Search Results for author: Wei zhang

Found 528 papers, 161 papers with code

Correlative Multi-Label Multi-Instance Image Annotation

no code implementations IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2011 Xiangyang Xue, Wei zhang, Jie Zhang, Bin Wu, Jianping Fan, Yao Lu

The cross-level label coherence en-codes the consistency between the labels at the image leveland the labels at the region level.

Graph Degree Linkage: Agglomerative Clustering on a Directed Graph

2 code implementations25 Aug 2012 Wei Zhang, Xiaogang Wang, Deli Zhao, Xiaoou Tang

We explore the different roles of two fundamental concepts in graph theory, indegree and outdegree, in the context of clustering.

 Ranked #1 on Image Clustering on Coil-20 (Accuracy metric)

Clustering Computational Efficiency +1

Network-based Isoform Quantification with RNA-Seq Data for Cancer Transcriptome Analysis

no code implementations20 Mar 2014 Wei Zhang, Jae-Woong Chang, Lilong Lin, Kay Minn, Baolin Wu, Jeremy Chien, Jeongsik Yong, Hui Zheng, Rui Kuang

Based on our observation that the abundances of the neighboring isoforms by domain-domain interactions in the network are positively correlated, Net-RSTQ models the expression of the neighboring transcripts as Dirichlet priors on the likelihood of the observed read alignments against the transcripts in one gene.

Supervised hashing with latent factor models

no code implementations SIGIR 2014 Peichao Zhang, Wei zhang, Wu-Jun Li, and Minyi Guo

Very recently, supervised hashing methods, which try to preserve the semantic structure constructed from the semantic labels of the training points, have exhibited higher accuracy than unsupervised methods.

Exploring Metaphorical Senses and Word Representations for Identifying Metonyms

no code implementations19 Aug 2015 Wei Zhang, Judith Gelernter

A metonym is a word with a figurative meaning, similar to a metaphor.

Recognizing Extended Spatiotemporal Expressions by Actively Trained Average Perceptron Ensembles

no code implementations19 Aug 2015 Wei Zhang, Yang Yu, Osho Gupta, Judith Gelernter

We collected and annotated data set by querying commercial web searches API with such spatiotemporal expressions as were missed by state-of-the- art parsers.

Active Learning Ensemble Learning +1

Model Accuracy and Runtime Tradeoff in Distributed Deep Learning:A Systematic Study

1 code implementation14 Sep 2015 Suyog Gupta, Wei zhang, Fei Wang

This paper presents Rudra, a parameter server based distributed computing framework tuned for training large-scale deep neural networks.

Distributed Computing Image Classification

Structured Memory for Neural Turing Machines

no code implementations14 Oct 2015 Wei Zhang, Yang Yu, Bo-Wen Zhou

Neural Turing Machines (NTM) contain memory component that simulates "working memory" in the brain to store and retrieve information to ease simple algorithms learning.

Empirical Study on Deep Learning Models for Question Answering

no code implementations26 Oct 2015 Yang Yu, Wei zhang, Chung-Wei Hang, Bing Xiang, Bo-Wen Zhou

In this paper we explore deep learning models with memory component or attention mechanism for question answering task.

Machine Translation Question Answering +1

Staleness-aware Async-SGD for Distributed Deep Learning

1 code implementation18 Nov 2015 Wei Zhang, Suyog Gupta, Xiangru Lian, Ji Liu

Deep neural networks have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art performance in several machine learning tasks.

Distributed Computing Image Classification

A Spatio-Temporal Appearance Representation for Viceo-Based Pedestrian Re-Identification

no code implementations ICCV 2015 Kan Liu, Bingpeng Ma, Wei zhang, Rui Huang

Pedestrian re-identification is a difficult problem due to the large variations in a person's appearance caused by different poses and viewpoints, illumination changes, and occlusions.

Multiple Granularity Descriptors for Fine-Grained Categorization

no code implementations ICCV 2015 Dequan Wang, Zhiqiang Shen, Jie Shao, Wei zhang, xiangyang xue, Zheng Zhang

Fine-grained categorization, which aims to distinguish subordinate-level categories such as bird species or dog breeds, is an extremely challenging task.

Model-based Deep Hand Pose Estimation

1 code implementation22 Jun 2016 Xingyi Zhou, Qingfu Wan, Wei zhang, xiangyang xue, Yichen Wei

For the first time, we show that embedding such a non-linear generative process in deep learning is feasible for hand pose estimation.

Hand Pose Estimation valid

A Machine Learning Nowcasting Method based on Real-time Reanalysis Data

no code implementations14 Sep 2016 Lei Han, Juanzhen Sun, Wei zhang, Yuanyuan Xiu, Hailei Feng, Yinjing Lin

Despite marked progress over the past several decades, convective storm nowcasting remains a challenge because most nowcasting systems are based on linear extrapolation of radar reflectivity without much consideration for other meteorological fields.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Open-Ended Question Answering

Deep Kinematic Pose Regression

no code implementations17 Sep 2016 Xingyi Zhou, Xiao Sun, Wei zhang, Shuang Liang, Yichen Wei

In this work, we propose to directly embed a kinematic object model into the deep neutral network learning for general articulated object pose estimation.

3D Human Pose Estimation Object +2

Integrating Topic Models and Latent Factors for Recommendation

no code implementations28 Oct 2016 Danis J. Wilson, Wei zhang

In this work, we consider the problem of hotel recommendation for travel planning services by integrating the location information and the user's preference for recommendation.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems +1

End-to-End Answer Chunk Extraction and Ranking for Reading Comprehension

no code implementations31 Oct 2016 Yang Yu, Wei zhang, Kazi Hasan, Mo Yu, Bing Xiang, Bo-Wen Zhou

This paper proposes dynamic chunk reader (DCR), an end-to-end neural reading comprehension (RC) model that is able to extract and rank a set of answer candidates from a given document to answer questions.

Question Answering Reading Comprehension

GaDei: On Scale-up Training As A Service For Deep Learning

no code implementations18 Nov 2016 Wei Zhang, Minwei Feng, Yunhui Zheng, Yufei Ren, Yandong Wang, Ji Liu, Peng Liu, Bing Xiang, Li Zhang, Bo-Wen Zhou, Fei Wang

By evaluating the NLC workloads, we show that only the conservative hyper-parameter setup (e. g., small mini-batch size and small learning rate) can guarantee acceptable model accuracy for a wide range of customers.

PIGMIL: Positive Instance Detection via Graph Updating for Multiple Instance Learning

no code implementations12 Dec 2016 Dongkuan Xu, Jia Wu, Wei zhang, Yingjie Tian

To the end, we propose a positive instance detection via graph updating for multiple instance learning, called PIGMIL, to detect TPI accurately.

Multiple Instance Learning

Application of Multi-channel 3D-cube Successive Convolution Network for Convective Storm Nowcasting

no code implementations15 Feb 2017 Wei Zhang, Lei Han, Juanzhen Sun, Hanyang Guo, Jie Dai

This paper describes the first attempt to nowcast storm initiation, growth, and advection simultaneously under a deep learning framework using multi-source meteorological data.

Feature Engineering

Learning Compact Appearance Representation for Video-based Person Re-Identification

no code implementations21 Feb 2017 Wei Zhang, Shengnan Hu, Kan Liu, Zheng-Jun Zha

This paper presents a novel approach for video-based person re-identification using multiple Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).

Video-Based Person Re-Identification

Ergodic SDEs on submanifolds and related numerical sampling schemes

1 code implementation26 Feb 2017 Wei zhang

By Birkhoff's ergodic theorem, one approach to estimate the mean value is to compute the time average along an infinitely long trajectory of an ergodic diffusion process on the level set whose invariant measure is {\mu}.

