Search Results for author: Qi Zhang

Found 388 papers, 153 papers with code

Optimality of Graphlet Screening in High Dimensional Variable Selection

no code implementations29 Apr 2012 Jiashun Jin, Cun-Hui Zhang, Qi Zhang

Compared to m-variate brute-forth screening that has a computational cost of p^m, the GS only has a computational cost of p (up to some multi-log(p) factors) in screening.

Variable Selection Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Distance function of D numbers

no code implementations13 Apr 2014 Meizhu Li, Qi Zhang, Xinyang Deng, Yong Deng

A distance function of D numbers is proposed to measure the distance between two D numbers.

100+ Times Faster Weighted Median Filter (WMF)

no code implementations CVPR 2014 Qi Zhang, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia

Weighted median, in the form of either solver or filter, has been employed in a wide range of computer vision solutions for its beneficial properties in sparsity representation.

2D Semantic Segmentation task 1 (8 classes) Optical Flow Estimation +2

Multiscale probability transformation of basic probability assignment

no code implementations6 Jun 2014 Meizhu Li, Qi Zhang, Yong Deng

In this paper, multiscale probability transformation of basic probability assignment based on the belief function and the plausibility function is proposed, which is a generalization of the pignistic probability transformation.

Decision Making

Learning Word Embeddings from Intrinsic and Extrinsic Views

no code implementations20 Aug 2016 Jifan Chen, Kan Chen, Xipeng Qiu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Zheng Zhang

To prove the effectiveness of our model, we evaluate it on four tasks, including word similarity, reverse dictionaries, Wiki link prediction, and document classification.

Descriptive Document Classification +4

Hashtag Recommendation Using End-To-End Memory Networks with Hierarchical Attention

no code implementations COLING 2016 Haoran Huang, Qi Zhang, Yeyun Gong, Xuanjing Huang

By incorporating the hierarchical attention mechanism, the relative improvement in the proposed method over the state-of-the-art method is around 67. 9{\%} in the F1-score.

Collaborative Filtering General Classification +3

Minimizing Maximum Regret in Commitment Constrained Sequential Decision Making

no code implementations14 Mar 2017 Qi Zhang, Satinder Singh, Edmund Durfee

In cooperative multiagent planning, it can often be beneficial for an agent to make commitments about aspects of its behavior to others, allowing them in turn to plan their own behaviors without taking the agent's detailed behavior into account.

Decision Making

4D Light Field Superpixel and Segmentation

no code implementations CVPR 2017 Hao Zhu, Qi Zhang, Qing Wang

Superpixel segmentation of 2D image has been widely used in many computer vision tasks.

Segmentation

Variational Bayesian Line Spectral Estimation with Multiple Measurement Vectors

no code implementations17 Mar 2018 Jiang Zhu, Qi Zhang, Peter Gerstoft, Mihai-Alin Badiu, Zhiwei Xu

In this paper, the line spectral estimation (LSE) problem with multiple measurement vectors (MMVs) is studied utilizing the Bayesian methods.

Information Theory Information Theory

Hybrid Point Cloud Attribute Compression Using Slice-based Layered Structure and Block-based Intra Prediction

no code implementations28 Apr 2018 Yiting Shao, Qi Zhang, Ge Li, Zhu Li

In intra-frame compression of point cloud color attributes, results demonstrate that our method performs better than the state-of-the-art region-adaptive hierarchical transform (RAHT) system, and on average a 29. 37$\%$ BD-rate gain is achieved.

Multimedia

Dynamic Feature Learning for Partial Face Recognition

no code implementations CVPR 2018 Lingxiao He, Haiqing Li, Qi Zhang, Zhenan Sun

Partial face recognition (PFR) in unconstrained environment is a very important task, especially in video surveillance, mobile devices, etc.

Face Recognition

A Generic Multi-Projection-Center Model and Calibration Method for Light Field Cameras

no code implementations7 Aug 2018 Qi Zhang, Chunping Zhang, Jinbo Ling, Qing Wang, Jingyi Yu

Based on the MPC model and projective transformation, we propose a calibration algorithm to verify our light field camera model.

3D Reconstruction

Vector Approximate Message Passing Algorithm for Structured Perturbed Sensing Matrix

no code implementations26 Aug 2018 Jiang Zhu, Qi Zhang, Xiangming Meng, Zhiwei Xu

In this paper, we consider a general form of noisy compressive sensing (CS) where the sensing matrix is not precisely known.

Signal Processing

Predicting protein inter-residue contacts using composite likelihood maximization and deep learning

1 code implementation31 Aug 2018 Haicang Zhang, Qi Zhang, Fusong Ju, Jianwei Zhu, Yujuan Gao, Ziwei Xie, Minghua Deng, Shiwei Sun, Wei-Mou Zheng, Dongbo Bu

We further present successful application of the predicted contacts to accurately build tertiary structures for proteins in the PSICOV dataset.

Transferring from Formal Newswire Domain with Hypernet for Twitter POS Tagging

no code implementations EMNLP 2018 Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Jingjing Gong, Minlong Peng, Di Liang, Keyu Ding, Xuanjing Huang

However, from a linguistic perspective, Twitter users not only tend to mimic the formal expressions of traditional media, like news, but they also appear to be developing linguistically informal styles.

Domain Adaptation Multi-Task Learning +4

A Survey: Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access with Compressed Sensing Multiuser Detection for mMTC

no code implementations12 Oct 2018 Mehmood Alam, Qi Zhang

One objective of the 5G communication system and beyond is to support massive machine type of communication (mMTC) to propel the fast growth of diverse Internet of Things use cases.

Compressive Sensing

A Comparative Measurement Study of Deep Learning as a Service Framework

1 code implementation29 Oct 2018 Yanzhao Wu, Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wenqi Cao, Semih Sahin, Wenqi Wei, Qi Zhang

Big data powered Deep Learning (DL) and its applications have blossomed in recent years, fueled by three technological trends: a large amount of digitized data openly accessible, a growing number of DL software frameworks in open source and commercial markets, and a selection of affordable parallel computing hardware devices.

Long Short-Term Memory with Dynamic Skip Connections

1 code implementation9 Nov 2018 Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Lujun Zhao, Yaosong Lin, Minlong Peng, Jingjing Gong, Xuanjing Huang

In recent years, long short-term memory (LSTM) has been successfully used to model sequential data of variable length.

Named Entity Recognition (NER) Sentiment Analysis

Learning Fast Matching Models from Weak Annotations

no code implementations30 Jan 2019 Xue Li, Zhipeng Luo, Hao Sun, Jianjin Zhang, Weihao Han, Xianqi Chu, Liangjie Zhang, Qi Zhang

The proposed training framework targets on mitigating both issues, by treating the stronger but undeployable models as annotators, and learning a deployable model from both human provided relevance labels and weakly annotated search log data.

A Unified Framework for Marketing Budget Allocation

no code implementations4 Feb 2019 Kui Zhao, Junhao Hua, Ling Yan, Qi Zhang, Huan Xu, Cheng Yang

In our approach, a semi-black-box model is built to forecast the dynamic market response and an efficient optimization method is proposed to solve the complex allocation task.

