Search Results for author: Weijie Zhao

Found 25 papers, 8 papers with code

Distributed Hierarchical GPU Parameter Server for Massive Scale Deep Learning Ads Systems

2 code implementations12 Mar 2020 Weijie Zhao, Deping Xie, Ronglai Jia, Yulei Qian, Ruiquan Ding, Mingming Sun, Ping Li

For example, a sponsored online advertising system can contain more than $10^{11}$ sparse features, making the neural network a massive model with around 10 TB parameters.

Package for Fast ABC-Boost

1 code implementation18 Jul 2022 Ping Li, Weijie Zhao

Although the gain formula in Li (2010) was derived for logistic regression loss, it is a generic formula for loss functions with second-derivatives.

Multi-class Classification regression

pGMM Kernel Regression and Comparisons with Boosted Trees

1 code implementation18 Jul 2022 Ping Li, Weijie Zhao

In recent prior studies, the pGMM kernel has been extensively evaluated for classification tasks, for logistic regression, support vector machines, as well as deep neural networks.

regression

F2GAN: Fusing-and-Filling GAN for Few-shot Image Generation

1 code implementation5 Aug 2020 Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Weijie Zhao, Chen Fu, Liqing Zhang

In this paper, we propose a Fusing-and-Filling Generative Adversarial Network (F2GAN) to generate realistic and diverse images for a new category with only a few images.

Generative Adversarial Network Image Generation

LIRA: Learnable, Imperceptible and Robust Backdoor Attacks

2 code implementations ICCV 2021 Khoa Doan, Yingjie Lao, Weijie Zhao, Ping Li

Under this optimization framework, the trigger generator function will learn to manipulate the input with imperceptible noise to preserve the model performance on the clean data and maximize the attack success rate on the poisoned data.

Backdoor Attack backdoor defense +1

Machine Unlearning in Gradient Boosting Decision Trees

1 code implementation KDD 2023 Huawei Lin, Jun Woo Chung, Yingjie Lao, Weijie Zhao

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that considers machine unlearning on GBDT.

Machine Unlearning

Inductive Guided Filter: Real-time Deep Image Matting with Weakly Annotated Masks on Mobile Devices

no code implementations16 May 2019 Yaoyi Li, Jianfu Zhang, Weijie Zhao, Hongtao Lu

A high efficient image matting method based on a weakly annotated mask is in demand for mobile applications.

Image Matting

Image Cropping with Composition and Saliency Aware Aesthetic Score Map

no code implementations24 Nov 2019 Yi Tu, Li Niu, Weijie Zhao, Dawei Cheng, Liqing Zhang

Aesthetic image cropping is a practical but challenging task which aims at finding the best crops with the highest aesthetic quality in an image.

Image Cropping

Convergent Adaptive Gradient Methods in Decentralized Optimization

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Xiangyi Chen, Belhal Karimi, Weijie Zhao, Ping Li

Specifically, we propose a general algorithmic framework that can convert existing adaptive gradient methods to their decentralized counterparts.

Distributed Optimization

On the Convergence of Decentralized Adaptive Gradient Methods

no code implementations7 Sep 2021 Xiangyi Chen, Belhal Karimi, Weijie Zhao, Ping Li

Adaptive gradient methods including Adam, AdaGrad, and their variants have been very successful for training deep learning models, such as neural networks.

Distributed Computing Distributed Optimization

Practical Adversarial Training with Differential Privacy for Deep Learning

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Zhiqi Bu, Ping Li, Weijie Zhao

In this work, we propose the practical adversarial training with differential privacy (DP-Adv), to combine the backbones from both communities and deliver robust and private models with high accuracy.

GCWSNet: Generalized Consistent Weighted Sampling for Scalable and Accurate Training of Neural Networks

no code implementations7 Jan 2022 Ping Li, Weijie Zhao

For example, one can apply GCWS on the outputs of the last layer to boost the accuracy of trained deep neural networks.

