no code implementations • 26 Jun 2025 • He Zhang, Ming Zhou, Shaopeng Zhai, Ying Sun, Hui Xiong
As an implementation, we score the degree of strength convergence with regret, and guide the skill discovery with a learnable skill generator.
no code implementations • 26 May 2025 • Yuanxin Zhuang, Dazhong Shen, Ying Sun
Molecular editing aims to modify a given molecule to optimize desired chemical properties while preserving structural similarity.
no code implementations • 26 May 2025 • Haoran Xin, Ying Sun, Chao Wang, Yanke Yu, Weijia Zhang, Hui Xiong
Therefore, we aim to improve recommendation fairness without any access to sensitive attributes.
no code implementations • 26 May 2025 • Haoran Xin, Ying Sun, Chao Wang, Weijia Zhang, Hui Xiong
To address this, we propose expressing CI directly in natural language to better align with LLMs' semantic space.
1 code implementation • 12 May 2025 • Ziling Ma, Ángel López-Oriona, Hernando Ombao, Ying Sun
Clustering multivariate time series data is a crucial task in many domains, as it enables the identification of meaningful patterns and groups in time-evolving data.
no code implementations • 20 Mar 2025 • Zhiyuan Liu, Yuting Zhang, Feng Liu, Changwang Zhang, Ying Sun, Jun Wang
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have gained significant traction for their ability to process diverse input data types and generate coherent, contextually relevant outputs across various applications.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2025 • Weiyu Guo, Ziyang Chen, Shaoguang Wang, Jianxiang He, Yijie Xu, Jinhui Ye, Ying Sun, Hui Xiong
Understanding long video content is a complex endeavor that often relies on densely sampled frame captions or end-to-end feature selectors, yet these techniques commonly overlook the logical relationships between textual queries and visual elements.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2025 • Yang Ji, Ying Sun, HengShu Zhu
Despite efforts on salary prediction based on job positions and talent demographics, there still lacks methods to effectively discern the set-structured skills' intricate composition effect on job salary.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2025 • Weiyu Guo, Guoying Sun, Jianxiang He, Tong Shao, Shaoguang Wang, Ziyang Chen, Meisheng Hong, Ying Sun, Hui Xiong
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) based image reconstruction plays a pivotal role in decoding human perception, with applications in neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2025 • Haodi Xu, Joshua Fan, Feng Tao, Lifen Jiang, Fengqi You, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Ying Sun, Carla P. Gomes, Yiqi Luo
Big data and the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) provide unprecedented opportunities to enhance our understanding of the global carbon cycle and other biogeochemical processes.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2025 • Jianwei Shi, Sameh Abdulah, Ying Sun, Marc G. Genton
This paper presents a decentralized framework tailored for parameter inference in spatial low-rank models to address these challenges.
1 code implementation • 26 Jan 2025 • Yang Ji, Ying Sun, Yuting Zhang, Zhigaoyuan Wang, Yuanxin Zhuang, Zheng Gong, Dazhong Shen, Chuan Qin, HengShu Zhu, Hui Xiong
Neural networks have achieved remarkable success across various fields.
no code implementations • 29 Dec 2024 • Zuzheng Wang, Fouzi Harrou, Ying Sun, Marc G Genton
Using its capacity to evaluate the magnitude and shape of deviations, the MS-Plot offers a statistically principled and interpretable framework for anomaly detection.
no code implementations • 23 Dec 2024 • Tongle Wu, Ying Sun, Jicong Fan
To solve the problem, we first propose an alternating minimization algorithm, termed \textsf{Alt-PGD-Min}, that iteratively optimizes the two factors using a projected gradient descent and an exact minimization step, respectively.
1 code implementation • 16 Dec 2024 • Zhuoyun Du, Lujie Zheng, Renjun Hu, Yuyang Xu, Xiawei Li, Ying Sun, Wei Chen, Jian Wu, Haolei Cai, Haohao Ying
Training medical personnel using standardized patients (SPs) remains a complex challenge, requiring extensive domain expertise and role-specific practice.
