degradation, named DeciWatch.

2D Human Pose Estimation 3D Human Pose Estimation +2

The Larger The Fairer? Small Neural Networks Can Achieve Fairness for Edge Devices

no code implementations23 Feb 2022 Yi Sheng, Junhuan Yang, Yawen Wu, Kevin Mao, Yiyu Shi, Jingtong Hu, Weiwen Jiang, Lei Yang

Results show that FaHaNa can identify a series of neural networks with higher fairness and accuracy on a dermatology dataset.

Face Recognition Fairness +2

Visual-Tactile Sensing for Real-time Liquid Volume Estimation in Grasping

no code implementations23 Feb 2022 Fan Zhu, Ruixing Jia, Lei Yang, Youcan Yan, Zheng Wang, Jia Pan, Wenping Wang

We propose a deep visuo-tactile model for realtime estimation of the liquid inside a deformable container in a proprioceptive way. We fuse two sensory modalities, i. e., the raw visual inputs from the RGB camera and the tactile cues from our specific tactile sensor without any extra sensor calibrations. The robotic system is well controlled and adjusted based on the estimation model in real time.

Multi-Task Learning

Federated Contrastive Learning for Dermatological Disease Diagnosis via On-device Learning

no code implementations14 Feb 2022 Yawen Wu, Dewen Zeng, Zhepeng Wang, Yi Sheng, Lei Yang, Alaina J. James, Yiyu Shi, Jingtong Hu

The recently developed self-supervised learning approach, contrastive learning (CL), can leverage the unlabeled data to pre-train a model, after which the model is fine-tuned on limited labeled data for dermatological disease diagnosis.

Contrastive Learning Federated Learning +1

Automated Architecture Search for Brain-inspired Hyperdimensional Computing

no code implementations11 Feb 2022 Junhuan Yang, Yi Sheng, Sizhe Zhang, Ruixuan Wang, Kenneth Foreman, Mikell Paige, Xun Jiao, Weiwen Jiang, Lei Yang

On the Clintox dataset, which tries to learn features from developed drugs that passed/failed clinical trials for toxicity reasons, the searched HDC architecture obtains the state-of-the-art ROC-AUC scores, which are 0. 80% higher than the manually designed HDC and 9. 75% higher than conventional neural networks.

Drug Discovery

SkiM: Skipping Memory LSTM for Low-Latency Real-Time Continuous Speech Separation

no code implementations26 Jan 2022 Chenda Li, Lei Yang, Weiqin Wang, Yanmin Qian

We adopt the time-domain speech separation method and the recently proposed Graph-PIT to build a super low-latency online speech separation model, which is very important for the real application.

Speech Separation

SmoothNet: A Plug-and-Play Network for Refining Human Poses in Videos

2 code implementations27 Dec 2021 Ailing Zeng, Lei Yang, Xuan Ju, Jiefeng Li, Jianyi Wang, Qiang Xu

With a simple yet effective motion-aware fully-connected network, SmoothNet improves the temporal smoothness of existing pose estimators significantly and enhances the estimation accuracy of those challenging frames as a side-effect.

2D Human Pose Estimation 3D Human Pose Estimation +2

SimiGrad: Fine-Grained Adaptive Batching for Large Scale Training using Gradient Similarity Measurement

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Heyang Qin, Samyam Rajbhandari, Olatunji Ruwase, Feng Yan, Lei Yang, Yuxiong He

In this paper, we propose a fully automated and lightweight adaptive batching methodology to enable fine-grained batch size adaption (e. g., at a mini-batch level) that can achieve state-of-the-art performance with record breaking batch sizes.

BSC: Block-based Stochastic Computing to Enable Accurate and Efficient TinyML

no code implementations12 Nov 2021 Yuhong Song, Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha, Qingfeng Zhuge, Rui Xu, Yongzhuo Zhang, Bingzhe Li, Lei Yang

Unlike ML on the edge, TinyML with a limited energy supply has higher demands on low-power execution.

Robust Event Classification Using Imperfect Real-world PMU Data

no code implementations19 Oct 2021 Yunchuan Liu, Lei Yang, Amir Ghasemkhani, Hanif Livani, Virgilio A. Centeno, Pin-Yu Chen, Junshan Zhang

Specifically, the data preprocessing step addresses the data quality issues of PMU measurements (e. g., bad data and missing data); in the fine-grained event data extraction step, a model-free event detection method is developed to accurately localize the events from the inaccurate event timestamps in the event logs; and the feature engineering step constructs the event features based on the patterns of different event types, in order to improve the performance and the interpretability of the event classifiers.