Click-Through Rate Prediction

Communication-Efficient TeraByte-Scale Model Training Framework for Online Advertising

no code implementations5 Jan 2022 Weijie Zhao, Xuewu Jiao, Mingqing Hu, Xiaoyun Li, Xiangyu Zhang, Ping Li

In this paper, we propose a hardware-aware training workflow that couples the hardware topology into the algorithm design.

Click-Through Rate Prediction

Proximity Graph Maintenance for Fast Online Nearest Neighbor Search

no code implementations22 Jun 2022 Zhaozhuo Xu, Weijie Zhao, Shulong Tan, Zhixin Zhou, Ping Li

Given a vertex deletion request, we thoroughly investigate solutions to update the connections of the vertex.

Quantization Recommendation Systems

FeatureBox: Feature Engineering on GPUs for Massive-Scale Ads Systems

no code implementations26 Sep 2022 Weijie Zhao, Xuewu Jiao, Xinsheng Luo, Jingxue Li, Belhal Karimi, Ping Li

In this paper, we propose FeatureBox, a novel end-to-end training framework that pipelines the feature extraction and the training on GPU servers to save the intermediate I/O of the feature extraction.

Feature Engineering Management +1

Constrained Approximate Similarity Search on Proximity Graph

no code implementations26 Oct 2022 Weijie Zhao, Shulong Tan, Ping Li

Typically a three-stage mechanism is employed in those systems: (i) a small collection of items are first retrieved by (e. g.,) approximate near neighbor search algorithms; (ii) then a collection of constraints are applied on the retrieved items; (iii) a fine-grained ranking neural network is employed to determine the final recommendation.

Quantization Recommendation Systems

Asymmetric Hashing for Fast Ranking via Neural Network Measures

no code implementations1 Nov 2022 Khoa Doan, Shulong Tan, Weijie Zhao, Ping Li

Previous learning-to-hash approaches are also not suitable to solve the fast item ranking problem since they can take a significant amount of time and computation to train the hash functions.

Recommendation Systems

Building K-Anonymous User Cohorts with\\ Consecutive Consistent Weighted Sampling (CCWS)

no code implementations26 Apr 2023 Xinyi Zheng, Weijie Zhao, Xiaoyun Li, Ping Li

To retrieve personalized campaigns and creatives while protecting user privacy, digital advertising is shifting from member-based identity to cohort-based identity.

Practice with Graph-based ANN Algorithms on Sparse Data: Chi-square Two-tower model, HNSW, Sign Cauchy Projections

no code implementations13 Jun 2023 Ping Li, Weijie Zhao, Chao Wang, Qi Xia, Alice Wu, Lijun Peng

In this paper, we report our exploration of efficient search in sparse data with graph-based ANN algorithms (e. g., HNSW, or SONG which is the GPU version of HNSW), which are popular in industrial practice, e. g., search and ads (advertising).

Pb-Hash: Partitioned b-bit Hashing

no code implementations28 Jun 2023 Ping Li, Weijie Zhao

In this study, we propose to re-use the hashes by partitioning the $B$ bits into $m$ chunks, e. g., $b\times m =B$.

Blockwise Feature Interaction in Recommendation Systems

no code implementations28 Jun 2023 Weijie Zhao, Ping Li

Feature interactions can play a crucial role in recommendation systems as they capture complex relationships between user preferences and item characteristics.

Recommendation Systems

DeepAuth: A DNN Authentication Framework by Model-Unique and Fragile Signature Embedding

no code implementations Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022 Yingjie Lao, Weijie Zhao, Peng Yang, Ping Li

After embedding, each model will respond distinctively to these key samples, which creates a model-unique signature as a strong tool for authentication and user identity.

GUITAR: Gradient Pruning toward Fast Neural Ranking

no code implementations28 Dec 2023 Weijie Zhao, Shulong Tan, Ping Li

With the continuous popularity of deep learning and representation learning, fast vector search becomes a vital task in various ranking/retrieval based applications, say recommendation, ads ranking and question answering.

Question Answering Representation Learning +1

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