Search Results for author: Yu Wu

Found 149 papers, 65 papers with code

SOWing Information: Cultivating Contextual Coherence with MLLMs in Image Generation

no code implementations28 Nov 2024 Yuhan Pei, Ruoyu Wang, Yongqi Yang, Ye Zhu, Olga Russakovsky, Yu Wu

Originating from the diffusion phenomenon in physics, which describes the random movement and collisions of particles, diffusion generative models simulate a random walk in the data space along the denoising trajectory.

Denoising Image Generation

Rethinking the Intermediate Features in Adversarial Attacks: Misleading Robotic Models via Adversarial Distillation

no code implementations21 Nov 2024 Ke Zhao, Huayang Huang, Miao Li, Yu Wu

Language-conditioned robotic learning has significantly enhanced robot adaptability by enabling a single model to execute diverse tasks in response to verbal commands.

Robot Manipulation

EAPCR: A Universal Feature Extractor for Scientific Data without Explicit Feature Relation Patterns

no code implementations12 Nov 2024 Zhuohang Yu, Ling An, Yansong Li, Yu Wu, Zeyu Dong, Zhangdi Liu, Le Gao, Zhenyu Zhang, ChiChun Zhou

The absence of explicit Feature Relation Patterns (FRPs) presents a significant challenge for deep learning techniques in scientific applications that are not image, text, and graph-based.

Anomaly Detection Deep Learning +1

OCMDP: Observation-Constrained Markov Decision Process

no code implementations11 Nov 2024 Taiyi Wang, Jianheng Liu, Bryan Lee, Zhihao Wu, Yu Wu

In many practical applications, decision-making processes must balance the costs of acquiring information with the benefits it provides.

Decision Making Deep Reinforcement Learning

ROBIN: Robust and Invisible Watermarks for Diffusion Models with Adversarial Optimization

1 code implementation6 Nov 2024 Huayang Huang, Yu Wu, Qian Wang

They empirically inject a watermark that is both invisible and robust and passively achieve concealment by limiting the strength of the watermark, thus reducing the robustness.

When to Trust Your Data: Enhancing Dyna-Style Model-Based Reinforcement Learning With Data Filter

no code implementations16 Oct 2024 Yansong Li, Zeyu Dong, Ertai Luo, Yu Wu, Shuo Wu, Shuo Han

To tackle this issue, we introduce an out-of-distribution (OOD) data filter that removes simulated data from the estimated model that significantly diverges from data collected in the real environment.

Model-based Reinforcement Learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

StatioCL: Contrastive Learning for Time Series via Non-Stationary and Temporal Contrast

1 code implementation14 Oct 2024 Yu Wu, Ting Dang, Dimitris Spathis, Hong Jia, Cecilia Mascolo

However, existing CL methods often introduce false negative pairs (FNPs) by neglecting inherent characteristics and then randomly selecting distinct segments as dissimilar pairs, leading to erroneous representation learning, reduced model performance, and overall inefficiency.

Contrastive Learning Representation Learning +2

Learning To Help: Training Models to Assist Legacy Devices

no code implementations24 Sep 2024 Yu Wu, Anand Sarwate

We cast this problem in the framework of learning with abstention (LWA) in which the expert (edge) must be trained to assist the client (device).

WebPilot: A Versatile and Autonomous Multi-Agent System for Web Task Execution with Strategic Exploration

no code implementations28 Aug 2024 Yao Zhang, Zijian Ma, Yunpu Ma, Zhen Han, Yu Wu, Volker Tresp

LLM-based autonomous agents often fail to execute complex web tasks that require dynamic interaction due to the inherent uncertainty and complexity of these environments.

Decision Making

An Efficient and Effective Transformer Decoder-Based Framework for Multi-Task Visual Grounding

1 code implementation2 Aug 2024 Wei Chen, Long Chen, Yu Wu

In this paper, we propose an efficient and effective multi-task visual grounding (EEVG) framework based on Transformer Decoder to address this issue, which reduces the cost in both language and visual aspects.

Decoder Reasoning Segmentation +1

Iterative Ensemble Training with Anti-Gradient Control for Mitigating Memorization in Diffusion Models

1 code implementation22 Jul 2024 Xiao Liu, Xiaoliu Guan, Yu Wu, Jiaxu Miao

In this paper, we propose a novel training framework for diffusion models from the perspective of visual modality, which is more generic and fundamental for mitigating memorization.

Data Augmentation Memorization

Towards Open Respiratory Acoustic Foundation Models: Pretraining and Benchmarking

1 code implementation23 Jun 2024 Yuwei Zhang, Tong Xia, Jing Han, Yu Wu, Georgios Rizos, Yang Liu, Mohammed Mosuily, Jagmohan Chauhan, Cecilia Mascolo

Our pretrained models demonstrate superior performance (against existing acoustic models pretrained with general audio on 16 out of 19 tasks) and generalizability (to unseen datasets and new respiratory audio modalities).

Benchmarking

MAC: A Benchmark for Multiple Attributes Compositional Zero-Shot Learning

no code implementations18 Jun 2024 Shuo Xu, Sai Wang, Xinyue Hu, Yutian Lin, Bo Du, Yu Wu

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to learn semantic primitives (attributes and objects) from seen compositions and recognize unseen attribute-object compositions.

Attribute Compositional Zero-Shot Learning

LAIP: Learning Local Alignment from Image-Phrase Modeling for Text-based Person Search

no code implementations16 Jun 2024 Haiguang Wang, Yu Wu, Mengxia Wu, Cao Min, Min Zhang

This paper proposes the Local Alignment from Image-Phrase modeling (LAIP) framework, with Bidirectional Attention-weighted local alignment (BidirAtt) and Mask Phrase Modeling (MPM) module. BidirAtt goes beyond the typical forward attention by considering the gradient of the transformer as backward attention, utilizing two-sided information for local alignment.