2 code implementations • 31 Oct 2024 • Liyi Chen, Panrong Tong, Zhongming Jin, Ying Sun, Jieping Ye, Hui Xiong
To address these limitations, we propose a novel self-correcting adaptive planning paradigm for KG-augmented LLM named Plan-on-Graph (PoG), which first decomposes the question into several sub-objectives and then repeats the process of adaptively exploring reasoning paths, updating memory, and reflecting on the need to self-correct erroneous reasoning paths until arriving at the answer.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2024 • Yunqi Zhu, Wen Tang, Ying Sun, Xuebing Yang
Recent research on large language models (LLMs) has primarily focused on their adaptation and application in specialized domains.
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2024 • Xin Yu, Zelin He, Ying Sun, Lingzhou Xue, Runze Li
Personalized federated learning (PFL) offers a flexible framework for aggregating information across distributed clients with heterogeneous data.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2024 • Mengfang Sun, Wenying Sun, Ying Sun, Shaobo Liu, Mohan Jiang, Zhen Xu
This paper presents a novel approach to credit risk prediction by employing Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) to assess the creditworthiness of borrowers.
no code implementations • 25 Aug 2024 • Meiyi Wei, Liu Xie, Ying Sun, Gang Chen
Recent advancements in local Implicit Neural Representation (INR) demonstrate its exceptional capability in handling images at various resolutions.
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2024 • Yuting Zhang, Yiqing Wu, Ruidong Han, Ying Sun, Yongchun Zhu, Xiang Li, Wei Lin, Fuzhen Zhuang, Zhulin An, Yongjun Xu
It is therefore feasible to utilize the interaction data from both scenarios to reinforce the dual intents for joint intent-aware modeling.
1 code implementation • 5 Jun 2024 • Gexin Huang, Chenfei Wu, Mingjie Li, Xiaojun Chang, Ling Chen, Ying Sun, Shen Zhao, Xiaodan Liang, Liang Lin
(b) A knowledge association module that fuses linguistic and biomedical knowledge into gene priors by transformer-based graph representation learning, capturing the intrinsic relationships between different genes' mutations.
1 code implementation • 23 May 2024 • Weiyu Guo, Ying Sun, Yijie Xu, Ziyue Qiao, Yongkui Yang, Hui Xiong
This enables SpGesture to mitigate the accuracy degradation caused by distribution shifts.
no code implementations • 21 May 2024 • Yi Cheng, Ziwei Xu, Dongyun Lin, Harry Cheng, Yongkang Wong, Ying Sun, Joo Hwee Lim, Mohan Kankanhalli
To address these challenges, we propose a knowledge-enhanced iterative refinement framework for visual content generation.
no code implementations • 17 Apr 2024 • Weiyu Guo, Ziyue Qiao, Ying Sun, Hui Xiong
We propose a Short Term Enhancement Module(STEM) which can be easily integrated with various models.
1 code implementation • 1 Apr 2024 • Zelin He, Ying Sun, Jingyuan Liu, Runze Li
Nonasymptotic bound is provided for the estimation error of the target model, showing the robustness of the proposed method to covariate shifts.
no code implementations • 23 Mar 2024 • Tongle Wu, Zhize Li, Ying Sun
Specifically, for $\mu$-strongly convex and $L$-smooth loss functions, we proved that local DGT achieves communication complexity {}{$\tilde{\mathcal{O}} \Big(\frac{L}{\mu(K+1)} + \frac{\delta + {}{\mu}}{\mu (1 - \rho)} + \frac{\rho }{(1 - \rho)^2} \cdot \frac{L+ \delta}{\mu}\Big)$}, %\zhize{seems to be $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}$} {where $K$ is the number of additional local update}, $\rho$ measures the network connectivity and $\delta$ measures the second-order heterogeneity of the local losses.
no code implementations • 20 Mar 2024 • Zelin He, Ying Sun, Jingyuan Liu, Runze Li
We consider the transfer learning problem in the high dimensional linear regression setting, where the feature dimension is larger than the sample size.
