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Publications (27)

cs.IR2024

Legommenders: A Comprehensive Content-Based Recommendation Library with LLM Support

Qijiong Liu, Lu Fan, Xiao-Ming Wu

We present Legommenders, a unique library designed for content-based recommendation that enables the joint training of content encoders alongside behavior and interaction modules,…

cs.IR2024

Learning Category Trees for ID-Based Recommendation: Exploring the Power of Differentiable Vector Quantization

Qijiong Liu, Lu Fan, Jiaren Xiao +2

Category information plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality and personalization of recommender systems. Nevertheless, the availability of item category information is not co…

cs.IR2025

Evaluating Recabilities of Foundation Models: A Multi-Domain, Multi-Dataset Benchmark

Qijiong Liu, Jieming Zhu, Yingxin Lai +5

Comprehensive evaluation of the recommendation capabilities of existing foundation models across diverse datasets and domains is essential for advancing the development of recommen…

eess.AS2024

UME: Upcycling Mixture-of-Experts for Scalable and Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition

Li Fu, Shanyong Yu, Siqi Li +3

Recent advancements in scaling up models have significantly improved performance in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks. However, training large ASR models from scratch remain…

cs.IR2026

Accelerating Generative Recommendation via Simple Categorical User Sequence Compression

Qijiong Liu, Lu Fan, Zhongzhou Liu +7

Although generative recommenders demonstrate improved performance with longer sequences, their real-time deployment is hindered by substantial computational costs. To address this…

cs.SD2024

Neural2Speech: A Transfer Learning Framework for Neural-Driven Speech Reconstruction

Jiawei Li, Chunxu Guo, Li Fu +3

Reconstructing natural speech from neural activity is vital for enabling direct communication via brain-computer interfaces. Previous efforts have explored the conversion of neural…

cs.CV2023

Multi-modal Pre-training for Medical Vision-language Understanding and Generation: An Empirical Study with A New Benchmark

Li Xu, Bo Liu, Ameer Hamza Khan +2

With the availability of large-scale, comprehensive, and general-purpose vision-language (VL) datasets such as MSCOCO, vision-language pre-training (VLP) has become an active area…

cs.IR2023

Neighborhood-based Hard Negative Mining for Sequential Recommendation

Lu Fan, Jiashu Pu, Rongsheng Zhang +1

Negative sampling plays a crucial role in training successful sequential recommendation models. Instead of merely employing random negative sample selection, numerous strategies ha…

eess.AS2023

UFO2: A unified pre-training framework for online and offline speech recognition

Li Fu, Siqi Li, Qingtao Li +5

In this paper, we propose a Unified pre-training Framework for Online and Offline (UFO2) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), which 1) simplifies the two separate training workflows…

cs.IR2025

Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation

Qijiong Liu, Jieming Zhu, Lu Fan +5

In recent years, integrating large language models (LLMs) into recommender systems has created new opportunities for improving recommendation quality. However, a comprehensive benc…

quant-ph2025

High-rate discrete-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution with composable security

Mingze Wu, Yan Pan, Junhui Li +8

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution holds the potential to generate high secret key rates, making it a prime candidate for high-rate metropolitan quantum network applicati…

cs.CL2021

Out-of-Scope Intent Detection with Self-Supervision and Discriminative Training

Li-Ming Zhan, Haowen Liang, Bo Liu +3

Out-of-scope intent detection is of practical importance in task-oriented dialogue systems. Since the distribution of outlier utterances is arbitrary and unknown in the training st…

cs.CL2026

PolySpeech-100: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Speech Understanding Across 100+ Languages and Dialects

Sicheng Yang, Shulan Ruan, Shiwei Wu +4

While End-to-End (E2E) Speech-Large Language Models (Speech-LLMs) are rapidly evolving, their evaluation methodologies remain limited to the era of simple transcription. Existing b…

cs.IR2025

Learning Multi-Aspect Item Palette: A Semantic Tokenization Framework for Generative Recommendation