Person Search Text based Person Search

CoMM: A Coherent Interleaved Image-Text Dataset for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

1 code implementation15 Jun 2024 Wei Chen, Lin Li, Yongqi Yang, Bin Wen, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao, Yu Wu, Long Chen

To address this gap, we introduce CoMM, a high-quality Coherent interleaved image-text MultiModal dataset designed to enhance the coherence, consistency, and alignment of generated multimodal content.

In-Context Learning Visual Storytelling

Improving Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation by Task Decomposition

no code implementations CVPR 2024 Tianhao Zhao, Yongcan Chen, Yu Wu, Tianyang Liu, Bo Du, Peilun Xiao, Shi Qiu, Hongda Yang, Guozhen Li, Yi Yang, Yutian Lin

In the first stage, we train a BEV autoencoder to reconstruct the BEV segmentation maps given corrupted noisy latent representation, which urges the decoder to learn fundamental knowledge of typical BEV patterns.

Autonomous Driving Bird's-Eye View Semantic Segmentation +2

Learning by Correction: Efficient Tuning Task for Zero-Shot Generative Vision-Language Reasoning

1 code implementation CVPR 2024 Rongjie Li, Yu Wu, Xuming He

Generative vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive performance in zero-shot vision-language tasks like image captioning and visual question answering.

Image Captioning Instruction Following +5

Omni-Q: Omni-Directional Scene Understanding for Unsupervised Visual Grounding

no code implementations CVPR 2024 Sai Wang, Yutian Lin, Yu Wu

Unsupervised visual grounding methods alleviate the issue of expensive manual annotation of image-query pairs by generating pseudo-queries.

Scene Understanding Visual Grounding

Joint Trading and Scheduling among Coupled Carbon-Electricity-Heat-Gas Industrial Clusters

no code implementations20 Dec 2023 Dafeng Zhu, Bo Yang, Yu Wu, Haoran Deng, ZhaoYang Dong, Kai Ma, Xinping Guan

This paper presents a carbon-energy coupling management framework for an industrial park, where the carbon flow model accompanying multi-energy flows is adopted to track and suppress carbon emissions on the user side.

energy trading Management +1

DVIS++: Improved Decoupled Framework for Universal Video Segmentation

1 code implementation20 Dec 2023 Tao Zhang, Xingye Tian, Yikang Zhou, Shunping Ji, Xuebo Wang, Xin Tao, Yuan Zhang, Pengfei Wan, Zhongyuan Wang, Yu Wu

We present the \textbf{D}ecoupled \textbf{VI}deo \textbf{S}egmentation (DVIS) framework, a novel approach for the challenging task of universal video segmentation, including video instance segmentation (VIS), video semantic segmentation (VSS), and video panoptic segmentation (VPS).

Contrastive Learning Denoising +6

DETER: Detecting Edited Regions for Deterring Generative Manipulations

no code implementations16 Dec 2023 Sai Wang, Ye Zhu, Ruoyu Wang, Amaya Dharmasiri, Olga Russakovsky, Yu Wu

While face swapping and attribute editing are performed on similar face regions such as eyes and nose, the inpainting operation can be performed on random image regions, removing the spurious correlations of previous datasets.

Attribute Face Swapping +1

A Survey on Trustworthy Edge Intelligence: From Security and Reliability To Transparency and Sustainability

no code implementations27 Oct 2023 Xiaojie Wang, Beibei Wang, Yu Wu, Zhaolong Ning, Song Guo, Fei Richard Yu

Edge Intelligence (EI) integrates Edge Computing (EC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to push the capabilities of AI to the network edge for real-time, efficient and secure intelligent decision-making and computation.

Decision Making Edge-computing

Discovery and Expansion of New Domains within Diffusion Models

no code implementations13 Oct 2023 Ye Zhu, Yu Wu, Duo Xu, Zhiwei Deng, Yan Yan, Olga Russakovsky

In this work, we study the generalization properties of diffusion models in a few-shot setup, introduce a novel tuning-free paradigm to synthesize the target out-of-domain (OOD) data, and demonstrate its advantages compared to existing methods in data-sparse scenarios with large domain gaps.

Denoising Image Generation

1st Place Solution for the 5th LSVOS Challenge: Video Instance Segmentation

1 code implementation28 Aug 2023 Tao Zhang, Xingye Tian, Yikang Zhou, Yu Wu, Shunping Ji, Cilin Yan, Xuebo Wang, Xin Tao, Yuan Zhang, Pengfei Wan

Video instance segmentation is a challenging task that serves as the cornerstone of numerous downstream applications, including video editing and autonomous driving.

Autonomous Driving Denoising +6

Vision-Based Human Pose Estimation via Deep Learning: A Survey

no code implementations26 Aug 2023 Gongjin Lan, Yu Wu, Fei Hu, Qi Hao

In this article, we provide an up-to-date and in-depth overview of the deep learning approaches in vision-based HPE.

Deep Learning Pose Estimation +1

WavMark: Watermarking for Audio Generation

1 code implementation24 Aug 2023 Guangyu Chen, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Tao Liu, Xiaoyong Du, Furu Wei

Recent breakthroughs in zero-shot voice synthesis have enabled imitating a speaker's voice using just a few seconds of recording while maintaining a high level of realism.

Audio Generation

Grounded Image Text Matching with Mismatched Relation Reasoning

no code implementations ICCV 2023 Yu Wu, Yana Wei, Haozhe Wang, Yongfei Liu, Sibei Yang, Xuming He

This paper introduces Grounded Image Text Matching with Mismatched Relation (GITM-MR), a novel visual-linguistic joint task that evaluates the relation understanding capabilities of transformer-based pre-trained models.