1 code implementation • 5 Mar 2024 • Ying Sun, Hongwei Yong, Lei Zhang
Compared with first-order optimizers, it adopts a certain amount of information from the Hessian matrix to assist optimization, while compared with the existing second-order optimizers, it keeps the good generalization performance of first-order optimizers.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2024 • Ángel López-Oriona, Ying Sun, Rosa M. Crujeiras
Time series clustering is an essential machine learning task with applications in many disciplines.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2023 • Fen Fang, Yi Cheng, Ying Sun, Qianli Xu
In this report, we present our approach to the EPIC-KITCHENS VISOR Hand Object Segmentation Challenge, which focuses on the estimation of the relation between the hands and the objects given a single frame as input.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2023 • Ying Sun, HengShu Zhu, Hui Xiong
Self-interpreting neural networks have garnered significant interest in research.
no code implementations • 25 Jul 2023 • Yi Cheng, Hehe Fan, Dongyun Lin, Ying Sun, Mohan Kankanhalli, Joo-Hwee Lim
The main challenge in video question answering (VideoQA) is to capture and understand the complex spatial and temporal relations between objects based on given questions.
no code implementations • 16 Jul 2023 • Pratik Nag, Ying Sun, Brian J Reich
Large-scale spatial interpolation or downscaling of bivariate wind fields having velocity in two dimensions is a challenging task because wind data tend to be non-Gaussian with high spatial variability and heterogeneity.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2023 • Yi Cheng, Ziwei Xu, Fen Fang, Dongyun Lin, Hehe Fan, Yongkang Wong, Ying Sun, Mohan Kankanhalli
Our research focuses on the innovative application of a differentiable logic loss in the training to leverage the co-occurrence relations between verb and noun, as well as the pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate the logic rules for the adaptation to unseen action labels.
no code implementations • 3 Jul 2023 • Chuan Qin, Le Zhang, Yihang Cheng, Rui Zha, Dazhong Shen, Qi Zhang, Xi Chen, Ying Sun, Chen Zhu, HengShu Zhu, Hui Xiong
To this end, we present an up-to-date and comprehensive survey on AI technologies used for talent analytics in the field of human resource management.
1 code implementation • 30 Jun 2023 • Zenglin Shi, Ying Sun, Mengmi Zhang
However, the vanilla mask generation method of SAM lacks class-specific information in the masks, resulting in inferior counting accuracy.
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1 code implementation • 20 Jun 2023 • Pratik Nag, Yiping Hong, Sameh Abdulah, Ghulam A. Qadir, Marc G. Genton, Ying Sun
Fitting a Gaussian process with a nonstationary Mat\'ern covariance is challenging.
no code implementations • 20 Jun 2023 • Pratik Nag, Ying Sun, Brian J Reich
Gaussian processes (GP) and Kriging are widely used in traditional spatio-temporal mod-elling and prediction.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Li Xu, Mark He Huang, Xindi Shang, Zehuan Yuan, Ying Sun, Jun Liu
Then, following a novel meta optimization scheme to optimize the model to obtain good testing performance on the virtual testing sets after training on the virtual training set, our framework can effectively drive the model to better capture semantics and visual representations of individual concepts, and thus obtain robust generalization performance even when handling novel compositions.
2 code implementations • 18 Mar 2023 • Firas Al-Hindawi, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Teresa Wu, Han Hu, Ying Sun
Cross-domain classification frameworks were developed to handle this data domain shift problem by utilizing unsupervised image-to-image translation models to translate an input image from the unlabeled domain to the labeled domain.
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2023 • Yi Cheng, Dongyun Lin, Fen Fang, Hao Xuan Woon, Qianli Xu, Ying Sun
In this report, we present the technical details of our submission to the EPIC-KITCHENS-100 Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) Challenge for Action Recognition 2022.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Hongwei Yong, Ying Sun, Lei Zhang
Though the full-matrix preconditioned gradient methods theoretically have a lower regret bound, they are impractical for use to train DNNs because of the high complexity.
