Search Results for author: Linglong Kong

Found 30 papers, 8 papers with code

A Deep Bayesian Nonparametric Framework for Robust Mutual Information Estimation

no code implementations11 Mar 2025 Forough Fazeliasl, Michael Minyi Zhang, Bei Jiang, Linglong Kong

We present a Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) solution for training an MI estimator by constructing the MI loss with a finite representation of the Dirichlet process posterior to incorporate regularization in the training process.

Image Generation Mutual Information Estimation

Statistical Undersampling with Mutual Information and Support Points

no code implementations19 Dec 2024 Alex Mak, Shubham Sahoo, Shivani Pandey, Yidan Yue, Linglong Kong

Class imbalance and distributional differences in large datasets present significant challenges for classification tasks machine learning, often leading to biased models and poor predictive performance for minority classes.

Classification

FedSTaS: Client Stratification and Client Level Sampling for Efficient Federated Learning

no code implementations18 Dec 2024 Jordan Slessor, Dezheng Kong, Xiaofen Tang, Zheng En Than, Linglong Kong

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning methodology that involves the collaborative training of a global model across multiple decentralized clients in a privacy-preserving way.

Federated Learning Privacy Preserving

Oblivious subspace embeddings for compressed Tucker decompositions

no code implementations13 Jun 2024 Matthew Pietrosanu, Bei Jiang, Linglong Kong

Emphasis in the tensor literature on random embeddings (tools for low-distortion dimension reduction) for the canonical polyadic (CP) tensor decomposition has left analogous results for the more expressive Tucker decomposition comparatively lacking.

Dimensionality Reduction Tensor Decomposition

Gaussian Differential Privacy on Riemannian Manifolds

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Yangdi Jiang, Xiaotian Chang, Yi Liu, Lei Ding, Linglong Kong, Bei Jiang

We develop an advanced approach for extending Gaussian Differential Privacy (GDP) to general Riemannian manifolds.

Conformalized Fairness via Quantile Regression

1 code implementation5 Oct 2022 Meichen Liu, Lei Ding, Dengdeng Yu, Wulong Liu, Linglong Kong, Bei Jiang

To fulfill great needs and advocate the significance of quantile fairness, we propose a novel framework to learn a real-valued quantile function under the fairness requirement of Demographic Parity with respect to sensitive attributes, such as race or gender, and thereby derive a reliable fair prediction interval.

Conformal Prediction Fairness +2

How Does Return Distribution in Distributional Reinforcement Learning Help Optimization?

no code implementations29 Sep 2022 Ke Sun, Bei Jiang, Linglong Kong

Distributional reinforcement learning, which focuses on learning the entire return distribution instead of only its expectation in standard RL, has demonstrated remarkable success in enhancing performance.

Distributional Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1

Distributional Reinforcement Learning with Regularized Wasserstein Loss

1 code implementation1 Feb 2022 Ke Sun, Yingnan Zhao, Wulong Liu, Bei Jiang, Linglong Kong

The empirical success of distributional reinforcement learning (RL) highly relies on the choice of distribution divergence equipped with an appropriate distribution representation.

Atari Games Distributional Reinforcement Learning +3

Word Embeddings via Causal Inference: Gender Bias Reducing and Semantic Information Preserving

1 code implementation9 Dec 2021 Lei Ding, Dengdeng Yu, Jinhan Xie, Wenxing Guo, Shenggang Hu, Meichen Liu, Linglong Kong, Hongsheng Dai, Yanchun Bao, Bei Jiang

The proposed method allows us to construct and analyze the complex causal mechanisms facilitating gender information flow while retaining oracle semantic information within word embeddings.

Causal Inference Word Embeddings +1

TAG: Toward Accurate Social Media Content Tagging with a Concept Graph

no code implementations13 Oct 2021 Jiuding Yang, Weidong Guo, Bang Liu, Yakun Yu, Chaoyue Wang, Jinwen Luo, Linglong Kong, Di Niu, Zhen Wen

Although conceptualization has been widely studied in semantics and knowledge representation, it is still challenging to find the most accurate concept phrases to characterize the main idea of a text snippet on the fast-growing social media.

Dependency Parsing Graph Matching +4

The Benefits of Being Categorical Distributional: Uncertainty-aware Regularized Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations7 Oct 2021 Ke Sun, Yingnan Zhao, Enze Shi, Yafei Wang, Xiaodong Yan, Bei Jiang, Linglong Kong

The remarkable empirical performance of distributional reinforcement learning (RL) has garnered increasing attention to understanding its theoretical advantages over classical RL.