Decision Making Marketing

Sogou Machine Reading Comprehension Toolkit

1 code implementation28 Mar 2019 Jindou Wu, Yunlun Yang, Chao Deng, Hongyi Tang, Bingning Wang, Haoze Sun, Ting Yao, Qi Zhang

In this paper, we present a Sogou Machine Reading Comprehension (SMRC) toolkit that can be used to provide the fast and efficient development of modern machine comprehension models, including both published models and original prototypes.

Machine Reading Comprehension

Authenticated Key-Value Stores with Hardware Enclaves

no code implementations26 Apr 2019 Yuzhe Tang, Ju Chen, Kai Li, Jianliang Xu, Qi Zhang

To circumvent the limited enclave memory (128 MB with the latest Intel CPUs), we propose to place the memory buffer of the eLSM store outside the enclave and protect the buffer using a new authenticated data structure by digesting individual LSM-tree levels.

Cryptography and Security Databases Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Data Structures and Algorithms

Address Instance-level Label Prediction in Multiple Instance Learning

no code implementations29 May 2019 Minlong Peng, Qi Zhang

Existent approaches in this field were mainly designed for the bag-level label prediction (predict labels for bags) but not the instance-level (predict labels for instances), with the task loss being only defined at the bag level.

Multiple Instance Learning

Ray-Space Projection Model for Light Field Camera

no code implementations CVPR 2019 Qi Zhang, Jinbo Ling, Qing Wang, Jingyi Yu

A homogeneous ray-space projection matrix and a fundamental matrix are then proposed to establish ray-ray correspondences among multiple light fields.

Camera Calibration

Wide-Area Crowd Counting via Ground-Plane Density Maps and Multi-View Fusion CNNs

no code implementations CVPR 2019 Qi Zhang, Antoni B. Chan

Crowd counting in single-view images has achieved outstanding performance on existing counting datasets.

Crowd Counting

Time-Series Anomaly Detection Service at Microsoft

3 code implementations10 Jun 2019 Hansheng Ren, Bixiong Xu, Yujing Wang, Chao Yi, Congrui Huang, Xiaoyu Kou, Tony Xing, Mao Yang, Jie Tong, Qi Zhang

At Microsoft, we develop a time-series anomaly detection service which helps customers to monitor the time-series continuously and alert for potential incidents on time.

Anomaly Detection Saliency Detection +2

Joint State Estimation Under Attack of Discrete Event Systems

no code implementations12 Jun 2019 Qi Zhang, Carla Seatzu, Zhiwu Li, Alessandro Giua

The aim of the attacker is that of altering the state estimation of the operator.

Cryptography and Security Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Image Super-Resolution Using a Wavelet-based Generative Adversarial Network

1 code implementation24 Jul 2019 Qi Zhang, Huafeng Wang, Sichen Yang

Existing work like Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network (SRGAN) can effectively restore the texture details of the image.

Generative Adversarial Network Image Super-Resolution

Person Re-identification in Aerial Imagery

1 code implementation14 Aug 2019 Shizhou Zhang, Qi Zhang, Yifei Yang, Xing Wei, Peng Wang, Bingliang Jiao, Yanning Zhang

Our method can learn a discriminative and compact feature representation for ReID in aerial imagery and can be trained in an end-to-end fashion efficiently.

object-detection Object Detection +1

Simplify the Usage of Lexicon in Chinese NER

2 code implementations ACL 2020 Ruotian Ma, Minlong Peng, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

This method avoids designing a complicated sequence modeling architecture, and for any neural NER model, it requires only subtle adjustment of the character representation layer to introduce the lexicon information.

Chinese Named Entity Recognition named-entity-recognition +2

Efficient Communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Variance Based Control

2 code implementations NeurIPS 2019 Sai Qian Zhang, Qi Zhang, Jieyu Lin

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has recently received considerable attention due to its applicability to a wide range of real-world applications.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +3

Self-driving scale car trained by Deep reinforcement learning

no code implementations8 Sep 2019 Qi Zhang, Tao Du, Changzheng Tian

To improve the generalization ability for the driving behavior, the reinforcement learning method requires extrinsic reward from the real environment, which may damage the car.

Autonomous Driving Q-Learning +3

Weighed Domain-Invariant Representation Learning for Cross-domain Sentiment Analysis

no code implementations COLING 2020 Minlong Peng, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

To address this problem, we propose a modification to DIRL, obtaining a novel weighted domain-invariant representation learning (WDIRL) framework.

Domain Adaptation Representation Learning +1

A Lexicon-Based Graph Neural Network for Chinese NER

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Tao Gui, Yicheng Zou, Qi Zhang, Minlong Peng, Jinlan Fu, Zhongyu Wei, Xuanjing Huang

Recurrent neural networks (RNN) used for Chinese named entity recognition (NER) that sequentially track character and word information have achieved great success.

Chinese Named Entity Recognition named-entity-recognition +3

Asynchronous Deep Interaction Network for Natural Language Inference

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Di Liang, Fubao Zhang, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

However, in the process of reasoning, the role of the two sentences is obviously different, and the sentence pairs for NLI are asymmetrical corpora.

Natural Language Inference Sentence

Discrete Argument Representation Learning for Interactive Argument Pair Identification

1 code implementation NAACL 2021 Lu Ji, Zhongyu Wei, Jing Li, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

In this paper, we focus on extracting interactive argument pairs from two posts with opposite stances to a certain topic.

Representation Learning

Constructing Multiple Tasks for Augmentation: Improving Neural Image Classification With K-means Features

1 code implementation18 Nov 2019 Tao Gui, Lizhi Qing, Qi Zhang, Jiacheng Ye, HangYan, Zichu Fei, Xuanjing Huang

In order to effectively reduce the impact of non-ideal auxiliary tasks on the main task, we further proposed a novel meta-learning-based multi-task learning approach, which trained the shared hidden layers on auxiliary tasks, while the meta-optimization objective was to minimize the loss on the main task, ensuring that the optimizing direction led to an improvement on the main task.

Clustering Data Augmentation +4

A Machine Learning-enhanced Robust P-Phase Picker for Real-time Seismic Monitoring

no code implementations21 Nov 2019 Dazhong Shen, Qi Zhang, Tong Xu, HengShu Zhu, Wenjia Zhao, Zikai Yin, Peilun Zhou, Lihua Fang, Enhong Chen, Hui Xiong

To this end, in this paper, we present a machine learning-enhanced framework based on ensemble learning strategy, EL-Picker, for the automatic identification of seismic P-phase arrivals on continuous and massive waveforms.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Ensemble Learning

Grid-less Variational Direction of Arrival Estimation in Heteroscedastic Noise Environment

no code implementations26 Dec 2019 Qi Zhang, Jiang Zhu, Yuantao Gu, Zhiwei Xu

This paper studies DOA in heteroscedastic noise (HN) environment, where the variance of noise is varied across the snapshots and the antennas.

