Search Results for author: Yongqiang Wang

Found 40 papers, 7 papers with code

Deep Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Highway On-Ramp Merging in Mixed Traffic

3 code implementations12 May 2021 Dong Chen, Mohammad Hajidavalloo, Zhaojian Li, Kaian Chen, Yongqiang Wang, Longsheng Jiang, Yue Wang

On-ramp merging is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), especially in mixed traffic where AVs coexist with human-driven vehicles (HDVs).

Autonomous Vehicles reinforcement-learning +1

End-to-end contextual speech recognition using class language models and a token passing decoder

no code implementations5 Dec 2018 Zhehuai Chen, Mahaveer Jain, Yongqiang Wang, Michael L. Seltzer, Christian Fuegen

In this work, we focus on contextual speech recognition, which is particularly challenging for E2E models because it introduces significant mismatch between training and test data.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Deja-vu: Double Feature Presentation and Iterated Loss in Deep Transformer Networks

1 code implementation23 Oct 2019 Andros Tjandra, Chunxi Liu, Frank Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Yongqiang Wang, Gabriel Synnaeve, Satoshi Nakamura, Geoffrey Zweig

As our motivation is to allow acoustic models to re-examine their input features in light of partial hypotheses we introduce intermediate model heads and loss function.

Improving N-gram Language Models with Pre-trained Deep Transformer

no code implementations22 Nov 2019 Yiren Wang, Hongzhao Huang, Zhe Liu, Yutong Pang, Yongqiang Wang, ChengXiang Zhai, Fuchun Peng

Although n-gram language models (LMs) have been outperformed by the state-of-the-art neural LMs, they are still widely used in speech recognition due to its high efficiency in inference.

Data Augmentation speech-recognition +2

Weak-Attention Suppression For Transformer Based Speech Recognition

no code implementations18 May 2020 Yangyang Shi, Yongqiang Wang, Chunyang Wu, Christian Fuegen, Frank Zhang, Duc Le, Ching-Feng Yeh, Michael L. Seltzer

Transformers, originally proposed for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, have recently achieved great success in automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Faster, Simpler and More Accurate Hybrid ASR Systems Using Wordpieces

no code implementations19 May 2020 Frank Zhang, Yongqiang Wang, Xiaohui Zhang, Chunxi Liu, Yatharth Saraf, Geoffrey Zweig

In this work, we first show that on the widely used LibriSpeech benchmark, our transformer-based context-dependent connectionist temporal classification (CTC) system produces state-of-the-art results.

Ranked #17 on Speech Recognition on LibriSpeech test-other (using extra training data)

Speech Recognition

Streaming Attention-Based Models with Augmented Memory for End-to-End Speech Recognition

no code implementations3 Nov 2020 Ching-Feng Yeh, Yongqiang Wang, Yangyang Shi, Chunyang Wu, Frank Zhang, Julian Chan, Michael L. Seltzer

Attention-based models have been gaining popularity recently for their strong performance demonstrated in fields such as machine translation and automatic speech recognition.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Large topological Hall effect near room temperature in noncollinear ferromagnet LaMn2Ge2 single crystal

no code implementations11 Feb 2021 Gaoshang Gong, Longmeng Xu, Yuming Bai, Yongqiang Wang, Songliu Yuan, Yong liu, Zhaoming Tian

Non-trivial spin structures in itinerant magnets can give rise to topological Hall effect (THE) due to the interacting local magnetic moments and conductive electrons.

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Robust Almost Global Splay State Stabilization of Pulse Coupled Oscillators

no code implementations2 Aug 2019 Francesco Ferrante, Yongqiang Wang

This technical note deals with the problem of asymptotically stabilizing the splay state configuration of a network of identical pulse coupled oscillators through the design of the their phase response function.

Global Synchronization of Pulse-Coupled Oscillator Networks Under Byzantine Attacks

no code implementations7 May 2020 Zhenqian Wang, Yongqiang Wang

Given the distributed and unattended nature of wireless sensor networks, it is imperative to enhance the resilience of PCO synchronization against malicious attacks.

Decentralized Stochastic Optimization with Inherent Privacy Protection

no code implementations8 May 2022 Yongqiang Wang, H. Vincent Poor

Decentralized stochastic optimization is the basic building block of modern collaborative machine learning, distributed estimation and control, and large-scale sensing.