Qijiong Liu, Jieming Zhu, Zhaocheng Du +3

Traditional recommendation models often rely on unique item identifiers (IDs) to distinguish between items, which can hinder their ability to effectively leverage item content info…

eess.AS2022

SCaLa: Supervised Contrastive Learning for End-to-End Speech Recognition

Li Fu, Xiaoxiao Li, Runyu Wang +5

End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are usually trained to optimize the loss of the whole token sequence, while neglecting explicit phonemic-granularity supervisio…

q-bio.NC2024

Do self-supervised speech and language models extract similar representations as human brain?

Peili Chen, Linyang He, Li Fu +3

Speech and language models trained through self-supervised learning (SSL) demonstrate strong alignment with brain activity during speech and language perception. However, given the…

quant-ph2024

Practical No-Switching Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with Biased Quadrature Detection

Jiale Mi, Yiming Bian, Lu Fan +2

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocol using coherent states and heterodyne detection, called No-Switching protocol, is widely used in practical systems due to the s…

q-bio.PE2026

Structural Compression for Phylogenetic Inference under Alignment Instability and Indel-Rich Evolution

Zhuoxin Zhang, Jieyu Wang, Fengyao Zhai +5

Phylogenetic inference traditionally relies on aligned characters under substitution models, but this framework becomes less reliable when alignments are unstable or when evolution…

cs.CL2025

PAC: Pronunciation-Aware Contextualized Large Language Model-based Automatic Speech Recognition

Li Fu, Yu Xin, Sunlu Zeng +3

This paper presents a Pronunciation-Aware Contextualized (PAC) framework to address two key challenges in Large Language Model (LLM)-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system…

quant-ph2025

High-rate discrete-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution with composable security

Mingze Wu, Yan Pan, Junhui Li +8

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution holds the potential to generate high secret key rates, making it a prime candidate for high-rate metropolitan quantum network applicati…

quant-ph2023

Quantum hacking against discrete-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution using modified local oscillator intensity attack with random fluctuations

Lu Fan, Yiming Bian, Mingze Wu +2

The local oscillator in practical continuous-variable quantum key distribution system fluctuates at any time during the key distribution process, which may open security loopholes…

cs.IR2019

N2VSCDNNR: A Local Recommender System Based on Node2vec and Rich Information Network

Jinyin Chen, Yangyang Wu, Lu Fan +4

Recommender systems are becoming more and more important in our daily lives. However, traditional recommendation methods are challenged by data sparsity and efficiency, as the numb…

quant-ph2023

The Security Analysis of Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution under Limited Eavesdropping with Practical Fiber

Sheng Liu, Lu Fan, Zhengyu Li +6

Research on optimal eavesdropping models under practical conditions will help to evaluate realistic risk when employing quantum key distribution (QKD) system for secure information…

cs.CL2025

LANID: LLM-assisted New Intent Discovery

Lu Fan, Jiashu Pu, Rongsheng Zhang +1

Task-oriented Dialogue Systems (TODS) often face the challenge of encountering new intents. New Intent Discovery (NID) is a crucial task that aims to identify these novel intents w…

cs.CL2023

Leveraging Label Information for Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Peiying Wang, Sunlu Zeng, Junqing Chen +4

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to detect the emotional status of a given expression by combining the speech and text information. Intuitively, label information should b…

quant-ph2026

Practical continuous-variable quantum key distribution using dynamic digital signal processing: security proof and experimental demonstration

Lu Fan, Zhengyu Li, Sheng Liu +8

Digital signal processing technology has paved the way for the realization of high-speed continuous-variable quantum key distribution systems. However, existing security proofs are…

eess.AS2023

OTF: Optimal Transport based Fusion of Supervised and Self-Supervised Learning Models for Automatic Speech Recognition

Li Fu, Siqi Li, Qingtao Li +6

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models have shown great promise over Supervised Learning (SL) ones in low-resource settings. However, the advantag…