Search Results for author: Kai Liu

Found 63 papers, 15 papers with code

Understanding the Tradeoff between Cost and Quality of Expert Annotations for Keyphrase Extraction

no code implementations COLING (LAW) 2020 Hung Chau, Saeid Balaneshin, Kai Liu, Ondrej Linda

We evaluate these annotation strategies with respect to their cost and on the task of learning keyphrase extraction models applied with an experimental dataset in the real-estate domain.

Keyphrase Extraction

Pointsoup: High-Performance and Extremely Low-Decoding-Latency Learned Geometry Codec for Large-Scale Point Cloud Scenes

1 code implementation21 Apr 2024 Kang You, Kai Liu, Li Yu, Pan Gao, Dandan Ding

Despite considerable progress being achieved in point cloud geometry compression, there still remains a challenge in effectively compressing large-scale scenes with sparse surfaces.

Training-free Boost for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Confidence Aggregation

2 code implementations12 Apr 2024 Yanhao Zheng, Kai Liu

Specifically, in the region-proposal stage, proposals that contain novel instances showcase lower objectness scores, since they are treated as background proposals during the training phase.

Object object-detection +2

Binomial Self-compensation for Motion Error in Dynamic 3D Scanning

no code implementations10 Apr 2024 Geyou Zhang, Ce Zhu, Kai Liu

Phase shifting profilometry (PSP) is favored in high-precision 3D scanning due to its high accuracy, robustness, and pixel-wise property.

3D Reconstruction

EasyQuant: An Efficient Data-free Quantization Algorithm for LLMs

no code implementations5 Mar 2024 Hanlin Tang, Yifu Sun, Decheng Wu, Kai Liu, Jianchen Zhu, Zhanhui Kang

To our best knowledge, we are the first work that achieves almost lossless quantization performance for LLMs under a data-independent setting and our algorithm runs over 10 times faster than the data-dependent methods.

Data Free Quantization

Optimal Parameter and Neuron Pruning for Out-of-Distribution Detection

no code implementations NeurIPS 2023 Chao Chen, Zhihang Fu, Kai Liu, Ze Chen, Mingyuan Tao, Jieping Ye

Most existing OOD detection methods focused on exploring advanced training skills or training-free tricks to prevent the model from yielding overconfident confidence score for unknown samples.

Out-of-Distribution Detection

Query-LIFE: Query-aware Language Image Fusion Embedding for E-Commerce Relevance

no code implementations26 Nov 2023 Hai Zhu, Yuankai Guo, Ronggang Dou, Kai Liu

Query-LIFE utilizes a query-based multimodal fusion to effectively incorporate the image and title based on the product types.

Contrastive Learning

Phase Guided Light Field for Spatial-Depth High Resolution 3D Imaging

no code implementations17 Nov 2023 Geyou Zhang, Ce Zhu, Kai Liu, Yipeng Liu

On 3D imaging, light field cameras typically are of single shot, and however, they heavily suffer from low spatial resolution and depth accuracy.

Stereo Matching

A Spatial-Temporal Transformer based Framework For Human Pose Assessment And Correction in Education Scenarios

no code implementations1 Nov 2023 Wenyang Hu, Kai Liu, Libin Liu, Huiliang Shang

Human pose assessment and correction play a crucial role in applications across various fields, including computer vision, robotics, sports analysis, healthcare, and entertainment.

Pose Estimation

E-Sparse: Boosting the Large Language Model Inference through Entropy-based N:M Sparsity

no code implementations24 Oct 2023 Yun Li, Lin Niu, Xipeng Zhang, Kai Liu, Jianchen Zhu, Zhanhui Kang

Traditional pruning methods are known to be challenging to work in Large Language Models (LLMs) for Generative AI because of their unaffordable training process and large computational demands.

Language Modelling Large Language Model

GraphText: Graph Reasoning in Text Space

no code implementations2 Oct 2023 Jianan Zhao, Le Zhuo, Yikang Shen, Meng Qu, Kai Liu, Michael Bronstein, Zhaocheng Zhu, Jian Tang

Furthermore, GraphText paves the way for interactive graph reasoning, allowing both humans and LLMs to communicate with the model seamlessly using natural language.