Stochastic Optimization

Quantization enabled Privacy Protection in Decentralized Stochastic Optimization

no code implementations7 Aug 2022 Yongqiang Wang, Tamer Basar

In combination with the presented quantization scheme, the proposed algorithm ensures, for the first time, rigorous differential privacy in decentralized stochastic optimization without losing provable convergence accuracy.

Quantization Stochastic Optimization

Accelerating RNN-T Training and Inference Using CTC guidance

no code implementations29 Oct 2022 Yongqiang Wang, Zhehuai Chen, Chengjian Zheng, Yu Zhang, Wei Han, Parisa Haghani

We propose a novel method to accelerate training and inference process of recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) based on the guidance from a co-trained connectionist temporal classification (CTC) model.

Decentralized Nonconvex Optimization with Guaranteed Privacy and Accuracy

no code implementations14 Dec 2022 Yongqiang Wang, Tamer Basar

The new algorithm allows the incorporation of persistent additive noise to enable rigorous differential privacy for data samples, gradients, and intermediate optimization variables without losing provable convergence, and thus circumventing the dilemma of trading accuracy for privacy in differential privacy design.

Locally Differentially Private Distributed Online Learning with Guaranteed Optimality

no code implementations25 Jun 2023 Ziqin Chen, Yongqiang Wang

Distributed online learning is gaining increased traction due to its unique ability to process large-scale datasets and streaming data.

Image Classification

MFMAN-YOLO: A Method for Detecting Pole-like Obstacles in Complex Environment

no code implementations24 Jul 2023 Lei Cai, Hao Wang, Congling Zhou, Yongqiang Wang, Boyu Liu

To solve the problem that the feature information of pole-like obstacles in complex environments is easily lost, resulting in low detection accuracy and low real-time performance, a multi-scale hybrid attention mechanism detection algorithm is proposed in this paper.

Microvasculature Segmentation in Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP)

no code implementations6 Aug 2023 Youssef Sultan, Yongqiang Wang, James Scanlon, Lisa D'lima

Image segmentation serves as a critical tool across a range of applications, encompassing autonomous driving's pedestrian detection and pre-operative tumor delineation in the medical sector.

Benchmarking Image Segmentation +3

Enhanced Residual SwinV2 Transformer for Learned Image Compression

no code implementations23 Aug 2023 Yongqiang Wang, Feng Liang, Haisheng Fu, Jie Liang, Haipeng Qin, Junzhe Liang

In particular, our method achieves comparable results while reducing model complexity by 56% compared to these recent methods.

Image Compression

USM-SCD: Multilingual Speaker Change Detection Based on Large Pretrained Foundation Models

no code implementations14 Sep 2023 Guanlong Zhao, Yongqiang Wang, Jason Pelecanos, Yu Zhang, Hank Liao, Yiling Huang, Han Lu, Quan Wang

We show that the USM-SCD model can achieve more than 75% average speaker change detection F1 score across a test set that consists of data from 96 languages.

Change Detection

Locally Differentially Private Gradient Tracking for Distributed Online Learning over Directed Graphs

no code implementations24 Oct 2023 Ziqin Chen, Yongqiang Wang

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result that simultaneously ensures learning accuracy and rigorous local differential privacy in distributed online learning over directed graphs.

Image Classification

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Optimization and Learning

no code implementations29 Feb 2024 Ziqin Chen, Yongqiang Wang

We first discuss cryptography, differential privacy, and other techniques that can be used for privacy preservation and indicate their pros and cons for privacy protection in distributed optimization and learning.

Distributed Optimization Privacy Preserving

Privacy in Multi-agent Systems

no code implementations5 Mar 2024 Yongqiang Wang

With the increasing awareness of privacy and the deployment of legislations in various multi-agent system application domains such as power systems and intelligent transportation, the privacy protection problem for multi-agent systems is gaining increased traction in recent years.

Quantization Avoids Saddle Points in Distributed Optimization

no code implementations15 Mar 2024 Yanan Bo, Yongqiang Wang

More specifically, we propose a stochastic quantization scheme and prove that it can effectively escape saddle points and ensure convergence to a second-order stationary point in distributed nonconvex optimization.

Distributed Optimization Quantization

S2LIC: Learned Image Compression with the SwinV2 Block, Adaptive Channel-wise and Global-inter Attention Context

1 code implementation21 Mar 2024 Yongqiang Wang, Feng Liang, Jie Liang, Haisheng Fu

In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Channel-wise and Global-inter attention Context (ACGC) entropy model, which can efficiently achieve dual feature aggregation in both inter-slice and intraslice contexts.

Image Compression MS-SSIM +1

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