Search Results for author: Quan Z. Sheng

Found 46 papers, 7 papers with code

LGL-BCI: A Lightweight Geometric Learning Framework for Motor Imagery-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces

no code implementations12 Oct 2023 Jianchao Lu, Yuzhe Tian, Yang Zhang, Jiaqi Ge, Quan Z. Sheng, Xi Zheng

The efficiency, assessed on two public EEG datasets and two real-world EEG devices, significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art solution in accuracy ($82. 54\%$ versus $62. 22\%$) with fewer parameters (64. 9M compared to 183. 7M).

EEG Motor Imagery

Reinforcement Learning for Generative AI: A Survey

no code implementations28 Aug 2023 Yuanjiang Cao, Quan Z. Sheng, Julian McAuley, Lina Yao

Deep Generative AI has been a long-standing essential topic in the machine learning community, which can impact a number of application areas like text generation and computer vision.

Inductive Bias Language Modelling +3

Uncovering Promises and Challenges of Federated Learning to Detect Cardiovascular Diseases: A Scoping Literature Review

no code implementations26 Aug 2023 Sricharan Donkada, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Reza M. Parizi, Meng Han, Nasrin Dehbozorgi, Nazmus Sakib, Quan Z. Sheng

Overall, this survey paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in FL for CVD detection and to highlight its potential for improving the accuracy and privacy of CVD detection models.

Federated Learning

Learning to Select the Relevant History Turns in Conversational Question Answering

no code implementations4 Aug 2023 Munazza Zaib, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Yang Zhang

In this paper, we propose a framework, DHS-ConvQA (Dynamic History Selection in Conversational Question Answering), that first generates the context and question entities for all the history turns, which are then pruned on the basis of similarity they share in common with the question at hand.

Binary Classification Conversational Question Answering +1

Separate-and-Aggregate: A Transformer-based Patch Refinement Model for Knowledge Graph Completion

no code implementations11 Jul 2023 Chen Chen, YuFei Wang, Yang Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Kwok-Yan Lam

Previous KGC methods typically represent knowledge graph entities and relations as trainable continuous embeddings and fuse the embeddings of the entity $h$ (or $t$) and relation $r$ into hidden representations of query $(h, r, ?

Inductive Bias Relation

BARA: Efficient Incentive Mechanism with Online Reward Budget Allocation in Cross-Silo Federated Learning

no code implementations9 May 2023 Yunchao Yang, Yipeng Zhou, Miao Hu, Di wu, Quan Z. Sheng

The challenge of this problem lies in the opaque feedback between reward budget allocation and model utility improvement of FL, making the optimal reward budget allocation complicated.

Bayesian Optimization Federated Learning

Causal Disentangled Variational Auto-Encoder for Preference Understanding in Recommendation

no code implementations17 Apr 2023 Siyu Wang, Xiaocong Chen, Quan Z. Sheng, Yihong Zhang, Lina Yao

This paper introduces the Causal Disentangled Variational Auto-Encoder (CaD-VAE), a novel approach for learning causal disentangled representations from interaction data in recommender systems.

Decision Making Disentanglement +1

Keeping the Questions Conversational: Using Structured Representations to Resolve Dependency in Conversational Question Answering

no code implementations14 Apr 2023 Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Adnan Mahmood

However, these sequential questions are sometimes left implicit and thus require the resolution of some natural language phenomena such as anaphora and ellipsis.

Question Rewriting

Guided Image-to-Image Translation by Discriminator-Generator Communication

no code implementations7 Mar 2023 Yuanjiang Cao, Lina Yao, Le Pan, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiaojun Chang

The goal of Image-to-image (I2I) translation is to transfer an image from a source domain to a target domain, which has recently drawn increasing attention.

Generative Adversarial Network Image-to-Image Translation +1

A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Summarization with Graph Neural Networks

no code implementations13 Feb 2023 Nasrin Shabani, Jia Wu, Amin Beheshti, Quan Z. Sheng, Jin Foo, Venus Haghighi, Ambreen Hanif, Maryam Shahabikargar

Hence, this paper presents a comprehensive survey of progress in deep learning summarization techniques that rely on graph neural networks (GNNs).

Graph Attention

State of the Art and Potentialities of Graph-level Learning

no code implementations14 Jan 2023 Zhenyu Yang, Ge Zhang, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Quan Z. Sheng, Shan Xue, Chuan Zhou, Charu Aggarwal, Hao Peng, Wenbin Hu, Edwin Hancock, Pietro Liò

Traditional approaches to learning a set of graphs heavily rely on hand-crafted features, such as substructures.

Graph Learning

Building Metadata Inference Using a Transducer Based Language Model

no code implementations5 Dec 2022 David Waterworth, Subbu Sethuvenkatraman, Quan Z. Sheng

Solving the challenges of automatic machine translation of Building Automation System text metadata is a crucial first step in efficiently deploying smart building applications.