Image-text matching Relation +2

On decoder-only architecture for speech-to-text and large language model integration

no code implementations8 Jul 2023 Jian Wu, Yashesh Gaur, Zhuo Chen, Long Zhou, Yimeng Zhu, Tianrui Wang, Jinyu Li, Shujie Liu, Bo Ren, Linquan Liu, Yu Wu

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in the field of natural language processing, enabling better human-computer interaction using natural language.

Decoder Language Modelling +2

Accelerating Transducers through Adjacent Token Merging

no code implementations28 Jun 2023 Yuang Li, Yu Wu, Jinyu Li, Shujie Liu

Recent end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often utilize a Transformer-based acoustic encoder that generates embedding at a high frame rate.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Prompting Large Language Models for Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation in Speech Recognition

no code implementations28 Jun 2023 Yuang Li, Yu Wu, Jinyu Li, Shujie Liu

Different from these methods, in this work, with only a domain-specific text prompt, we propose two zero-shot ASR domain adaptation methods using LLaMA, a 7-billion-parameter large language model (LLM).

Decoder Domain Adaptation +4

Diffusion in Diffusion: Cyclic One-Way Diffusion for Text-Vision-Conditioned Generation

1 code implementation14 Jun 2023 Ruoyu Wang, Yongqi Yang, Zhihao Qian, Ye Zhu, Yu Wu

In this work, we investigate the diffusion (physics) in diffusion (machine learning) properties and propose our Cyclic One-Way Diffusion (COW) method to control the direction of diffusion phenomenon given a pre-trained frozen diffusion model for versatile customization application scenarios, where the low-level pixel information from the conditioning needs to be preserved.

Denoising Image Generation

1st Place Solution for PVUW Challenge 2023: Video Panoptic Segmentation

1 code implementation7 Jun 2023 Tao Zhang, Xingye Tian, Haoran Wei, Yu Wu, Shunping Ji, Xuebo Wang, Xin Tao, Yuan Zhang, Pengfei Wan

In this report, we successfully validated the effectiveness of the decoupling strategy in video panoptic segmentation.

Autonomous Driving Segmentation +2

DVIS: Decoupled Video Instance Segmentation Framework

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Tao Zhang, Xingye Tian, Yu Wu, Shunping Ji, Xuebo Wang, Yuan Zhang, Pengfei Wan

The efficacy of the decoupling strategy relies on two crucial elements: 1) attaining precise long-term alignment outcomes via frame-by-frame association during tracking, and 2) the effective utilization of temporal information predicated on the aforementioned accurate alignment outcomes during refinement.

Autonomous Driving Instance Segmentation +5

Accurate and Structured Pruning for Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations31 May 2023 Huiqiang Jiang, Li Lyna Zhang, Yuang Li, Yu Wu, Shijie Cao, Ting Cao, Yuqing Yang, Jinyu Li, Mao Yang, Lili Qiu

In this paper, we propose a novel compression strategy that leverages structured pruning and knowledge distillation to reduce the model size and inference cost of the Conformer model while preserving high recognition performance.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

VioLA: Unified Codec Language Models for Speech Recognition, Synthesis, and Translation

no code implementations25 May 2023 Tianrui Wang, Long Zhou, Ziqiang Zhang, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Yashesh Gaur, Zhuo Chen, Jinyu Li, Furu Wei

Recent research shows a big convergence in model architecture, training objectives, and inference methods across various tasks for different modalities.

Decoder Language Modelling +5

Click-Feedback Retrieval

no code implementations28 Apr 2023 Zeyu Wang, Yu Wu

In this work, we study a setting where the feedback is provided through users clicking liked and disliked searching results.

Retrieval

Visually-Prompted Language Model for Fine-Grained Scene Graph Generation in an Open World

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Qifan Yu, Juncheng Li, Yu Wu, Siliang Tang, Wei Ji, Yueting Zhuang

Based on that, we further introduce a novel Entangled cross-modal prompt approach for open-world predicate scene graph generation (Epic), where models can generalize to unseen predicates in a zero-shot manner.

Graph Generation Language Modelling +1

Boundary Guided Learning-Free Semantic Control with Diffusion Models

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Ye Zhu, Yu Wu, Zhiwei Deng, Olga Russakovsky, Yan Yan

Applying pre-trained generative denoising diffusion models (DDMs) for downstream tasks such as image semantic editing usually requires either fine-tuning DDMs or learning auxiliary editing networks in the existing literature.

Denoising

Learning To Segment Every Referring Object Point by Point

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Mengxue Qu, Yu Wu, Yunchao Wei, Wu Liu, Xiaodan Liang, Yao Zhao

Extensive experiments show that our model achieves 52. 06% in terms of accuracy (versus 58. 93% in fully supervised setting) on RefCOCO+@testA, when only using 1% of the mask annotations.

Object Referring Expression +1

Good Is Bad: Causality Inspired Cloth-Debiasing for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Zhengwei Yang, Meng Lin, Xian Zhong, Yu Wu, Zheng Wang

Entangled representation of clothing and identity (ID)-intrinsic clues are potentially concomitant in conventional person Re-IDentification (ReID).

Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification

Generative Graph Neural Networks for Link Prediction

1 code implementation31 Dec 2022 Xingping Xian, Tao Wu, Xiaoke Ma, Shaojie Qiao, Yabin Shao, Chao Wang, Lin Yuan, Yu Wu

Instead of sampling positive and negative links and heuristically computing the features of their enclosing subgraphs, GraphLP utilizes the feature learning ability of deep-learning models to automatically extract the structural patterns of graphs for link prediction under the assumption that real-world graphs are not locally isolated.