Direction of Arrival Estimation

Rethinking Generalization of Neural Models: A Named Entity Recognition Case Study

1 code implementation12 Jan 2020 Jinlan Fu, PengFei Liu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

While neural network-based models have achieved impressive performance on a large body of NLP tasks, the generalization behavior of different models remains poorly understood: Does this excellent performance imply a perfect generalization model, or are there still some limitations?

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +1

3D Crowd Counting via Multi-View Fusion with 3D Gaussian Kernels

no code implementations18 Mar 2020 Qi Zhang, Antoni B. Chan

Unlike MVMS, we propose to solve the multi-view crowd counting task through 3D feature fusion with 3D scene-level density maps, instead of the 2D ground-plane ones.

Crowd Counting

Spatio-Temporal Graph Structure Learning for Traffic Forecasting

no code implementations AAAI 2020 Qi Zhang, Jianlong Chang, Gaofeng Meng, Shiming Xiang, Chunhong Pan

To address these issues, we propose a novel framework named Structure Learning Convolution (SLC) that enables to extend the traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) to graph domains and learn the graph structure for traffic forecasting.

Graph structure learning Time Series +2

Storytelling from an Image Stream Using Scene Graphs

no code implementations The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020 Ruize Wang, Zhongyu Wei, Piji Li, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

In particular, on the within-image level, we employ a Graph Convolution Network (GCN) to enrich local fine-grained region representations of objects on scene graphs.

Visual Storytelling

Context-Aware Attention Network for Image-Text Retrieval

no code implementations CVPR 2020 Qi Zhang, Zhen Lei, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Stan Z. Li

As a typical cross-modal problem, image-text bi-directional retrieval relies heavily on the joint embedding learning and similarity measure for each image-text pair.

Retrieval Text Retrieval

ReCO: A Large Scale Chinese Reading Comprehension Dataset on Opinion

1 code implementation22 Jun 2020 BingningWang, Ting Yao, Qi Zhang, Jingfang Xu, Xiaochuan Wang

The release of ReCO consists of 300k questions that to our knowledge is the largest in Chinese reading comprehension.

Causal Inference Chinese Reading Comprehension +3

Single-Frame based Deep View Synchronization for Unsynchronized Multi-Camera Surveillance

no code implementations8 Jul 2020 Qi Zhang, Antoni B. Chan

To handle the issue of unsynchronized multi-cameras, in this paper, we propose a synchronization model that works in conjunction with existing DNN-based multi-view models, thus avoiding the redesign of the whole model.

3D Pose Estimation 3D Reconstruction

Bitcoin Transaction Forecasting with Deep Network Representation Learning

no code implementations15 Jul 2020 Wenqi Wei, Qi Zhang, Ling Liu

First, we explore three interesting properties between Bitcoin transaction accounts: topological connectivity pattern of Bitcoin accounts, transaction amount pattern, and transaction dynamics.

Representation Learning

Two Step Joint Model for Drug Drug Interaction Extraction

no code implementations28 Aug 2020 Siliang Tang, Qi Zhang, Tianpeng Zheng, Mengdi Zhou, Zhan Chen, Lixing Shen, Xiang Ren, Yueting Zhuang, ShiLiang Pu, Fei Wu

When patients need to take medicine, particularly taking more than one kind of drug simultaneously, they should be alarmed that there possibly exists drug-drug interaction.

Drug–drug Interaction Extraction named-entity-recognition +4

Multivariate Time-series Anomaly Detection via Graph Attention Network

2 code implementations4 Sep 2020 Hang Zhao, Yujing Wang, Juanyong Duan, Congrui Huang, Defu Cao, Yunhai Tong, Bixiong Xu, Jing Bai, Jie Tong, Qi Zhang

Anomaly detection on multivariate time-series is of great importance in both data mining research and industrial applications.

Anomaly Detection Graph Attention +3

BARS-CTR: Open Benchmarking for Click-Through Rate Prediction

5 code implementations12 Sep 2020 Jieming Zhu, Jinyang Liu, Shuai Yang, Qi Zhang, Xiuqiang He

We have publicly released the benchmarking code, evaluation protocols, and hyper-parameter settings of our work to promote reproducible research in this field.

Benchmarking Click-Through Rate Prediction +1

Decomposition and Adaptive Sampling for Data-Driven Inverse Linear Optimization

1 code implementation16 Sep 2020 Rishabh Gupta, Qi Zhang

This work addresses inverse linear optimization where the goal is to infer the unknown cost vector of a linear program.

Multi-Constitutive Neural Network for Large Deformation Poromechanics Problem

no code implementations11 Oct 2020 Qi Zhang, Yilin Chen, ZiYi Yang, Eric Darve

We propose a novel method "multi-constitutive neural network" (MCNN) such that one model can solve several different constitutive laws.

Succinct and Robust Multi-Agent Communication With Temporal Message Control

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2020 Sai Qian Zhang, Jieyu Lin, Qi Zhang

Recent studies have shown that introducing communication between agents can significantly improve overall performance in cooperative Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL).

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

AbdomenCT-1K: Is Abdominal Organ Segmentation A Solved Problem?

1 code implementation28 Oct 2020 Jun Ma, Yao Zhang, Song Gu, Cheng Zhu, Cheng Ge, Yichi Zhang, Xingle An, Congcong Wang, Qiyuan Wang, Xin Liu, Shucheng Cao, Qi Zhang, Shangqing Liu, Yunpeng Wang, Yuhui Li, Jian He, Xiaoping Yang

With the unprecedented developments in deep learning, automatic segmentation of main abdominal organs seems to be a solved problem as state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods have achieved comparable results with inter-rater variability on many benchmark datasets.

Continual Learning Organ Segmentation +2

RethinkCWS: Is Chinese Word Segmentation a Solved Task?

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Jinlan Fu, PengFei Liu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

The performance of the Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS) systems has gradually reached a plateau with the rapid development of deep neural networks, especially the successful use of large pre-trained models.

Chinese Word Segmentation

Modeling Evolution of Message Interaction for Rumor Resolution

no code implementations COLING 2020 Lei Chen, Zhongyu Wei, Jing Li, Baohua Zhou, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

Previous work for rumor resolution concentrates on exploiting time-series characteristics or modeling topology structure separately.

Time Series Time Series Analysis

Wide-Area Crowd Counting: Multi-View Fusion Networks for Counting in Large Scenes

1 code implementation2 Dec 2020 Qi Zhang, Antoni B. Chan

We consider three versions of the fusion framework: the late fusion model fuses camera-view density map; the naive early fusion model fuses camera-view feature maps; and the multi-view multi-scale early fusion model ensures that features aligned to the same ground-plane point have consistent scales.

Crowd Counting

Study of $qqq\bar{q}Q$ pentaquark system in the Chiral Quark Model

no code implementations3 Dec 2020 Qi Zhang, Xiao-Huang Hu, Bing-Ran He, Jia-Lun Ping

With the discovery of some hidden-charm pentaquark resonances by the LHCb Collaboration, investigations of pentaquark states containing heavy quarks have aroused the interest of theorists.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

SenSeNet: Neural Keyphrase Generation with Document Structure

no code implementations12 Dec 2020 Yichao Luo, Zhengyan Li, Bingning Wang, Xiaoyu Xing, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

Keyphrase Generation (KG) is the task of generating central topics from a given document or literary work, which captures the crucial information necessary to understand the content.