Probability 60J60, 53C17

Low-rank Label Propagation for Semi-supervised Learning with 100 Millions Samples

no code implementations28 Feb 2017 Raphael Petegrosso, Wei zhang, Zhuliu Li, Yousef Saad, Rui Kuang

The success of semi-supervised learning crucially relies on the scalability to a huge amount of unlabelled data that are needed to capture the underlying manifold structure for better classification.

Can Decentralized Algorithms Outperform Centralized Algorithms? A Case Study for Decentralized Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent

3 code implementations NeurIPS 2017 Xiangru Lian, Ce Zhang, huan zhang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Wei zhang, Ji Liu

On network configurations with low bandwidth or high latency, D-PSGD can be up to one order of magnitude faster than its well-optimized centralized counterparts.

Deep Mixture of Diverse Experts for Large-Scale Visual Recognition

no code implementations24 Jun 2017 Tianyi Zhao, Jun Yu, Zhenzhong Kuang, Wei zhang, Jianping Fan

In this paper, a deep mixture of diverse experts algorithm is developed for seamlessly combining a set of base deep CNNs (convolutional neural networks) with diverse outputs (task spaces), e. g., such base deep CNNs are trained to recognize different subsets of tens of thousands of atomic object classes.

Multi-Task Learning Object +1

Binarized Mode Seeking for Scalable Visual Pattern Discovery

no code implementations CVPR 2017 Wei Zhang, Xiaochun Cao, Rui Wang, Yuanfang Guo, Zhineng Chen

Second, we further extend bMS to a more general form, namely contrastive binary mean shift (cbMS), which maximizes the contrastive density in binary space, for finding informative patterns that are both frequent and discriminative for the dataset.

Embedding Visual Hierarchy with Deep Networks for Large-Scale Visual Recognition

no code implementations8 Jul 2017 Tianyi Zhao, Baopeng Zhang, Wei zhang, Ning Zhou, Jun Yu, Jianping Fan

Our LMM model can provide an end-to-end approach for jointly learning: (a) the deep networks to extract more discriminative deep features for image and object class representation; (b) the tree classifier for recognizing large numbers of object classes hierarchically; and (c) the visual hierarchy adaptation for achieving more accurate indexing of large numbers of object classes hierarchically.

Object Object Recognition

Asynchronous Decentralized Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent

3 code implementations ICML 2018 Xiangru Lian, Wei zhang, Ce Zhang, Ji Liu

Can we design an algorithm that is robust in a heterogeneous environment, while being communication efficient and maintaining the best-possible convergence rate?

DeepSkeleton: Skeleton Map for 3D Human Pose Regression

no code implementations29 Nov 2017 Qingfu Wan, Wei zhang, xiangyang xue

For the first time, we show that training regression network from skeleton map alone is capable of meeting the performance of state-of-theart 3D human pose estimation works.

2D Human Pose Estimation 3D Human Pose Estimation +1

Optical Flow Guided Feature: A Fast and Robust Motion Representation for Video Action Recognition

1 code implementation CVPR 2018 Shuyang Sun, Zhanghui Kuang, Wanli Ouyang, Lu Sheng, Wei zhang

In this study, we introduce a novel compact motion representation for video action recognition, named Optical Flow guided Feature (OFF), which enables the network to distill temporal information through a fast and robust approach.

Action Recognition In Videos Optical Flow Estimation +1

AdaComp : Adaptive Residual Gradient Compression for Data-Parallel Distributed Training

no code implementations7 Dec 2017 Chia-Yu Chen, Jungwook Choi, Daniel Brand, Ankur Agrawal, Wei zhang, Kailash Gopalakrishnan

Highly distributed training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on future compute platforms (offering 100 of TeraOps/s of computational capacity) is expected to be severely communication constrained.

Quantization

Deep Boosting of Diverse Experts

no code implementations ICLR 2018 Wei Zhang, Qiuyu Chen, Jun Yu, Jianping Fan

In this paper, a deep boosting algorithm is developed to learn more discriminative ensemble classifier by seamlessly combining a set of base deep CNNs (base experts) with diverse capabilities, e. g., these base deep CNNs are sequentially trained to recognize a set of object classes in an easy-to-hard way according to their learning complexities.

Object Recognition

Fake Colorized Image Detection

no code implementations9 Jan 2018 Yuanfang Guo, Xiaochun Cao, Wei zhang, Rui Wang

Based on our observations, i. e., potential traces in the hue, saturation, dark and bright channels, we propose two simple yet effective detection methods for fake colorized images: Histogram based Fake Colorized Image Detection (FCID-HIST) and Feature Encoding based Fake Colorized Image Detection (FCID-FE).

Multimedia

SEE: Syntax-aware Entity Embedding for Neural Relation Extraction

no code implementations11 Jan 2018 Zhengqiu He, Wenliang Chen, Zhenghua Li, Meishan Zhang, Wei zhang, Min Zhang

First, we encode the context of entities on a dependency tree as sentence-level entity embedding based on tree-GRU.

Relation Relation Classification +3

Reconstruction Network for Video Captioning

3 code implementations CVPR 2018 Bairui Wang, Lin Ma, Wei zhang, Wei Liu

Unlike previous video captioning work mainly exploiting the cues of video contents to make a language description, we propose a reconstruction network (RecNet) with a novel encoder-decoder-reconstructor architecture, which leverages both the forward (video to sentence) and backward (sentence to video) flows for video captioning.

Decoder Sentence +1

Saikosaponins with similar structures but different mechanisms lead to combined hepatotoxicity

no code implementations14 May 2018 Qianqian Zhang, Wanqiu Huang, Yiqiao Gao, Yingtong Lv, Wei zhang, Zunjian Zhang, Fengguo Xu

Previous studies have revealed that saikosaponins are the major types of components that contribute to the hepatotoxicity of Radix Bupleuri.

Modeling 4D fMRI Data via Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks (ST-CNN)

no code implementations31 May 2018 Yu Zhao, Xiang Li, Wei zhang, Shijie Zhao, Milad Makkie, Mo Zhang, Quanzheng Li, Tianming Liu

Simultaneous modeling of the spatio-temporal variation patterns of brain functional network from 4D fMRI data has been an important yet challenging problem for the field of cognitive neuroscience and medical image analysis.

Brain Decoding

Supervised Reinforcement Learning with Recurrent Neural Network for Dynamic Treatment Recommendation

no code implementations4 Jul 2018 Lu Wang, Wei zhang, Xiaofeng He, Hongyuan Zha

Prior relevant studies recommend treatments either use supervised learning (e. g. matching the indicator signal which denotes doctor prescriptions), or reinforcement learning (e. g. maximizing evaluation signal which indicates cumulative reward from survival rates).

Recommendation Systems reinforcement-learning +1

Non-locally Enhanced Encoder-Decoder Network for Single Image De-raining

no code implementations4 Aug 2018 Guanbin Li, Xiang He, Wei zhang, Huiyou Chang, Le Dong, Liang Lin

Single image rain streaks removal has recently witnessed substantial progress due to the development of deep convolutional neural networks.

Decoder

Fast Video Shot Transition Localization with Deep Structured Models

4 code implementations13 Aug 2018 Shitao Tang, Litong Feng, Zhangkui Kuang, Yimin Chen, Wei zhang

In order to train a high-performance shot transition detector, we contribute a new database ClipShots, which contains 128636 cut transitions and 38120 gradual transitions from 4039 online videos.

Ranked #3 on Camera shot boundary detection on ClipShots (using extra training data)

Camera shot boundary detection

Temporal Sequence Distillation: Towards Few-Frame Action Recognition in Videos

no code implementations15 Aug 2018 Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhanghui Kuang, Ping Luo, Litong Feng, Wei zhang

Secondly, TSD significantly reduces the computations to run video action recognition with compressed frames on the cloud, while maintaining high recognition accuracies.