Classification Event Detection +1

Playing for 3D Human Recovery

no code implementations14 Oct 2021 Zhongang Cai, Mingyuan Zhang, Jiawei Ren, Chen Wei, Daxuan Ren, Zhengyu Lin, Haiyu Zhao, Lei Yang, Chen Change Loy, Ziwei Liu

Specifically, we contribute GTA-Human, a large-scale 3D human dataset generated with the GTA-V game engine, featuring a highly diverse set of subjects, actions, and scenarios.

iShape: A First Step Towards Irregular Shape Instance Segmentation

no code implementations30 Sep 2021 Lei Yang, Yan Zi Wei, Yisheng He, Wei Sun, Zhenhang Huang, Haibin Huang, Haoqiang Fan

In this paper, we introduce a brand new dataset to promote the study of instance segmentation for objects with irregular shapes.

Instance Segmentation Semantic Segmentation

Can Noise on Qubits Be Learned in Quantum Neural Network? A Case Study on QuantumFlow

no code implementations8 Sep 2021 Zhiding Liang, Zhepeng Wang, Junhuan Yang, Lei Yang, JinJun Xiong, Yiyu Shi, Weiwen Jiang

Specifically, this paper targets quantum neural network (QNN), and proposes to learn the errors in the training phase, so that the identified QNN model can be resilient to noise.

Learning Skeletal Graph Neural Networks for Hard 3D Pose Estimation

no code implementations ICCV 2021 Ailing Zeng, Xiao Sun, Lei Yang, Nanxuan Zhao, Minhao Liu, Qiang Xu

While the average prediction accuracy has been improved significantly over the years, the performance on hard poses with depth ambiguity, self-occlusion, and complex or rare poses is still far from satisfactory.

Ranked #17 on Skeleton Based Action Recognition on NTU RGB+D (using extra training data)

3D Human Pose Estimation 3D Pose Estimation +3

DISP6D: Disentangled Implicit Shape and Pose Learning for Scalable 6D Pose Estimation

1 code implementation27 Jul 2021 Yilin Wen, Xiangyu Li, Hao Pan, Lei Yang, Zheng Wang, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang

Scalable 6D pose estimation for rigid objects from RGB images aims at handling multiple objects and generalizing to novel objects.

6D Pose Estimation Metric Learning +2

IPS300+: a Challenging Multimodal Dataset for Intersection Perception System

no code implementations5 Jun 2021 Huanan Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Jun Li, Zhiwei Li, Lei Yang, Shuyue Pan, Yongqiang Deng

Through an IPS (Intersection Perception System) installed at the diagonal of the intersection, this paper proposes a high-quality multimodal dataset for the intersection perception task.

Lite-FPN for Keypoint-based Monocular 3D Object Detection

1 code implementation1 May 2021 Lei Yang, Xinyu Zhang, Li Wang, Minghan Zhu, Jun Li

3D object detection with a single image is an essential and challenging task for autonomous driving.

Autonomous Driving Monocular 3D Object Detection +1

The Age of Correlated Features in Supervised Learning based Forecasting

no code implementations27 Feb 2021 MD Kamran Chowdhury Shisher, Heyang Qin, Lei Yang, Feng Yan, Yin Sun

In these applications, a neural network is trained to predict a time-varying target (e. g., solar power), based on multiple correlated features (e. g., temperature, humidity, and cloud coverage).

Edge Computing Assisted Autonomous Flight for UAV: Synergies between Vision and Communications

no code implementations10 Dec 2020 Quan Chen, Hai Zhu, Lei Yang, Xiaoqian Chen, Sofie Pollin, Evgenii Vinogradov

By proposing a framework of Edge Computing Assisted Autonomous Flight (ECAAF), we illustrate that vision and communications can interact with and assist each other with the aid of edge computing and offloading, and further speed up the UAV mission completion.

Edge-computing Trajectory Planning Networking and Internet Architecture Robotics Systems and Control Systems and Control

CoEdge: Cooperative DNN Inference with Adaptive Workload Partitioning over Heterogeneous Edge Devices

no code implementations6 Dec 2020 Liekang Zeng, Xu Chen, Zhi Zhou, Lei Yang, Junshan Zhang

CoEdge utilizes available computation and communication resources at the edge and dynamically partitions the DNN inference workload adaptive to devices' computing capabilities and network conditions.

Event Cause Analysis in Distribution Networks using Synchro Waveform Measurements

no code implementations25 Aug 2020 Iman Niazazari, Hanif Livani, Amir Ghasemkhani, Yunchuan Liu, Lei Yang

This paper presents a machine learning method for event cause analysis to enhance situational awareness in distribution networks.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

E-Tree Learning: A Novel Decentralized Model Learning Framework for Edge AI

no code implementations4 Aug 2020 Lei Yang, Yanyan Lu, Jiannong Cao, Jiaming Huang, Mingjin Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel decentralized model learning approach, namely E-Tree, which makes use of a well-designed tree structure imposed on the edge devices.

