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20182023
most citedTensorOpt: Exploring the Tradeoffs in Distributed DNN Training with Auto-Parallelism

45 citations · 208 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.IR2023★ 29 cited

Multi-domain Recommendation with Embedding Disentangling and Domain Alignment

Wentao Ning, Xiao Yan, Weiwen Liu +3

Multi-domain recommendation (MDR) aims to provide recommendations for different domains (e.g., types of products) with overlapping users/items and is common for platforms such as A…

cs.LG2022

DGI: Easy and Efficient Inference for GNNs

Peiqi Yin, Xiao Yan, Jinjing Zhou +5

While many systems have been developed to train Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), efficient model inference and evaluation remain to be addressed. For instance, using the widely adopte…

cs.DB2022★ 4 cited

Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System

Rentong Guo, Xiaofan Luan, Long Xiang +12

With the development of learning-based embedding models, embedding vectors are widely used for analyzing and searching unstructured data. As vector collections exceed billion-scale…

cs.SI2021★ 11 cited

Effective and Efficient PageRank-based Positioning for Graph Visualization

Shiqi Zhang, Renchi Yang, Xiaokui Xiao +2

Graph visualization is a vital component in many real-world applications (e.g., social network analysis, web mining, and bioinformatics) that enables users to unearth crucial insig…

cs.IR2021★ 19 cited

Automatic Meta-Path Discovery for Effective Graph-Based Recommendation

Wentao Ning, Reynold Cheng, Jiajun Shen +7

Heterogeneous Information Networks (HINs) are labeled graphs that depict relationships among different types of entities (e.g., users, movies and directors). For HINs, meta-path-ba…

cs.IR2021★ 1 cited

Combating Ambiguity for Hash-code Learning in Medical Instance Retrieval

Jiansheng Fang, Huazhu Fu, Dan Zeng +3

When encountering a dubious diagnostic case, medical instance retrieval can help radiologists make evidence-based diagnoses by finding images containing instances similar to a quer…

cs.IR2020

The item selection problem for user cold-start recommendation

Yitong Meng, Jie Liu, Xiao Yan +1

When a new user just signs up on a website, we usually have no information about him/her, i.e. no interaction with items, no user profile and no social links with other users. Unde…

cs.DB2020★ 2 cited

Hierarchical Graph Matching Network for Graph Similarity Computation

Haibo Xiu, Xiao Yan, Xiaoqiang Wang +2

Graph edit distance / similarity is widely used in many tasks, such as graph similarity search, binary function analysis, and graph clustering. However, computing the exact graph e…

cs.DC2020★ 45 cited

TensorOpt: Exploring the Tradeoffs in Distributed DNN Training with Auto-Parallelism

Zhenkun Cai, Kaihao Ma, Xiao Yan +5

A good parallelization strategy can significantly improve the efficiency or reduce the cost for the distributed training of deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, several methods h…

cs.LG2020★ 8 cited

Self-Enhanced GNN: Improving Graph Neural Networks Using Model Outputs

Han Yang, Xiao Yan, Xinyan Dai +2

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have received much attention recently because of their excellent performance on graph-based tasks. However, existing research on GNNs focuses on design…

cs.DB2020★ 27 cited

Convolutional Embedding for Edit Distance

Xinyan Dai, Xiao Yan, Kaiwen Zhou +3

Edit-distance-based string similarity search has many applications such as spell correction, data de-duplication, and sequence alignment. However, computing edit distance is known…

cs.LG2019★ 32 cited

Hyper-Sphere Quantization: Communication-Efficient SGD for Federated Learning

Xinyan Dai, Xiao Yan, Kaiwen Zhou +4

The high cost of communicating gradients is a major bottleneck for federated learning, as the bandwidth of the participating user devices is limited. Existing gradient compression…

cs.IR2019★ 4 cited

Norm-Explicit Quantization: Improving Vector Quantization for Maximum Inner Product Search

Xinyan Dai, Xiao Yan, Kelvin K. W. Ng +2

Vector quantization (VQ) techniques are widely used in similarity search for data compression, fast metric computation and etc. Originally designed for Euclidean distance, existing…

cs.IR2019★ 5 cited

Understanding and Improving Proximity Graph based Maximum Inner Product Search

Jie Liu, Xiao Yan, Xinyan Dai +3

The inner-product navigable small world graph (ip-NSW) represents the state-of-the-art method for approximate maximum inner product search (MIPS) and it can achieve an order of mag…

cs.DC2019

Pyramid: A General Framework for Distributed Similarity Search

Shiyuan Deng, Xiao Yan, Kelvin K. W. Ng +2

Similarity search is a core component in various applications such as image matching, product recommendation and low-shot classification. However, single machine solutions are usua…

cs.LG2018

Norm-Range Partition: A Universal Catalyst for LSH based Maximum Inner Product Search (MIPS)

Xiao Yan, Xinyan Dai, Jie Liu +2

Recently, locality sensitive hashing (LSH) was shown to be effective for MIPS and several algorithms including -ALSH, Sign-ALSH and Simple-LSH have been proposed. In this pape…

cs.LG2018★ 21 cited

Norm-Ranging LSH for Maximum Inner Product Search

Xiao Yan, Jinfeng Li, Xinyan Dai +2

Neyshabur and Srebro proposed Simple-LSH, which is the state-of-the-art hashing method for maximum inner product search (MIPS) with performance guarantee. We found that the perform…