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most citedFedSynth: Gradient Compression via Synthetic Data in Federated Learning

18 citations · 32 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CL2026

Measuring Fairness in Large Audio Language Models via Semantic-Aware Bias Estimation

Zhe Liu

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have seen increasing use for audio understanding tasks such as speech recognition and audio question answering, raising concerns about fairness…

cs.CL2023

Forgetting Private Textual Sequences in Language Models via Leave-One-Out Ensemble

Zhe Liu, Ozlem Kalinli

Recent research has shown that language models have a tendency to memorize rare or unique token sequences in the training corpus. After deploying a model, practitioners might be as…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Contextual Biasing of Named-Entities with Large Language Models

Chuanneng Sun, Zeeshan Ahmed, Yingyi Ma +4

This paper studies contextual biasing with Large Language Models (LLMs), where during second-pass rescoring additional contextual information is provided to a LLM to boost Automati…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Recovering from Privacy-Preserving Masking with Large Language Models

Arpita Vats, Zhe Liu, Peng Su +5

Model adaptation is crucial to handle the discrepancy between proxy training data and actual users data received. To effectively perform adaptation, textual data of users is typica…

eess.AS2022

Adaptive Multi-Corpora Language Model Training for Speech Recognition

Yingyi Ma, Zhe Liu, Xuedong Zhang

Neural network language model (NNLM) plays an essential role in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, especially in adaptation tasks when text-only data is available. In prac…

cs.CL2022

Mitigating Unintended Memorization in Language Models via Alternating Teaching

Zhe Liu, Xuedong Zhang, Fuchun Peng

Recent research has shown that language models have a tendency to memorize rare or unique sequences in the training corpora which can thus leak sensitive attributes of user data. W…

stat.ML2022

Group Personalized Federated Learning

Zhe Liu, Yue Hui, Fuchun Peng

Federated learning (FL) can help promote data privacy by training a shared model in a de-centralized manner on the physical devices of clients. In the presence of highly heterogene…

eess.AS2022

Modeling Dependent Structure for Utterances in ASR Evaluation

Zhe Liu, Fuchun Peng

The bootstrap resampling method has been popular for performing significance analysis on word error rate (WER) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) evaluation. To deal with depend…

cs.LG2022★ 18 cited

FedSynth: Gradient Compression via Synthetic Data in Federated Learning

Shengyuan Hu, Jack Goetz, Kshitiz Malik +3

Model compression is important in federated learning (FL) with large models to reduce communication cost. Prior works have been focusing on sparsification based compression that co…

cs.CL2022

Neural-FST Class Language Model for End-to-End Speech Recognition

Antoine Bruguier, Duc Le, Rohit Prabhavalkar +7

We propose Neural-FST Class Language Model (NFCLM) for end-to-end speech recognition, a novel method that combines neural network language models (NNLMs) and finite state transduce…

eess.AS2021★ 4 cited

Private Language Model Adaptation for Speech Recognition

Zhe Liu, Ke Li, Shreyan Bakshi +1

Speech model adaptation is crucial to handle the discrepancy between server-side proxy training data and actual data received on local devices of users. With the use of federated l…

stat.ML2021★ 3 cited

Model-Based Approach for Measuring the Fairness in ASR

Zhe Liu, Irina-Elena Veliche, Fuchun Peng

The issue of fairness arises when the automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems do not perform equally well for all subgroups of the population. In any fairness measurement studie…

cs.CL2020

Federated Marginal Personalization for ASR Rescoring

Zhe Liu, Fuchun Peng

We introduce federated marginal personalization (FMP), a novel method for continuously updating personalized neural network language models (NNLMs) on private devices using federat…

stat.ML2019

Statistical Testing on ASR Performance via Blockwise Bootstrap

Zhe Liu, Fuchun Peng

A common question being raised in automatic speech recognition (ASR) evaluations is how reliable is an observed word error rate (WER) improvement comparing two ASR systems, where s…

cs.CL2019★ 3 cited

Improving N-gram Language Models with Pre-trained Deep Transformer

Yiren Wang, Hongzhao Huang, Zhe Liu +4

Although n-gram language models (LMs) have been outperformed by the state-of-the-art neural LMs, they are still widely used in speech recognition due to its high efficiency in infe…

stat.ME2015

Learning Nonparametric Forest Graphical Models with Prior Information

Yuancheng Zhu, Zhe Liu, Siqi Sun

We present a framework for incorporating prior information into nonparametric estimation of graphical models. To avoid distributional assumptions, we restrict the graph to be a for…

stat.ML2015

Graphical Exponential Screening

Zhe Liu

In high dimensions we propose and analyze an aggregation estimator of the precision matrix for Gaussian graphical models. This estimator, called graphical Exponential Screening (gE…