Federated Learning

Mapping in a cycle: Sinkhorn regularized unsupervised learning for point cloud shapes

no code implementations ECCV 2020 Lei Yang, Wenxi Liu, Zhiming Cui, Nenglun Chen, Wenping Wang

We propose an unsupervised learning framework with the pretext task of finding dense correspondences between point cloud shapes from the same category based on the cycle-consistency formulation.

Learn to Propagate Reliably on Noisy Affinity Graphs

no code implementations ECCV 2020 Lei Yang, Qingqiu Huang, Huaiyi Huang, Linning Xu, Dahua Lin

Recent works have shown that exploiting unlabeled data through label propagation can substantially reduce the labeling cost, which has been a critical issue in developing visual recognition models.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Hardware and Neural Architecture Co-Search with Hot Start

1 code implementation17 Jul 2020 Weiwen Jiang, Lei Yang, Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Jingtong Hu, Yiyu Shi

To tackle this issue, HotNAS builds a chain of tools to design hardware to support compression, based on which a global optimizer is developed to automatically co-search all the involved search spaces.

Neural Architecture Search

Learning to Cluster Faces via Confidence and Connectivity Estimation

3 code implementations CVPR 2020 Lei Yang, Dapeng Chen, Xiaohang Zhan, Rui Zhao, Chen Change Loy, Dahua Lin

With the vertex confidence and edge connectivity, we can naturally organize more relevant vertices on the affinity graph and group them into clusters.

Connectivity Estimation Face Clustering +1

Co-Exploration of Neural Architectures and Heterogeneous ASIC Accelerator Designs Targeting Multiple Tasks

no code implementations10 Feb 2020 Lei Yang, Zheyu Yan, Meng Li, Hyoukjun Kwon, Liangzhen Lai, Tushar Krishna, Vikas Chandra, Weiwen Jiang, Yiyu Shi

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated its power on various AI accelerating platforms such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs).

Neural Architecture Search

Deep Human Answer Understanding for Natural Reverse QA

no code implementations1 Dec 2019 Rujing Yao, Linlin Hou, Lei Yang, Jie Gui, Qing Yin, Ou wu

This study focuses on a reverse question answering (QA) procedure, in which machines proactively raise questions and humans supply the answers.

Question Answering

Blockchain for Future Smart Grid: A Comprehensive Survey

1 code implementation8 Nov 2019 Muhammad Baqer Mollah, Jun Zhao, Dusit Niyato, Kwok-Yan Lam, Xin Zhang, Amer M. Y. M. Ghias, Leong Hai Koh, Lei Yang

In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive survey on application of blockchain in smart grid.

Cryptography and Security Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Networking and Internet Architecture Social and Information Networks Systems and Control Systems and Control

Device-Circuit-Architecture Co-Exploration for Computing-in-Memory Neural Accelerators

no code implementations31 Oct 2019 Weiwen Jiang, Qiuwen Lou, Zheyu Yan, Lei Yang, Jingtong Hu, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Yiyu Shi

In this paper, we are the first to bring the computing-in-memory architecture, which can easily transcend the memory wall, to interplay with the neural architecture search, aiming to find the most efficient neural architectures with high network accuracy and maximized hardware efficiency.

Neural Architecture Search

Practical Low Latency Proof of Work Consensus

2 code implementations25 Sep 2019 Lei Yang, Vivek Bagaria, Gerui Wang, Mohammad Alizadeh, David Tse, Giulia Fanti, Pramod Viswanath

Bitcoin is the first fully-decentralized permissionless blockchain protocol to achieve a high level of security, but at the expense of poor throughput and latency.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Cryptography and Security Networking and Internet Architecture

Hardware/Software Co-Exploration of Neural Architectures

1 code implementation6 Jul 2019 Weiwen Jiang, Lei Yang, Edwin Sha, Qingfeng Zhuge, Shouzhen Gu, Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Yiyu Shi, Jingtong Hu

We propose a novel hardware and software co-exploration framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS).

Neural Architecture Search

A Pvalue-guided Anomaly Detection Approach Combining Multiple Heterogeneous Log Parser Algorithms on IIoT Systems

no code implementations5 Jul 2019 Xueshuo Xie, Zhi Wang, Xuhang Xiao, Lei Yang, Shenwei Huang, Tao Li

In this paper, we use blockchain to prevent logs from being tampered with and propose a pvalue-guided anomaly detection approach.

Cryptography and Security

Sparse Solutions of a Class of Constrained Optimization Problems

no code implementations1 Jul 2019 Lei Yang, Xiaojun Chen, Shuhuang Xiang

Specifically, without any condition on the matrix $A$, we provide upper bounds in cardinality and infinity norm for the optimal solutions, and show that all optimal solutions must be on the boundary of the feasible set when $0<p<1$.

