Search Results for author: Yangyang Xu

Found 41 papers, 12 papers with code

Human Video Translation via Query Warping

no code implementations19 Feb 2024 Haiming Zhu, Yangyang Xu, Shengfeng He

In this paper, we present QueryWarp, a novel framework for temporally coherent human motion video translation.

Denoising Translation +1

DiffusionMat: Alpha Matting as Sequential Refinement Learning

no code implementations22 Nov 2023 Yangyang Xu, Shengfeng He, Wenqi Shao, Kwan-Yee K. Wong, Yu Qiao, Ping Luo

In this paper, we introduce DiffusionMat, a novel image matting framework that employs a diffusion model for the transition from coarse to refined alpha mattes.

Denoising Image Matting

Damped Proximal Augmented Lagrangian Method for weakly-Convex Problems with Convex Constraints

no code implementations15 Nov 2023 Hari Dahal, Wei Liu, Yangyang Xu

For the former case, DPALM achieves the complexity of $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}\left(\varepsilon^{-2. 5} \right)$ to produce an $\varepsilon$-KKT point by applying an accelerated proximal gradient (APG) method to each DPALM subproblem.

Spectral Adversarial MixUp for Few-Shot Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

1 code implementation3 Sep 2023 Jiajin Zhang, Hanqing Chao, Amit Dhurandhar, Pin-Yu Chen, Ali Tajer, Yangyang Xu, Pingkun Yan

To accomplish this challenging task, first, a spectral sensitivity map is introduced to characterize the generalization weaknesses of models in the frequency domain.

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

RIGID: Recurrent GAN Inversion and Editing of Real Face Videos

no code implementations ICCV 2023 Yangyang Xu, Shengfeng He, Kwan-Yee K. Wong, Ping Luo

In this paper, we propose a unified recurrent framework, named \textbf{R}ecurrent v\textbf{I}deo \textbf{G}AN \textbf{I}nversion and e\textbf{D}iting (RIGID), to explicitly and simultaneously enforce temporally coherent GAN inversion and facial editing of real videos.

Attribute Facial Editing +1

Deformable Mixer Transformer with Gating for Multi-Task Learning of Dense Prediction

1 code implementation10 Aug 2023 Yangyang Xu, Yibo Yang, Bernard Ghanem, Lefei Zhang, Du Bo, DaCheng Tao

In this work, we present a novel MTL model by combining both merits of deformable CNN and query-based Transformer with shared gating for multi-task learning of dense prediction.

Multi-Task Learning

First-order Methods for Affinely Constrained Composite Non-convex Non-smooth Problems: Lower Complexity Bound and Near-optimal Methods

no code implementations14 Jul 2023 Wei Liu, Qihang Lin, Yangyang Xu

In this paper, we make the first attempt to establish lower complexity bounds of FOMs for solving a class of composite non-convex non-smooth optimization with linear constraints.

Variance-reduced accelerated methods for decentralized stochastic double-regularized nonconvex strongly-concave minimax problems

1 code implementation14 Jul 2023 Gabriel Mancino-Ball, Yangyang Xu

Coupling this with variance-reduction (VR) techniques, our proposed method, entitled VRLM, by a single neighbor communication per iteration, is able to achieve an $\mathcal{O}(\kappa^3\varepsilon^{-3})$ sample complexity under the general stochastic setting, with either a big-batch or small-batch VR option, where $\kappa$ is the condition number of the problem and $\varepsilon$ is the desired solution accuracy.

Decentralized gradient descent maximization method for composite nonconvex strongly-concave minimax problems

no code implementations5 Apr 2023 Yangyang Xu

With this relation, we show that when the dual regularizer is smooth, our algorithm can have lower complexity results (with reduced dependence on a condition number) than existing ones to produce a near-stationary point of the original formulation.

DeMT: Deformable Mixer Transformer for Multi-Task Learning of Dense Prediction

2 code implementations9 Jan 2023 Yangyang Xu, Yibo Yang, Lefei Zhang

In this work, we present a novel MTL model by combining both merits of deformable CNN and query-based Transformer for multi-task learning of dense prediction.

Multi-Task Learning

Multi-Task Learning with Knowledge Distillation for Dense Prediction

no code implementations ICCV 2023 Yangyang Xu, Yibo Yang, Lefei Zhang

With the less sensitive divergence, our knowledge distillation with an alternative match is applied for capturing inter-task and intra-task information between the teacher model and the student model of each task, thereby learning more "dark knowledge" for effective distillation.