Action Recognition In Videos Temporal Action Localization

Heated-Up Softmax Embedding

1 code implementation ICLR 2019 Xu Zhang, Felix Xinnan Yu, Svebor Karaman, Wei zhang, Shih-Fu Chang

Metric learning aims at learning a distance which is consistent with the semantic meaning of the samples.

Metric Learning

Label-Free Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction via Knowledge Graph Embedding

no code implementations EMNLP 2018 Guanying Wang, Wen Zhang, Ruoxu Wang, Yalin Zhou, Xi Chen, Wei zhang, Hai Zhu, Huajun Chen

This paper proposes a label-free distant supervision method, which makes no use of the relation labels under this inadequate assumption, but only uses the prior knowledge derived from the KG to supervise the learning of the classifier directly and softly.

Knowledge Graph Embedding Relation +3

Solving Pictorial Jigsaw Puzzle by Stigmergy-inspired Internet-based Human Collective Intelligence

no code implementations28 Nov 2018 Bo Shen, Wei zhang, Haiyan Zhao, Zhi Jin, Yanhong Wu

And through feedback, each player is provided with personalized feedback information based on the current COG and the player's exploration result, in order to accelerate his/her puzzle-solving process.

Dynamic Graph Representation Learning via Self-Attention Networks

2 code implementations22 Dec 2018 Aravind Sankar, Yanhong Wu, Liang Gou, Wei zhang, Hao Yang

Learning latent representations of nodes in graphs is an important and ubiquitous task with widespread applications such as link prediction, node classification, and graph visualization.

General Classification Graph Embedding +3

Learning Efficient Detector with Semi-supervised Adaptive Distillation

1 code implementation2 Jan 2019 Shitao Tang, Litong Feng, Wenqi Shao, Zhanghui Kuang, Wei zhang, Yimin Chen

ADL enlarges the distillation loss for hard-to-learn and hard-to-mimic samples and reduces distillation loss for the dominant easy samples, enabling distillation to work on the single-stage detector first time, even if the student and the teacher are identical.

Image Classification Knowledge Distillation +1

Edge-Semantic Learning Strategy for Layout Estimation in Indoor Environment

no code implementations3 Jan 2019 Weidong Zhang, Wei zhang, Jason Gu

More specifically, we present an encoder-decoder network with shared encoder and two separate decoders, which are composed of multiple deconvolution (transposed convolution) layers, to jointly learn the edge maps and semantic labels of a room image.

Decoder

MSR: Multi-Scale Shape Regression for Scene Text Detection

no code implementations9 Jan 2019 Chuhui Xue, Shijian Lu, Wei zhang

State-of-the-art scene text detection techniques predict quadrilateral boxes that are prone to localization errors while dealing with straight or curved text lines of different orientations and lengths in scenes.

regression Scene Text Detection +1

VrR-VG: Refocusing Visually-Relevant Relationships

no code implementations ICCV 2019 Yuanzhi Liang, Yalong Bai, Wei zhang, Xueming Qian, Li Zhu, Tao Mei

Relationships encode the interactions among individual instances, and play a critical role in deep visual scene understanding.

Image Captioning Question Answering +3

Hierarchical Photo-Scene Encoder for Album Storytelling

no code implementations2 Feb 2019 Bairui Wang, Lin Ma, Wei zhang, Wenhao Jiang, Feng Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel model with a hierarchical photo-scene encoder and a reconstructor for the task of album storytelling.

Decoder Image-guided Story Ending Generation

Learning chemical reaction networks from trajectory data

1 code implementation13 Feb 2019 Wei zhang, Stefan Klus, Tim Conrad, Christof Schütte

We develop a data-driven method to learn chemical reaction networks from trajectory data.

Optimization and Control 92C42, 62M86

From Dark Matter to Galaxies with Convolutional Networks

1 code implementation15 Feb 2019 Xinyue Zhang, Yanfang Wang, Wei zhang, Yueqiu Sun, Siyu He, Gabriella Contardo, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shirley Ho

In combination with current and upcoming data from cosmological observations, our method has the potential to answer fundamental questions about our Universe with the highest accuracy.

CAD-Net: A Context-Aware Detection Network for Objects in Remote Sensing Imagery

1 code implementation3 Mar 2019 Gongjie Zhang, Shijian Lu, Wei zhang

This paper presents a novel object detection network (CAD-Net) that exploits attention-modulated features as well as global and local contexts to address the new challenges in detecting objects from remote sensing images.

Novel Object Detection Object +2

Long-tail Relation Extraction via Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Graph Convolution Networks

no code implementations NAACL 2019 Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Zhanlin Sun, Guanying Wang, Xi Chen, Wei zhang, Huajun Chen

Here, the challenge is to learn accurate "few-shot" models for classes existing at the tail of the class distribution, for which little data is available.

Knowledge Graph Embeddings Relation +1

Interaction Embeddings for Prediction and Explanation in Knowledge Graphs

no code implementations12 Mar 2019 Wen Zhang, Bibek Paudel, Wei zhang, Abraham Bernstein, Huajun Chen

Knowledge graph embedding aims to learn distributed representations for entities and relations, and is proven to be effective in many applications.

Knowledge Graph Embedding Knowledge Graphs +1

Iteratively Learning Embeddings and Rules for Knowledge Graph Reasoning

no code implementations21 Mar 2019 Wen Zhang, Bibek Paudel, Liang Wang, Jiaoyan Chen, Hai Zhu, Wei zhang, Abraham Bernstein, Huajun Chen

We also evaluate the efficiency of rule learning and quality of rules from IterE compared with AMIE+, showing that IterE is capable of generating high quality rules more efficiently.

Entity Embeddings Knowledge Graphs +1

Unsupervised Person Image Generation with Semantic Parsing Transformation

1 code implementation CVPR 2019 Sijie Song, Wei zhang, Jiaying Liu, Tao Mei

Firstly, a semantic generative network is proposed to transform between semantic parsing maps, in order to simplify the non-rigid deformation learning.

Image Generation Image Manipulation +1

Distributed Deep Learning Strategies For Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations10 Apr 2019 Wei Zhang, Xiaodong Cui, Ulrich Finkler, Brian Kingsbury, George Saon, David Kung, Michael Picheny

We show that we can train the LSTM model using ADPSGD in 14 hours with 16 NVIDIA P100 GPUs to reach a 7. 6% WER on the Hub5- 2000 Switchboard (SWB) test set and a 13. 1% WER on the CallHome (CH) test set.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Learning to Decompose Compound Questions with Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations ICLR 2019 Haihong Yang, Han Wang, Shuang Guo, Wei zhang, Huajun Chen

Our model consists of two parts: (i) a novel learning-to-decompose agent that learns a policy to decompose a compound question into simple questions and (ii) three independent simple-question answerers that classify the corresponding relations for each simple question.

Question Answering reinforcement-learning +1

Anti-Confusing: Region-Aware Network for Human Pose Estimation

no code implementations3 May 2019 Xuan Cao, Yanhao Ge, Ying Tai, Wei zhang, Jian Li, Chengjie Wang, Jilin Li, Feiyue Huang

In this work, we propose a novel framework named Region-Aware Network (RANet), which learns the ability of anti-confusing in case of heavy occlusion, nearby person and symmetric appearance, for human pose estimation.