Link Prediction

How to Share: Balancing Layer and Chain Sharing in Industrial Microservice Deployment

no code implementations29 Dec 2022 Yuxiang Liu, Bo Yang, Yu Wu, Cailian Chen, Xinping Guan

However, due to the limited resources of edge servers, it is difficult to meet the optimization goals of the two methods at the same time.

Edge-computing

BEATs: Audio Pre-Training with Acoustic Tokenizers

4 code implementations18 Dec 2022 Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Chengyi Wang, Shujie Liu, Daniel Tompkins, Zhuo Chen, Furu Wei

In the first iteration, we use random projection as the acoustic tokenizer to train an audio SSL model in a mask and label prediction manner.

Audio Classification Self-Supervised Learning

Exploring WavLM on Speech Enhancement

no code implementations18 Nov 2022 Hyungchan Song, Sanyuan Chen, Zhuo Chen, Yu Wu, Takuya Yoshioka, Min Tang, Jong Won Shin, Shujie Liu

There is a surge in interest in self-supervised learning approaches for end-to-end speech encoding in recent years as they have achieved great success.

Self-Supervised Learning Speech Enhancement +2

LongFNT: Long-form Speech Recognition with Factorized Neural Transducer

no code implementations17 Nov 2022 Xun Gong, Yu Wu, Jinyu Li, Shujie Liu, Rui Zhao, Xie Chen, Yanmin Qian

This motivates us to leverage the factorized neural transducer structure, containing a real language model, the vocabulary predictor.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Speech separation with large-scale self-supervised learning

no code implementations9 Nov 2022 Zhuo Chen, Naoyuki Kanda, Jian Wu, Yu Wu, Xiaofei Wang, Takuya Yoshioka, Jinyu Li, Sunit Sivasankaran, Sefik Emre Eskimez

Compared with a supervised baseline and the WavLM-based SS model using feature embeddings obtained with the previously released 94K hours trained WavLM, our proposed model obtains 15. 9% and 11. 2% of relative word error rate (WER) reductions, respectively, for a simulated far-field speech mixture test set.

Self-Supervised Learning Speech Separation

Two-Stream Network for Sign Language Recognition and Translation

1 code implementation2 Nov 2022 Yutong Chen, Ronglai Zuo, Fangyun Wei, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Brian Mak

RGB videos, however, are raw signals with substantial visual redundancy, leading the encoder to overlook the key information for sign language understanding.

Sign Language Recognition Sign Language Translation +2

Real-time Speech Interruption Analysis: From Cloud to Client Deployment

no code implementations24 Oct 2022 Quchen Fu, Szu-Wei Fu, Yaran Fan, Yu Wu, Zhuo Chen, Jayant Gupchup, Ross Cutler

Meetings are an essential form of communication for all types of organizations, and remote collaboration systems have been much more widely used since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speech Interruption Detection

Vision+X: A Survey on Multimodal Learning in the Light of Data

no code implementations5 Oct 2022 Ye Zhu, Yu Wu, Nicu Sebe, Yan Yan

We are perceiving and communicating with the world in a multisensory manner, where different information sources are sophisticatedly processed and interpreted by separate parts of the human brain to constitute a complex, yet harmonious and unified sensing system.

Representation Learning

SpeechLM: Enhanced Speech Pre-Training with Unpaired Textual Data

1 code implementation30 Sep 2022 Ziqiang Zhang, Sanyuan Chen, Long Zhou, Yu Wu, Shuo Ren, Shujie Liu, Zhuoyuan Yao, Xun Gong, LiRong Dai, Jinyu Li, Furu Wei

In this paper, we propose a cross-modal Speech and Language Model (SpeechLM) to explicitly align speech and text pre-training with a pre-defined unified discrete representation.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +1

SiRi: A Simple Selective Retraining Mechanism for Transformer-based Visual Grounding

1 code implementation27 Jul 2022 Mengxue Qu, Yu Wu, Wu Liu, Qiqi Gong, Xiaodan Liang, Olga Russakovsky, Yao Zhao, Yunchao Wei

Particularly, SiRi conveys a significant principle to the research of visual grounding, i. e., a better initialized vision-language encoder would help the model converge to a better local minimum, advancing the performance accordingly.

Visual Grounding

Provably Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Online Adaptive Influence Maximization

no code implementations29 Jun 2022 Kaixuan Huang, Yu Wu, Xuezhou Zhang, Shenyinying Tu, Qingyun Wu, Mengdi Wang, Huazheng Wang

Online influence maximization aims to maximize the influence spread of a content in a social network with unknown network model by selecting a few seed nodes.

Model-based Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +2

Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation

1 code implementation15 Jun 2022 Ye Zhu, Yu Wu, Kyle Olszewski, Jian Ren, Sergey Tulyakov, Yan Yan

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have become a popular approach to conditional generation, due to their promising results and support for cross-modal synthesis.

Contrastive Learning Denoising +2

Ultra Fast Speech Separation Model with Teacher Student Learning

no code implementations27 Apr 2022 Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Zhuo Chen, Jian Wu, Takuya Yoshioka, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li, Xiangzhan Yu

In this paper, an ultra fast speech separation Transformer model is proposed to achieve both better performance and efficiency with teacher student learning (T-S learning).

Computational Efficiency Speech Separation

Why does Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Recognition Benefit Speaker Recognition?

no code implementations27 Apr 2022 Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Chengyi Wang, Shujie Liu, Zhuo Chen, Peidong Wang, Gang Liu, Jinyu Li, Jian Wu, Xiangzhan Yu, Furu Wei

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated strong performance in speaker recognition, even if the pre-training objective is designed for speech recognition.