Inductive Bias Keyphrase Generation +1

Topic-Oriented Spoken Dialogue Summarization for Customer Service with Saliency-Aware Topic Modeling

1 code implementation14 Dec 2020 Yicheng Zou, Lujun Zhao, Yangyang Kang, Jun Lin, Minlong Peng, Zhuoren Jiang, Changlong Sun, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Xiaozhong Liu

In a customer service system, dialogue summarization can boost service efficiency by automatically creating summaries for long spoken dialogues in which customers and agents try to address issues about specific topics.

Efficient Querying for Cooperative Probabilistic Commitments

no code implementations14 Dec 2020 Qi Zhang, Edmund H. Durfee, Satinder Singh

Multiagent systems can use commitments as the core of a general coordination infrastructure, supporting both cooperative and non-cooperative interactions.

Uncertainty-Aware Label Refinement for Sequence Labeling

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Tao Gui, Jiacheng Ye, Qi Zhang, Zhengyan Li, Zichu Fei, Yeyun Gong, Xuanjing Huang

Conditional random fields (CRF) for label decoding has become ubiquitous in sequence labeling tasks.

Discovery of unconventional chiral charge order in kagome superconductor KV3Sb5

no code implementations31 Dec 2020 Yu-Xiao Jiang, Jia-Xin Yin, M. Michael Denner, Nana Shumiya, Brenden R. Ortiz, Junyi He, Xiaoxiong Liu, Songtian S. Zhang, Guoqing Chang, Ilya Belopolski, Qi Zhang, Md Shafayat Hossain, Tyler A. Cochran, Daniel Multer, Maksim Litskevich, Zi-Jia Cheng, Xian P. Yang, Zurab Guguchia, Gang Xu, Ziqiang Wang, Titus Neupert, Stephen D. Wilson, M. Zahid Hasan

Here we use high-resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) to discover an unconventional charge order in a kagome material KV3Sb5, with both a topological band structure and a superconducting ground state.

Superconductivity Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons

Thermodynamic properties of ε-Fe with thermal electronic excitation effects on vibrational spectra

no code implementations1 Feb 2021 Jingyi Zhuang, Hongjin Wang, Qi Zhang, Renata M. Wentzcovitch

The thermodynamic properties of hcp-iron ({\epsilon}-Fe) are essential for investigating planetary cores' internal structure and dynamic properties.

Materials Science Computational Physics

BRECQ: Pushing the Limit of Post-Training Quantization by Block Reconstruction

3 code implementations ICLR 2021 Yuhang Li, Ruihao Gong, Xu Tan, Yang Yang, Peng Hu, Qi Zhang, Fengwei Yu, Wei Wang, Shi Gu

To further employ the power of quantization, the mixed precision technique is incorporated in our framework by approximating the inter-layer and intra-layer sensitivity.

Image Classification object-detection +2

Knowledge Infused Policy Gradients for Adaptive Pandemic Control

no code implementations11 Feb 2021 Kaushik Roy, Qi Zhang, Manas Gaur, Amit Sheth

To this end, we introduce a mathematical framework for KIPG methods that can (a) induce relevant feature counts over multi-relational features of the world, (b) handle latent non-homogeneous counts as hidden variables that are linear combinations of kernelized aggregates over the features, and (b) infuse knowledge as functional constraints in a principled manner.

Decision Making

Deep-AIR: A Hybrid CNN-LSTM Framework for Air Quality Modeling in Metropolitan Cities

no code implementations25 Mar 2021 Yang Han, Qi Zhang, Victor O. K. Li, Jacqueline C. K. Lam

Our proposed framework creates 1x1 convolution layers to strengthen the learning of cross-feature spatial interaction between air pollution and important urban dynamic features, particularly road density, building density/height, and street canyon effect.

Larger-Context Tagging: When and Why Does It Work?

no code implementations NAACL 2021 Jinlan Fu, Liangjing Feng, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, PengFei Liu

The development of neural networks and pretraining techniques has spawned many sentence-level tagging systems that achieved superior performance on typical benchmarks.

Attribute Sentence

Who Responded to Whom: The Joint Effects of Latent Topics and Discourse in Conversation Structure

no code implementations17 Apr 2021 Lu Ji, Jing Li, Zhongyu Wei, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

Numerous online conversations are produced on a daily basis, resulting in a pressing need to conversation understanding.

Keyphrase Generation with Fine-Grained Evaluation-Guided Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Yichao Luo, Yige Xu, Jiacheng Ye, Xipeng Qiu, Qi Zhang

In response to this problem, we propose a new fine-grained evaluation metric to improve the RL framework, which considers different granularities: token-level $F_1$ score, edit distance, duplication, and prediction quantities.

Keyphrase Generation reinforcement-learning +1

Improving the Accuracy of Early Exits in Multi-Exit Architectures via Curriculum Learning

no code implementations21 Apr 2021 Arian Bakhtiarnia, Qi Zhang, Alexandros Iosifidis

Deploying deep learning services for time-sensitive and resource-constrained settings such as IoT using edge computing systems is a challenging task that requires dynamic adjustment of inference time.

Edge-computing

AdsGNN: Behavior-Graph Augmented Relevance Modeling in Sponsored Search

1 code implementation25 Apr 2021 Chaozhuo Li, Bochen Pang, Yuming Liu, Hao Sun, Zheng Liu, Xing Xie, Tianqi Yang, Yanling Cui, Liangjie Zhang, Qi Zhang

Our motivation lies in incorporating the tremendous amount of unsupervised user behavior data from the historical search logs as the complementary graph to facilitate relevance modeling.

Marketing

Single-Layer Vision Transformers for More Accurate Early Exits with Less Overhead

no code implementations19 May 2021 Arian Bakhtiarnia, Qi Zhang, Alexandros Iosifidis

Deploying deep learning models in time-critical applications with limited computational resources, for instance in edge computing systems and IoT networks, is a challenging task that often relies on dynamic inference methods such as early exiting.

Audio Classification Crowd Counting +1

One2Set: Generating Diverse Keyphrases as a Set

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Jiacheng Ye, Tao Gui, Yichao Luo, Yige Xu, Qi Zhang

In this work, we propose a new training paradigm One2Set without predefining an order to concatenate the keyphrases.

Keyphrase Generation

SENT: Sentence-level Distant Relation Extraction via Negative Training

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Ruotian Ma, Tao Gui, Linyang Li, Qi Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang

In this work, we propose the use of negative training (NT), in which a model is trained using complementary labels regarding that ``the instance does not belong to these complementary labels".

Relation Relation Extraction +1

Knowledge Infused Policy Gradients with Upper Confidence Bound for Relational Bandits

no code implementations25 Jun 2021 Kaushik Roy, Qi Zhang, Manas Gaur, Amit Sheth

Contextual Bandits find important use cases in various real-life scenarios such as online advertising, recommendation systems, healthcare, etc.