In-Context Learning Text Generation

On Regularized Sparse Logistic Regression

no code implementations12 Sep 2023 Mengyuan Zhang, Kai Liu

Sparse logistic regression is for classification and feature selection simultaneously.

Binary Classification Classification +2

Strictly Low Rank Constraint Optimization -- An Asymptotically $\mathcal{O}(\frac{1}{t^2})$ Method

no code implementations4 Jul 2023 Mengyuan Zhang, Kai Liu

We study a class of non-convex and non-smooth problems with \textit{rank} regularization to promote sparsity in optimal solution.

Physics-Guided Graph Neural Networks for Real-time AC/DC Power Flow Analysis

no code implementations29 Apr 2023 Mei Yang, Gao Qiu, Yong Wu, Junyong Liu, Nina Dai, Yue Shui, Kai Liu, Lijie Ding

The increasing scale of alternating current and direct current (AC/DC) hybrid systems necessitates a faster power flow analysis tool than ever.

Computational Efficiency

SDFReg: Learning Signed Distance Functions for Point Cloud Registration

no code implementations18 Apr 2023 Leida Zhang, Zhengda Lu, Kai Liu, Yiqun Wang

We then propose to alternately optimize the implicit function and the registration between the implicit function and point cloud.

Point Cloud Registration

Pyramid Multi-branch Fusion DCNN with Multi-Head Self-Attention for Mandarin Speech Recognition

no code implementations23 Mar 2023 Kai Liu, Hailiang Xiong, Gangqiang Yang, Zhengfeng Du, Yewen Cao, Danyal Shah

On the other hand, we need to reduce the dimension of each subspace to keep the size of the overall feature space unchanged when we increase the number of heads, which will significantly weaken the ability to represent the feature of each subspace.

Automatic Speech Recognition speech-recognition +1

X-SepFormer: End-to-end Speaker Extraction Network with Explicit Optimization on Speaker Confusion

no code implementations9 Mar 2023 Kai Liu, Ziqing Du, Xucheng Wan, Huan Zhou

To mitigate the imperative SC issue, we reformulate the training objective and propose two novel loss schemes that explore the metric of reconstruction improvement performance defined at small chunk-level and leverage the metric associated distribution information.

Speech Extraction

Adaptive Weighted Multiview Kernel Matrix Factorization with its application in Alzheimer's Disease Analysis -- A clustering Perspective

no code implementations7 Mar 2023 Kai Liu, Yarui Cao

Recent technology and equipment advancements provide with us opportunities to better analyze Alzheimer's disease (AD), where we could collect and employ the data from different image and genetic modalities that may potentially enhance the predictive performance.

Clustering

A Provable Splitting Approach for Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

no code implementations25 Jan 2023 Xiao Li, Zhihui Zhu, Qiuwei Li, Kai Liu

The symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF), a special but important class of the general NMF, has found numerous applications in data analysis such as various clustering tasks.

Clustering Image Clustering +1

Improving Target Speaker Extraction with Sparse LDA-transformed Speaker Embeddings

no code implementations16 Jan 2023 Kai Liu, Xucheng Wan, Ziqing Du, Huan Zhou

As a practical alternative of speech separation, target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech from the desired speaker using additional speaker cue extracted from the speaker.

Speaker Verification Speech Separation +1

Randomized Greedy Algorithms and Composable Coreset for k-Center Clustering with Outliers

1 code implementation7 Jan 2023 Hu Ding, Ruomin Huang, Kai Liu, Haikuo Yu, Zixiu Wang

Though a number of methods have been developed in the past decades, it is still quite challenging to design quality guaranteed algorithm with low complexity for this problem.

Clustering

Deep Biological Pathway Informed Pathology-Genomic Multimodal Survival Prediction

1 code implementation6 Jan 2023 Lin Qiu, Aminollah Khormali, Kai Liu

The integration of multi-modal data, such as pathological images and genomic data, is essential for understanding cancer heterogeneity and complexity for personalized treatments, as well as for enhancing survival predictions.

