no code implementations • 2 Nov 2023 • Yong Bian, Xiqian Wang, Qin Zhang
Portfolio underdiversification is one of the most costly losses accumulated over a household's life cycle.
no code implementations • 10 Aug 2023 • Qin Zhang, Zelin Shi, Xiaolin Zhang, Xiaojun Chen, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shirui Pan
Node classification is the task of predicting the labels of unlabeled nodes in a graph.
no code implementations • 8 Aug 2023 • Zixuan He, Salik Ram Khanal, Xin Zhang, Manoj Karkee, Qin Zhang
This study proposed a YOLOv5-based custom object detection model to detect strawberries in an outdoor environment.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2023 • Qin Zhang, Linghan Xu, Qingming Tang, Jun Fang, Ying Nian Wu, Joe Tighe, Yifan Xing
In this paper, we propose a novel metric named Operating-Point-Incosistency-Score (OPIS) that measures the variance in the operating characteristics across different classes in a target calibration range, and demonstrate that high accuracy of a metric learning embedding model does not guarantee calibration consistency for both seen and unseen classes.
no code implementations • 19 May 2023 • Qin Zhang, Dongsheng An, Tianjun Xiao, Tong He, Qingming Tang, Ying Nian Wu, Joseph Tighe, Yifan Xing
We tackle the problem of threshold calibration for open-world recognition by incorporating representation compactness measures into clustering.
no code implementations • 23 Feb 2023 • Xin Zheng, Miao Zhang, Chunyang Chen, Qin Zhang, Chuan Zhou, Shirui Pan
Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel automated graph neural network on heterophilic graphs, namely Auto-HeG, to automatically build heterophilic GNN models with expressive learning abilities.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2023 • Qin Zhang, Linrui Zhang, Haoran Xu, Li Shen, Bowen Wang, Yongzhe Chang, Xueqian Wang, Bo Yuan, DaCheng Tao
Offline safe RL is of great practical relevance for deploying agents in real-world applications.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2023 • Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang
In this paper, we study the collaborative learning model, which concerns the tradeoff between parallelism and communication overhead in multi-agent multi-armed bandits.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2022 • Ruilin Ma, Shiyao Chen, Qin Zhang
Monocular depth estimation can play an important role in addressing the issue of deriving scene geometry from 2D images.
no code implementations • 12 Dec 2022 • Linrui Zhang, Qin Zhang, Li Shen, Bo Yuan, Xueqian Wang, DaCheng Tao
Despite a large number of reinforcement learning (RL) methods focusing on safety-critical tasks, there is still a lack of high-quality evaluation of those algorithms that adheres to safety constraints at each decision step under complex and unknown dynamics.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2022 • Qin Zhang, Shangsi Chen, Dongkuan Xu, Qingqing Cao, Xiaojun Chen, Trevor Cohn, Meng Fang
Thus, a trade-off between accuracy, memory consumption and processing speed is pursued.
no code implementations • 21 Aug 2022 • Shaotian Cai, Liping Qiu, Xiaojun Chen, Qin Zhang, Longteng Chen
In this paper, we propose to investigate the task of image clustering with the help of a visual-language pre-training model.
no code implementations • 18 Aug 2022 • Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang
We investigate top-$m$ arm identification, a basic problem in bandit theory, in a multi-agent learning model in which agents collaborate to learn an objective function.
no code implementations • 16 Jul 2022 • Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang
This is in stark contrast to the IID data setting, where the speedup is always $\tilde{\Omega}(1)$ regardless of $R$ and the number of agents $K$.