Descriptive Multi-Armed Bandits +2

Multi-Exit Vision Transformer for Dynamic Inference

no code implementations29 Jun 2021 Arian Bakhtiarnia, Qi Zhang, Alexandros Iosifidis

In this work, we propose seven different architectures for early exit branches that can be used for dynamic inference in Vision Transformer backbones.

Edge-computing

Sleep Staging Based on Multi Scale Dual Attention Network

no code implementations18 Jul 2021 Huafeng Wang, Chonggang Lu, Qi Zhang, Zhimin Hu, Xiaodong Yuan, Pingshu Zhang, Wanquan Liu

In the literature, a large number of sleep staging methods based on single-channel EEG have been proposed with promising results and achieve the preliminary automation of sleep staging.

EEG Sleep Staging

MedAI at SemEval-2021 Task 10: Negation-aware Pre-training for Source-free Negation Detection Domain Adaptation

no code implementations SEMEVAL 2021 Jinquan Sun, Qi Zhang, Yu Wang, Lei Zhang

Due to the increasing concerns for data privacy, source-free unsupervised domain adaptation attracts more and more research attention, where only a trained source model is assumed to be available, while the labeled source data remain private.

Negation Negation Detection +2

Math Word Problem Solving with Explicit Numerical Values

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Qinzhuo Wu, Qi Zhang, Zhongyu Wei, Xuanjing Huang

In recent years, math word problem solving has received considerable attention and achieved promising results, but previous methods rarely take numerical values into consideration.

Math Math Word Problem Solving

MeDiaQA: A Question Answering Dataset on Medical Dialogues

no code implementations18 Aug 2021 Huqun Suri, Qi Zhang, Wenhua Huo, Yan Liu, Chunsheng Guan

In this paper, we introduce MeDiaQA, a novel question answering(QA) dataset, which constructed on real online Medical Dialogues.

Multiple-choice Question Answering

Searching for an Effective Defender: Benchmarking Defense against Adversarial Word Substitution

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Zongyi Li, Jianhan Xu, Jiehang Zeng, Linyang Li, Xiaoqing Zheng, Qi Zhang, Kai-Wei Chang, Cho-Jui Hsieh

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to intentionally crafted adversarial examples, and various methods have been proposed to defend against adversarial word-substitution attacks for neural NLP models.

Benchmarking

Low-Resource Dialogue Summarization with Domain-Agnostic Multi-Source Pretraining

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Yicheng Zou, Bolin Zhu, Xingwu Hu, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang

With the rapid increase in the volume of dialogue data from daily life, there is a growing demand for dialogue summarization.

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Keyphrase Generation

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Jiacheng Ye, Ruijian Cai, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang

The encoder-decoder framework achieves state-of-the-art results in keyphrase generation (KG) tasks by predicting both present keyphrases that appear in the source document and absent keyphrases that do not.

Keyphrase Generation

A Relation-Oriented Clustering Method for Open Relation Extraction

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Jun Zhao, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Yaqian Zhou

The clustering-based unsupervised relation discovery method has gradually become one of the important methods of open relation extraction (OpenRE).

Clustering Relation +1

Why Do We Click: Visual Impression-aware News Recommendation

1 code implementation26 Sep 2021 Jiahao Xun, Shengyu Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Jieming Zhu, Qi Zhang, Jingjie Li, Xiuqiang He, Xiaofei He, Tat-Seng Chua, Fei Wu

In this work, inspired by the fact that users make their click decisions mostly based on the visual impression they perceive when browsing news, we propose to capture such visual impression information with visual-semantic modeling for news recommendation.

Decision Making News Recommendation

Template-free Prompt Tuning for Few-shot NER

1 code implementation NAACL 2022 Ruotian Ma, Xin Zhou, Tao Gui, Yiding Tan, Linyang Li, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

Prompt-based methods have been successfully applied in sentence-level few-shot learning tasks, mostly owing to the sophisticated design of templates and label words.

Few-Shot Learning Few-shot NER +1

Post-Training Quantization Is All You Need to Perform Cross-Platform Learned Image Compression

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Dailan He, Ziming Yang, Yan Wang, Yuan Chen, Qi Zhang, Hongwei Qin

It has been witnessed that learned image compression has outperformed conventional image coding techniques and tends to be practical in industrial applications.

Image Compression Quantization

Chaos is a Ladder: A New Understanding of Contrastive Learning

no code implementations ICLR 2022 Yifei Wang, Qi Zhang, Yisen Wang, Jiansheng Yang, Zhouchen Lin

Our work suggests an alternative understanding of contrastive learning: the role of aligning positive samples is more like a surrogate task than an ultimate goal, and it is the overlapping augmented views (i. e., the chaos) that create a ladder for contrastive learning to gradually learn class-separated representations.

Contrastive Learning Self-Supervised Learning

Robust High-Dimensional Regression with Coefficient Thresholding and its Application to Imaging Data Analysis

no code implementations30 Sep 2021 Bingyuan Liu, Qi Zhang, Lingzhou Xue, Peter X. K. Song, Jian Kang

It is of importance to develop statistical techniques to analyze high-dimensional data in the presence of both complex dependence and possible outliers in real-world applications such as imaging data analyses.

regression

Dimension Reduction for Fréchet Regression

no code implementations1 Oct 2021 Qi Zhang, Lingzhou Xue, Bing Li

In this paper, we introduce a flexible sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) method for Fr\'echet regression to achieve two purposes: to mitigate the curse of dimensionality caused by high-dimensional predictors and to provide a visual inspection tool for Fr\'echet regression.

Data Visualization Dimensionality Reduction +1

SAM: A Self-adaptive Attention Module for Context-Aware Recommendation System

no code implementations1 Oct 2021 Jiabin Liu, Zheng Wei, Zhengpin Li, Xiaojun Mao, Jian Wang, Zhongyu Wei, Qi Zhang

In this work, we propose a novel and general self-adaptive module, the Self-adaptive Attention Module (SAM), which adjusts the selection bias by capturing contextual information based on its representation.

Recommendation Systems Representation Learning +1

Plug-Tagger: A Pluggable Sequence Labeling Framework Using Language Models

no code implementations14 Oct 2021 Xin Zhou, Ruotian Ma, Tao Gui, Yiding Tan, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

Specifically, for each task, a label word set is first constructed by selecting a high-frequency word for each class respectively, and then, task-specific vectors are inserted into the inputs and optimized to manipulate the model predictions towards the corresponding label words.

Language Modelling Text Generation

Improving Non-autoregressive Generation with Mixup Training

1 code implementation21 Oct 2021 Ting Jiang, Shaohan Huang, Zihan Zhang, Deqing Wang, Fuzhen Zhuang, Furu Wei, Haizhen Huang, Liangjie Zhang, Qi Zhang

While pre-trained language models have achieved great success on various natural language understanding tasks, how to effectively leverage them into non-autoregressive generation tasks remains a challenge.

