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Publications (47)

eess.SY2017

Continuous-time DC kernel --- a stable generalized first-order spline kernel

Tianshi Chen

The stable spline (SS) kernel and the diagonal correlated (DC) kernel are two kernels that have been applied and studied extensively for kernel-based regularized LTI system identif…

cs.LG2019

Linear Multiple Low-Rank Kernel Based Stationary Gaussian Processes Regression for Time Series

Feng Yin, Lishuo Pan, Xinwei He +4

Gaussian processes (GP) for machine learning have been studied systematically over the past two decades and they are by now widely used in a number of diverse applications. However…

math.ST2021

Tutorial on Asymptotic Properties of Regularized Least Squares Estimator for Finite Impulse Response Model

Yue Ju, Tianshi Chen, Biqiang Mu +1

In this paper, we give a tutorial on asymptotic properties of the Least Square (LS) and Regularized Least Squares (RLS) estimators for the finite impulse response model with filter…

cs.CV2021

Distilling Object Detectors with Feature Richness

Zhixing Du, Rui Zhang, Ming Chang +4

In recent years, large-scale deep models have achieved great success, but the huge computational complexity and massive storage requirements make it a great challenge to deploy the…

eess.SY2023

Kernel-based Regularized Iterative Learning Control of Repetitive Linear Time-varying Systems

Xian Yu, Xiaozhu Fang, Biqiang Mu +1

For data-driven iterative learning control (ILC) methods, both the model estimation and controller design problems are converted to parameter estimation problems for some chosen mo…

eess.SY2017

On Input Design for Regularized LTI System Identification: Power-constrained Input

Biqiang Mu, Tianshi Chen

Input design is an important issue for classical system identification methods but has not been investigated for the kernel-based regularization method (KRM) until very recently. I…

cs.CL2024

Ex3: Automatic Novel Writing by Extracting, Excelsior and Expanding

Lei Huang, Jiaming Guo, Guanhua He +5

Generating long-term texts such as novels using artificial intelligence has always been a challenge. A common approach is to use large language models (LLMs) to construct a hierarc…

eess.SY2024

Kernel-Based Regularized Continuous-Time System Identification from Sampled Data

Xiaozhu Fang, Biqiang Mu, Tianshi Chen

The identification of continuous-time (CT) systems from discrete-time (DT) input and output signals, i.e., the sampled data, has received considerable attention for half a century.…

eess.SY2023

On Kernel Design for Regularized Non-Causal System Identification

Xiaozhu Fang, Tianshi Chen

Through one decade's development, the kernel-based regularization method (KRM) has become a complement to the classical maximum likelihood/prediction error method and an emerging n…

cs.AR2026

Hardwired-Neurons Language Processing Units as General-Purpose Cognitive Substrates

Yang Liu, Yi Chen, Yongwei Zhao +24

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has established language as a core general-purpose cognitive substrate, driving the demand for specialized Language Processing…

math.ST2020

Supplementary Material for CDC Submission No. 1461

Yue Ju, Tianshi Chen, Biqiang Mu +1

In this paper, we focus on the influences of the condition number of the regression matrix upon the comparison between two hyper-parameter estimation methods: the empirical Bayes (…

eess.SY2022

An Efficient Implementation for Spatial-Temporal Gaussian Process Regression and Its Applications

Junpeng Zhang, Yue Ju, Biqiang Mu +2

Spatial-temporal Gaussian process regression is a popular method for spatial-temporal data modeling. Its state-of-art implementation is based on the state-space model realization o…

stat.ML2020

Accelerated Sparse Bayesian Learning via Screening Test and Its Applications

Yiping Jiang, Tianshi Chen

In high-dimensional settings, sparse structures are critical for efficiency in term of memory and computation complexity. For a linear system, to find the sparsest solution provide…

math.OC2022

The Noise Covariances of Linear Gaussian Systems with Unknown Inputs Are Not Uniquely Identifiable Using Autocovariance Least-squares

He Kong, Salah Sukkarieh, Travis J. Arnold +2

Existing works in optimal filtering for linear Gaussian systems with arbitrary unknown inputs assume perfect knowledge of the noise covariances in the filter design. This is imprac…

eess.SY2025

On Kernel Design for Regularized Volterra Series Identification of Wiener-Hammerstein Systems

Yu Xu, Biqiang Mu, Tianshi Chen

There have been increasing interests on the Volterra series identification with the kernel-based regularization method. The major difficulties are on the kernel design and efficien…

eess.SY2023

Asymptotic Theory for Regularized System Identification Part I: Empirical Bayes Hyper-parameter Estimator

