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cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Domain-Guided Conditional Diffusion Model for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Yulong Zhang, Shuhao Chen, Weisen Jiang +3

Limited transferability hinders the performance of deep learning models when applied to new application scenarios. Recently, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) has achieved signi…

cs.LG2023

Nonparametric Iterative Machine Teaching

Chen Zhang, Xiaofeng Cao, Weiyang Liu +2

In this paper, we consider the problem of Iterative Machine Teaching (IMT), where the teacher provides examples to the learner iteratively such that the learner can achieve fast co…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

A Survey on Time-Series Pre-Trained Models

Qianli Ma, Zhen Liu, Zhenjing Zheng +4

Time-Series Mining (TSM) is an important research area since it shows great potential in practical applications. Deep learning models that rely on massive labeled data have been ut…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

A Survey of Learning on Small Data: Generalization, Optimization, and Challenge

Xiaofeng Cao, Weixin Bu, Shengjun Huang +4

Learning on big data brings success for artificial intelligence (AI), but the annotation and training costs are expensive. In future, learning on small data that approximates the g…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Low-rank Tensor Learning with Nonconvex Overlapped Nuclear Norm Regularization

Quanming Yao, Yaqing Wang, Bo Han +1

Nonconvex regularization has been popularly used in low-rank matrix learning. However, extending it for low-rank tensor learning is still computationally expensive. To address this…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

Revisiting Over-smoothing in BERT from the Perspective of Graph

Han Shi, Jiahui Gao, Hang Xu +5

Recently over-smoothing phenomenon of Transformer-based models is observed in both vision and language fields. However, no existing work has delved deeper to further investigate th…

cs.LG2021

Dropout's Dream Land: Generalization from Learned Simulators to Reality

Zac Wellmer, James T. Kwok

A World Model is a generative model used to simulate an environment. World Models have proven capable of learning spatial and temporal representations of Reinforcement Learning env…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

TOHAN: A One-step Approach towards Few-shot Hypothesis Adaptation

Haoang Chi, Feng Liu, Wenjing Yang +5

In few-shot domain adaptation (FDA), classifiers for the target domain are trained with accessible labeled data in the source domain (SD) and few labeled data in the target domain…

cs.LG2021★ 13 cited

SparseBERT: Rethinking the Importance Analysis in Self-attention

Han Shi, Jiahui Gao, Xiaozhe Ren +4

Transformer-based models are popularly used in natural language processing (NLP). Its core component, self-attention, has aroused widespread interest. To understand the self-attent…

cs.LG2021

Topology-aware Tensor Decomposition for Meta-graph Learning

Hansi Yang, Peiyu Zhang, Quanming Yao

Heterogeneous graphs generally refers to graphs with different types of nodes and edges. A common approach for extracting useful information from heterogeneous graphs is to use met…

cs.LG2020★ 101 cited

A Survey of Label-noise Representation Learning: Past, Present and Future

Bo Han, Quanming Yao, Tongliang Liu +4

Classical machine learning implicitly assumes that labels of the training data are sampled from a clean distribution, which can be too restrictive for real-world scenarios. However…

cs.LG2020

A Scalable, Adaptive and Sound Nonconvex Regularizer for Low-rank Matrix Completion

Yaqing Wang, Quanming Yao, James T. Kwok

Matrix learning is at the core of many machine learning problems. A number of real-world applications such as collaborative filtering and text mining can be formulated as a low-ran…

cs.LG2019

Effective Decoding in Graph Auto-Encoder using Triadic Closure

Han Shi, Haozheng Fan, James T. Kwok

The (variational) graph auto-encoder and its variants have been popularly used for representation learning on graph-structured data. While the encoder is often a powerful graph con…

cs.LG2019★ 68 cited

Bridging the Gap between Sample-based and One-shot Neural Architecture Search with BONAS

Han Shi, Renjie Pi, Hang Xu +3

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potentials in finding better neural network designs. Sample-based NAS is the most reliable approach which aims at exploring the sea…

cs.LG2019

Policy Prediction Network: Model-Free Behavior Policy with Model-Based Learning in Continuous Action Space

Zac Wellmer, James Kwok

This paper proposes a novel deep reinforcement learning architecture that was inspired by previous tree structured architectures which were only useable in discrete action spaces.…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

Efficient Neural Interaction Function Search for Collaborative Filtering

Quanming Yao, Xiangning Chen, James Kwok +2

In collaborative filtering (CF), interaction function (IFC) plays the important role of capturing interactions among items and users. The most popular IFC is the inner product, whi…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

Blockwise Adaptivity: Faster Training and Better Generalization in Deep Learning

Shuai Zheng, James T. Kwok

Stochastic methods with coordinate-wise adaptive stepsize (such as RMSprop and Adam) have been widely used in training deep neural networks. Despite their fast convergence, they ca…

cs.LG2019★ 67 cited

Communication-Efficient Distributed Blockwise Momentum SGD with Error-Feedback

Shuai Zheng, Ziyue Huang, James T. Kwok

Communication overhead is a major bottleneck hampering the scalability of distributed machine learning systems. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using gradient compr…

cs.LG2019

Efficient Low-Rank Semidefinite Programming with Robust Loss Functions

Quanming Yao, Hangsi Yang, En-Liang Hu +1

In real-world applications, it is important for machine learning algorithms to be robust against data outliers or corruptions. In this paper, we focus on improving the robustness o…

cs.LG2019★ 791 cited

Generalizing from a Few Examples: A Survey on Few-Shot Learning

Yaqing Wang, Quanming Yao, James Kwok +1

Machine learning has been highly successful in data-intensive applications but is often hampered when the data set is small. Recently, Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is proposed to tackle…

cs.LG2019★ 9 cited

General Convolutional Sparse Coding with Unknown Noise

Yaqing Wang, James T. Kwok, Lionel M. Ni

Convolutional sparse coding (CSC) can learn representative shift-invariant patterns from multiple kinds of data. However, existing CSC methods can only model noises from Gaussian d…

cs.LG2018★ 2 cited

FasTer: Fast Tensor Completion with Nonconvex Regularization

Quanming Yao, James T Kwok, Bo Han

Low-rank tensor completion problem aims to recover a tensor from limited observations, which has many real-world applications. Due to the easy optimization, the convex overlapping…

cs.LG2018

Lightweight Stochastic Optimization for Minimizing Finite Sums with Infinite Data

Shuai Zheng, James T. Kwok

Variance reduction has been commonly used in stochastic optimization. It relies crucially on the assumption that the data set is finite. However, when the data are imputed with ran…

cs.LG2018★ 2 cited

Power Law in Sparsified Deep Neural Networks

Lu Hou, James T. Kwok

The power law has been observed in the degree distributions of many biological neural networks. Sparse deep neural networks, which learn an economical representation from the data,…