Self-Supervised Learning Speaker Recognition +3

A collaborative decomposition-based evolutionary algorithm integrating normal and penalty-based boundary intersection for many-objective optimization

no code implementations14 Apr 2022 Yu Wu, Jianle Wei, Weiqin Ying, Yanqi Lan, Zhen Cui, Zhenyu Wang

On the other hand, the parallel reference lines of the parallel decomposition methods including the normal boundary intersection (NBI) might result in poor diversity because of under-sampling near the boundaries for MaOPs with concave frontiers.

Diversity Evolutionary Algorithms

Quantized GAN for Complex Music Generation from Dance Videos

1 code implementation1 Apr 2022 Ye Zhu, Kyle Olszewski, Yu Wu, Panos Achlioptas, Menglei Chai, Yan Yan, Sergey Tulyakov

We present Dance2Music-GAN (D2M-GAN), a novel adversarial multi-modal framework that generates complex musical samples conditioned on dance videos.

Music Generation

Streaming Speaker-Attributed ASR with Token-Level Speaker Embeddings

1 code implementation30 Mar 2022 Naoyuki Kanda, Jian Wu, Yu Wu, Xiong Xiao, Zhong Meng, Xiaofei Wang, Yashesh Gaur, Zhuo Chen, Jinyu Li, Takuya Yoshioka

The proposed speaker embedding, named t-vector, is extracted synchronously with the t-SOT ASR model, enabling joint execution of speaker identification (SID) or speaker diarization (SD) with the multi-talker transcription with low latency.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5

Streaming Multi-Talker ASR with Token-Level Serialized Output Training

1 code implementation2 Feb 2022 Naoyuki Kanda, Jian Wu, Yu Wu, Xiong Xiao, Zhong Meng, Xiaofei Wang, Yashesh Gaur, Zhuo Chen, Jinyu Li, Takuya Yoshioka

This paper proposes a token-level serialized output training (t-SOT), a novel framework for streaming multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Multi-Query Video Retrieval

1 code implementation10 Jan 2022 Zeyu Wang, Yu Wu, Karthik Narasimhan, Olga Russakovsky

Retrieving target videos based on text descriptions is a task of great practical value and has received increasing attention over the past few years.

Retrieval Video Retrieval

Large-Scale Video Panoptic Segmentation in the Wild: A Benchmark

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Jiaxu Miao, Xiaohan Wang, Yu Wu, Wei Li, Xu Zhang, Yunchao Wei, Yi Yang

In contrast, our large-scale VIdeo Panoptic Segmentation in the Wild (VIPSeg) dataset provides 3, 536 videos and 84, 750 frames with pixel-level panoptic annotations, covering a wide range of real-world scenarios and categories.

Segmentation Video Panoptic Segmentation

Learning To Learn by Jointly Optimizing Neural Architecture and Weights

no code implementations CVPR 2022 Yadong Ding, Yu Wu, Chengyue Huang, Siliang Tang, Yi Yang, Longhui Wei, Yueting Zhuang, Qi Tian

Existing NAS-based meta-learning methods apply a two-stage strategy, i. e., first searching architectures and then re-training meta-weights on the searched architecture.

Meta-Learning

Self-Supervised Learning for speech recognition with Intermediate layer supervision

1 code implementation16 Dec 2021 Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Sanyuan Chen, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li, Yao Qian, Zhenglu Yang

Recently, pioneer work finds that speech pre-trained models can solve full-stack speech processing tasks, because the model utilizes bottom layers to learn speaker-related information and top layers to encode content-related information.

Language Modelling Self-Supervised Learning +2

SpeechT5: Unified-Modal Encoder-Decoder Pre-Training for Spoken Language Processing

6 code implementations ACL 2022 Junyi Ao, Rui Wang, Long Zhou, Chengyi Wang, Shuo Ren, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Tom Ko, Qing Li, Yu Zhang, Zhihua Wei, Yao Qian, Jinyu Li, Furu Wei

Motivated by the success of T5 (Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer) in pre-trained natural language processing models, we propose a unified-modal SpeechT5 framework that explores the encoder-decoder pre-training for self-supervised speech/text representation learning.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +8

Wav2vec-Switch: Contrastive Learning from Original-noisy Speech Pairs for Robust Speech Recognition

no code implementations11 Oct 2021 Yiming Wang, Jinyu Li, Heming Wang, Yao Qian, Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu

In this paper we propose wav2vec-Switch, a method to encode noise robustness into contextualized representations of speech via contrastive learning.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +7

Contrastive Video-Language Segmentation

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Chen Liang, Yawei Luo, Yu Wu, Yi Yang

We focus on the problem of segmenting a certain object referred by a natural language sentence in video content, at the core of formulating a pinpoint vision-language relation.

Contrastive Learning Relation +2

Cell2State: Learning Cell State Representations From Barcoded Single-Cell Gene-Expression Transitions

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Yu Wu, Joseph Chahn Kim, Chengzhuo Ni, Le Cong, Mengdi Wang

Genetic barcoding coupled with single-cell sequencing technology enables direct measurement of cell-to-cell transitions and gene-expression evolution over a long timespan.

Dimensionality Reduction

Knowledge Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Better Handling Unseen Entities in Dialogue Generation

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Yue Zhang

To deal with this problem, instead of introducing knowledge base as the input, we force the model to learn a better semantic representation by predicting the information in the knowledge base, only based on the input context.

Dialogue Generation Retrieval

Detecting Speaker Personas from Conversational Texts

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yu Wu, Quan Liu, Zhigang Chen, Xiaodan Zhu

This is a many-to-many semantic matching task because both contexts and personas in SPD are composed of multiple sentences.