Data Augmentation Pose Estimation

Machine Learning Based Routing Congestion Prediction in FPGA High-Level Synthesis

no code implementations6 May 2019 Jieru Zhao, Tingyuan Liang, Sharad Sinha, Wei zhang

Early and accurate congestion estimation is of great benefit to guide the optimization in HLS and improve the efficiency of implementation.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Face Detection +1

Predictive Ensemble Learning with Application to Scene Text Detection

no code implementations12 May 2019 Danlu Chen, Xu-Yao Zhang, Wei zhang, Yao Lu, Xiuli Li, Tao Mei

Taking scene text detection as the application, where no suitable ensemble learning strategy exists, PEL can significantly improve the performance, compared to either individual state-of-the-art models, or the fusion of multiple models by non-maximum suppression.

Classification Ensemble Learning +5

Reconstruct and Represent Video Contents for Captioning via Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations3 Jun 2019 Wei Zhang, Bairui Wang, Lin Ma, Wei Liu

Unlike previous video captioning work mainly exploiting the cues of video contents to make a language description, we propose a reconstruction network (RecNet) in a novel encoder-decoder-reconstructor architecture, which leverages both forward (video to sentence) and backward (sentence to video) flows for video captioning.

Decoder reinforcement-learning +3

A Highly Efficient Distributed Deep Learning System For Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations10 Jul 2019 Wei Zhang, Xiaodong Cui, Ulrich Finkler, George Saon, Abdullah Kayi, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Brian Kingsbury, David Kung, Michael Picheny

On commonly used public SWB-300 and SWB-2000 ASR datasets, ADPSGD can converge with a batch size 3X as large as the one used in SSGD, thus enable training at a much larger scale.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Large-Scale Mixed-Bandwidth Deep Neural Network Acoustic Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations10 Jul 2019 Khoi-Nguyen C. Mac, Xiaodong Cui, Wei zhang, Michael Picheny

In automatic speech recognition (ASR), wideband (WB) and narrowband (NB) speech signals with different sampling rates typically use separate acoustic models.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Latency Minimization for Multiuser Computation Offloading in Fog-Radio Access Networks

no code implementations20 Jul 2019 Wei zhang, Shafei Wang, Ye Pan, Qiang Li, Jingran Lin, Xiaoxiao Wu

This paper considers computation offloading in fog-radio access networks (F-RAN), where multiple user equipments (UEs) offload their computation tasks to the F-RAN through a number of fog nodes.

Hard-Aware Fashion Attribute Classification

no code implementations25 Jul 2019 Yun Ye, Yixin Li, Bo Wu, Wei zhang, Ling-Yu Duan, Tao Mei

For "hard" attributes with insufficient training data, Deact brings more stable synthetic samples for training and further improve the performance.

Attribute Classification +1

Regularizing Proxies with Multi-Adversarial Training for Unsupervised Domain-Adaptive Semantic Segmentation

1 code implementation29 Jul 2019 Tong Shen, Dong Gong, Wei zhang, Chunhua Shen, Tao Mei

To tackle the unsupervised domain adaptation problem, we explore the possibilities to generate high-quality labels as proxy labels to supervise the training on target data.

Semantic Segmentation Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Road Context-aware Intrusion Detection System for Autonomous Cars

no code implementations2 Aug 2019 Jingxuan Jiang, Chundong Wang, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Wei zhang

With such ongoing road context, RAIDS validates corresponding frames observed on the in-vehicle network.

Intrusion Detection

Transfer Learning for Relation Extraction via Relation-Gated Adversarial Learning

no code implementations22 Aug 2019 Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Zhanlin Sun, Jiaoyan Chen, Wei zhang, Huajun Chen

However, the human annotation is expensive, while human-crafted patterns suffer from semantic drift and distant supervision samples are usually noisy.

Partial Domain Adaptation Relation +2

Controllable Video Captioning with POS Sequence Guidance Based on Gated Fusion Network

1 code implementation ICCV 2019 Bairui Wang, Lin Ma, Wei zhang, Wenhao Jiang, Jingwen Wang, Wei Liu

In this paper, we propose to guide the video caption generation with Part-of-Speech (POS) information, based on a gated fusion of multiple representations of input videos.

Caption Generation Decoder +3

Relationship-Aware Spatial Perception Fusion for Realistic Scene Layout Generation

no code implementations2 Sep 2019 Hongdong Zheng, Yalong Bai, Wei zhang, Tao Mei

In our framework, a spatial constraint module is designed to fit reasonable scaling and spatial layout of object pairs with considering relationship between them.

Image Generation Object

Long-distance distribution of atom-photon entanglement at telecom wavelength

no code implementations3 Sep 2019 Tim van Leent, Matthias Bock, Robert Garthoff, Kai Redeker, Wei zhang, Tobias Bauer, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Christoph Becher, Harald Weinfurter

Here we report on the generation and observation of entanglement between a Rb-87 atom and a photon at telecom wavelength over 20 km optical fiber.

Quantum Physics

Meta Relational Learning for Few-Shot Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2019 Mingyang Chen, Wen Zhang, Wei zhang, Qiang Chen, Huajun Chen

Link prediction is an important way to complete knowledge graphs (KGs), while embedding-based methods, effective for link prediction in KGs, perform poorly on relations that only have a few associative triples.

Knowledge Graphs Link Prediction +2

Learning Actions from Human Demonstration Video for Robotic Manipulation

no code implementations10 Sep 2019 Shuo Yang, Wei zhang, Weizhi Lu, Hesheng Wang, Yibin Li

However, the general video captioning methods focus more on the understanding of the full frame, lacking of consideration on the specific object of interests in robotic manipulations.

Video Captioning

CAN ALTQ LEARN FASTER: EXPERIMENTS AND THEORY

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 Bowen Weng, Huaqing Xiong, Yingbin Liang, Wei zhang

Differently from the popular Deep Q-Network (DQN) learning, Alternating Q-learning (AltQ) does not fully fit a target Q-function at each iteration, and is generally known to be unstable and inefficient.

Atari Games Q-Learning

A Three-dimensional Convolutional-Recurrent Network for Convective Storm Nowcasting

no code implementations1 Oct 2019 Wei Zhang, Wei Li, Lei Han

Very short-term convective storm forecasting, termed nowcasting, has long been an important issue and has attracted substantial interest.

Decoder Feature Engineering

Hybrid Zero Dynamics Inspired Feedback Control Policy Design for 3D Bipedal Locomotion using Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations3 Oct 2019 Guillermo A. Castillo, Bowen Weng, Wei zhang, Ayonga Hereid

This paper presents a novel model-free reinforcement learning (RL) framework to design feedback control policies for 3D bipedal walking.

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Learning Robust Representations with Graph Denoising Policy Network

no code implementations4 Oct 2019 Lu Wang, Wenchao Yu, Wei Wang, Wei Cheng, Wei zhang, Hongyuan Zha, Xiaofeng He, Haifeng Chen

Graph representation learning, aiming to learn low-dimensional representations which capture the geometric dependencies between nodes in the original graph, has gained increasing popularity in a variety of graph analysis tasks, including node classification and link prediction.

Denoising Graph Representation Learning +2

Constrained Non-Affine Alignment of Embeddings

no code implementations13 Oct 2019 Yuwei Wang, Yan Zheng, Yanqing Peng, Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, Zhongfang Zhuang, Das Mahashweta, Bendre Mangesh, Feifei Li, Wei zhang, Jeff M. Phillips

Embeddings are already essential tools for large language models and image analysis, and their use is being extended to many other research domains.

From Dark Matter to Galaxies with Convolutional Neural Networks

1 code implementation17 Oct 2019 Jacky H. T. Yip, Xinyue Zhang, Yanfang Wang, Wei zhang, Yueqiu Sun, Gabriella Contardo, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Siyu He, Shy Genel, Shirley Ho

Cosmological simulations play an important role in the interpretation of astronomical data, in particular in comparing observed data to our theoretical expectations.