1 code implementation • 17 Jun 2022 • Linrui Zhang, Qin Zhang, Li Shen, Bo Yuan, Xueqian Wang
Safe reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved significant success on risk-sensitive tasks and shown promise in autonomous driving (AD) as well.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2022 • Yutian Wang, Yuankun Xie, Kun Zhao, Hui Wang, Qin Zhang
In this paper, we propose a novel prosody disentangle method for prosodic Text-to-Speech (TTS) model, which introduces the vector quantization (VQ) method to the auxiliary prosody encoder to obtain the decomposed prosody representations in an unsupervised manner.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2022 • Qinghong Lin, Xiaojun Chen, Qin Zhang, Shaotian Cai, Wenzhe Zhao, Hongfa Wang
Firstly, DSCH constructs a semantic component structure by uncovering the fine-grained semantics components of images with a Gaussian Mixture Modal~(GMM), where an image is represented as a mixture of multiple components, and the semantics co-occurrence are exploited.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2021 • Guochen Yu, Yutian Wang, Hui Wang, Qin Zhang, Chengshi Zheng
After that, the second stage is applied to further suppress the residual noise components and estimate the clean phase by a complex spectral mapping network, which is a pure complex-valued network composed of complex 2D convolution/deconvolution and complex temporal-frequency attention blocks.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2021 • Yi Li, Yan Song, Qin Zhang
We study the problem of learning to cluster data points using an oracle which can answer same-cluster queries.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2021 • Qinghong Lin, Xiaojun Chen, Qin Zhang, Shangxuan Tian, Yudong Chen
Secondly, we measure the priorities of data pairs with PIC and assign adaptive weights to them, which is relies on the assumption that more dissimilar data pairs contain more discriminative information for hash learning.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2021 • Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang
We study Thompson Sampling algorithms for stochastic multi-armed bandits in the batched setting, in which we want to minimize the regret over a sequence of arm pulls using a small number of policy changes (or, batches).
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang
Motivated by real-world applications such as fast fashion retailing and online advertising, the Multinomial Logit Bandit (MNL-bandit) is a popular model in online learning and operations research, and has attracted much attention in the past decade.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2020 • Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang
We study the problem of coarse ranking in the multi-armed bandits (MAB) setting, where we have a set of arms each of which is associated with an unknown distribution.
no code implementations • 6 Nov 2020 • Hao Nie, Qin Zhang
In the situation of clinical diagnoses, when a lot of intermediate causes are unknown while the downstream results are known in a DUCG graph, the combination explosion may appear during the inference computation.
no code implementations • ICML 2020 • Kefan Dong, Yingkai Li, Qin Zhang, Yuan Zhou
We also present the ESUCB algorithm with item switching cost $O(N \log^2 T)$.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2020 • Nikolai Karpov, Qin Zhang, Yuan Zhou
We give optimal time-round tradeoffs, as well as demonstrate complexity separations between top-$1$ arm identification and top-$m$ arm identifications for general $m$ and between fixed-time and fixed-confidence variants.
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2019 • Chao Tao, Qin Zhang, Yuan Zhou
Best arm identification (or, pure exploration) in multi-armed bandits is a fundamental problem in machine learning.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2018 • Jiecao Chen, Qin Zhang
In this paper we study how to perform distinct sampling in the streaming model where data contain near-duplicates.
Data Structures and Algorithms
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2018 • Jiecao Chen, Erfan Sadeqi Azer, Qin Zhang
We study the classic $k$-means/median clustering, which are fundamental problems in unsupervised learning, in the setting where data are partitioned across multiple sites, and where we are allowed to discard a small portion of the data by labeling them as outliers.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2018 • Jiecao Chen, Qin Zhang, Yuan Zhou
We study the collaborative PAC learning problem recently proposed in Blum et al.~\cite{BHPQ17}, in which we have $k$ players and they want to learn a target function collaboratively, such that the learned function approximates the target function well on all players' distributions simultaneously.
no code implementations • ICML 2017 • Jiecao Chen, Xi Chen, Qin Zhang, Yuan Zhou
We study the problem of selecting $K$ arms with the highest expected rewards in a stochastic $n$-armed bandit game.
no code implementations • 19 May 2017 • Qin Zhang, Hui Wang, Junyu Dong, Guoqiang Zhong, Xin Sun
We formulate the SST prediction problem as a time series regression problem.
1 code implementation • 1 Feb 2017 • Haoyu Zhang, Qin Zhang
Edit similarity join is a fundamental problem in data cleaning/integration, bioinformatics, collaborative filtering and natural language processing, and has been identified as a primitive operator for database systems.
Databases
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2016 • Jiecao Chen, He Sun, David P. Woodruff, Qin Zhang
We would like the quality of the clustering in the distributed setting to match that in the centralized setting for which all the data resides on a single site.