Search Results for author: Chen Liang

Found 80 papers, 28 papers with code

Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch

no code implementations ICML 2020 Esteban Real, Chen Liang, David So, Quoc Le

However, this progress has largely focused on the architecture of neural networks, where it has relied on sophisticated expert-designed layers as building blocks---or similarly restrictive search spaces.

AutoML BIG-bench Machine Learning

Unsupervised semantic segmentation of high-resolution UAV imagery for road scene parsing

1 code implementation5 Feb 2024 Zihan Ma, Yongshang Li, Ronggui Ma, Chen Liang

In this paper, an unsupervised road parsing framework that leverages recent advances in vision language models and fundamental computer vision model is introduced. Initially, a vision language model is employed to efficiently process ultra-large resolution UAV images to quickly detect road regions of interest in the images.

Language Modelling Representation Learning +2

Accelerated Cloud for Artificial Intelligence (ACAI)

no code implementations30 Jan 2024 Dachi Chen, Weitian Ding, Chen Liang, Chang Xu, Junwei Zhang, Majd Sakr

Training an effective Machine learning (ML) model is an iterative process that requires effort in multiple dimensions.

Scheduling

Market Responses to Genuine Versus Strategic Generosity: An Empirical Examination of NFT Charity Fundraisers

no code implementations22 Jan 2024 Chen Liang, Murat Tunc, Gordon Burtch

Questions may arise about the motivations of donors in these charity fundraisers, resulting in a negative social image.

A Novel Dual-Stage Evolutionary Algorithm for Finding Robust Solutions

no code implementations2 Jan 2024 Wei Du, Wenxuan Fang, Chen Liang, Yang Tang, Yaochu Jin

The primary objective of the peak-detection stage is to identify peaks in the fitness landscape of the original optimization problem.

A Multi-day Needs-based Modeling Approach for Activity and Travel Demand Analysis

no code implementations24 Dec 2023 Kexin Chen, Jinping Guan, Ravi Seshadri, Varun Pattabhiraman, Youssef Medhat Aboutaleb, Ali Shamshiripour, Chen Liang, Xiaochun Zhang, Moshe Ben-Akiva

The utility includes both the benefit in the inventory gained and the cost in time, monetary expense as well as maintenance of safety stock.

Unsupervised Multi-modal Feature Alignment for Time Series Representation Learning

no code implementations9 Dec 2023 Chen Liang, Donghua Yang, Zhiyu Liang, Hongzhi Wang, Zheng Liang, Xiyang Zhang, Jianfeng Huang

In contrast to conventional methods that fuse features from multiple modalities, our proposed approach simplifies the neural architecture by retaining a single time series encoder, consequently leading to preserved scalability.

Feature Engineering Inductive Bias +2

TARGET: Template-Transferable Backdoor Attack Against Prompt-based NLP Models via GPT4

no code implementations29 Nov 2023 Zihao Tan, Qingliang Chen, Yongjian Huang, Chen Liang

Most of the existing attack methods focus on inserting manually predefined templates as triggers in the pre-training phase to train the victim model and utilize the same triggers in the downstream task to perform inference, which tends to ignore the transferability and stealthiness of the templates.

Backdoor Attack

Scaling User Modeling: Large-scale Online User Representations for Ads Personalization in Meta

no code implementations16 Nov 2023 Wei zhang, Dai Li, Chen Liang, Fang Zhou, Zhongke Zhang, Xuewei Wang, Ru Li, Yi Zhou, Yaning Huang, Dong Liang, Kai Wang, Zhangyuan Wang, Zhengxing Chen, Min Li, Fenggang Wu, Minghai Chen, Huayu Li, Yunnan Wu, Zhan Shu, Mindi Yuan, Sri Reddy

To address these challenges, we present Scaling User Modeling (SUM), a framework widely deployed in Meta's ads ranking system, designed to facilitate efficient and scalable sharing of online user representation across hundreds of ads models.