Language Modelling Machine Translation +1

DAGAD: Data Augmentation for Graph Anomaly Detection

1 code implementation18 Oct 2022 Fanzhen Liu, Xiaoxiao Ma, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Shan Xue, Amin Beheshti, Chuan Zhou, Hao Peng, Quan Z. Sheng, Charu C. Aggarwal

To bridge the gaps, this paper devises a novel Data Augmentation-based Graph Anomaly Detection (DAGAD) framework for attributed graphs, equipped with three specially designed modules: 1) an information fusion module employing graph neural network encoders to learn representations, 2) a graph data augmentation module that fertilizes the training set with generated samples, and 3) an imbalance-tailored learning module to discriminate the distributions of the minority (anomalous) and majority (normal) classes.

Data Augmentation Graph Anomaly Detection

GCN-based Multi-task Representation Learning for Anomaly Detection in Attributed Networks

no code implementations8 Jul 2022 Venus Haghighi, Behnaz Soltani, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yang

Anomaly detection in attributed networks has received a considerable attention in recent years due to its applications in a wide range of domains such as finance, network security, and medicine.

Anomaly Detection Community Detection +2

A Survey on Participant Selection for Federated Learning in Mobile Networks

no code implementations8 Jul 2022 Behnaz Soltani, Venus Haghighi, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao

The main challenges of FL is that end devices usually possess various computation and communication capabilities and their training data are not independent and identically distributed (non-IID).

Federated Learning Privacy Preserving

Graph-level Neural Networks: Current Progress and Future Directions

no code implementations31 May 2022 Ge Zhang, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Shan Xue, Wenbin Hu, Chuan Zhou, Hao Peng, Quan Z. Sheng, Charu Aggarwal

To frame this survey, we propose a systematic taxonomy covering GLNNs upon deep neural networks, graph neural networks, and graph pooling.

Swift and Sure: Hardness-aware Contrastive Learning for Low-dimensional Knowledge Graph Embeddings

no code implementations3 Jan 2022 Kai Wang, Yu Liu, Quan Z. Sheng

Knowledge graph embedding (KGE) has shown great potential in automatic knowledge graph (KG) completion and knowledge-driven tasks.

Contrastive Learning Knowledge Graph Embedding +1

Adversarial Robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning based Dynamic Recommender Systems

no code implementations2 Dec 2021 Siyu Wang, Yuanjiang Cao, Xiaocong Chen, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng

Finally, we study the attack strength and frequency of adversarial examples and evaluate our model on standard datasets with multiple crafting methods.

Adversarial Robustness counterfactual +3

Communication Efficiency in Federated Learning: Achievements and Challenges

no code implementations23 Jul 2021 Osama Shahid, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Reza M. Parizi, Quan Z. Sheng, Gautam Srivastava, Liang Zhao

Over the years, this has become an emerging technology especially with various data protection and privacy policies being imposed FL allows performing machine learning tasks whilst adhering to these challenges.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Federated Learning

A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Anomaly Detection with Deep Learning

1 code implementation14 Jun 2021 Xiaoxiao Ma, Jia Wu, Shan Xue, Jian Yang, Chuan Zhou, Quan Z. Sheng, Hui Xiong, Leman Akoglu

In this survey, we aim to provide a systematic and comprehensive review of the contemporary deep learning techniques for graph anomaly detection.

Graph Anomaly Detection

Conversational Question Answering: A Survey

no code implementations2 Jun 2021 Munazza Zaib, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Yang Zhang

Question answering (QA) systems provide a way of querying the information available in various formats including, but not limited to, unstructured and structured data in natural languages.

Conversational Question Answering

A Comprehensive Survey on Community Detection with Deep Learning

no code implementations26 May 2021 Xing Su, Shan Xue, Fanzhen Liu, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Chuan Zhou, Wenbin Hu, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal, Di Jin, Quan Z. Sheng, Philip S. Yu

A community reveals the features and connections of its members that are different from those in other communities in a network.

Clustering Community Detection +3

Graph Learning based Recommender Systems: A Review

1 code implementation13 May 2021 Shoujin Wang, Liang Hu, Yan Wang, Xiangnan He, Quan Z. Sheng, Mehmet A. Orgun, Longbing Cao, Francesco Ricci, Philip S. Yu

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of the emerging topic of Graph Learning based Recommender Systems (GLRS).

Collaborative Filtering Graph Learning +1

Generative Adversarial Reward Learning for Generalized Behavior Tendency Inference

no code implementations3 May 2021 Xiaocong Chen, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Aixin Sun, Wenjie Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng

Recent advances in reinforcement learning have inspired increasing interest in learning user modeling adaptively through dynamic interactions, e. g., in reinforcement learning based recommender systems.

Recommendation Systems reinforcement-learning +2

A Review of the Non-Invasive Techniques for Monitoring Different Aspects of Sleep

no code implementations27 Apr 2021 Zawar Hussain, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Jorge Ortiz, Seyedamin Pouriyeh

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the latest research works (2015 and after) conducted in various categories of sleep monitoring including sleep stage classification, sleep posture recognition, sleep disorders detection, and vital signs monitoring.