History-Gradient Aided Batch Size Adaptation for Variance Reduced Algorithms

no code implementations ICML 2020 Kaiyi Ji, Zhe Wang, Bowen Weng, Yi Zhou, Wei zhang, Yingbin Liang

In this paper, we propose a novel scheme, which eliminates backtracking line search but still exploits the information along optimization path by adapting the batch size via history stochastic gradients.

Meta-Learning with Dynamic-Memory-Based Prototypical Network for Few-Shot Event Detection

1 code implementation25 Oct 2019 Shumin Deng, Ningyu Zhang, Jiaojian Kang, Yichi Zhang, Wei zhang, Huajun Chen

Differing from vanilla prototypical networks simply computing event prototypes by averaging, which only consume event mentions once, our model is more robust and is capable of distilling contextual information from event mentions for multiple times due to the multi-hop mechanism of DMNs.

Event Detection Event Extraction +2

A Decentralized Parallel Algorithm for Training Generative Adversarial Nets

no code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Mingrui Liu, Wei zhang, Youssef Mroueh, Xiaodong Cui, Jerret Ross, Tianbao Yang, Payel Das

Despite recent progress on decentralized algorithms for training deep neural networks, it remains unclear whether it is possible to train GANs in a decentralized manner.

SubCharacter Chinese-English Neural Machine Translation with Wubi encoding

no code implementations7 Nov 2019 Wei Zhang, Feifei Lin, Xiaodong Wang, Zhenshuang Liang, Zhen Huang

However, when the translation task involves Chinese, semantic granularity remains at the word and character level, so there is still need more fine-grained translation model of Chinese.

Machine Translation Model Compression +2

Relation Adversarial Network for Low Resource Knowledge Graph Completion

no code implementations8 Nov 2019 Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Zhanlin Sun, Jiaoayan Chen, Wei zhang, Huajun Chen

Specifically, the framework takes advantage of a relation discriminator to distinguish between samples from different relations, and help learn relation-invariant features more transferable from source relations to target relations.

Link Prediction Partial Domain Adaptation +2

Knowledge Graph Alignment Network with Gated Multi-hop Neighborhood Aggregation

1 code implementation20 Nov 2019 Zequn Sun, Chengming Wang, Wei Hu, Muhao Chen, Jian Dai, Wei zhang, Yuzhong Qu

As the direct neighbors of counterpart entities are usually dissimilar due to the schema heterogeneity, AliNet introduces distant neighbors to expand the overlap between their neighborhood structures.

Entity Alignment Knowledge Graphs

Furnishing Your Room by What You See: An End-to-End Furniture Set Retrieval Framework with Rich Annotated Benchmark Dataset

no code implementations21 Nov 2019 Bingyuan Liu, Jiantao Zhang, Xiaoting Zhang, Wei zhang, Chuanhui Yu, Yuan Zhou

However, few works focus on the understanding of furniture within the scenes and a large-scale dataset is also lacked to advance the field.

Retrieval

SM-NAS: Structural-to-Modular Neural Architecture Search for Object Detection

no code implementations22 Nov 2019 Lewei Yao, Hang Xu, Wei zhang, Xiaodan Liang, Zhenguo Li

In this paper, we present a two-stage coarse-to-fine searching strategy named Structural-to-Modular NAS (SM-NAS) for searching a GPU-friendly design of both an efficient combination of modules and better modular-level architecture for object detection.

Neural Architecture Search Object +2

Learning Efficient Video Representation with Video Shuffle Networks

no code implementations26 Nov 2019 Pingchuan Ma, Yao Zhou, Yu Lu, Wei zhang

To this end, we propose the video shuffle, a parameter-free plug-in component that efficiently reallocates the inputs of 2D convolution so that its receptive field can be extended to the temporal dimension.

Video Recognition

Improving Neural Relation Extraction with Positive and Unlabeled Learning

no code implementations28 Nov 2019 Zhengqiu He, Wenliang Chen, Yuyi Wang, Wei zhang, Guanchun Wang, Min Zhang

We present a novel approach to improve the performance of distant supervision relation extraction with Positive and Unlabeled (PU) Learning.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL) +3

AutoBlock: A Hands-off Blocking Framework for Entity Matching

1 code implementation7 Dec 2019 Wei Zhang, Hao Wei, Bunyamin Sisman, Xin Luna Dong, Christos Faloutsos, David Page

Entity matching seeks to identify data records over one or multiple data sources that refer to the same real-world entity.

Blocking Representation Learning

Attentive Representation Learning with Adversarial Training for Short Text Clustering

no code implementations8 Dec 2019 Wei Zhang, Chao Dong, Jianhua Yin, Jianyong Wang

Relying on this, the representation learning and clustering for short texts are seamlessly integrated into a unified model.

Clustering Information Retrieval +3

Transparent Classification with Multilayer Logical Perceptrons and Random Binarization

1 code implementation10 Dec 2019 Zhuo Wang, Wei zhang, Ning Liu, Jianyong Wang

In this paper, we propose a new hierarchical rule-based model for classification tasks, named Concept Rule Sets (CRS), which has both a strong expressive ability and a transparent inner structure.

Binarization Classification +1

Zooming into Face Forensics: A Pixel-level Analysis

no code implementations12 Dec 2019 Jia Li, Tong Shen, Wei zhang, Hui Ren, Dan Zeng, Tao Mei

The stunning progress in face manipulation methods has made it possible to synthesize realistic fake face images, which poses potential threats to our society.

Classification General Classification +1

Down to the Last Detail: Virtual Try-on with Detail Carving

1 code implementation13 Dec 2019 Jiahang Wang, Wei zhang, Weizhong Liu, Tao Mei

However, existing methods can hardly preserve the details in clothing texture and facial identity (face, hair) while fitting novel clothes and poses onto a person.

Virtual Try-on

Vision and Language: from Visual Perception to Content Creation

no code implementations26 Dec 2019 Tao Mei, Wei zhang, Ting Yao

The real-world deployment or services of vision and language are elaborated as well.

Decoder Question Answering +4

Towards Better Understanding of Adaptive Gradient Algorithms in Generative Adversarial Nets

no code implementations ICLR 2020 Mingrui Liu, Youssef Mroueh, Jerret Ross, Wei zhang, Xiaodong Cui, Payel Das, Tianbao Yang

Then we propose an adaptive variant of OSG named Optimistic Adagrad (OAdagrad) and reveal an \emph{improved} adaptive complexity $O\left(\epsilon^{-\frac{2}{1-\alpha}}\right)$, where $\alpha$ characterizes the growth rate of the cumulative stochastic gradient and $0\leq \alpha\leq 1/2$.

Towards Stabilizing Batch Statistics in Backward Propagation of Batch Normalization

1 code implementation ICLR 2020 Junjie Yan, Ruosi Wan, Xiangyu Zhang, Wei zhang, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun

Therefore many modified normalization techniques have been proposed, which either fail to restore the performance of BN completely, or have to introduce additional nonlinear operations in inference procedure and increase huge consumption.

How Does BN Increase Collapsed Neural Network Filters?

no code implementations30 Jan 2020 Sheng Zhou, Xinjiang Wang, Ping Luo, Litong Feng, Wenjie Li, Wei zhang

This phenomenon is caused by the normalization effect of BN, which induces a non-trainable region in the parameter space and reduces the network capacity as a result.

object-detection Object Detection

Improving Domain-Adapted Sentiment Classification by Deep Adversarial Mutual Learning

1 code implementation1 Feb 2020 Qianming Xue, Wei zhang, Hongyuan Zha

To improve domain-adapted sentiment classification by learning sentiment from the target domain as well, we devise a novel deep adversarial mutual learning approach involving two groups of feature extractors, domain discriminators, sentiment classifiers, and label probers.