Representation Learning

LoftQ: LoRA-Fine-Tuning-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models

1 code implementation12 Oct 2023 Yixiao Li, Yifan Yu, Chen Liang, Pengcheng He, Nikos Karampatziakis, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao

Quantization is an indispensable technique for serving Large Language Models (LLMs) and has recently found its way into LoRA fine-tuning.

Natural Language Understanding Quantization +2

Logic-induced Diagnostic Reasoning for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation

no code implementations ICCV 2023 Chen Liang, Wenguan Wang, Jiaxu Miao, Yi Yang

Recent advances in semi-supervised semantic segmentation have been heavily reliant on pseudo labeling to compensate for limited labeled data, disregarding the valuable relational knowledge among semantic concepts.

Segmentation Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Towards Ubiquitous Intelligent Hand Interaction

no code implementations21 Aug 2023 Chen Liang

The development of ubiquitous computing and sensing devices has brought about novel interaction scenarios such as mixed reality and IoT (e. g., smart home), which pose new demands for the next generation of natural user interfaces (NUI).

Mixed Reality

Contrastive Shapelet Learning for Unsupervised Multivariate Time Series Representation Learning

1 code implementation30 May 2023 Zhiyu Liang, Jianfeng Zhang, Chen Liang, Hongzhi Wang, Zheng Liang, Lujia Pan

Recent studies have shown great promise in unsupervised representation learning (URL) for multivariate time series, because URL has the capability in learning generalizable representation for many downstream tasks without using inaccessible labels.

Anomaly Detection Data Augmentation +2

Optimization design of a micro-perforated panel absorber with 8.6 octave bands

no code implementations23 Apr 2023 Xiaoming Wang, Chen Liang, Yulin Mei

In order to improve low-frequency characteristics of micro-perforated panel absorbers, sound absorption structures composed of micro-perforated panels and expansion chambers are design, and an optimization design method is constructed based on the transfer function model and the simulated annealing algorithm.

HomoDistil: Homotopic Task-Agnostic Distillation of Pre-trained Transformers

no code implementations19 Feb 2023 Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Zheng Li, Xianfeng Tang, Bin Yin, Tuo Zhao

Since the teacher model has a significantly larger capacity and stronger representation power than the student model, it is very difficult for the student to produce predictions that match the teacher's over a massive amount of open-domain training data.

Knowledge Distillation Model Compression +1

Unified Functional Hashing in Automatic Machine Learning

1 code implementation10 Feb 2023 Ryan Gillard, Stephen Jonany, Yingjie Miao, Michael Munn, Connal de Souza, Jonathan Dungay, Chen Liang, David R. So, Quoc V. Le, Esteban Real

In this paper, we show that large efficiency gains can be obtained by employing a fast unified functional hash, especially through the functional equivalence caching technique, which we also present.

Neural Architecture Search

GMMSeg: Gaussian Mixture based Generative Semantic Segmentation Models

2 code implementations5 Oct 2022 Chen Liang, Wenguan Wang, Jiaxu Miao, Yi Yang

Going beyond this, we propose GMMSeg, a new family of segmentation models that rely on a dense generative classifier for the joint distribution p(pixel feature, class).

Segmentation Semantic Segmentation

Less is More: Task-aware Layer-wise Distillation for Language Model Compression

1 code implementation4 Oct 2022 Chen Liang, Simiao Zuo, Qingru Zhang, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao

As such, TED reduces the knowledge gap between the two models and helps the student to fit better on the target task.

Language Modelling Model Compression

Multi-Task Mixture Density Graph Neural Networks for Predicting Cu-based Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts for CO2 Reduction Reaction

no code implementations15 Sep 2022 Chen Liang, Bowen Wang, Shaogang Hao, Guangyong Chen, Pheng-Ann Heng, Xiaolong Zou

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have drawn more and more attention from material scientists and demonstrated a high capacity to establish connections between the structure and properties.