Flexible Clustered Federated Learning for Client-Level Data Distribution Shift

1 code implementation22 Aug 2021 Moming Duan, Duo Liu, Xinyuan Ji, Yu Wu, Liang Liang, Xianzhang Chen, Yujuan Tan

Federated Learning (FL) enables the multiple participating devices to collaboratively contribute to a global neural network model while keeping the training data locally.

Federated Learning

UniSpeech at scale: An Empirical Study of Pre-training Method on Large-Scale Speech Recognition Dataset

no code implementations12 Jul 2021 Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li, Yao Qian, Kenichi Kumatani, Furu Wei

Recently, there has been a vast interest in self-supervised learning (SSL) where the model is pre-trained on large scale unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a small labeled dataset.

Self-Supervised Learning speech-recognition +1

Investigation of Practical Aspects of Single Channel Speech Separation for ASR

no code implementations5 Jul 2021 Jian Wu, Zhuo Chen, Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Takuya Yoshioka, Naoyuki Kanda, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li

Speech separation has been successfully applied as a frontend processing module of conversation transcription systems thanks to its ability to handle overlapped speech and its flexibility to combine with downstream tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Saying the Unseen: Video Descriptions via Dialog Agents

1 code implementation26 Jun 2021 Ye Zhu, Yu Wu, Yi Yang, Yan Yan

Current vision and language tasks usually take complete visual data (e. g., raw images or videos) as input, however, practical scenarios may often consist the situations where part of the visual information becomes inaccessible due to various reasons e. g., restricted view with fixed camera or intentional vision block for security concerns.

Transfer Learning

VSPW: A Large-scale Dataset for Video Scene Parsing in the Wild

no code implementations CVPR 2021 Jiaxu Miao, Yunchao Wei, Yu Wu, Chen Liang, Guangrui Li, Yi Yang

To the best of our knowledge, our VSPW is the first attempt to tackle the challenging video scene parsing task in the wild by considering diverse scenarios.

4k Scene Parsing

Exploring Heterogeneous Clues for Weakly-Supervised Audio-Visual Video Parsing

no code implementations CVPR 2021 Yu Wu, Yi Yang

Previous works take the overall event labels to supervise both audio and visual model predictions.

Contrastive Learning

Minimum Word Error Rate Training with Language Model Fusion for End-to-End Speech Recognition

no code implementations4 Jun 2021 Zhong Meng, Yu Wu, Naoyuki Kanda, Liang Lu, Xie Chen, Guoli Ye, Eric Sun, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

In this work, we perform LM fusion in the minimum WER (MWER) training of an E2E model to obviate the need for LM weights tuning during inference.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +1

Template-Based Named Entity Recognition Using BART

1 code implementation Findings (ACL) 2021 Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Jian Liu, Sen yang, Yue Zhang

To address the issue, we propose a template-based method for NER, treating NER as a language model ranking problem in a sequence-to-sequence framework, where original sentences and statement templates filled by candidate named entity span are regarded as the source sequence and the target sequence, respectively.

Few-shot NER Language Modelling +2

Cooperative Path Planning of UAVs & UGVs for a Persistent Surveillance Task in Urban Environments

no code implementations IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2021 Yu Wu, Shaobo Wu, and Xinting Hu

The hybrid EDA-GA algorithm can greatly improve the performance of EDA and GA in terms of the quality and the stability of solutions.

Large-Scale Pre-Training of End-to-End Multi-Talker ASR for Meeting Transcription with Single Distant Microphone

no code implementations31 Mar 2021 Naoyuki Kanda, Guoli Ye, Yu Wu, Yashesh Gaur, Xiaofei Wang, Zhong Meng, Zhuo Chen, Takuya Yoshioka

Transcribing meetings containing overlapped speech with only a single distant microphone (SDM) has been one of the most challenging problems for automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

ClawCraneNet: Leveraging Object-level Relation for Text-based Video Segmentation

no code implementations19 Mar 2021 Chen Liang, Yu Wu, Yawei Luo, Yi Yang

Text-based video segmentation is a challenging task that segments out the natural language referred objects in videos.

Ranked #4 on Referring Expression Segmentation on J-HMDB (Precision@0.9 metric)

Object Referring Expression Segmentation +4

UniSpeech: Unified Speech Representation Learning with Labeled and Unlabeled Data

5 code implementations19 Jan 2021 Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Yao Qian, Kenichi Kumatani, Shujie Liu, Furu Wei, Michael Zeng, Xuedong Huang

In this paper, we propose a unified pre-training approach called UniSpeech to learn speech representations with both unlabeled and labeled data, in which supervised phonetic CTC learning and phonetically-aware contrastive self-supervised learning are conducted in a multi-task learning manner.

Multi-Task Learning Representation Learning +4

Learning to Anticipate Egocentric Actions by Imagination

no code implementations13 Jan 2021 Yu Wu, Linchao Zhu, Xiaohan Wang, Yi Yang, Fei Wu

We further improve ImagineRNN by residual anticipation, i. e., changing its target to predicting the feature difference of adjacent frames instead of the frame content.

Action Anticipation Autonomous Driving +1

Connection-Adaptive Meta-Learning

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Yadong Ding, Yu Wu, Chengyue Huang, Siliang Tang, Yi Yang, Yueting Zhuang

In this paper, we aim to obtain better meta-learners by co-optimizing the architecture and meta-weights simultaneously.

Meta-Learning

Formality Style Transfer with Shared Latent Space

1 code implementation COLING 2020 Yunli Wang, Yu Wu, Lili Mou, Zhoujun Li, WenHan Chao

Conventional approaches for formality style transfer borrow models from neural machine translation, which typically requires massive parallel data for training.

Formality Style Transfer Machine Translation +2

Don't shoot butterfly with rifles: Multi-channel Continuous Speech Separation with Early Exit Transformer

1 code implementation23 Oct 2020 Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Zhuo Chen, Takuya Yoshioka, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li

With its strong modeling capacity that comes from a multi-head and multi-layer structure, Transformer is a very powerful model for learning a sequential representation and has been successfully applied to speech separation recently.