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2022 • Firas Al-Hindawi, Tejaswi Soori, Han Hu, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Hyunsoo Yoon, Teresa Wu, Ying Sun
To deal with datasets from new domains a model needs to be trained from scratch.
no code implementations • ICCV 2023 • Parantak Singh, You Li, Ankur Sikarwar, Weixian Lei, Daniel Gao, Morgan Bruce Talbot, Ying Sun, Mike Zheng Shou, Gabriel Kreiman, Mengmi Zhang
For example, when we learn mathematics at school, we build upon our knowledge of addition to learn multiplication.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2022 • Zenglin Shi, Jing Jie, Ying Sun, Joo Hwee Lim, Mengmi Zhang
In AI, generalization refers to a model's ability to perform well on out-of-distribution data related to the given task, beyond the data it was trained on.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2022 • Duan Zhang, Ying Sun
It is verified that the type that a given lower triangular form belongs to is invariant under any lower triangular coordinate transformation.
no code implementations • 16 Jul 2022 • Joshua Fan, Di Chen, Jiaming Wen, Ying Sun, Carla P. Gomes
This poses a challenging coarsely-supervised regression (or downscaling) task; at training time, we only have SIF labels at a coarse resolution (3km), but we want to predict SIF at much finer spatial resolutions (e. g. 30m, a 100x increase).
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2022 • Yan Huang, Ying Sun, Zehan Zhu, Changzhi Yan, Jinming Xu
We develop a general framework unifying several gradient-based stochastic optimization methods for empirical risk minimization problems both in centralized and distributed scenarios.
no code implementations • 3 Jun 2022 • Yi Cheng, Fen Fang, Ying Sun
Based on an existing method for video domain adaptation, i. e., TA3N, we propose to learn hand-centric features by leveraging the hand bounding box information for UDA on fine-grained action recognition.
no code implementations • 24 May 2022 • Qianli Xu, Nicolas Gauthier, Wenyu Liang, Fen Fang, Hui Li Tan, Ying Sun, Yan Wu, Liyuan Li, Joo-Hwee Lim
When deploying a robot to a new task, one often has to train it to detect novel objects, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
no code implementations • 21 May 2022 • Dong Wei, Ying Sun, Sim-Heng Ong, Ping Chai, Lynette L. Teo, Adrian F. Low
We have also tested the robustness of the framework with respect to varied a priori segmentation in both practical and simulated settings.
no code implementations • 21 May 2022 • Dong Wei, Ying Sun, Sim-Heng Ong, Ping Chai, Lynette L Teo, Adrian F Low
To achieve accurate quantification, LGE CMR images need to be processed in two steps: segmentation of the myocardium followed by classification of infarcts within the segmented myocardium.
no code implementations • 21 May 2022 • Dong Wei, Ying Sun, Ping Chai, Adrian Low, Sim Heng Ong
Automatic segmentation of myocardium in Late Gadolinium Enhanced (LGE) Cardiac MR (CMR) images is often difficult due to the intensity heterogeneity resulting from accumulation of contrast agent in infarcted areas.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2022 • Yuening Wang, Ying Sun, Jie Yuan, Kexin Gan, Hanzi Xu, Han Gao, Xiuming Zhang
Experiments on patient dataset reveal that our proposed method can enhance the multimodal image registration accuracy and efficiency for medical practitioners in sparing BM of cervical cancer radiotherapy.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2022 • Marie Maros, Gesualdo Scutari, Ying Sun, Guang Cheng
Our theory shows that, under standard notions of restricted strong convexity and smoothness of the loss functions, suitable conditions on the network connectivity and algorithm tuning, the distributed algorithm converges globally at a {\it linear} rate to an estimate that is within the centralized {\it statistical precision} of the model, $O(s\log d/N)$.
no code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Hehe Fan, Xiaojun Chang, Wanyue Zhang, Yi Cheng, Ying Sun, Mohan Kankanhalli
In this paper, we propose an unsupervised domain adaptation method for deep point cloud representation learning.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Ying Sun, HengShu Zhu, Chuan Qin, Fuzhen Zhuang, Qing He, Hui Xiong
To this end, in this paper, we aim to discern the decision-making processes of neural networks through a hierarchical voting strategy by developing an explainable deep learning model, namely Voting Transformation-based Explainable Neural Network (VOTEN).
no code implementations • 28 Nov 2021 • Kenan E. Ak, Joo Hwee Lim, Ying Sun, Jo Yew Tham, Ashraf A. Kassim
A key challenge in e-commerce is that images have multiple attributes where users would like to manipulate and it is important to estimate discriminative feature representations for each of these attributes.