Interface Networks for Failure Localization in Power Systems

no code implementations12 May 2022 Chen Liang, Alessandro Zocca, Steven H. Low, Adam Wierman

Transmission power systems usually consist of interconnected sub-grids that are operated relatively independently.

CAMERO: Consistency Regularized Ensemble of Perturbed Language Models with Weight Sharing

1 code implementation ACL 2022 Chen Liang, Pengcheng He, Yelong Shen, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao

To retain ensemble benefits while maintaining a low memory cost, we propose a consistency-regularized ensemble learning approach based on perturbed models, named CAMERO.

Ensemble Learning

Visual Abductive Reasoning

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Chen Liang, Wenguan Wang, Tianfei Zhou, Yi Yang

In this paper, we propose a new task and dataset, Visual Abductive Reasoning (VAR), for examining abductive reasoning ability of machine intelligence in everyday visual situations.

Benchmarking Sentence +1

Improving Molecular Contrastive Learning via Faulty Negative Mitigation and Decomposed Fragment Contrast

1 code implementation18 Feb 2022 Yuyang Wang, Rishikesh Magar, Chen Liang, Amir Barati Farimani

On most benchmarks, the generic GNN pre-trained by iMolCLR rivals or even surpasses supervised learning models with sophisticated architecture designs and engineered features.

Contrastive Learning Self-Supervised Learning

TPAD: Identifying Effective Trajectory Predictions Under the Guidance of Trajectory Anomaly Detection Model

no code implementations9 Jan 2022 Chunnan Wang, Chen Liang, Xiang Chen, Hongzhi Wang

They are lack of self-evaluation ability, that is, to examine the rationality of their prediction results, thus failing to guide users to identify high-quality ones from their candidate results.

Anomaly Detection AutoML +1

A General Traffic Shaping Protocol in E-Commerce

no code implementations30 Dec 2021 Chenlin Shen, Guangda Huzhang, YuHang Zhou, Chen Liang, Qing Da

Our algorithm can straightforwardly optimize the linear programming in the prime space, and its solution can be simply applied by a stochastic strategy to fulfill the optimized objective and the constraints in expectation.

AugLiChem: Data Augmentation Library of Chemical Structures for Machine Learning

1 code implementation30 Nov 2021 Rishikesh Magar, Yuyang Wang, Cooper Lorsung, Chen Liang, Hariharan Ramasubramanian, Peiyuan Li, Amir Barati Farimani

Inspired by the success of data augmentations in computer vision and natural language processing, we developed AugLiChem: the data augmentation library for chemical structures.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Data Augmentation +1

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

Self-Training with Differentiable Teacher

no code implementations Findings (NAACL) 2022 Simiao Zuo, Yue Yu, Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Siawpeng Er, Chao Zhang, Tuo Zhao, Hongyuan Zha

In self-training, the student contributes to the prediction performance, and the teacher controls the training process by generating pseudo-labels.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +3

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.

Scene Parsing

Super Tickets in Pre-Trained Language Models: From Model Compression to Improving Generalization

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Chen Liang, Simiao Zuo, Minshuo Chen, Haoming Jiang, Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Tuo Zhao, Weizhu Chen

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis suggests that an over-parametrized network consists of ``lottery tickets'', and training a certain collection of them (i. e., a subnetwork) can match the performance of the full model.

Model Compression Multi-Task Learning

Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training

no code implementations21 Apr 2021 David Patterson, Joseph Gonzalez, Quoc Le, Chen Liang, Lluis-Miquel Munguia, Daniel Rothchild, David So, Maud Texier, Jeff Dean

To help reduce the carbon footprint of ML, we believe energy usage and CO2e should be a key metric in evaluating models, and we are collaborating with MLPerf developers to include energy usage during training and inference in this industry standard benchmark.

Neural Architecture Search Scheduling

Token-wise Curriculum Learning for Neural Machine Translation

no code implementations Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen, Jianfeng Gao, Tuo Zhao

Existing curriculum learning approaches to Neural Machine Translation (NMT) require sampling sufficient amounts of "easy" samples from training data at the early training stage.

