no code implementations • 5 Mar 2024 • Cong Ma, Lei Qiao, Chengkai Zhu, Kai Liu, Zelong Kong, Qing Li, Xueqi Zhou, Yuheng Kan, Wei Wu
Based on HoloVIC, we formulated four tasks to facilitate the development of related research.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2024 • Rong Jiang, Cong Ma
We study nonparametric contextual bandits under batch constraints, where the expected reward for each action is modeled as a smooth function of covariates, and the policy updates are made at the end of each batch of observations.
no code implementations • 12 Feb 2024 • Yuepeng Yang, Antares Chen, Lorenzo Orecchia, Cong Ma
On the analytical front, we provide a refined $\ell_\infty$ error analysis of the weighted MLE that is more explicit and tighter than existing analyses.
1 code implementation • 1 Feb 2024 • Reese Pathak, Cong Ma
This paper investigates the effect of the design matrix on the ability (or inability) to estimate a sparse parameter in linear regression.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2023 • Jiawei Ge, Shange Tang, Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma, Chi Jin
This paper addresses this fundamental question by proving that, surprisingly, classical Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) purely using source data (without any modification) achieves the minimax optimality for covariate shift under the well-specified setting.
no code implementations • 9 Oct 2023 • Cong Ma, Xingyu Xu, Tian Tong, Yuejie Chi
Many problems encountered in science and engineering can be formulated as estimating a low-rank object (e. g., matrices and tensors) from incomplete, and possibly corrupted, linear measurements.
no code implementations • 6 Jun 2023 • Yu Gui, Cong Ma, Yiqiao Zhong
Firstly, through empirical and theoretical analysis, we identify two crucial effects -- expansion and shrinkage -- induced by the contrastive loss on the projectors.
no code implementations • 30 May 2023 • Gen Li, Weichen Wu, Yuejie Chi, Cong Ma, Alessandro Rinaldo, Yuting Wei
This paper is concerned with the problem of policy evaluation with linear function approximation in discounted infinite horizon Markov decision processes.
no code implementations • 9 May 2023 • Cong Ma, Yaping Zhang, Mei Tu, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong
Text image machine translation (TIMT) has been widely used in various real-world applications, which translates source language texts in images into another target language sentence.
1 code implementation • 9 May 2023 • Cong Ma, Yaping Zhang, Mei Tu, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong
Furthermore, the ablation studies verify the generalization of our method, where the proposed modal adapter is effective to bridge various OCR and MT models.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2023 • Xingyu Xu, Yandi Shen, Yuejie Chi, Cong Ma
We propose $\textsf{ScaledGD($\lambda$)}$, a preconditioned gradient descent method to tackle the low-rank matrix sensing problem when the true rank is unknown, and when the matrix is possibly ill-conditioned.
1 code implementation • 8 Oct 2022 • Cong Ma, Yaping Zhang, Mei Tu, Xu Han, Linghui Wu, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou
End-to-end text image translation (TIT), which aims at translating the source language embedded in images to the target language, has attracted intensive attention in recent research.
no code implementations • 26 Sep 2022 • Yuepeng Yang, Cong Ma
We prove that optimistic-follow-the-regularized-leader (OFTRL), together with smooth value updates, finds an $O(T^{-1})$-approximate Nash equilibrium in $T$ iterations for two-player zero-sum Markov games with full information.
1 code implementation • 18 Jun 2022 • Harry Dong, Tian Tong, Cong Ma, Yuejie Chi
An increasing number of data science and machine learning problems rely on computation with tensors, which better capture the multi-way relationships and interactions of data than matrices.
no code implementations • 21 May 2022 • Gene Li, Cong Ma, Nathan Srebro
We present a family $\{\hat{\pi}\}_{p\ge 1}$ of pessimistic learning rules for offline learning of linear contextual bandits, relying on confidence sets with respect to different $\ell_p$ norms, where $\hat{\pi}_2$ corresponds to Bellman-consistent pessimism (BCP), while $\hat{\pi}_\infty$ is a novel generalization of lower confidence bound (LCB) to the linear setting.
no code implementations • 6 May 2022 • Cong Ma, Reese Pathak, Martin J. Wainwright
We study the covariate shift problem in the context of nonparametric regression over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS).