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2021 • Yao Ji, Gesualdo Scutari, Ying Sun, Harsha Honnappa
First, we establish statistical consistency of the estimator: under a suitable choice of the penalty parameter, the optimal solution of the penalized problem achieves near optimal minimax rate $\mathcal{O}(s \log d/N)$ in $\ell_2$-loss, where $s$ is the sparsity value, $d$ is the ambient dimension, and $N$ is the total sample size in the network -- this matches centralized sample rates.
no code implementations • ICLR 2022 • Yuanxiong Guo, Ying Sun, Rui Hu, Yanmin Gong
Communication is a key bottleneck in federated learning where a large number of edge devices collaboratively learn a model under the orchestration of a central server without sharing their own training data.
no code implementations • 11 May 2021 • Yongchun Zhu, Ruobing Xie, Fuzhen Zhuang, Kaikai Ge, Ying Sun, Xu Zhang, Leyu Lin, Juan Cao
The cold item ID embedding has two main problems: (1) A gap is existing between the cold ID embedding and the deep model.
no code implementations • 4 Jan 2021 • Akira Horiguchi, Thomas J. Santner, Ying Sun, Matthew T. Pratola
This article proposes Pareto Front (PF) and Pareto Set (PS) estimation methods using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART), which is a non-parametric model whose assumptions are typically less restrictive than popular alternatives, such as Gaussian Processes (GPs).
1 code implementation • 23 Jul 2020 • Wanfang Chen, Yuxiao Li, Brian J. Reich, Ying Sun
Kriging provides the best linear unbiased predictor using covariance functions and is often associated with Gaussian processes.
1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2019 • Jinming Xu, Ye Tian, Ying Sun, Gesualdo Scutari
This paper proposes a novel family of primal-dual-based distributed algorithms for smooth, convex, multi-agent optimization over networks that uses only gradient information and gossip communications.
1 code implementation • 16 Oct 2019 • Tianbo Chen, Ying Sun, Ta-Hsin Li
At each quantile level, we approximate the quantile spectrum by a function in the form of an ordinary AR spectrum.
Methodology Applications
no code implementations • 24 Sep 2019 • Yi Cheng, Hongyuan Zhu, Ying Sun, Cihan Acar, Wei Jing, Yan Wu, Liyuan Li, Cheston Tan, Joo-Hwee Lim
To our best knowledge, this is the first work to explore effective intra- and inter-modality fusion in 6D pose estimation.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2018 • Amir Daneshmand, Ying Sun, Gesualdo Scutari, Francisco Facchinei, Brian M. Sadler
This paper studies Dictionary Learning problems wherein the learning task is distributed over a multi-agent network, modeled as a time-varying directed graph.
2 code implementations • 8 Sep 2017 • Alexander Litvinenko, Ying Sun, Marc G. Genton, David Keyes
We use available measurements to estimate the unknown parameters (variance, smoothness parameter, and covariance length) of a covariance function by maximizing the joint Gaussian log-likelihood function.
Computation 62F99, 62P12, 62M30 G.3; G.4; J.2
no code implementations • 12 Feb 2016 • Konstantinos Benidis, Ying Sun, Prabhu Babu, Daniel P. Palomar
In addition, we propose a method to improve the covariance estimation problem when its underlying eigenvectors are known to be sparse.
no code implementations • 17 Jun 2015 • Ying Sun, Prabhu Babu, Daniel P. Palomar
This paper considers the problem of robustly estimating a structured covariance matrix with an elliptical underlying distribution with known mean.