Yue Ju, Biqiang Mu, Lennart Ljung +1

Regularized system identification is the major advance in system identification in the last decade. Although many promising results have been achieved, it is far from complete and…

cs.LG2020

DWM: A Decomposable Winograd Method for Convolution Acceleration

Di Huang, Xishan Zhang, Rui Zhang +9

Winograd's minimal filtering algorithm has been widely used in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to reduce the number of multiplications for faster processing. However, it is on…

cs.AI2011

The Impact of Mutation Rate on the Computation Time of Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization

Tianshi Chen, Yunji Chen, Ke Tang +2

Mutation has traditionally been regarded as an important operator in evolutionary algorithms. In particular, there have been many experimental studies which showed the effectivenes…

eess.SY2015

Maximum entropy properties of discrete-time first-order stable spline kernel

Tianshi Chen, Tohid Ardeshiri, Francesca P. Carli +3

The first order stable spline (SS-1) kernel is used extensively in regularized system identification. In particular, the stable spline estimator models the impulse response as a ze…

eess.SY2022

On Embeddings and Inverse Embeddings of Input Design for Regularized System Identification

Biqiang Mu, Tianshi Chen, He Kong +3

Input design is an important problem for system identification and has been well studied for the classical system identification, i.e., the maximum likelihood/prediction error meth…

cs.NE2015

On the Easiest and Hardest Fitness Functions

Jun He, Tianshi Chen, Xin Yao

The hardness of fitness functions is an important research topic in the field of evolutionary computation. In theory, the study can help understanding the ability of evolutionary a…

eess.SY2015

Maximum Entropy Property of Discrete-time Stable Spline Kernel

Tohid Ardeshiri, Tianshi Chen

In this paper, the maximum entropy property of the discrete-time first-order stable spline kernel is studied. The advantages of studying this property in discrete-time domain inste…

math.OC2016

Maximum Entropy Kernels for System Identification

Francesca Paola Carli, Tianshi Chen, Lennart Ljung

A new nonparametric approach for system identification has been recently proposed where the impulse response is modeled as the realization of a zero-mean Gaussian process whose cov…

math.NA2026

Kernel-based linear system identification using augmented Krylov subspaces

Fabio Matti, Martin Skovgaard Andersen, Tianshi Chen +1

We propose a novel Krylov subspace method for estimating the finite impulse response (FIR) of a one-dimensional linear time-invariant systems. The method approximates the system's…

cs.CL2025

QiMeng-Xpiler: Transcompiling Tensor Programs for Deep Learning Systems with a Neural-Symbolic Approach

Shouyang Dong, Yuanbo Wen, Jun Bi +10

Heterogeneous deep learning systems (DLS) such as GPUs and ASICs have been widely deployed in industrial data centers, which requires to develop multiple low-level tensor programs…

cs.AR2024

Cambricon-LLM: A Chiplet-Based Hybrid Architecture for On-Device Inference of 70B LLM

Zhongkai Yu, Shengwen Liang, Tianyun Ma +12

Deploying advanced large language models on edge devices, such as smartphones and robotics, is a growing trend that enhances user data privacy and network connectivity resilience w…

cs.NI2012

Global Adaptive Routing Algorithm Without Additional Congestion Propagation Network

Shaoli Liu, Yunji Chen, Tianshi Chen +2

Adaptive routing algorithm has been employed in multichip interconnection networks in order to improve network performance. Does a algorithm use local or global network state? This…

cs.AR2012

RepTFD: Replay Based Transient Fault Detection

Lei Li, Tianshi Chen, Yunji Chen +2

The advances in IC process make future chip multiprocessors (CMPs) more and more vulnerable to transient faults. To detect transient faults, previous core-level schemes provide red…

math.NA2025

Numerically Efficient and Stable Algorithms for Kernel-Based Regularized System Identification Using Givens-Vector Representation

Zhuohua Shen, Junpeng Zhang, Martin S. Andersen +1

Numerically efficient and stable algorithms are essential for kernel-based regularized system identification. The state of art algorithms exploit the semiseparable structure of the…

cs.NE2011

Scaling Up Estimation of Distribution Algorithms For Continuous Optimization

Weishan Dong, Tianshi Chen, Peter Tino +1

Since Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA) were proposed, many attempts have been made to improve EDAs' performance in the context of global optimization. So far, the studie…

eess.SY2015

Regularized system identification using orthonormal basis functions

Tianshi Chen, Lennart Ljung

Most of existing results on regularized system identification focus on regularized impulse response estimation. Since the impulse response model is a special case of orthonormal ba…

cs.NE2012

A Large Population Size Can Be Unhelpful in Evolutionary Algorithms

Tianshi Chen, Ke Tang, Guoliang Chen +1

The utilization of populations is one of the most important features of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). There have been many studies analyzing the impact of different population siz…

eess.SY2021

Identification of Switched Linear Systems: Persistence of Excitation and Numerical Algorithms