Denoising

SemanticAdv: Generating Adversarial Examples via Attribute-conditional Image Editing

1 code implementation19 Jun 2019 Haonan Qiu, Chaowei Xiao, Lei Yang, Xinchen Yan, Honglak Lee, Bo Li

In this paper, we aim to explore the impact of semantic manipulation on DNNs predictions by manipulating the semantic attributes of images and generate "unrestricted adversarial examples".

Face Recognition Face Verification

Adaptive Intelligent Secondary Control of Microgrids Using a Biologically-Inspired Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations2 May 2019 Mohammad Jafari, Vahid Sarfi, Amir Ghasemkhani, Hanif Livani, Lei Yang, Hao Xu

In this paper, a biologically-inspired adaptive intelligent secondary controller is developed for microgrids to tackle system dynamics uncertainties, faults, and/or disturbances.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Learning to Cluster Faces on an Affinity Graph

3 code implementations CVPR 2019 Lei Yang, Xiaohang Zhan, Dapeng Chen, Junjie Yan, Chen Change Loy, Dahua Lin

Face recognition sees remarkable progress in recent years, and its performance has reached a very high level.

Face Recognition

Accuracy vs. Efficiency: Achieving Both through FPGA-Implementation Aware Neural Architecture Search

no code implementations31 Jan 2019 Weiwen Jiang, Xinyi Zhang, Edwin H. -M. Sha, Lei Yang, Qingfeng Zhuge, Yiyu Shi, Jingtong Hu

In addition, with a performance abstraction model to analyze the latency of neural architectures without training, our framework can quickly prune architectures that do not satisfy the specification, leading to higher efficiency.

Neural Architecture Search

RPC: A Large-Scale Retail Product Checkout Dataset

no code implementations22 Jan 2019 Xiu-Shen Wei, Quan Cui, Lei Yang, Peng Wang, Lingqiao Liu

The main challenge of this problem comes from the large scale and the fine-grained nature of the product categories as well as the difficulty for collecting training images that reflect the realistic checkout scenarios due to continuous update of the products.

A Fast Globally Linearly Convergent Algorithm for the Computation of Wasserstein Barycenters

no code implementations12 Sep 2018 Lei Yang, Jia Li, Defeng Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh

When the support points of the barycenter are pre-specified, this problem can be modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem whose size can be extremely large.

Feature Fusion through Multitask CNN for Large-scale Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

no code implementations24 Jul 2018 Shihao Sun, Lei Yang, Wenjie Liu, Ruirui Li

In recent years, Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) has been widely used in various semantic segmentation tasks, including multi-modal remote sensing imagery.

Image Segmentation Semantic Segmentation

TreeSegNet: Adaptive Tree CNNs for Subdecimeter Aerial Image Segmentation

no code implementations29 Apr 2018 Kai Yue, Lei Yang, Ruirui Li, Wei Hu, Fan Zhang, Wei Li

For the task of subdecimeter aerial imagery segmentation, fine-grained semantic segmentation results are usually difficult to obtain because of complex remote sensing content and optical conditions.

Image Segmentation Semantic Segmentation

Accelerated Training for Massive Classification via Dynamic Class Selection

no code implementations5 Jan 2018 Xingcheng Zhang, Lei Yang, Junjie Yan, Dahua Lin

Massive classification, a classification task defined over a vast number of classes (hundreds of thousands or even millions), has become an essential part of many real-world systems, such as face recognition.

Classification Face Recognition +1

Proximal Gradient Method with Extrapolation and Line Search for a Class of Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Problems

no code implementations18 Nov 2017 Lei Yang

To solve this class of problems, we propose a proximal gradient method with extrapolation and line search (PGels).

Variable Selection

On Scalable Inference with Stochastic Gradient Descent

no code implementations1 Jul 2017 Yixin Fang, Jinfeng Xu, Lei Yang

In many applications involving large dataset or online updating, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) provides a scalable way to compute parameter estimates and has gained increasing popularity due to its numerical convenience and memory efficiency.

A Non-monotone Alternating Updating Method for A Class of Matrix Factorization Problems

no code implementations18 May 2017 Lei Yang, Ting Kei Pong, Xiaojun Chen

Finally, we conduct some numerical experiments using real datasets to compare our method with some existing efficient methods for non-negative matrix factorization and matrix completion.

Matrix Completion

Minimum $n$-Rank Approximation via Iterative Hard Thresholding

no code implementations18 Nov 2013 Min Zhang, Lei Yang, Zheng-Hai Huang

Additionally, combining an effective heuristic for determining $n$-rank, we can also apply the proposed algorithm to solve MnRA when $n$-rank is unknown in advance.

Image Inpainting Video Inpainting

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