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2022 • Ikechukwu Uchendu, Ted Xiao, Yao Lu, Banghua Zhu, Mengyuan Yan, Joséphine Simon, Matthew Bennice, Chuyuan Fu, Cong Ma, Jiantao Jiao, Sergey Levine, Karol Hausman
In addition, we provide an upper bound on the sample complexity of JSRL and show that with the help of a guide-policy, one can improve the sample complexity for non-optimism exploration methods from exponential in horizon to polynomial.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2022 • Reese Pathak, Cong Ma, Martin J. Wainwright
We study covariate shift in the context of nonparametric regression.
no code implementations • 22 Jan 2022 • Yi Hou, Chengyang Li, Fan Yang, Cong Ma, Liping Zhu, Yuan Li, Huizhu Jia, Xiaodong Xie
Our method can integrate the pedestrian's head and body information to enhance the feature expression ability of the density map.
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2021 • Cong Ma
TANet is one of state-of-the-art 3D object detection method on KITTI and JRDB benchmark, the network contains a Triple Attention module and Coarse-to-Fine Regression module to improve the robustness and accuracy of 3D Detection.
1 code implementation • 29 Apr 2021 • Tian Tong, Cong Ma, Ashley Prater-Bennette, Erin Tripp, Yuejie Chi
Tensors, which provide a powerful and flexible model for representing multi-attribute data and multi-way interactions, play an indispensable role in modern data science across various fields in science and engineering.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Paria Rashidinejad, Banghua Zhu, Cong Ma, Jiantao Jiao, Stuart Russell
Based on the composition of the offline dataset, two main categories of methods are used: imitation learning which is suitable for expert datasets and vanilla offline RL which often requires uniform coverage datasets.
no code implementations • 19 Jan 2021 • Cong Ma, Banghua Zhu, Jiantao Jiao, Martin J. Wainwright
Second, when the behavior policy is unknown, we analyze performance in terms of the competitive ratio, thereby revealing a fundamental gap between the settings of known and unknown behavior policies.
no code implementations • 13 Jan 2021 • Cong Ma, Yuanxin Li, Yuejie Chi
Low-rank matrix estimation plays a central role in various applications across science and engineering.
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi, Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma
While the studies of spectral methods can be traced back to classical matrix perturbation theory and methods of moments, the past decade has witnessed tremendous theoretical advances in demystifying their efficacy through the lens of statistical modeling, with the aid of non-asymptotic random matrix theory.
2 code implementations • 26 Oct 2020 • Tian Tong, Cong Ma, Yuejie Chi
Many problems in data science can be treated as estimating a low-rank matrix from highly incomplete, sometimes even corrupted, observations.
no code implementations • 23 Sep 2020 • Yanxi Chen, Cong Ma, H. Vincent Poor, Yuxin Chen
We study the problem of learning mixtures of low-rank models, i. e. reconstructing multiple low-rank matrices from unlabelled linear measurements of each.
no code implementations • WS 2020 • Qian Wang, Yuchen Liu, Cong Ma, Yu Lu, Yining Wang, Long Zhou, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Cheng-qing Zong
This paper describes the CASIA{'}s system for the IWSLT 2020 open domain translation task.
2 code implementations • 18 May 2020 • Tian Tong, Cong Ma, Yuejie Chi
Low-rank matrix estimation is a canonical problem that finds numerous applications in signal processing, machine learning and imaging science.
no code implementations • 9 Apr 2020 • Cong Ma, Yue Yang, Ce Liu, Beichen Fan, Xingwei Ye, Yamei Zhang, Xiangchuan Wang, Shilong Pan
Microwave photonic radars enable fast or even real-time high-resolution imaging thanks to its broad bandwidth.