Natural Language Understanding Paraphrase Generation +2

MQBench: Towards Reproducible and Deployable Model Quantization Benchmark

1 code implementation5 Nov 2021 Yuhang Li, Mingzhu Shen, Jian Ma, Yan Ren, Mingxin Zhao, Qi Zhang, Ruihao Gong, Fengwei Yu, Junjie Yan

Surprisingly, no existing algorithm wins every challenge in MQBench, and we hope this work could inspire future research directions.

Quantization

Deblur-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry Images

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Li Ma, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao, Qi Zhang, Xuan Wang, Jue Wang, Pedro V. Sander

We demonstrate that our method can be used on both camera motion blur and defocus blur: the two most common types of blur in real scenes.

3D Scene Reconstruction Novel View Synthesis

HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields

no code implementations CVPR 2022 Xin Huang, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Hongdong Li, Xuan Wang, Qing Wang

The key to our method is to model the physical imaging process, which dictates that the radiance of a scene point transforms to a pixel value in the LDR image with two implicit functions: a radiance field and a tone mapper.

Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Hallucinated Neural Radiance Fields in the Wild

no code implementations CVPR 2022 Xingyu Chen, Qi Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Yue Chen, Ying Feng, Xuan Wang, Jue Wang

This paper studies the problem of hallucinated NeRF: i. e., recovering a realistic NeRF at a different time of day from a group of tourism images.

Hallucination Novel View Synthesis

A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Efficient Client Selection in Federated Learning

no code implementations9 Jan 2022 Sai Qian Zhang, Jieyu Lin, Qi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a training technique that enables client devices to jointly learn a shared model by aggregating locally-computed models without exposing their raw data.

Federated Learning Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning +2

Progressively Optimized Bi-Granular Document Representation for Scalable Embedding Based Retrieval

2 code implementations14 Jan 2022 Shitao Xiao, Zheng Liu, Weihao Han, Jianjin Zhang, Yingxia Shao, Defu Lian, Chaozhuo Li, Hao Sun, Denvy Deng, Liangjie Zhang, Qi Zhang, Xing Xie

In this work, we tackle this problem with Bi-Granular Document Representation, where the lightweight sparse embeddings are indexed and standby in memory for coarse-grained candidate search, and the heavyweight dense embeddings are hosted in disk for fine-grained post verification.

Quantization Retrieval

Post-Training Quantization for Cross-Platform Learned Image Compression

no code implementations15 Feb 2022 Dailan He, Ziming Yang, Yuan Chen, Qi Zhang, Hongwei Qin, Yan Wang

It has been witnessed that learned image compression has outperformed conventional image coding techniques and tends to be practical in industrial applications.

Image Compression Quantization

Decorrelate Irrelevant, Purify Relevant: Overcome Textual Spurious Correlations from a Feature Perspective

2 code implementations COLING 2022 Shihan Dou, Rui Zheng, Ting Wu, Songyang Gao, Junjie Shan, Qi Zhang, Yueming Wu, Xuanjing Huang

Most of the existing debiasing methods often identify and weaken these samples with biased features (i. e., superficial surface features that cause such spurious correlations).

Fact Verification Natural Language Inference +1

HousE: Knowledge Graph Embedding with Householder Parameterization

1 code implementation16 Feb 2022 Rui Li, Jianan Zhao, Chaozhuo Li, Di He, Yiqi Wang, Yuming Liu, Hao Sun, Senzhang Wang, Weiwei Deng, Yanming Shen, Xing Xie, Qi Zhang

The effectiveness of knowledge graph embedding (KGE) largely depends on the ability to model intrinsic relation patterns and mapping properties.

Knowledge Graph Embedding Relation +1

Communication-Efficient Actor-Critic Methods for Homogeneous Markov Games

no code implementations ICLR 2022 Dingyang Chen, Yile Li, Qi Zhang

Recent success in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) relies on centralized training and policy sharing.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

An Effective Way for Cross-Market Recommendation with Hybrid Pre-Ranking and Ranking Models

1 code implementation2 Mar 2022 Qi Zhang, Zijian Yang, Yilun Huang, Jiarong He, Lixiang Wang

The Cross-Market Recommendation task of WSDM CUP 2022 is about finding solutions to improve individual recommendation systems in resource-scarce target markets by leveraging data from similar high-resource source markets.

feature selection Recommendation Systems

Divide and Conquer: Text Semantic Matching with Disentangled Keywords and Intents

1 code implementation Findings (ACL) 2022 Yicheng Zou, Hongwei Liu, Tao Gui, Junzhe Wang, Qi Zhang, Meng Tang, Haixiang Li, Daniel Wang

Text semantic matching is a fundamental task that has been widely used in various scenarios, such as community question answering, information retrieval, and recommendation.

Community Question Answering Information Retrieval +2

PEAR: Personalized Re-ranking with Contextualized Transformer for Recommendation

no code implementations23 Mar 2022 Yi Li, Jieming Zhu, Weiwen Liu, Liangcai Su, Guohao Cai, Qi Zhang, Ruiming Tang, Xi Xiao, Xiuqiang He

Specifically, PEAR not only captures feature-level and item-level interactions, but also models item contexts from both the initial ranking list and the historical clicked item list.

Recommendation Systems Re-Ranking

Chaos is a Ladder: A New Theoretical Understanding of Contrastive Learning via Augmentation Overlap

1 code implementation25 Mar 2022 Yifei Wang, Qi Zhang, Yisen Wang, Jiansheng Yang, Zhouchen Lin

Our theory suggests an alternative understanding of contrastive learning: the role of aligning positive samples is more like a surrogate task than an ultimate goal, and the overlapped augmented views (i. e., the chaos) create a ladder for contrastive learning to gradually learn class-separated representations.

Contrastive Learning Model Selection +1

UV Volumes for Real-time Rendering of Editable Free-view Human Performance

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Yue Chen, Xuan Wang, Xingyu Chen, Qi Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Yu Guo, Jue Wang, Fei Wang

Neural volume rendering enables photo-realistic renderings of a human performer in free-view, a critical task in immersive VR/AR applications.

CMMD: Cross-Metric Multi-Dimensional Root Cause Analysis

no code implementations30 Mar 2022 Shifu Yan, Caihua Shan, Wenyi Yang, Bixiong Xu, Dongsheng Li, Lili Qiu, Jie Tong, Qi Zhang

To this end, we propose a cross-metric multi-dimensional root cause analysis method, named CMMD, which consists of two key components: 1) relationship modeling, which utilizes graph neural network (GNN) to model the unknown complex calculation among metrics and aggregation function among dimensions from historical data; 2) root cause localization, which adopts the genetic algorithm to efficiently and effectively dive into the raw data and localize the abnormal dimension(s) once the KPI anomalies are detected.

PixelFolder: An Efficient Progressive Pixel Synthesis Network for Image Generation

1 code implementation2 Apr 2022 Jing He, Yiyi Zhou, Qi Zhang, Jun Peng, Yunhang Shen, Xiaoshuai Sun, Chao Chen, Rongrong Ji

Pixel synthesis is a promising research paradigm for image generation, which can well exploit pixel-wise prior knowledge for generation.