Classification General Classification +2

Learning Long- and Short-Term User Literal-Preference with Multimodal Hierarchical Transformer Network for Personalized Image Caption

no code implementations AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020) 2020 Wei Zhang, Yue Ying, Pan Lu, Hongyuan Zha

Personalized image caption, a natural extension of the standard image caption task, requires to generate brief image descriptions tailored for users’ writing style and traits, and is more practical to meet users’ real demands.

Image Captioning

Improving Efficiency in Large-Scale Decentralized Distributed Training

no code implementations4 Feb 2020 Wei Zhang, Xiaodong Cui, Abdullah Kayi, Mingrui Liu, Ulrich Finkler, Brian Kingsbury, George Saon, Youssef Mroueh, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Payel Das, David Kung, Michael Picheny

Decentralized Parallel SGD (D-PSGD) and its asynchronous variant Asynchronous Parallel SGD (AD-PSGD) is a family of distributed learning algorithms that have been demonstrated to perform well for large-scale deep learning tasks.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Distributed Bayesian Matrix Decomposition for Big Data Mining and Clustering

2 code implementations10 Feb 2020 Chihao Zhang, Yang Yang, Wei zhang, Shihua Zhang

Such a method should scale up well, model the heterogeneous noise, and address the communication issue in a distributed system.

Clustering Distributed Computing

Non-asymptotic Convergence of Adam-type Reinforcement Learning Algorithms under Markovian Sampling

no code implementations15 Feb 2020 Huaqing Xiong, Tengyu Xu, Yingbin Liang, Wei zhang

Despite the wide applications of Adam in reinforcement learning (RL), the theoretical convergence of Adam-type RL algorithms has not been established.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

CAUSE: Learning Granger Causality from Event Sequences using Attribution Methods

1 code implementation ICML 2020 Wei Zhang, Thomas Kobber Panum, Somesh Jha, Prasad Chalasani, David Page

We study the problem of learning Granger causality between event types from asynchronous, interdependent, multi-type event sequences.

Beyond Clicks: Modeling Multi-Relational Item Graph for Session-Based Target Behavior Prediction

1 code implementation19 Feb 2020 Wen Wang, Wei zhang, Shukai Liu, Qi Liu, Bo Zhang, Leyu Lin, Hongyuan Zha

Specifically, we build a Multi-Relational Item Graph (MRIG) based on all behavior sequences from all sessions, involving target and auxiliary behavior types.

Representation Learning

Syndrome-aware Herb Recommendation with Multi-Graph Convolution Network

no code implementations20 Feb 2020 Yuanyuan Jin, Wei zhang, Xiangnan He, Xinyu Wang, Xiaoling Wang

Given a set of symptoms to treat, we aim to generate an overall syndrome representation by effectively fusing the embeddings of all the symptoms in the set, to mimic how a doctor induces the syndromes.

ZoomNet: Part-Aware Adaptive Zooming Neural Network for 3D Object Detection

1 code implementation1 Mar 2020 Zhenbo Xu, Wei zhang, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiao Tan, Wei Yang, Shilei Wen, Errui Ding, Ajin Meng, Liusheng Huang

The pipeline of ZoomNet begins with an ordinary 2D object detection model which is used to obtain pairs of left-right bounding boxes.

3D Object Detection Autonomous Driving +2

Sex Differences in Severity and Mortality Among Patients With COVID-19: Evidence from Pooled Literature Analysis and Insights from Integrated Bioinformatic Analysis

no code implementations30 Mar 2020 Xiyi Wei, Yu-Tian Xiao, Jian Wang, Rui Chen, Wei zhang, Yue Yang, Daojun Lv, Chao Qin, Di Gu, Bo Zhang, Weidong Chen, Jianquan Hou, Ninghong Song, Guohua Zeng, Shancheng Ren

Objective: To conduct a meta-analysis of current studies that examined sex differences in severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19, and identify potential mechanisms underpinning these differences.

Look-into-Object: Self-supervised Structure Modeling for Object Recognition

2 code implementations CVPR 2020 Mohan Zhou, Yalong Bai, Wei zhang, Tiejun Zhao, Tao Mei

Specifically, we first propose an object-extent learning module for localizing the object according to the visual patterns shared among the instances in the same category.

Fine-Grained Image Classification Image Recognition +7

Adaptive Fractional Dilated Convolution Network for Image Aesthetics Assessment

no code implementations CVPR 2020 Qiuyu Chen, Wei zhang, Ning Zhou, Peng Lei, Yi Xu, Yu Zheng, Jianping Fan

Specifically, the fractional dilated kernel is adaptively constructed according to the image aspect ratios, where the interpolation of nearest two integers dilated kernels is used to cope with the misalignment of fractional sampling.

Learning from a Lightweight Teacher for Efficient Knowledge Distillation

no code implementations19 May 2020 Yuang Liu, Wei zhang, Jun Wang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is an effective framework for compressing deep learning models, realized by a student-teacher paradigm requiring small student networks to mimic the soft target generated by well-trained teachers.

Knowledge Distillation

Map Generation from Large Scale Incomplete and Inaccurate Data Labels

no code implementations20 May 2020 Rui Zhang, Conrad Albrecht, Wei zhang, Xiaodong Cui, Ulrich Finkler, David Kung, Siyuan Lu

Accurately and globally mapping human infrastructure is an important and challenging task with applications in routing, regulation compliance monitoring, and natural disaster response management etc..

Disaster Response Management

HourNAS: Extremely Fast Neural Architecture Search Through an Hourglass Lens

6 code implementations CVPR 2021 Zhaohui Yang, Yunhe Wang, Xinghao Chen, Jianyuan Guo, Wei zhang, Chao Xu, Chunjing Xu, DaCheng Tao, Chang Xu

To achieve an extremely fast NAS while preserving the high accuracy, we propose to identify the vital blocks and make them the priority in the architecture search.

Neural Architecture Search

GroupIM: A Mutual Information Maximization Framework for Neural Group Recommendation

1 code implementation5 Jun 2020 Aravind Sankar, Yanhong Wu, Yuhang Wu, Wei zhang, Hao Yang, Hari Sundaram

We study the problem of making item recommendations to ephemeral groups, which comprise users with limited or no historical activities together.

FP-Stereo: Hardware-Efficient Stereo Vision for Embedded Applications

no code implementations5 Jun 2020 Jieru Zhao, Tingyuan Liang, Liang Feng, Wenchao Ding, Sharad Sinha, Wei zhang, Shaojie Shen

To reduce the design effort and achieve the right balance, we propose FP-Stereo for building high-performance stereo matching pipelines on FPGAs automatically.

C++ code Depth Estimation +1

PointTrack++ for Effective Online Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

1 code implementation3 Jul 2020 Zhenbo Xu, Wei zhang, Xiao Tan, Wei Yang, Xiangbo Su, Yuchen Yuan, Hongwu Zhang, Shilei Wen, Errui Ding, Liusheng Huang

In this work, we present PointTrack++, an effective on-line framework for MOTS, which remarkably extends our recently proposed PointTrack framework.

Data Augmentation Decoder +8

Segment as Points for Efficient Online Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

1 code implementation ECCV 2020 Zhenbo Xu, Wei zhang, Xiao Tan, Wei Yang, Huan Huang, Shilei Wen, Errui Ding, Liusheng Huang

The resulting online MOTS framework, named PointTrack, surpasses all the state-of-the-art methods including 3D tracking methods by large margins (5. 4% higher MOTSA and 18 times faster over MOTSFusion) with the near real-time speed (22 FPS).

Multi-Object Tracking Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation +1

Multi-future Merchant Transaction Prediction

no code implementations10 Jul 2020 Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, Zhongfang Zhuang, Wei zhang, Liang Wang

We use experiments on real-world merchant transaction data to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed model.

