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Publications (7)

cs.DC2021

Federated Two-stage Learning with Sign-based Voting

Zichen Ma, Zihan Lu, Yu Lu +3

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning mechanism where local devices collaboratively train a shared global model under the orchestration of a central server, while ke…

stat.ME2016

Bayesian Variable Selection for Linear Regression with the - Priors

Zichen Ma, Ernest Fokoué

In this paper, we introduce a new methodology for Bayesian variable selection in linear regression that is independent of the traditional indicator method. A diagonal matrix $\math…

cs.SD2015

A Comparison of Classifiers in Performing Speaker Accent Recognition Using MFCCs

Zichen Ma, Ernest Fokoue

An algorithm involving Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) is provided to perform signal feature extraction for the task of speaker accent recognition. Then different class…

cs.CL2023

AUGUST: an Automatic Generation Understudy for Synthesizing Conversational Recommendation Datasets

Yu Lu, Junwei Bao, Zichen Ma +4

High-quality data is essential for conversational recommendation systems and serves as the cornerstone of the network architecture development and training strategy design. Existin…

cs.CL2021

RevCore: Review-augmented Conversational Recommendation

Yu Lu, Junwei Bao, Yan Song +4

Existing conversational recommendation (CR) systems usually suffer from insufficient item information when conducted on short dialogue history and unfamiliar items. Incorporating e…

cs.LG2022

Personalizing or Not: Dynamically Personalized Federated Learning with Incentives

Zichen Ma, Yu Lu, Wenye Li +1

Personalized federated learning (FL) facilitates collaborations between multiple clients to learn personalized models without sharing private data. The mechanism mitigates the stat…