BERT-CoQAC: BERT-based Conversational Question Answering in Context

no code implementations23 Apr 2021 Munazza Zaib, Dai Hoang Tran, Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Wei E. Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng

On one hand, we introduce a framework based on a publically available pre-trained language model called BERT for incorporating history turns into the system.

Conversational Question Answering Language Modelling +2

A Short Survey of Pre-trained Language Models for Conversational AI-A NewAge in NLP

no code implementations22 Apr 2021 Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang

Building a dialogue system that can communicate naturally with humans is a challenging yet interesting problem of agent-based computing.

Decision Making Word Embeddings

Multi-document Summarization via Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey

no code implementations10 Nov 2020 Congbo Ma, Wei Emma Zhang, Mingyu Guo, Hu Wang, Quan Z. Sheng

Multi-document summarization (MDS) is an effective tool for information aggregation that generates an informative and concise summary from a cluster of topic-related documents.

Document Summarization Multi-Document Summarization

MulDE: Multi-teacher Knowledge Distillation for Low-dimensional Knowledge Graph Embeddings

no code implementations14 Oct 2020 Kai Wang, Yu Liu, Qian Ma, Quan Z. Sheng

Link prediction based on knowledge graph embeddings (KGE) aims to predict new triples to automatically construct knowledge graphs (KGs).

Knowledge Distillation Knowledge Graph Embedding +2

Recommender Systems for the Internet of Things: A Survey

no code implementations14 Jul 2020 May Altulyan, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Chaoran Huang, Salil S. Kanhere, Quan Z. Sheng

Recommendation represents a vital stage in developing and promoting the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Recommendation Systems

Deep Conversational Recommender Systems: A New Frontier for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems

no code implementations28 Apr 2020 Dai Hoang Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Salma Abdalla Hamad, Munazza Zaib, Nguyen H. Tran, Lina Yao, Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa

In recent years, the emerging topics of recommender systems that take advantage of natural language processing techniques have attracted much attention, and one of their applications is the Conversational Recommender System (CRS).

Collaborative Filtering Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems +1

Sequential Recommender Systems: Challenges, Progress and Prospects

no code implementations28 Dec 2019 Shoujin Wang, Liang Hu, Yan Wang, Longbing Cao, Quan Z. Sheng, Mehmet Orgun

The emerging topic of sequential recommender systems has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Different from the conventional recommender systems including collaborative filtering and content-based filtering, SRSs try to understand and model the sequential user behaviors, the interactions between users and items, and the evolution of users preferences and item popularity over time.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems

A Survey on Session-based Recommender Systems

1 code implementation13 Feb 2019 Shoujin Wang, Longbing Cao, Yan Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Mehmet Orgun, Defu Lian

In recent years, session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) have emerged as a new paradigm of RSs.

Collaborative Filtering Decision Making +1

Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Models in Natural Language Processing: A Survey

1 code implementation21 Jan 2019 Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Ahoud Alhazmi, Chenliang Li

In this article, we review research works that address this difference and generatetextual adversarial examples on DNNs.

Deep Autoencoder for Recommender Systems: Parameter Influence Analysis

no code implementations25 Dec 2018 Dai Hoang Tran, Zawar Hussain, Wei Emma Zhang, Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa, Nguyen H. Tran, Quan Z. Sheng

Specifically, we find that DAE parameters strongly affect the prediction accuracy of the recommender systems, and the effect is transferable to similar datasets in a larger size.

Recommendation Systems

Multi-Person Brain Activity Recognition via Comprehensive EEG Signal Analysis

no code implementations26 Sep 2017 Xiang Zhang, Lina Yao, Dalin Zhang, Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Tao Gu

In this paper, we attempt to solve the above challenges by proposing an approach which has better EEG interpretation ability via raw Electroencephalography (EEG) signal analysis for multi-person and multi-class brain activity recognition.

Activity Recognition EEG +1

Converting Your Thoughts to Texts: Enabling Brain Typing via Deep Feature Learning of EEG Signals

2 code implementations26 Sep 2017 Xiang Zhang, Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Salil S. Kanhere, Tao Gu, Dalin Zhang

An electroencephalography (EEG) based Brain Computer Interface (BCI) enables people to communicate with the outside world by interpreting the EEG signals of their brains to interact with devices such as wheelchairs and intelligent robots.

EEG General Classification +1

Uncovering Locally Discriminative Structure for Feature Analysis

no code implementations9 Jul 2016 Sen Wang, Feiping Nie, Xiaojun Chang, Xue Li, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao

We propose a method that utilizes both the manifold structure of data and local discriminant information.

Unsupervised Feature Analysis with Class Margin Optimization

no code implementations3 Jun 2015 Sen Wang, Feiping Nie, Xiaojun Chang, Lina Yao, Xue Li, Quan Z. Sheng

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised feature selection method seeking a feature coefficient matrix to select the most distinctive features.

Clustering Feature Correlation +1

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