Atari Games Attribute +3

Exploring the Robustness of Distributional Reinforcement Learning against Noisy State Observations

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Ke Sun, Yi Liu, Yingnan Zhao, Hengshuai Yao, Shangling Jui, Linglong Kong

In real scenarios, state observations that an agent observes may contain measurement errors or adversarial noises, misleading the agent to take suboptimal actions or even collapse while training.

Distributional Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1

Towards Understanding Distributional Reinforcement Learning: Regularization, Optimization, Acceleration and Sinkhorn Algorithm

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Ke Sun, Yingnan Zhao, Yi Liu, Enze Shi, Yafei Wang, Aref Sadeghi, Xiaodong Yan, Bei Jiang, Linglong Kong

Distributional reinforcement learning~(RL) is a class of state-of-the-art algorithms that estimate the whole distribution of the total return rather than only its expectation.

Atari Games Distributional Reinforcement Learning +2

Gaussian Differential Privacy Transformation: from identification to application

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Yi Liu, Ke Sun, Bei Jiang, Linglong Kong

Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) is a single-parameter family of privacy notions that provides coherent guarantees to avoid the exposure of individuals from machine learning models.

L$^{2}$NAS: Learning to Optimize Neural Architectures via Continuous-Action Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations25 Sep 2021 Keith G. Mills, Fred X. Han, Mohammad Salameh, SEYED SAEED CHANGIZ REZAEI, Linglong Kong, Wei Lu, Shuo Lian, Shangling Jui, Di Niu

In this paper, we propose L$^{2}$NAS, which learns to intelligently optimize and update architecture hyperparameters via an actor neural network based on the distribution of high-performing architectures in the search history.

Hyperparameter Optimization Neural Architecture Search +2

A Distance-based Anomaly Detection Framework for Deep Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations21 Sep 2021 Hongming Zhang, Ke Sun, Bo Xu, Linglong Kong, Martin Müller

MDX offers a simple, unified, and practical anomaly detection tool for enhancing the safety and reliability of RL systems in real-world applications.

Anomaly Detection Atari Games +5

Exploring the Training Robustness of Distributional Reinforcement Learning against Noisy State Observations

1 code implementation17 Sep 2021 Ke Sun, Yingnan Zhao, Shangling Jui, Linglong Kong

In real scenarios, state observations that an agent observes may contain measurement errors or adversarial noises, misleading the agent to take suboptimal actions or even collapse while training.

Density Estimation Distributional Reinforcement Learning +2

Learning Privately over Distributed Features: An ADMM Sharing Approach

no code implementations17 Jul 2019 Yaochen Hu, Peng Liu, Linglong Kong, Di Niu

Distributed machine learning has been widely studied in order to handle exploding amount of data.

Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Exploration

no code implementations13 May 2019 Borislav Mavrin, Shangtong Zhang, Hengshuai Yao, Linglong Kong, Kaiwen Wu, Yao-Liang Yu

In distributional reinforcement learning (RL), the estimated distribution of value function models both the parametric and intrinsic uncertainties.

Atari Games Distributional Reinforcement Learning +4

Deep Reinforcement Learning with Decorrelation

no code implementations18 Mar 2019 Borislav Mavrin, Hengshuai Yao, Linglong Kong

Further experiments on the losing games show that our decorelation algorithms can win over DQN and QR-DQN with a fined tuned regularization factor.

Atari Games Deep Reinforcement Learning +4

QUOTA: The Quantile Option Architecture for Reinforcement Learning

3 code implementations5 Nov 2018 Shangtong Zhang, Borislav Mavrin, Linglong Kong, Bo Liu, Hengshuai Yao

In this paper, we propose the Quantile Option Architecture (QUOTA) for exploration based on recent advances in distributional reinforcement learning (RL).

Decision Making Distributional Reinforcement Learning +3

Growing Story Forest Online from Massive Breaking News

1 code implementation1 Mar 2018 Bang Liu, Di Niu, Kunfeng Lai, Linglong Kong, Yu Xu

We describe our experience of implementing a news content organization system at Tencent that discovers events from vast streams of breaking news and evolves news story structures in an online fashion.

Graph Generation Information Threading

Expectile Matrix Factorization for Skewed Data Analysis

no code implementations7 Jun 2016 Rui Zhu, Di Niu, Linglong Kong, Zongpeng Li

Matrix factorization is a popular approach to solving matrix estimation problems based on partial observations.

Local Region Sparse Learning for Image-on-Scalar Regression

no code implementations27 May 2016 Yao Chen, Xiao Wang, Linglong Kong, Hongtu Zhu

Identification of regions of interest (ROI) associated with certain disease has a great impact on public health.

regression Sparse Learning

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