Survival Prediction

Multi-Task Learning with Prior Information

no code implementations4 Jan 2023 Mengyuan Zhang, Kai Liu

Multi-task learning aims to boost the generalization performance of multiple related tasks simultaneously by leveraging information contained in those tasks.

Multi-Task Learning

KAST: Knowledge Aware Adaptive Session Multi-Topic Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction

no code implementations7 Oct 2022 Dike Sun, Kai Liu, ShengKai Yang

Capturing the evolving trends of user interest is important for both recommendation systems and advertising systems, and user behavior sequences have been successfully used in Click-Through-Rate(CTR) prediction problems.

Click-Through Rate Prediction Recommendation Systems

A GPU-accelerated Algorithm for Distinct Discriminant Canonical Correlation Network

no code implementations26 Sep 2022 Kai Liu, Lei Gao, Ling Guan

In this paper, a GPU-based accelerated algorithm is proposed to further optimize the DDCCANet algorithm.

Image Classification

Joint Speech Activity and Overlap Detection with Multi-Exit Architecture

no code implementations24 Sep 2022 Ziqing Du, Kai Liu, Xucheng Wan, Huan Zhou

Overlapped speech detection (OSD) is critical for speech applications in scenario of multi-party conversion.

Action Detection Activity Detection +1

Speech Enhancement with Perceptually-motivated Optimization and Dual Transformations

no code implementations24 Sep 2022 Xucheng Wan, Kai Liu, Ziqing Du, Huan Zhou

To validate the effectiveness of our proposed model, extensive experiments are conducted on the DNS2020 dataset.

Speech Enhancement

Rethinking Symmetric Matrix Factorization: A More General and Better Clustering Perspective

1 code implementation6 Sep 2022 Mengyuan Zhang, Kai Liu

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used for clustering with strong interpretability.

Clustering Graph Clustering

Maximum Correntropy Value Decomposition for Multi-agent Deep Reinforcemen Learning

no code implementations7 Aug 2022 Kai Liu, Tianxian Zhang, Lingjiang Kong

In this paper, we first demonstrate the flaw of Weighted QMIX using an ordinary One-Step Matrix Game (OMG), that no matter how the weight is chosen, Weighted QMIX struggles to deal with non-monotonic value decomposition problems with a large variance of reward distributions.

SMAC+ Starcraft

Weakly-supervised High-fidelity Ultrasound Video Synthesis with Feature Decoupling

no code implementations1 Jul 2022 Jiamin Liang, Xin Yang, Yuhao Huang, Kai Liu, Xinrui Zhou, Xindi Hu, Zehui Lin, Huanjia Luo, Yuanji Zhang, Yi Xiong, Dong Ni

First, leveraging the advantages of self- and fully-supervised learning, our proposed system is trained in weakly-supervised manner for keypoint detection.

Keypoint Detection Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Occlusion-Resistant Instance Segmentation of Piglets in Farrowing Pens Using Center Clustering Network

no code implementations4 Jun 2022 Endai Huang, Axiu Mao, Junhui Hou, Yongjian Wu, Weitao Xu, Maria Camila Ceballos, Thomas D. Parsons, Kai Liu

Specifically, CClusnet-Inseg uses each pixel to predict object centers and trace these centers to form masks based on clustering results, which consists of a network for segmentation and center offset vector map, Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm, Centers-to-Mask (C2M), and Remain-Centers-to-Mask (RC2M) algorithms.

Clustering Instance Segmentation +4

Enriched Robust Multi-View Kernel Subspace Clustering

no code implementations21 May 2022 Mengyuan Zhang, Kai Liu

To address the above issues, in this paper we propose a novel Enriched Robust Multi-View Kernel Subspace Clustering framework where the consensus affinity matrix is learned from both multi-view data and spectral clustering.

Clustering Multi-view Subspace Clustering

MKQ-BERT: Quantized BERT with 4-bits Weights and Activations

no code implementations25 Mar 2022 Hanlin Tang, Xipeng Zhang, Kai Liu, Jianchen Zhu, Zhanhui Kang

In this work, we propose MKQ-BERT, which further improves the compression level and uses 4-bits for quantization.