Boundary Detection Depth Estimation +4

Stochastic Inexact Augmented Lagrangian Method for Nonconvex Expectation Constrained Optimization

no code implementations19 Dec 2022 Zichong Li, Pin-Yu Chen, Sijia Liu, Songtao Lu, Yangyang Xu

In this paper, we design and analyze stochastic inexact augmented Lagrangian methods (Stoc-iALM) to solve problems involving a nonconvex composite (i. e. smooth+nonsmooth) objective and nonconvex smooth functional constraints.

Fairness

Hybrid Multimodal Feature Extraction, Mining and Fusion for Sentiment Analysis

1 code implementation5 Aug 2022 Jia Li, Ziyang Zhang, Junjie Lang, Yueqi Jiang, Liuwei An, Peng Zou, Yangyang Xu, Sheng Gao, Jie Lin, Chunxiao Fan, Xiao Sun, Meng Wang

In this paper, we present our solutions for the Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge (MuSe) 2022, which includes MuSe-Humor, MuSe-Reaction and MuSe-Stress Sub-challenges.

Data Augmentation Humor Detection +1

High-resolution Face Swapping via Latent Semantics Disentanglement

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Yangyang Xu, Bailin Deng, Junle Wang, Yanqing Jing, Jia Pan, Shengfeng He

Although previous research can leverage generative priors to produce high-resolution results, their quality can suffer from the entangled semantics of the latent space.

Disentanglement Face Swapping +2

From Continuity to Editability: Inverting GANs with Consecutive Images

2 code implementations ICCV 2021 Yangyang Xu, Yong Du, Wenpeng Xiao, Xuemiao Xu, Shengfeng He

This inborn property is used for two unique purposes: 1) regularizing the joint inversion process, such that each of the inverted code is semantically accessible from one of the other and fastened in a editable domain; 2) enforcing inter-image coherence, such that the fidelity of each inverted code can be maximized with the complement of other images.

Deep Texture-Aware Features for Camouflaged Object Detection

no code implementations5 Feb 2021 Jingjing Ren, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Xuemiao Xu, Yangyang Xu, Weiming Wang, Zijun Deng, Pheng-Ann Heng

Camouflaged object detection is a challenging task that aims to identify objects having similar texture to the surroundings.

Object object-detection +1

Parallel and distributed asynchronous adaptive stochastic gradient methods

1 code implementation21 Feb 2020 Yangyang Xu, Colin Sutcher-Shepard, Yibo Xu, Jie Chen

The proposed method is tested on both convex and non-convex machine learning problems, and the numerical results demonstrate its clear advantages over the sync counterpart and the async-parallel nonadaptive SGM.

Optimization and Control Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis 90C15, 65Y05, 68W15, 65K05

Katyusha Acceleration for Convex Finite-Sum Compositional Optimization

no code implementations24 Oct 2019 Yibo Xu, Yangyang Xu

However, the additional compositional structure prohibits easy access to unbiased stochastic approximation of the gradient, so directly applying the SGM to a finite-sum compositional optimization problem (COP) is often inefficient.

Stochastic Optimization

Markov Chain Block Coordinate Descent

no code implementations22 Nov 2018 Tao Sun, Yuejiao Sun, Yangyang Xu, Wotao Yin

random and cyclic selections are either infeasible or very expensive.

Distributed Optimization

A Block Coordinate Ascent Algorithm for Mean-Variance Optimization

no code implementations NeurIPS 2018 Bo Liu, Tengyang Xie, Yangyang Xu, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Yin-Lam Chow, Daoming Lyu, Daesub Yoon

Risk management in dynamic decision problems is a primary concern in many fields, including financial investment, autonomous driving, and healthcare.

Autonomous Driving Management

Asynchronous parallel primal-dual block coordinate update methods for affinely constrained convex programs

no code implementations18 May 2017 Yangyang Xu

Recent several years have witnessed the surge of asynchronous (async-) parallel computing methods due to the extremely big data involved in many modern applications and also the advancement of multi-core machines and computer clusters.

Accelerated Primal-Dual Proximal Block Coordinate Updating Methods for Constrained Convex Optimization

no code implementations17 Feb 2017 Yangyang Xu, Shuzhong Zhang

We show that the rate can be accelerated to $O(1/t^2)$ if the objective is strongly convex.