Speech Separation

Developing Real-time Streaming Transformer Transducer for Speech Recognition on Large-scale Dataset

no code implementations22 Oct 2020 Xie Chen, Yu Wu, Zhenghao Wang, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li

Recently, Transformer based end-to-end models have achieved great success in many areas including speech recognition.

Decoder speech-recognition +1

Describing Unseen Videos via Multi-Modal Cooperative Dialog Agents

1 code implementation ECCV 2020 Ye Zhu, Yu Wu, Yi Yang, Yan Yan

With the arising concerns for the AI systems provided with direct access to abundant sensitive information, researchers seek to develop more reliable AI with implicit information sources.

Video Description

Continuous Speech Separation with Conformer

1 code implementation13 Aug 2020 Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Zhuo Chen, Jian Wu, Jinyu Li, Takuya Yoshioka, Chengyi Wang, Shujie Liu, Ming Zhou

Continuous speech separation plays a vital role in complicated speech related tasks such as conversation transcription.

 Ranked #1 on Speech Separation on LibriCSS (using extra training data)

Speech Separation

On Commonsense Cues in BERT for Solving Commonsense Tasks

no code implementations Findings (ACL) 2021 Leyang Cui, Sijie Cheng, Yu Wu, Yue Zhang

We quantitatively investigate the presence of structural commonsense cues in BERT when solving commonsense tasks, and the importance of such cues for the model prediction.

Sentiment Analysis Sentiment Classification

A Retrieve-and-Rewrite Initialization Method for Unsupervised Machine Translation

1 code implementation ACL 2020 Shuo Ren, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Ming Zhou, Shuai Ma

The commonly used framework for unsupervised machine translation builds initial translation models of both translation directions, and then performs iterative back-translation to jointly boost their translation performance.

NMT Retrieval +3

Abnormal activity capture from passenger flow of elevator based on unsupervised learning and fine-grained multi-label recognition

no code implementations29 Jun 2020 Chunhua Jia, Wenhai Yi, Yu Wu, Hui Huang, Lei Zhang, Leilei Wu

We present a work-flow which aims at capturing residents' abnormal activities through the passenger flow of elevator in multi-storey residence buildings.

Anomaly Detection Clustering +2

Curriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation

no code implementations ACL 2020 Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Ming Zhou, Zhenglu Yang

End-to-end speech translation poses a heavy burden on the encoder, because it has to transcribe, understand, and learn cross-lingual semantics simultaneously.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition +1

MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning

1 code implementation ACL 2020 Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Yue Zhang, Ming Zhou

Non-task oriented dialogue systems have achieved great success in recent years due to largely accessible conversation data and the development of deep learning techniques.

Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Low Latency End-to-End Streaming Speech Recognition with a Scout Network

no code implementations23 Mar 2020 Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li, Liang Lu, Guoli Ye, Ming Zhou

The attention-based Transformer model has achieved promising results for speech recognition (SR) in the offline mode.

Audio and Speech Processing

Symbiotic Attention with Privileged Information for Egocentric Action Recognition

no code implementations8 Feb 2020 Xiaohan Wang, Yu Wu, Linchao Zhu, Yi Yang

Due to the large action vocabulary in egocentric video datasets, recent studies usually utilize a two-branch structure for action recognition, ie, one branch for verb classification and the other branch for noun classification.

Action Recognition Egocentric Activity Recognition +5

Semantic Mask for Transformer based End-to-End Speech Recognition

1 code implementation6 Dec 2019 Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Yujiao Du, Jinyu Li, Shujie Liu, Liang Lu, Shuo Ren, Guoli Ye, Sheng Zhao, Ming Zhou

Attention-based encoder-decoder model has achieved impressive results for both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) tasks.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +4

Harnessing Pre-Trained Neural Networks with Rules for Formality Style Transfer

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Yunli Wang, Yu Wu, Lili Mou, Zhoujun Li, WenHan Chao

Formality text style transfer plays an important role in various NLP applications, such as non-native speaker assistants and child education.

Formality Style Transfer Style Transfer

Dual Attention Matching for Audio-Visual Event Localization

no code implementations ICCV 2019 Yu Wu, Linchao Zhu, Yan Yan, Yi Yang

The duration of these segments is usually short, making the visual and acoustic feature of each segment possibly not well aligned.

audio-visual event localization

Gated Channel Transformation for Visual Recognition

3 code implementations CVPR 2020 Zongxin Yang, Linchao Zhu, Yu Wu, Yi Yang

This lightweight layer incorporates a simple l2 normalization, enabling our transformation unit applicable to operator-level without much increase of additional parameters.

General Classification Image Classification +5

Bridging the Gap between Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning for End-to-End Speech Translation

no code implementations17 Sep 2019 Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Zhenglu Yang, Ming Zhou

End-to-end speech translation, a hot topic in recent years, aims to translate a segment of audio into a specific language with an end-to-end model.

Multi-Task Learning Translation

Explicit Cross-lingual Pre-training for Unsupervised Machine Translation

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Shuo Ren, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Ming Zhou, Shuai Ma

Pre-training has proven to be effective in unsupervised machine translation due to its ability to model deep context information in cross-lingual scenarios.

Decoder Language Modelling +2

Cascaded Revision Network for Novel Object Captioning

1 code implementation6 Aug 2019 Qianyu Feng, Yu Wu, Hehe Fan, Chenggang Yan, Yi Yang

By this novel cascaded captioning-revising mechanism, CRN can accurately describe images with unseen objects.

