1 code implementation • 31 Oct 2023 • Mingxuan Yi, Song Liu
Variational inference is a technique that approximates a target distribution by optimizing within the parameter space of variational families.
1 code implementation • 15 Oct 2023 • David C. Jeong, Tianma Shen, Hongji Liu, Raghav Kapoor, Casey Nguyen, Song Liu, Christopher A. Kitts
In the current effort, we introduce 1) MoEmo (Motion to Emotion), a cross-attention vision transformer (ViT) for human emotion detection within robotics systems based on 3D human pose estimations across various contexts, and 2) a data set that offers full-body videos of human movement and corresponding emotion labels based on human gestures and environmental contexts.
1 code implementation • 1 Jun 2023 • Daniel J. Williams, Song Liu
Estimating truncated density models is difficult, as these models have intractable normalising constants and hard to satisfy boundary conditions.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2023 • Song Liu, Jiahao Yu, Jack Simons, Mingxuan Yi, Mark Beaumont
Wasserstein Gradient Flow can move particles along a path that minimizes the $f$-divergence between the target and particle distributions.
no code implementations • 6 May 2023 • Fan Zhang, Mei Tu, Sangha Kim, Song Liu, Jinyao Yan
Our model is composed of three parts: a backbone model, a domain discriminator taking responsibility to discriminate data from different domains, and a set of experts that transfer the decoded features from generic to specific.
no code implementations • 21 Feb 2023 • Josh Givens, Song Liu, Henry W J Reeve
We then adapt an important downstream application of DRE, Neyman-Pearson (NP) classification, to this MNAR setting.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2023 • Mingxuan Yi, Zhanxing Zhu, Song Liu
The conventional understanding of adversarial training in generative adversarial networks (GANs) is that the discriminator is trained to estimate a divergence, and the generator learns to minimize this divergence.
1 code implementation • 10 Oct 2022 • Louis Sharrock, Jack Simons, Song Liu, Mark Beaumont
We embed the model into a sequential training procedure, which guides simulations using the current approximation of the posterior at the observation of interest, thereby reducing the simulation cost.
no code implementations • pproximateinference AABI Symposium 2022 • Mingxuan Yi, Song Liu
For example, it is not a proper metric, i. e., it is non-symmetric and does not preserve the triangle inequality.
1 code implementation • 29 Jun 2022 • Daniel J. Williams, Song Liu
When observations are truncated, we are limited to an incomplete picture of our dataset.
no code implementations • pproximateinference AABI Symposium 2022 • Jack Simons, Song Liu, Mark Beaumont
In many scientific applications, we do not have explicit access to the likelihood function.
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2021 • Song Liu
In this paper, we show the arc length of the optimal ROC curve is an $f$-divergence.
no code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Song Liu, Haoqi Fan, Shengsheng Qian, Yiru Chen, Wenkui Ding, Zhongyuan Wang
Video-Text Retrieval has been a hot research topic with the growth of multimedia data on the internet.
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2021 • Yu Chen, Song Liu, Tom Diethe, Peter Flach
To the best of our knowledge, there is no existing method that can evaluate generative models in continual learning without storing samples from the original distribution.
no code implementations • 12 Feb 2021 • Jiang-Xiazi Lin, Ya-Hui Zhang, Erin Morissette, Zhi Wang, Song Liu, Daniel Rhodes, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, James Hone, J. I. A. Li
Strong electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provide two non-trivial threads to condensed matter physics.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2021 • Shisheng Li, Jinhua Hong, Bo Gao, Yung-Chang Lin, Hong En Lim, Xueyi Lu, Jing Wu, Song Liu, Yoshitaka Tateyama, Yoshiki Sakuma, Kazuhito Tsukagoshi, Kazu Suenaga, Takaaki Taniguchi
Alternatively, using highly conductive doped TMDCs will have a profound impact on the contact engineering of 2D electronics.
Materials Science
no code implementations • 31 Jul 2020 • Song Liu, Suraj Shankar, M. Cristina Marchetti, Yilin Wu
Active matter consists of units that generate mechanical work by consuming energy.
Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics Fluid Dynamics
no code implementations • 23 Jun 2020 • Shunya Minami, Song Liu, Stephen Wu, Kenji Fukumizu, Ryo Yoshida
We propose a novel framework that unifies and extends existing methods of transfer learning (TL) for regression.
no code implementations • 15 Feb 2020 • Song Liu, Yulong Zhang, Mingxuan Yi, Mladen Kolar
Density Ratio Estimation has attracted attention from the machine learning community due to its ability to compare the underlying distributions of two datasets.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2020 • Xi-Zhu Wu, Wenkai Xu, Song Liu, Zhi-Hua Zhou
Given a publicly available pool of machine learning models constructed for various tasks, when a user plans to build a model for her own machine learning application, is it possible to build upon models in the pool such that the previous efforts on these existing models can be reused rather than starting from scratch?