Decoder Fraud Detection +4

Analysis of Q-learning with Adaptation and Momentum Restart for Gradient Descent

no code implementations15 Jul 2020 Bowen Weng, Huaqing Xiong, Yingbin Liang, Wei zhang

In this paper, we first characterize the convergence rate for Q-AMSGrad, which is the Q-learning algorithm with AMSGrad update (a commonly adopted alternative of Adam for theoretical analysis).

Atari Games Q-Learning

Automatic Image Labelling at Pixel Level

no code implementations15 Jul 2020 Xiang Zhang, Wei zhang, Jinye Peng, Jianping Fan

A Guided Filter Network (GFN) is first developed to learn the segmentation knowledge from a source domain, and such GFN then transfers such segmentation knowledge to generate coarse object masks in the target domain.

Image Segmentation Object +2

Classes Matter: A Fine-grained Adversarial Approach to Cross-domain Semantic Segmentation

1 code implementation ECCV 2020 Haoran Wang, Tong Shen, Wei zhang, Ling-Yu Duan, Tao Mei

To fully exploit the supervision in the source domain, we propose a fine-grained adversarial learning strategy for class-level feature alignment while preserving the internal structure of semantics across domains.

Domain Adaptation Semantic Segmentation +1

CurveLane-NAS: Unifying Lane-Sensitive Architecture Search and Adaptive Point Blending

1 code implementation ECCV 2020 Hang Xu, Shaoju Wang, Xinyue Cai, Wei zhang, Xiaodan Liang, Zhenguo Li

In this paper, we propose a novel lane-sensitive architecture search framework named CurveLane-NAS to automatically capture both long-ranged coherent and accurate short-range curve information while unifying both architecture search and post-processing on curve lane predictions via point blending.

Autonomous Driving Lane Detection

Multi-stream RNN for Merchant Transaction Prediction

no code implementations25 Jul 2020 Zhongfang Zhuang, Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, Liang Wang, Wei zhang, Junpeng Wang

New challenges have surfaced in monitoring and guaranteeing the integrity of payment processing systems.

Fraud Detection Time Series +1

Research Progress of Convolutional Neural Network and its Application in Object Detection

no code implementations27 Jul 2020 Wei Zhang, Zuoxiang Zeng

With the improvement of computer performance and the increase of data volume, the object detection based on convolutional neural network (CNN) has become the main algorithm for object detection.

Object object-detection +1

Momentum Q-learning with Finite-Sample Convergence Guarantee

no code implementations30 Jul 2020 Bowen Weng, Huaqing Xiong, Lin Zhao, Yingbin Liang, Wei zhang

For the infinite state-action space case, we establish the convergence guarantee for MomentumQ with linear function approximations and Markovian sampling.

Q-Learning

Pneumonia after bacterial or viral infection preceded or followed by radiation exposure -- a reanalysis of older radiobiological data and implications for low dose radiotherapy for COVID-19 pneumonia

no code implementations6 Aug 2020 Mark P Little, Wei zhang, Roy van Dusen, Nobuyuki Hamada

For 7 studies that evaluated post-inoculation radiation exposure (more relevant to LDRT for COVID-19 pneumonia) the results are heterogeneous, with 2 studies showing a significant increase (p<0. 001) and another showing a significant decrease (p<0. 001) in mortality associated with radiation exposure.

Cluster-level Feature Alignment for Person Re-identification

1 code implementation15 Aug 2020 Qiuyu Chen, Wei zhang, Jianping Fan

Instance-level alignment is widely exploited for person re-identification, e. g. spatial alignment, latent semantic alignment and triplet alignment.

Person Re-Identification

A(DP)$^2$SGD: Asynchronous Decentralized Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent with Differential Privacy

no code implementations21 Aug 2020 Jie Xu, Wei zhang, Fei Wang

A popular distributed learning strategy is federated learning, where there is a central server storing the global model and a set of local computing nodes updating the model parameters with their corresponding data.

Federated Learning

Products-10K: A Large-scale Product Recognition Dataset

1 code implementation24 Aug 2020 Yalong Bai, Yuxiang Chen, Wei Yu, Linfang Wang, Wei zhang

With the rapid development of electronic commerce, the way of shopping has experienced a revolutionary evolution.

Learn by Observation: Imitation Learning for Drone Patrolling from Videos of A Human Navigator

no code implementations30 Aug 2020 Yue Fan, Shilei Chu, Wei zhang, Ran Song, Yibin Li

Extensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed imitating learning process as well as the reliability of the holistic system for autonomous drone navigation.

Drone navigation Imitation Learning

An Ensemble Learning Approach for In-situ Monitoring of FPGA Dynamic Power

no code implementations3 Sep 2020 Zhe Lin, Sharad Sinha, Wei zhang

As field-programmable gate arrays become prevalent in critical application domains, their power consumption is of high concern.

Ensemble Learning Management

Decision Tree Based Hardware Power Monitoring for Run Time Dynamic Power Management in FPGA

no code implementations3 Sep 2020 Zhe Lin, Wei zhang, Sharad Sinha

A flexible architecture of the hardware power monitoring is proposed, which can be instrumented in any RTL design for runtime power estimation, dispensing with the need for extra power measurement devices.

Management

Towards Efficient and Scalable Acceleration of Online Decision Tree Learning on FPGA

no code implementations3 Sep 2020 Zhe Lin, Sharad Sinha, Wei zhang

We further present a high-performance, hardware-efficient and scalable online decision tree learning system on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with system-level optimization techniques.

DualDE: Dually Distilling Knowledge Graph Embedding for Faster and Cheaper Reasoning

no code implementations13 Sep 2020 Yushan Zhu, Wen Zhang, Mingyang Chen, Hui Chen, Xu Cheng, Wei zhang, Huajun Chen

In DualDE, we propose a soft label evaluation mechanism to adaptively assign different soft label and hard label weights to different triples, and a two-stage distillation approach to improve the student's acceptance of the teacher.

Knowledge Distillation Knowledge Graph Embedding +2

Towards a Flexible Embedding Learning Framework

no code implementations23 Sep 2020 Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, Dhruv Gelda, Zhongfang Zhuang, Yan Zheng, Liang Gou, Wei zhang

Our proposed framework utilizes a set of entity-relation-matrices as the input, which quantifies the affinities among different entities in the database.

Relation Representation Learning

TernaryBERT: Distillation-aware Ultra-low Bit BERT

5 code implementations EMNLP 2020 Wei Zhang, Lu Hou, Yichun Yin, Lifeng Shang, Xiao Chen, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu

Transformer-based pre-training models like BERT have achieved remarkable performance in many natural language processing tasks. However, these models are both computation and memory expensive, hindering their deployment to resource-constrained devices.

Knowledge Distillation Quantization

Kernel Based Progressive Distillation for Adder Neural Networks

no code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Yixing Xu, Chang Xu, Xinghao Chen, Wei zhang, Chunjing Xu, Yunhe Wang

A convolutional neural network (CNN) with the same architecture is simultaneously initialized and trained as a teacher network, features and weights of ANN and CNN will be transformed to a new space to eliminate the accuracy drop.

Knowledge Distillation

Finite-Time Analysis for Double Q-learning

no code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Huaqing Xiong, Lin Zhao, Yingbin Liang, Wei zhang

Although Q-learning is one of the most successful algorithms for finding the best action-value function (and thus the optimal policy) in reinforcement learning, its implementation often suffers from large overestimation of Q-function values incurred by random sampling.