On the Convergence of Asynchronous Parallel Iteration with Unbounded Delays

no code implementations13 Dec 2016 Zhimin Peng, Yangyang Xu, Ming Yan, Wotao Yin

Recent years have witnessed the surge of asynchronous parallel (async-parallel) iterative algorithms due to problems involving very large-scale data and a large number of decision variables.

A Primer on Coordinate Descent Algorithms

no code implementations30 Sep 2016 Hao-Jun Michael Shi, Shenyinying Tu, Yangyang Xu, Wotao Yin

This monograph presents a class of algorithms called coordinate descent algorithms for mathematicians, statisticians, and engineers outside the field of optimization.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Distributed Computing

Hybrid Jacobian and Gauss-Seidel proximal block coordinate update methods for linearly constrained convex programming

no code implementations13 Aug 2016 Yangyang Xu

In optimization, BCU first appears as the coordinate descent method that works well for smooth problems or those with separable nonsmooth terms and/or separable constraints.

Accelerated first-order primal-dual proximal methods for linearly constrained composite convex programming

no code implementations29 Jun 2016 Yangyang Xu

al, SIIMS'14], which requires strong convexity on both block variables and no linearization to the objective or augmented term.

Image Denoising

Randomized Primal-Dual Proximal Block Coordinate Updates

no code implementations19 May 2016 Xiang Gao, Yangyang Xu, Shuzhong Zhang

Assuming mere convexity, we establish its $O(1/t)$ convergence rate in terms of the objective value and feasibility measure.

Coordinate Friendly Structures, Algorithms and Applications

no code implementations5 Jan 2016 Zhimin Peng, Tianyu Wu, Yangyang Xu, Ming Yan, Wotao Yin

To derive simple subproblems for several new classes of applications, this paper systematically studies coordinate-friendly operators that perform low-cost coordinate updates.

Proximal gradient method for huberized support vector machine

no code implementations30 Nov 2015 Yangyang Xu, Ioannis Akrotirianakis, Amit Chakraborty

The Support Vector Machine (SVM) has been used in a wide variety of classification problems.

Alternating direction method of multipliers for regularized multiclass support vector machines

no code implementations30 Nov 2015 Yangyang Xu, Ioannis Akrotirianakis, Amit Chakraborty

A lot of effort has been put to generalize the binary SVM to multiclass SVM (MSVM) which are more complex problems.

Second-order methods

Global and Local Structure Preserving Sparse Subspace Learning: An Iterative Approach to Unsupervised Feature Selection

no code implementations2 Jun 2015 Nan Zhou, Yangyang Xu, Hong Cheng, Jun Fang, Witold Pedrycz

In this paper, we propose a global and local structure preserving sparse subspace learning (GLoSS) model for unsupervised feature selection.

feature selection

A fast patch-dictionary method for whole image recovery

no code implementations16 Aug 2014 Yangyang Xu, Wotao Yin

With very few exceptions, this issue has limited the applications of image-patch methods to the local kind of tasks such as denoising, inpainting, cartoon-texture decomposition, super-resolution, and image deblurring, for which one can process a few patches at a time.

Compressive Sensing Deblurring +5

Sparse Bilinear Logistic Regression

no code implementations15 Apr 2014 Jianing V. Shi, Yangyang Xu, Richard G. Baraniuk

In this paper, we introduce the concept of sparse bilinear logistic regression for decision problems involving explanatory variables that are two-dimensional matrices.

regression

Parallel matrix factorization for low-rank tensor completion

1 code implementation4 Dec 2013 Yangyang Xu, Ruru Hao, Wotao Yin, Zhixun Su

Phase transition plots reveal that our algorithm can recover a variety of synthetic low-rank tensors from significantly fewer samples than the compared methods, which include a matrix completion method applied to tensor recovery and two state-of-the-art tensor completion methods.

Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis Computation

An Alternating Direction Algorithm for Matrix Completion with Nonnegative Factors

no code implementations6 Mar 2011 Yangyang Xu, Wotao Yin, Zaiwen Wen, Yin Zhang

By taking the advantages of both nonnegativity and low-rankness, one can generally obtain superior results than those of just using one of the two properties.

Information Theory Numerical Analysis Information Theory Numerical Analysis

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