Image Generation regression

A Benchmark for Automatic Medical Consultation System: Frameworks, Tasks and Datasets

1 code implementation19 Apr 2022 Wei Chen, Zhiwei Li, Hongyi Fang, Qianyuan Yao, Cheng Zhong, Jianye Hao, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Jiajie Peng, Zhongyu Wei

In recent years, interest has arisen in using machine learning to improve the efficiency of automatic medical consultation and enhance patient experience.

Dialogue Act Classification Dialogue Understanding +4

Multi-view Information Bottleneck Without Variational Approximation

1 code implementation22 Apr 2022 Qi Zhang, Shujian Yu, Jingmin Xin, Badong Chen

By "intelligently" fusing the complementary information across different views, multi-view learning is able to improve the performance of classification tasks.

MULTI-VIEW LEARNING

Process Knowledge-infused Learning for Suicidality Assessment on Social Media

no code implementations26 Apr 2022 Kaushik Roy, Manas Gaur, Qi Zhang, Amit Sheth

Improving the performance and natural language explanations of deep learning algorithms is a priority for adoption by humans in the real world.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Rapid Phase Ambiguity Elimination Methods for DOA Estimator via Hybrid Massive MIMO Receive Array

no code implementations27 Apr 2022 Xichao Zhan, YiWen Chen, Feng Shu, Xin Cheng, Yuanyuan Wu, Qi Zhang, Yifang Li, Peng Zhang

In the proposed Max-RP-QI, a quadratic interpolation scheme is adopted to interpolate the three DOA values corresponding to the largest three receive powers of Max-RP.

Cross-View Cross-Scene Multi-View Crowd Counting

no code implementations CVPR 2021 Qi Zhang, Wei Lin, Antoni B. Chan

Multi-view crowd counting has been previously proposed to utilize multi-cameras to extend the field-of-view of a single camera, capturing more people in the scene, and improve counting performance for occluded people or those in low resolution.

Camera Calibration Crowd Counting

Sequential/Session-based Recommendations: Challenges, Approaches, Applications and Opportunities

no code implementations22 May 2022 Shoujin Wang, Qi Zhang, Liang Hu, Xiuzhen Zhang, Yan Wang, Charu Aggarwal

In recent years, sequential recommender systems (SRSs) and session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) have emerged as a new paradigm of RSs to capture users' short-term but dynamic preferences for enabling more timely and accurate recommendations.

Session-Based Recommendations

Dynamic Split Computing for Efficient Deep Edge Intelligence

no code implementations23 May 2022 Arian Bakhtiarnia, Nemanja Milošević, Qi Zhang, Dragana Bajović, Alexandros Iosifidis

Split computing is a paradigm where a DNN is split into two sections; the first section is executed on the end device, and the output is transmitted to the edge server where the final section is executed.

Edge-computing Hyperparameter Optimization

Enhancing Event-Level Sentiment Analysis with Structured Arguments

1 code implementation31 May 2022 Qi Zhang, Jie zhou, Qin Chen, Qinchun Bai, Liang He

Previous studies about event-level sentiment analysis (SA) usually model the event as a topic, a category or target terms, while the structured arguments (e. g., subject, object, time and location) that have potential effects on the sentiment are not well studied.

Event Extraction Sentiment Analysis

A Knowledge-Enhanced Adversarial Model for Cross-lingual Structured Sentiment Analysis

no code implementations31 May 2022 Qi Zhang, Jie zhou, Qin Chen, Qingchun Bai, Jun Xiao, Liang He

Notably, we propose a Knowledge-Enhanced Adversarial Model (\texttt{KEAM}) with both implicit distributed and explicit structural knowledge to enhance the cross-lingual transfer.

Cross-Lingual Transfer Sentiment Analysis

A Neural Corpus Indexer for Document Retrieval

1 code implementation6 Jun 2022 Yujing Wang, Yingyan Hou, Haonan Wang, Ziming Miao, Shibin Wu, Hao Sun, Qi Chen, Yuqing Xia, Chengmin Chi, Guoshuai Zhao, Zheng Liu, Xing Xie, Hao Allen Sun, Weiwei Deng, Qi Zhang, Mao Yang

To this end, we propose Neural Corpus Indexer (NCI), a sequence-to-sequence network that generates relevant document identifiers directly for a designated query.

Retrieval TriviaQA

A Survey on Uncertainty Reasoning and Quantification for Decision Making: Belief Theory Meets Deep Learning

no code implementations12 Jun 2022 Zhen Guo, Zelin Wan, Qisheng Zhang, Xujiang Zhao, Feng Chen, Jin-Hee Cho, Qi Zhang, Lance M. Kaplan, Dong H. Jeong, Audun Jøsang

We found that only a few studies have leveraged the mature uncertainty research in belief/evidence theories in ML/DL to tackle complex problems under different types of uncertainty.

Decision Making

Convergence and Price of Anarchy Guarantees of the Softmax Policy Gradient in Markov Potential Games

no code implementations15 Jun 2022 Dingyang Chen, Qi Zhang, Thinh T. Doan

Our focus in this paper is to study the convergence of the policy gradient method for solving MPGs under softmax policy parameterization, both tabular and parameterized with general function approximators such as neural networks.

Policy Gradient Methods

Supervised Deep Hashing for High-dimensional and Heterogeneous Case-based Reasoning

no code implementations29 Jun 2022 Qi Zhang, Liang Hu, Chongyang Shi, Ke Liu, Longbing Cao

Case-based Reasoning (CBR) on high-dimensional and heterogeneous data is a trending yet challenging and computationally expensive task in the real world.

Deep Hashing Incremental Learning +2

Neural Parameterization for Dynamic Human Head Editing

no code implementations1 Jul 2022 Li Ma, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao, Xuan Wang, Qi Zhang, Jue Wang, Pedro Sander

Implicit radiance functions emerged as a powerful scene representation for reconstructing and rendering photo-realistic views of a 3D scene.

Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Distribution-on-Distribution Regression

1 code implementation11 Jul 2022 Qi Zhang, Bing Li, Lingzhou Xue

We introduce a new approach to nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction in cases where both the predictor and the response are distributional data, modeled as members of a metric space.

Dimensionality Reduction regression

Neural Color Operators for Sequential Image Retouching

2 code implementations17 Jul 2022 Yili Wang, Xin Li, Kun Xu, Dongliang He, Qi Zhang, Fu Li, Errui Ding

The neural color operator mimics the behavior of traditional color operators and learns pixelwise color transformation while its strength is controlled by a scalar.

Image Enhancement Image Retouching

Unifying Event Detection and Captioning as Sequence Generation via Pre-Training

1 code implementation18 Jul 2022 Qi Zhang, Yuqing Song, Qin Jin

Dense video captioning aims to generate corresponding text descriptions for a series of events in the untrimmed video, which can be divided into two sub-tasks, event detection and event captioning.

Dense Video Captioning Event Detection

Distributed Deep Learning Inference Acceleration using Seamless Collaboration in Edge Computing

no code implementations22 Jul 2022 Nan Li, Alexandros Iosifidis, Qi Zhang

This paper studies inference acceleration using distributed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in collaborative edge computing.