Q-Learning

Dynamic Anticipation and Completion for Multi-Hop Reasoning over Sparse Knowledge Graph

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Xin Lv, Xu Han, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Wei zhang, Yichi Zhang, Hao Kong, Suhui Wu

On the one hand, sparse KGs contain less information, which makes it difficult for the model to choose correct paths.

Knowledge Association with Hyperbolic Knowledge Graph Embeddings

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Zequn Sun, Muhao Chen, Wei Hu, Chengming Wang, Jian Dai, Wei zhang

Capturing associations for knowledge graphs (KGs) through entity alignment, entity type inference and other related tasks benefits NLP applications with comprehensive knowledge representations.

Entity Alignment Knowledge Graph Embeddings +1

How Can Self-Attention Networks Recognize Dyck-n Languages?

no code implementations Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 Javid Ebrahimi, Dhruv Gelda, Wei zhang

For $\mathcal{D}_2$, we find that SA$^-$ completely breaks down on long sequences whereas the accuracy of SA$^+$ is 58. 82$\%$.

G-DARTS-A: Groups of Channel Parallel Sampling with Attention

no code implementations16 Oct 2020 Zhaowen Wang, Wei zhang, Zhiming Wang

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) provides a baseline for searching effective network architectures based gradient, but it is accompanied by huge computational overhead in searching and training network architecture.

Model Rubik's Cube: Twisting Resolution, Depth and Width for TinyNets

10 code implementations28 Oct 2020 Kai Han, Yunhe Wang, Qiulin Zhang, Wei zhang, Chunjing Xu, Tong Zhang

To this end, we summarize a tiny formula for downsizing neural architectures through a series of smaller models derived from the EfficientNet-B0 with the FLOPs constraint.

Image Classification Rubik's Cube

Towards Accurate and Consistent Evaluation: A Dataset for Distantly-Supervised Relation Extraction

1 code implementation COLING 2020 Tong Zhu, Haitao Wang, Junjie Yu, Xiabing Zhou, Wenliang Chen, Wei zhang, Min Zhang

The experimental results show that the ranking lists of the comparison systems on the DS-labelled test data and human-annotated test data are different.

Relation Relation Extraction

Bridging Text and Knowledge with Multi-Prototype Embedding for Few-Shot Relational Triple Extraction

no code implementations COLING 2020 Haiyang Yu, Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Hongbin Ye, Wei zhang, Huajun Chen

Current supervised relational triple extraction approaches require huge amounts of labeled data and thus suffer from poor performance in few-shot settings.

Merchant Category Identification Using Credit Card Transactions

no code implementations5 Nov 2020 Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, Zhongfang Zhuang, Yan Zheng, Liang Wang, Junpeng Wang, Wei zhang

In this work, we approach this problem from a multi-modal learning perspective, where we use not only the merchant time series data but also the information of merchant-merchant relationship (i. e., affinity) to verify the self-reported business type (i. e., merchant category) of a given merchant.

Time Series Time Series Analysis +1

Improving Relation Extraction with Relational Paraphrase Sentences

1 code implementation COLING 2020 Junjie Yu, Tong Zhu, Wenliang Chen, Wei zhang, Min Zhang

In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to improve RE systems via enriching diverse expressions by relational paraphrase sentences.

Relation Relation Extraction

Model Rubik’s Cube: Twisting Resolution, Depth and Width for TinyNets

3 code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Kai Han, Yunhe Wang, Qiulin Zhang, Wei zhang, Chunjing Xu, Tong Zhang

To this end, we summarize a tiny formula for downsizing neural architectures through a series of smaller models derived from the EfficientNet-B0 with the FLOPs constraint.

Image Classification

NUT-RC: Noisy User-generated Text-oriented Reading Comprehension

1 code implementation COLING 2020 Rongtao Huang, Bowei Zou, Yu Hong, Wei zhang, AiTi Aw, Guodong Zhou

Most existing RC models are developed on formal datasets such as news articles and Wikipedia documents, which severely limit their performances when directly applied to the noisy and informal texts in social media.

Answer Selection Multi-Task Learning +1

Online Decision Based Visual Tracking via Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Ke Song, Wei zhang, Ran Song, Yibin Li

A deep visual tracker is typically based on either object detection or template matching while each of them is only suitable for a particular group of scenes.

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning object-detection +5

Residual Distillation: Towards Portable Deep Neural Networks without Shortcuts

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2020 Guilin Li, Junlei Zhang, Yunhe Wang, Chuanjian Liu, Matthias Tan, Yunfeng Lin, Wei zhang, Jiashi Feng, Tong Zhang

In particular, we propose a novel joint-training framework to train plain CNN by leveraging the gradients of the ResNet counterpart.

Hard-ODT: Hardware-Friendly Online Decision Tree Learning Algorithm and System

no code implementations11 Dec 2020 Zhe Lin, Sharad Sinha, Wei zhang

Following this, we present Hard-ODT, a high-performance, hardware-efficient and scalable online decision tree learning system on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with system-level optimization techniques.

Anomalous Hall and Nernst Effects in FeRh

no code implementations28 Dec 2020 Hilal Saglam, Changjiang Liu, Yi Li, Joseph Sklenar, Jonathan Gibbons, Deshun Hong, Vedat Karakas, John E. Pearson, Ozhan Ozatay, Wei zhang, Anand Bhattacharya, Axel Hoffmann

Antiferromagnets with tunable phase transitions are promising for future spintronics applications.

Materials Science

RRL: A Scalable Classifier for Interpretable Rule-Based Representation Learning

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Zhuo Wang, Wei zhang, Ning Liu, Jianyong Wang

Rule-based models, e. g., decision trees, are widely used in scenarios demanding high model interpretability for their transparent inner structures and good model expressivity.

Representation Learning

Exploring Geometry-Aware Contrast and Clustering Harmonization for Self-Supervised 3D Object Detection

no code implementations ICCV 2021 Hanxue Liang, Chenhan Jiang, Dapeng Feng, Xin Chen, Hang Xu, Xiaodan Liang, Wei zhang, Zhenguo Li, Luc van Gool

Here we present a novel self-supervised 3D Object detection framework that seamlessly integrates the geometry-aware contrast and clustering harmonization to lift the unsupervised 3D representation learning, named GCC-3D.

3D Object Detection Clustering +4

Double Q-learning: New Analysis and Sharper Finite-time Bound

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Lin Zhao, Huaqing Xiong, Yingbin Liang, Wei zhang

Double Q-learning (Hasselt 2010) has gained significant success in practice due to its effectiveness in overcoming the overestimation issue of Q-learning.

Q-Learning

Why Does Decentralized Training Outperform Synchronous Training In The Large Batch Setting?

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Wei zhang, Mingrui Liu, Yu Feng, Brian Kingsbury, Yuhai Tu

We conduct extensive studies over 12 state-of-the-art DL models/tasks and demonstrate that DPSGD consistently outperforms SSGD in the large batch setting; and DPSGD converges in cases where SSGD diverges for large learning rates.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

C3-SemiSeg: Contrastive Semi-Supervised Segmentation via Cross-Set Learning and Dynamic Class-Balancing

no code implementations ICCV 2021 Yanning Zhou, Hang Xu, Wei zhang, Bin Gao, Pheng-Ann Heng

The semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods utilize the unlabeled data to increase the feature discriminative ability to alleviate the burden of the annotated data.

Contrastive Learning Data Augmentation +1

Take More Positives: An Empirical Study of Contrastive Learing in Unsupervised Person Re-Identification

no code implementations12 Jan 2021 Xuanyu He, Wei zhang, Ran Song, Qian Zhang, Xiangyuan Lan, Lin Ma

By studying two unsupervised person re-ID methods in a cross-method way, we point out a hard negative problem is handled implicitly by their designs of data augmentations and PK sampler respectively.

Contrastive Learning Unsupervised Person Re-Identification

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