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Publications (10)

cs.CV2017

Unsupervised Classification in Hyperspectral Imagery with Nonlocal Total Variation and Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Algorithm

Wei Zhu, Victoria Chayes, Alexandre Tiard +6

In this paper, a graph-based nonlocal total variation method (NLTV) is proposed for unsupervised classification of hyperspectral images (HSI). The variational problem is solved by…

cs.CV2014

Hierarchical Clustering of Hyperspectral Images using Rank-Two Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Nicolas Gillis, Da Kuang, Haesun Park

In this paper, we design a hierarchical clustering algorithm for high-resolution hyperspectral images. At the core of the algorithm, a new rank-two nonnegative matrix factorization…

cs.LG2015

piCholesky: Polynomial Interpolation of Multiple Cholesky Factors for Efficient Approximate Cross-Validation

Da Kuang, Alex Gittens, Raffay Hamid

The dominant cost in solving least-square problems using Newton's method is often that of factorizing the Hessian matrix over multiple values of the regularization parameter ()…

cs.LG2016

A Harmonic Extension Approach for Collaborative Ranking

Da Kuang, Zuoqiang Shi, Stanley Osher +1

We present a new perspective on graph-based methods for collaborative ranking for recommender systems. Unlike user-based or item-based methods that compute a weighted average of ra…

cs.CL2018

Crime Topic Modeling

Da Kuang, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Andrea L. Bertozzi

The classification of crime into discrete categories entails a massive loss of information. Crimes emerge out of a complex mix of behaviors and situations, yet most of these detail…

cs.LG2015

Fast Clustering and Topic Modeling Based on Rank-2 Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Da Kuang, Barry Drake, Haesun Park

The importance of unsupervised clustering and topic modeling is well recognized with ever-increasing volumes of text data. In this paper, we propose a fast method for hierarchical…

cs.LG2025

Reconstructing Cell Lineage Trees from Phenotypic Features with Metric Learning

Da Kuang, Guanwen Qiu, Junhyong Kim

How a single fertilized cell gives rise to a complex array of specialized cell types in development is a central question in biology. The cells grow, divide, and acquire differenti…

cs.IR2021

Deep Pairwise Learning To Rank For Search Autocomplete

Kai Yuan, Da Kuang

Autocomplete (a.k.a "Query Auto-Completion", "AC") suggests full queries based on a prefix typed by customer. Autocomplete has been a core feature of commercial search engine. In t…

cs.CL2025

Pangu Ultra MoE: How to Train Your Big MoE on Ascend NPUs

Yehui Tang, Yichun Yin, Yaoyuan Wang +71

Sparse large language models (LLMs) with Mixture of Experts (MoE) and close to a trillion parameters are dominating the realm of most capable language models. However, the massive…

cs.LG2024

Complexity Matters: Dynamics of Feature Learning in the Presence of Spurious Correlations

GuanWen Qiu, Da Kuang, Surbhi Goel

Existing research often posits spurious features as easier to learn than core features in neural network optimization, but the impact of their relative simplicity remains under-exp…