Edge-computing

Receptive Field-based Segmentation for Distributed CNN Inference Acceleration in Collaborative Edge Computing

no code implementations22 Jul 2022 Nan Li, Alexandros Iosifidis, Qi Zhang

To reduce the computation time and communication overhead, we propose a novel collaborative edge computing using fused-layer parallelization to partition a CNN model into multiple blocks of convolutional layers.

Edge-computing

PanGu-Coder: Program Synthesis with Function-Level Language Modeling

1 code implementation22 Jul 2022 Fenia Christopoulou, Gerasimos Lampouras, Milan Gritta, Guchun Zhang, Yinpeng Guo, Zhongqi Li, Qi Zhang, Meng Xiao, Bo Shen, Lin Li, Hao Yu, Li Yan, Pingyi Zhou, Xin Wang, Yuchi Ma, Ignacio Iacobacci, Yasheng Wang, Guangtai Liang, Jiansheng Wei, Xin Jiang, Qianxiang Wang, Qun Liu

We present PanGu-Coder, a pretrained decoder-only language model adopting the PanGu-Alpha architecture for text-to-code generation, i. e. the synthesis of programming language solutions given a natural language problem description.

Code Generation Language Modelling +2

Efficient High-Resolution Deep Learning: A Survey

no code implementations26 Jul 2022 Arian Bakhtiarnia, Qi Zhang, Alexandros Iosifidis

Cameras in modern devices such as smartphones, satellites and medical equipment are capable of capturing very high resolution images and videos.

Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

A Semantic Alignment System for Multilingual Query-Product Retrieval

no code implementations5 Aug 2022 Qi Zhang, Zijian Yang, Yilun Huang, Ze Chen, Zijian Cai, Kangxu Wang, Jiewen Zheng, Jiarong He, Jin Gao

Our models are all trained with cross-entropy loss to classify the query-product pairs into ESCI 4 categories at first, and then we use weighted sum with the 4-class probabilities to get the score for ranking.

Data Augmentation Retrieval +1

Exploring Anchor-based Detection for Ego4D Natural Language Query

no code implementations10 Aug 2022 Sipeng Zheng, Qi Zhang, Bei Liu, Qin Jin, Jianlong Fu

In this paper we provide the technique report of Ego4D natural language query challenge in CVPR 2022.

Video Understanding

Crowd Counting on Heavily Compressed Images with Curriculum Pre-Training

no code implementations15 Aug 2022 Arian Bakhtiarnia, Qi Zhang, Alexandros Iosifidis

JPEG image compression algorithm is a widely used technique for image size reduction in edge and cloud computing settings.

Cloud Computing Crowd Counting +1

Causal Intervention Improves Implicit Sentiment Analysis

no code implementations COLING 2022 Siyin Wang, Jie zhou, Changzhi Sun, Junjie Ye, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

In this work, we propose a causal intervention model for Implicit Sentiment Analysis using Instrumental Variable (ISAIV).

Sentence Sentiment Analysis

Locate Then Ask: Interpretable Stepwise Reasoning for Multi-hop Question Answering

1 code implementation COLING 2022 Siyuan Wang, Zhongyu Wei, Zhihao Fan, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

In this paper, we propose an interpretable stepwise reasoning framework to incorporate both single-hop supporting sentence identification and single-hop question generation at each intermediate step, and utilize the inference of the current hop for the next until reasoning out the final result.

Multi-hop Question Answering Question Answering +3

Outlier Suppression: Pushing the Limit of Low-bit Transformer Language Models

1 code implementation27 Sep 2022 Xiuying Wei, Yunchen Zhang, Xiangguo Zhang, Ruihao Gong, Shanghang Zhang, Qi Zhang, Fengwei Yu, Xianglong Liu

With the trends of large NLP models, the increasing memory and computation costs hinder their efficient deployment on resource-limited devices.

Quantization

Edge-Varying Fourier Graph Networks for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

no code implementations6 Oct 2022 Kun Yi, Qi Zhang, Liang Hu, Hui He, Ning An, Longbing Cao, Zhendong Niu

The key problem in multivariate time series (MTS) analysis and forecasting aims to disclose the underlying couplings between variables that drive the co-movements.

Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Time Series

Learning "O" Helps for Learning More: Handling the Concealed Entity Problem for Class-incremental NER

no code implementations10 Oct 2022 Ruotian Ma, Xuanting Chen, Lin Zhang, Xin Zhou, Junzhe Wang, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xiang Gao, Yunwen Chen

In this work, we conduct an empirical study on the "Unlabeled Entity Problem" and find that it leads to severe confusion between "O" and entities, decreasing class discrimination of old classes and declining the model's ability to learn new classes.

Class Incremental Learning Contrastive Learning +3

Kernel-Whitening: Overcome Dataset Bias with Isotropic Sentence Embedding

1 code implementation14 Oct 2022 Songyang Gao, Shihan Dou, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

Dataset bias has attracted increasing attention recently for its detrimental effect on the generalization ability of fine-tuned models.

Sentence Sentence Embedding +2

How Mask Matters: Towards Theoretical Understandings of Masked Autoencoders

2 code implementations15 Oct 2022 Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang, Yisen Wang

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) based on a reconstruction task have risen to be a promising paradigm for self-supervised learning (SSL) and achieve state-of-the-art performance across different benchmark datasets.

Contrastive Learning Self-Supervised Learning

Graph Reinforcement Learning-based CNN Inference Offloading in Dynamic Edge Computing

no code implementations24 Oct 2022 Nan Li, Alexandros Iosifidis, Qi Zhang

To solve the maximization problem, we propose a graph reinforcement learning-based early-exit mechanism (GRLE), which outperforms the state-of-the-art work, deep reinforcement learning-based online offloading (DROO) and its enhanced method, DROO with early-exit mechanism (DROOE), under different dynamic scenarios.

Decision Making Edge-computing +2

Efficient Learning of Decision-Making Models: A Penalty Block Coordinate Descent Algorithm for Data-Driven Inverse Optimization

no code implementations27 Oct 2022 Rishabh Gupta, Qi Zhang

In this work, we consider the inverse problem where we use prior decision data to uncover the underlying decision-making process in the form of a mathematical optimization model.

Decision Making

Line Spectral Estimation via Unlimited Sampling

no code implementations28 Oct 2022 Qi Zhang, Jiang Zhu, Fengzhong Qu, De Wen Soh

In addition, a two-stage US LSE (USLSE) is proposed, where the line spectral signal is first recovered by iteratively executing DP and OMP, and then the parameters are estimated by applying a state-of-the-art LSE algorithm.

Robust Lottery Tickets for Pre-trained Language Models

2 code implementations ACL 2022 Rui Zheng, Rong Bao, Yuhao Zhou, Di Liang, Sirui Wang, Wei Wu, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang

Recent works on Lottery Ticket Hypothesis have shown that pre-trained language models (PLMs) contain smaller matching subnetworks(winning tickets) which are capable of reaching accuracy comparable to the original models.

Adversarial Robustness

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