Quantization

Exploring the impact of spatiotemporal granularity on the demand prediction of dynamic ride-hailing

no code implementations19 Mar 2022 Kai Liu, Zhiju Chen, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Liheng Tuo

A convolutional, long short-term memory model combined with a hexagonal convolution operation (H-ConvLSTM) is proposed to explore the complex spatial and temporal relations.

Joint CNN and Transformer Network via weakly supervised Learning for efficient crowd counting

no code implementations12 Mar 2022 Fusen Wang, Kai Liu, Fei Long, Nong Sang, Xiaofeng Xia, Jun Sang

However, the transformer directly partitions the crowd images into a series of tokens, which may not be a good choice due to each pedestrian being an independent individual, and the parameter number of the network is very large.

Crowd Counting Weakly-supervised Learning

Dynamic Group Transformer: A General Vision Transformer Backbone with Dynamic Group Attention

no code implementations8 Mar 2022 Kai Liu, Tianyi Wu, Cong Liu, Guodong Guo

To reduce the quadratic computation complexity caused by each query attending to all keys/values, various methods have constrained the range of attention within local regions, where each query only attends to keys/values within a hand-crafted window.

Image Classification Instance Segmentation +3

Spherical Matrix Factorization

no code implementations29 Nov 2021 Kai Liu

However, most of the studies aim to minimize the loss by measuring the Euclidean distance, though in some fields, angle distance is known to be more important and critical for analysis.

Dictionary Learning

Robust Principal Component Analysis: A Construction Error Minimization Perspective

no code implementations23 Nov 2021 Kai Liu, Yarui Cao

In this paper we propose a novel optimization framework to systematically solve robust PCA problem with rigorous theoretical guarantee, based on which we investigate very computationally economic updating algorithms.

Exact Sparse Orthogonal Dictionary Learning

no code implementations14 Mar 2021 Kai Liu, Yongjian Zhao, Hua Wang

Over the past decade, learning a dictionary from input images for sparse modeling has been one of the topics which receive most research attention in image processing and compressed sensing.

Denoising Dictionary Learning

RRCN: A Reinforced Random Convolutional Network based Reciprocal Recommendation Approach for Online Dating

no code implementations25 Nov 2020 Linhao Luo, Liqi Yang, Ju Xin, Yixiang Fang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Xiaofei Yang, Kai Chen, Zhiyuan Zhang, Kai Liu

In particular, we technically propose a novel random CNN component that can randomly convolute non-adjacent features to capture their interaction information and learn feature embeddings of key attributes to make the final recommendation.

Multi-band MelGAN: Faster Waveform Generation for High-Quality Text-to-Speech

9 code implementations Interspeech2020 2020 Geng Yang, Shan Yang, Kai Liu, Peng Fang, Wei Chen, Lei Xie

In this paper, we propose multi-band MelGAN, a much faster waveform generation model targeting to high-quality text-to-speech.

Sound Audio and Speech Processing

Incentivized Exploration for Multi-Armed Bandits under Reward Drift

no code implementations12 Nov 2019 Zhiyuan Liu, Huazheng Wang, Fan Shen, Kai Liu, Lijun Chen

We study incentivized exploration for the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem where the players receive compensation for exploring arms other than the greedy choice and may provide biased feedback on reward.

Multi-Armed Bandits Thompson Sampling

Gated Multiple Feedback Network for Image Super-Resolution

1 code implementation9 Jul 2019 Qilei Li, Zhen Li, Lu Lu, Gwanggil Jeon, Kai Liu, Xiaomin Yang

The rapid development of deep learning (DL) has driven single image super-resolution (SR) into a new era.

Image Super-Resolution

Spherical Principal Component Analysis

1 code implementation16 Mar 2019 Kai Liu, Qiuwei Li, Hua Wang, Gongguo Tang

However, most of the studies on PCA aim to minimize the loss after projection, which usually measures the Euclidean distance, though in some fields, angle distance is known to be more important and critical for analysis.