2 code implementations • 9 Oct 2019 • Song Liu, Takafumi Kanamori, Daniel J. Williams
In this paper, we study parameter estimation for truncated probability densities using SM.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Yu Chen, Song Liu, Tom Diethe, Peter Flach
We propose a new method Continual Density Ratio Estimation (CDRE), which can estimate density ratios between a target distribution of real samples and a distribution of samples generated by a model while the model is changing over time and the data of the target distribution is not available after a certain time point.
3 code implementations • 28 Jan 2019 • Yinhe Zheng, Guanyi Chen, Minlie Huang, Song Liu, Xuan Zhu
In this paper, we investigate the problem of incorporating explicit personality traits in dialogue generation to deliver personalized dialogues.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2019 • Song Liu, Takafumi Kanamori, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Yu Chen
For example, the asymptotic variance of MLE solution attains equality of the asymptotic Cram{\'e}r-Rao lower bound (efficiency bound), which is the minimum possible variance for an unbiased estimator.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2017 • Song Liu, Akiko Takeda, Taiji Suzuki, Kenji Fukumizu
Density ratio estimation is a vital tool in both machine learning and statistical community.
no code implementations • 21 Feb 2017 • Makoto Yamada, Song Liu, Samuel Kaski
We propose an inlier-based outlier detection method capable of both identifying the outliers and explaining why they are outliers, by identifying the outlier-specific features.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2017 • Pichao Wang, Wanqing Li, Song Liu, Zhimin Gao, Chang Tang, Philip Ogunbona
This paper proposes three simple, compact yet effective representations of depth sequences, referred to respectively as Dynamic Depth Images (DDI), Dynamic Depth Normal Images (DDNI) and Dynamic Depth Motion Normal Images (DDMNI).
Ranked #2 on Hand Gesture Recognition on ChaLearn val
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2017 • Song Liu, Kenji Fukumizu, Taiji Suzuki
Recent years have seen an increasing popularity of learning the sparse \emph{changes} in Markov Networks.
no code implementations • 22 Aug 2016 • Pichao Wang, Wanqing Li, Song Liu, Yuyao Zhang, Zhimin Gao, Philip Ogunbona
This paper addresses the problem of continuous gesture recognition from sequences of depth maps using convolutional neutral networks (ConvNets).
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2016 • Song Liu, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona, Yang-Wai Chow
This paper presents an extension to the KinectFusion algorithm which allows creating simplified 3D models with high quality RGB textures.
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2016 • Song Liu, Wanqing Li, Stephen Davis, Christian Ritz, Hongda Tian
Product layout is extracted from an input image by means of unsupervised recurring pattern detection and matched via graph matching with the expected product layout specified by a planogram to measure the level of compliance.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2015 • Song Liu, Kenji Fukumizu
Transfer learning assumes classifiers of similar tasks share certain parameter structures.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2015 • Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun, Siwei Rao, Song Liu
Representation learning of knowledge bases (KBs) aims to embed both entities and relations into a low-dimensional space.
no code implementations • 2 Apr 2015 • Song Liu, Taiji Suzuki, Masashi Sugiyama, Kenji Fukumizu
We learn the structure of a Markov Network between two groups of random variables from joint observations.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2014 • Song Liu, Taiji Suzuki, Raissa Relator, Jun Sese, Masashi Sugiyama, Kenji Fukumizu
We study the problem of learning sparse structure changes between two Markov networks $P$ and $Q$.
no code implementations • 25 Apr 2013 • Song Liu, John A. Quinn, Michael U. Gutmann, Taiji Suzuki, Masashi Sugiyama
We propose a new method for detecting changes in Markov network structure between two sets of samples.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2012 • Masashi Sugiyama, Takafumi Kanamori, Taiji Suzuki, Marthinus D. Plessis, Song Liu, Ichiro Takeuchi
A naive approach is a two-step procedure of first estimating two densities separately and then computing their difference.
1 code implementation • 2 Mar 2012 • Song Liu, Makoto Yamada, Nigel Collier, Masashi Sugiyama
The objective of change-point detection is to discover abrupt property changes lying behind time-series data.