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2020 • Yuxin Chen, Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma, Yuling Yan
This paper delivers improved theoretical guarantees for the convex programming approach in low-rank matrix estimation, in the presence of (1) random noise, (2) gross sparse outliers, and (3) missing data.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2019 • FangXia An, J. M. Simpson, Ian Smail, A. M. Swinbank, Cong Ma, Daizhong Liu, P. Lang, E. Schinnerer, A. Karim, B. Magnelli, S. Leslie, F. Bertoldi, Chian-Chou Chen, J. E. Geach, Y. Matsuda, S. M. Stach, J. L. Wardlow, B. Gullberg, R. J. Ivison, Y. Ao, R. T. Coogan, A. P. Thomson, S. C. Chapman, R. Wang, Wei-Hao Wang, Y. Yang, R. Asquith, N. Bourne, K. Coppin, N. K. Hine, L. C. Ho, H. S. Hwang, Y. Kato, K. Lacaille, A. J. R. Lewis, I. Oteo, J. Scholtz, M. Sawicki, D. Smith
We identify multi-wavelength counterparts to 1, 147 submillimeter sources from the S2COSMOS SCUBA-2 survey of the COSMOS field by employing a recently developed radio$+$machine-learning method trained on a large sample of ALMA-identified submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), including 260 SMGs identified in the AS2COSMOS pilot survey.
Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
no code implementations • 10 Jun 2019 • Yuxin Chen, Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma, Yuling Yan
As a byproduct, we obtain a sharp characterization of the estimation accuracy of our de-biased estimators, which, to the best of our knowledge, are the first tractable algorithms that provably achieve full statistical efficiency (including the preconstant).
no code implementations • 10 Apr 2019 • Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma, Yiqiao Zhong
Deep learning has arguably achieved tremendous success in recent years.
no code implementations • 20 Feb 2019 • Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi, Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma, Yuling Yan
This paper studies noisy low-rank matrix completion: given partial and noisy entries of a large low-rank matrix, the goal is to estimate the underlying matrix faithfully and efficiently.
no code implementations • ICML 2018 • Cong Ma, Kaizheng Wang, Yuejie Chi, Yuxin Chen
Focusing on two statistical estimation problems, i. e. solving random quadratic systems of equations and low-rank matrix completion, we establish that gradient descent achieves near-optimal statistical and computational guarantees without explicit regularization.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2018 • Cong Ma, Changshui Yang, Fan Yang, Yueqing Zhuang, Ziwei Zhang, Huizhu Jia, Xiaodong Xie
In this paper, we propose a novel tracklet processing method to cleave and re-connect tracklets on crowd or long-term occlusion by Siamese Bi-Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU).
Ranked #20 on Multi-Object Tracking on MOT16
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2018 • Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi, Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma
This paper considers the problem of solving systems of quadratic equations, namely, recovering an object of interest $\mathbf{x}^{\natural}\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$ from $m$ quadratic equations/samples $y_{i}=(\mathbf{a}_{i}^{\top}\mathbf{x}^{\natural})^{2}$, $1\leq i\leq m$.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2018 • Yuanxin Li, Cong Ma, Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi
We consider the problem of recovering low-rank matrices from random rank-one measurements, which spans numerous applications including covariance sketching, phase retrieval, quantum state tomography, and learning shallow polynomial neural networks, among others.
no code implementations • ICML 2018 • Cong Ma, Kaizheng Wang, Yuejie Chi, Yuxin Chen
Recent years have seen a flurry of activities in designing provably efficient nonconvex procedures for solving statistical estimation problems.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2017 • Cong Ma, Junwei Lu, Han Liu
Our framework is based on the Gaussian graphical models, under which ISA can be converted to the problem of estimation and inference of the inter-subject precision matrix.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2017 • Haoran Li, Junnan Zhu, Cong Ma, Jiajun Zhang, Cheng-qing Zong
In this work, we propose an extractive Multi-modal Summarization (MMS) method which can automatically generate a textual summary given a set of documents, images, audios and videos related to a specific topic.
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Document Summarization +1
no code implementations • 31 Jul 2017 • Yuxin Chen, Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma, Kaizheng Wang
This paper is concerned with the problem of top-$K$ ranking from pairwise comparisons.
3 code implementations • 28 Mar 2016 • Cong Ma, Pier-Stefano Corasaniti, Bruce A. Bassett
Overall, the results of our analysis emphasize the need for a fully consistent Bayesian statistical approach in the analysis of future large SN Ia data sets.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2 code implementations • 10 Apr 2015 • Jing Zhang, Jie Tang, Cong Ma, Hanghang Tong, Yu Jing, Juanzi Li
The algorithm is based on a novel idea of random path, and an extended method is also presented, to enhance the structural similarity when two vertices are completely disconnected.
Social and Information Networks