Clustering

Shubnikov-de Haas and de Haas-van Alphen oscillations in topological semimetal CaAl4

no code implementations15 Nov 2018 Sheng Xu, Jian-Feng Zhang, Yi-Yan Wang, Lin-Lin Sun, Huan Wang, Yuan Su, Xiao-Yan Wang, Kai Liu, Tian-Long Xia

An electron-type quasi-2D Fermi surface is found by the angle-dependent Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, de Haas-van Alphen oscillations and the first-principles calculations.

Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Dropping Symmetry for Fast Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

no code implementations NeurIPS 2018 Zhihui Zhu, Xiao Li, Kai Liu, Qiuwei Li

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), a special but important class of the general NMF, is demonstrated to be useful for data analysis and in particular for various clustering tasks.

Clustering Image Clustering

Deep Item-based Collaborative Filtering for Top-N Recommendation

1 code implementation11 Nov 2018 Feng Xue, Xiangnan He, Xiang Wang, Jiandong Xu, Kai Liu, Richang Hong

In this work, we propose a more expressive ICF solution by accounting for the nonlinear and higher-order relationship among items.

Collaborative Filtering Decision Making +1

Adaptations of ROUGE and BLEU to Better Evaluate Machine Reading Comprehension Task

no code implementations WS 2018 An Yang, Kai Liu, Jing Liu, Yajuan Lyu, Sujian Li

Current evaluation metrics to question answering based machine reading comprehension (MRC) systems generally focus on the lexical overlap between the candidate and reference answers, such as ROUGE and BLEU.

Machine Reading Comprehension Question Answering

Learning Multi-Instance Enriched Image Representations via Non-Greedy Ratio Maximization of the l1-Norm Distances

no code implementations CVPR 2018 Kai Liu, Hua Wang, Feiping Nie, Hao Zhang

To tackle these two challenges, in this paper we propose a novel image representation learning method that can integrate the local patches (the instances) of an input image (the bag) and its holistic representation into one single-vector representation.

Representation Learning

Multi-Passage Machine Reading Comprehension with Cross-Passage Answer Verification

no code implementations ACL 2018 Yizhong Wang, Kai Liu, Jing Liu, wei he, Yajuan Lyu, Hua Wu, Sujian Li, Haifeng Wang

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) on real web data usually requires the machine to answer a question by analyzing multiple passages retrieved by search engine.

Machine Reading Comprehension Question Answering

Spatial Image Steganography Based on Generative Adversarial Network

1 code implementation21 Apr 2018 Jianhua Yang, Kai Liu, Xiangui Kang, Edward K. Wong, Yun-Qing Shi

The architecture contain three component modules: a generator, an embedding simulator and a discriminator.

Multimedia

DuReader: a Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset from Real-world Applications

3 code implementations WS 2018 Wei He, Kai Liu, Jing Liu, Yajuan Lyu, Shiqi Zhao, Xinyan Xiao, Yu-An Liu, Yizhong Wang, Hua Wu, Qiaoqiao She, Xuan Liu, Tian Wu, Haifeng Wang

Experiments show that human performance is well above current state-of-the-art baseline systems, leaving plenty of room for the community to make improvements.

Machine Reading Comprehension

Structured Light Phase Measuring Profilometry Pattern Design for Binary Spatial Light Modulators

no code implementations8 Jun 2017 Daniel L. Lau, Yu Zhang, Kai Liu

In the case of phase measuring profilometry (PMP), the projected patterns are composed of a rolling sinusoidal wave, but as a set of time-multiplexed patterns, PMP requires the target surface to remain motionless or for scanning to be performed at such high rates that any movement is small.

Learning Piece-wise Linear Models from Large Scale Data for Ad Click Prediction

3 code implementations18 Apr 2017 Kun Gai, Xiaoqiang Zhu, Han Li, Kai Liu, Zhe Wang

CTR prediction in real-world business is a difficult machine learning problem with large scale nonlinear sparse data.

Click-Through Rate Prediction Feature Engineering

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