Machine Translation NMT +2

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

LinkLouvain: Link-Aware A/B Testing and Its Application on Online Marketing Campaign

no code implementations3 Feb 2021 Tianchi Cai, Daxi Cheng, Chen Liang, Ziqi Liu, Lihong Gu, Huizhi Xie, Zhiqiang Zhang, Xiaodong Zeng, Jinjie Gu

In this paper, we analyze the network A/B testing problem under a real-world online marketing campaign, describe our proposed LinkLouvain method, and evaluate it on real-world data.

Link Prediction Marketing

Compositional Generalization via Neural-Symbolic Stack Machines

no code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Xinyun Chen, Chen Liang, Adams Wei Yu, Dawn Song, Denny Zhou

Despite achieving tremendous success, existing deep learning models have exposed limitations in compositional generalization, the capability to learn compositional rules and apply them to unseen cases in a systematic manner.

Few-Shot Learning Machine Translation +1

Line Failure Localization of Power Networks Part II: Cut Set Outages

no code implementations22 May 2020 Linqi Guo, Chen Liang, Alessandro Zocca, Steven H. Low, Adam Wierman

Transmission line failure in power systems prop-agate non-locally, making the control of the resulting outages extremely difficult.

Adaptive Network Response to Line Failures in Power Systems

no code implementations22 May 2020 Chen Liang, Linqi Guo, Alessandro Zocca, Steven H. Low, Adam Wierman

Transmission line failures in power systems propagate and cascade non-locally.

Line Failure Localization of Power Networks Part I: Non-cut Outages

no code implementations20 May 2020 Linqi Guo, Chen Liang, Alessandro Zocca, Steven H. Low, Adam Wierman

Transmission line failures in power systems propagate non-locally, making the control of the resulting outages extremely difficult.

Neural Symbolic Reader: Scalable Integration of Distributed and Symbolic Representations for Reading Comprehension

no code implementations ICLR 2020 Xinyun Chen, Chen Liang, Adams Wei Yu, Denny Zhou, Dawn Song, Quoc V. Le

Integrating distributed representations with symbolic operations is essential for reading comprehension requiring complex reasoning, such as counting, sorting and arithmetics, but most existing approaches are hard to scale to more domains or more complex reasoning.

Data Augmentation Math +2

AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch

2 code implementations6 Mar 2020 Esteban Real, Chen Liang, David R. So, Quoc V. Le

However, this progress has largely focused on the architecture of neural networks, where it has relied on sophisticated expert-designed layers as building blocks---or similarly restrictive search spaces.

AutoML BIG-bench Machine Learning

Uncovering Insurance Fraud Conspiracy with Network Learning

no code implementations27 Feb 2020 Chen Liang, Ziqi Liu, Bin Liu, Jun Zhou, Xiaolong Li, Shuang Yang, Yuan Qi

In order to detect and prevent fraudulent insurance claims, we developed a novel data-driven procedure to identify groups of organized fraudsters, one of the major contributions to financial losses, by learning network information.

Fraud Detection Graph Learning

Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation with Word-Level Adaptive Layer-wise Domain Mixing

1 code implementation ACL 2020 Haoming Jiang, Chen Liang, Chong Wang, Tuo Zhao

To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel multi-domain NMT model using individual modules for each domain, on which we apply word-level, adaptive and layer-wise domain mixing.

Machine Translation NMT +3

Learning to Guide: Guidance Law Based on Deep Meta-learning and Model Predictive Path Integral Control

no code implementations15 Apr 2019 Chen Liang, Weihong Wang, Zhenghua Liu, Chao Lai, Benchun Zhou

However the traditional MPPI framework assumes the actual environment similar to the training dataset for the deep neural network which is impractical in practice with different maneuvering of target, other perturbations and actuator failures.