Image Captioning Object +3

Baidu-UTS Submission to the EPIC-Kitchens Action Recognition Challenge 2019

no code implementations22 Jun 2019 Xiaohan Wang, Yu Wu, Linchao Zhu, Yi Yang

In this report, we present the Baidu-UTS submission to the EPIC-Kitchens Action Recognition Challenge in CVPR 2019.

Action Recognition Object +2

Revisiting EmbodiedQA: A Simple Baseline and Beyond

no code implementations8 Apr 2019 Yu Wu, Lu Jiang, Yi Yang

In this paper, we empirically study this problem and introduce 1) a simple yet effective baseline that achieves promising performance; 2) an easier and practical setting for EmbodiedQA where an agent has a chance to adapt the trained model to a new environment before it actually answers users questions.

Embodied Question Answering Question Answering

Text Morphing

no code implementations30 Sep 2018 Shaohan Huang, Yu Wu, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

In this paper, we introduce a novel natural language generation task, termed as text morphing, which targets at generating the intermediate sentences that are fluency and smooth with the two input sentences.

Sentence Text Generation

Neural Melody Composition from Lyrics

no code implementations12 Sep 2018 Hangbo Bao, Shaohan Huang, Furu Wei, Lei Cui, Yu Wu, Chuanqi Tan, Songhao Piao, Ming Zhou

In this paper, we study a novel task that learns to compose music from natural language.

Decoder

Towards Explainable and Controllable Open Domain Dialogue Generation with Dialogue Acts

no code implementations19 Jul 2018 Can Xu, Wei Wu, Yu Wu

We study open domain dialogue generation with dialogue acts designed to explain how people engage in social chat.

Dialogue Generation reinforcement-learning +3

Dictionary-Guided Editing Networks for Paraphrase Generation

no code implementations21 Jun 2018 Shaohan Huang, Yu Wu, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

An intuitive way for a human to write paraphrase sentences is to replace words or phrases in the original sentence with their corresponding synonyms and make necessary changes to ensure the new sentences are fluent and grammatically correct.

Paraphrase Generation Sentence

Response Generation by Context-aware Prototype Editing

3 code implementations19 Jun 2018 Yu Wu, Furu Wei, Shaohan Huang, Yunli Wang, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

Open domain response generation has achieved remarkable progress in recent years, but sometimes yields short and uninformative responses.

Decoder Diversity +3

Learning Matching Models with Weak Supervision for Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots

no code implementations ACL 2018 Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

We propose a method that can leverage unlabeled data to learn a matching model for response selection in retrieval-based chatbots.

Retrieval

Decoupled Novel Object Captioner

1 code implementation11 Apr 2018 Yu Wu, Linchao Zhu, Lu Jiang, Yi Yang

Thus, the sequence model can be decoupled from the novel object descriptions.

Image Captioning Novel Concepts +2

Towards Interpretable Chit-chat: Open Domain Dialogue Generation with Dialogue Acts

no code implementations ICLR 2018 Wei Wu, Can Xu, Yu Wu, Zhoujun Li

Conventional methods model open domain dialogue generation as a black box through end-to-end learning from large scale conversation data.

Dialogue Generation Response Generation

A Sequential Matching Framework for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots

no code implementations CL 2019 Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Chen Xing, Can Xu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

The task requires matching a response candidate with a conversation context, whose challenges include how to recognize important parts of the context, and how to model the relationships among utterances in the context.

Retrieval

Non-Convex Weighted Lp Nuclear Norm based ADMM Framework for Image Restoration

no code implementations24 Apr 2017 Zhiyuan Zha, Xinggan Zhang, Yu Wu, Qiong Wang, Lan Tang

Since the matrix formed by nonlocal similar patches in a natural image is of low rank, the nuclear norm minimization (NNM) has been widely used in various image processing studies.

Compressive Sensing Deblurring +3

Non-Convex Weighted Lp Minimization based Group Sparse Representation Framework for Image Denoising

no code implementations5 Apr 2017 Qiong Wang, Xinggan Zhang, Yu Wu, Lan Tang, Zhiyuan Zha

Nonlocal image representation or group sparsity has attracted considerable interest in various low-level vision tasks and has led to several state-of-the-art image denoising techniques, such as BM3D, LSSC.

Image Denoising

Hierarchical Recurrent Attention Network for Response Generation

1 code implementation25 Jan 2017 Chen Xing, Wei Wu, Yu Wu, Ming Zhou, YaLou Huang, Wei-Ying Ma

With the word level attention, hidden vectors of a word level encoder are synthesized as utterance vectors and fed to an utterance level encoder to construct hidden representations of the context.

Response Generation

Sequential Matching Network: A New Architecture for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots

3 code implementations ACL 2017 Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Chen Xing, Ming Zhou, Zhoujun Li

Existing work either concatenates utterances in context or matches a response with a highly abstract context vector finally, which may lose relationships among utterances or important contextual information.

Conversational Response Selection Retrieval

Knowledge Enhanced Hybrid Neural Network for Text Matching

no code implementations15 Nov 2016 Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

Long text brings a big challenge to semantic matching due to their complicated semantic and syntactic structures.

Question Answering Text Matching

Detecting Context Dependent Messages in a Conversational Environment

no code implementations COLING 2016 Chaozhuo Li, Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Chen Xing, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

While automatic response generation for building chatbot systems has drawn a lot of attention recently, there is limited understanding on when we need to consider the linguistic context of an input text in the generation process.

Chatbot Response Generation

Topic Aware Neural Response Generation

1 code implementation21 Jun 2016 Chen Xing, Wei Wu, Yu Wu, Jie Liu, YaLou Huang, Ming Zhou, Wei-Ying Ma

We consider incorporating topic information into the sequence-to-sequence framework to generate informative and interesting responses for chatbots.

Response Generation