Biqiang Mu, Tianshi Chen, Changming Cheng +1

This paper investigates two issues on identification of switched linear systems: persistence of excitation and numerical algorithms. The main contribution is a much weaker conditio…

cs.NE2013

Novel Analysis of Population Scalability in Evolutionary Algorithms

Jun He, Tianshi Chen, Boris Mitavskiy

Population-based evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely applied to solve various optimization problems. The question of how the performance of a population-based EA depends…

cs.LG2013

Scalable Anomaly Detection in Large Homogenous Populations

Henrik Ohlsson, Tianshi Chen, Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad +2

Anomaly detection in large populations is a challenging but highly relevant problem. The problem is essentially a multi-hypothesis problem, with a hypothesis for every division of…

cs.AR2012

DLS: Directoryless Shared Last-level Cache

Daofu Liu, Yunji Chen, Qi Guo +4

Directory-based protocols have been the de facto solution for maintaining cache coherence in shared-memory parallel systems comprising multi/many cores, where each store instructio…

eess.SY2017

On kernel design for regularized LTI system identification

Tianshi Chen

There are two key issues for the kernel-based regularization method: one is how to design a suitable kernel to embed in the kernel the prior knowledge of the LTI system to be ident…

cs.CV2022

Real-Time Robust Video Object Detection System Against Physical-World Adversarial Attacks

Husheng Han, Xing Hu, Kaidi Xu +7

DNN-based video object detection (VOD) powers autonomous driving and video surveillance industries with rising importance and promising opportunities. However, adversarial patch at…

math.ST2021

On the Asymptotic Optimality of Cross-Validation based Hyper-parameter Estimators for Regularized Least Squares Regression Problems

Biqiang Mu, Tianshi Chen, Lennart Ljung

The asymptotic optimality (a.o.) of various hyper-parameter estimators with different optimality criteria has been studied in the literature for regularized least squares regressio…

eess.SY2017

On Asymptotic Properties of Hyperparameter Estimators for Kernel-based Regularization Methods

Biqiang Mu, Tianshi Chen, Lennart Ljung

The kernel-based regularization method has two core issues: kernel design and hyperparameter estimation. In this paper, we focus on the second issue and study the properties of sev…

eess.SY2024

A Local Gaussian Process Regression Approach to Frequency Response Function Estimation

Xiaozhu Fang, Yu Xu, Tianshi Chen

Frequency response function (FRF) estimation is a classical subject in system identification. In the past two decades, there have been remarkable advances in developing local metho…

eess.SY2015

Regularized linear system identification using atomic, nuclear and kernel-based norms: the role of the stability constraint

Gianluigi Pillonetto, Tianshi Chen, Alessandro Chiuso +2

Inspired by ideas taken from the machine learning literature, new regularization techniques have been recently introduced in linear system identification. In particular, all the ad…

cs.AI2023

Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI

Shuyao Cheng, Pengwei Jin, Qi Guo +16

Design activity -- constructing an artifact description satisfying given goals and constraints -- distinguishes humanity from other animals and traditional machines, and endowing m…

math.OC2024

A Class of Convex Optimization-Based Recursive Algorithms for Identification of Stochastic Systems

Mingxia Ding, Wenxiao Zhao, Tianshi Chen

Focusing on identification, this paper develops a class of convex optimization-based criteria and correspondingly the recursive algorithms to estimate the parameter vector

math.OC2022

Identifiability Analysis of Noise Covariances for LTI Stochastic Systems with Unknown Inputs

He Kong, Salah Sukkarieh, Travis J. Arnold +3

Most existing works on optimal filtering of linear time-invariant (LTI) stochastic systems with arbitrary unknown inputs assume perfect knowledge of the covariances of the noises i…

cs.PF2017

BENCHIP: Benchmarking Intelligence Processors

Jinhua Tao, Zidong Du, Qi Guo +12

The increasing attention on deep learning has tremendously spurred the design of intelligence processing hardware. The variety of emerging intelligence processors requires standard…

cs.DC2009

Global Clock, Physical Time Order and Pending Period Analysis in Multiprocessor Systems

Yunji Chen, Tianshi Chen, Weiwu Hu

In multiprocessor systems, various problems are treated with Lamport's logical clock and the resultant logical time orders between operations. However, one often needs to face the…