Robotics Systems and Control

Neural Program Planner for Structured Predictions

no code implementations ICLR Workshop drlStructPred 2019 Jacob Biloki, Chen Liang, Ni Lao

We consider the problem of weakly supervised structured prediction (SP) with reinforcement learning (RL) – for example, given a database table and a question, perform a sequence of computation actions on the table, which generates a response and receives a binary success-failure reward.

Machine Translation Program Synthesis +4

Learning to Generalize from Sparse and Underspecified Rewards

1 code implementation19 Feb 2019 Rishabh Agarwal, Chen Liang, Dale Schuurmans, Mohammad Norouzi

The parameters of the auxiliary reward function are optimized with respect to the validation performance of a trained policy.

Bayesian Optimization Semantic Parsing

The Evolved Transformer

3 code implementations30 Jan 2019 David R. So, Chen Liang, Quoc V. Le

Recent works have highlighted the strength of the Transformer architecture on sequence tasks while, at the same time, neural architecture search (NAS) has begun to outperform human-designed models.

Machine Translation Neural Architecture Search

Memory Augmented Policy Optimization for Program Synthesis and Semantic Parsing

4 code implementations NeurIPS 2018 Chen Liang, Mohammad Norouzi, Jonathan Berant, Quoc Le, Ni Lao

We present Memory Augmented Policy Optimization (MAPO), a simple and novel way to leverage a memory buffer of promising trajectories to reduce the variance of policy gradient estimate.

Combinatorial Optimization Program Synthesis +2

Distractor Generation for Multiple Choice Questions Using Learning to Rank

1 code implementation WS 2018 Chen Liang, Xiao Yang, Neisarg Dave, Drew Wham, Bart Pursel, C. Lee Giles

We investigate how machine learning models, specifically ranking models, can be used to select useful distractors for multiple choice questions.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Distractor Generation +3

A Fully Convolutional Tri-branch Network (FCTN) for Domain Adaptation

no code implementations10 Nov 2017 Junting Zhang, Chen Liang, C. -C. Jay Kuo

We evaluate the proposed network on large-scale domain adaptation experiments using both synthetic (GTA) and real (Cityscapes) images.

Domain Adaptation Scene Segmentation

A Broad Learning Approach for Context-Aware Mobile Application Recommendation

no code implementations11 Sep 2017 Liang Tingting, He Lifang, Lu Chun-Ta, Chen Liang, Yu Philip S., Wu Jian

With the rapid development of mobile apps, the availability of a large number of mobile apps in application stores brings challenge to locate appropriate apps for users.

Feature Importance

Neural Symbolic Machines: Learning Semantic Parsers on Freebase with Weak Supervision (Short Version)

no code implementations4 Dec 2016 Chen Liang, Jonathan Berant, Quoc Le, Kenneth D. Forbus, Ni Lao

In this work, we propose the Manager-Programmer-Computer framework, which integrates neural networks with non-differentiable memory to support abstract, scalable and precise operations through a friendly neural computer interface.

Feature Engineering Natural Language Understanding +2

Definition Modeling: Learning to define word embeddings in natural language

2 code implementations1 Dec 2016 Thanapon Noraset, Chen Liang, Larry Birnbaum, Doug Downey

Distributed representations of words have been shown to capture lexical semantics, as demonstrated by their effectiveness in word similarity and analogical relation tasks.

Word Embeddings Word Similarity

Neural Symbolic Machines: Learning Semantic Parsers on Freebase with Weak Supervision

2 code implementations ACL 2017 Chen Liang, Jonathan Berant, Quoc Le, Kenneth D. Forbus, Ni Lao

Harnessing the statistical power of neural networks to perform language understanding and symbolic reasoning is difficult, when it requires executing efficient discrete operations against a large knowledge-base.

Feature Engineering Structured Prediction

A neural probabilistic model for context based citation recommendation

no code implementations AAAI 2015 Wenyi Huang, Zhaohui Wu, Chen Liang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles

It is not always easy for knowledgeable researchers to give an accurate citation context for a cited paper or to find the right paper to cite given context.

Citation Recommendation

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