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20192025
most citedTowards the Generalization of Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning

21 citations · 49 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

stat.ME2025

Denoising Data with Measurement Error Using a Reproducing Kernel-based Diffusion Model

Mingyang Yi, Marcos Matabuena, Zhiming Ma +1

The ongoing technological revolution in measurement systems enables the acquisition of high-resolution samples in fields such as engineering, biology, and medicine. However, these…

cs.LG2024

Continuous-time Riemannian SGD and SVRG Flows on Wasserstein Probabilistic Space

Mingyang Yi, Bohan Wang

Recently, optimization on the Riemannian manifold have provided valuable insights to the optimization community. In this regard, extending these methods to to the Wasserstein space…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

SA-Solver: Stochastic Adams Solver for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models

Shuchen Xue, Mingyang Yi, Weijian Luo +4

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have achieved considerable success in generation tasks. As sampling from DPMs is equivalent to solving diffusion SDE or ODE which is time-cons…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

On the Generalization of Diffusion Model

Mingyang Yi, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenguo Li

The diffusion probabilistic generative models are widely used to generate high-quality data. Though they can synthetic data that does not exist in the training set, the rationale b…

cs.LG2022

Breaking Correlation Shift via Conditional Invariant Regularizer

Mingyang Yi, Ruoyu Wang, Jiachen Sun +2

Recently, generalization on out-of-distribution (OOD) data with correlation shift has attracted great attentions. The correlation shift is caused by the spurious attributes that co…

stat.ML2022

Out-of-distribution Generalization with Causal Invariant Transformations

Ruoyu Wang, Mingyang Yi, Zhitang Chen +1

In real-world applications, it is important and desirable to learn a model that performs well on out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Recently, causality has become a powerful tool to t…

cs.LG2021★ 21 cited

Towards the Generalization of Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning

Weiran Huang, Mingyang Yi, Xuyang Zhao +1

Recently, self-supervised learning has attracted great attention, since it only requires unlabeled data for model training. Contrastive learning is one popular method for self-supe…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

Improved OOD Generalization via Adversarial Training and Pre-training

Mingyang Yi, Lu Hou, Jiacheng Sun +4

Recently, learning a model that generalizes well on out-of-distribution (OOD) data has attracted great attention in the machine learning community. In this paper, after defining OO…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Reweighting Augmented Samples by Minimizing the Maximal Expected Loss

Mingyang Yi, Lu Hou, Lifeng Shang +3

Data augmentation is an effective technique to improve the generalization of deep neural networks. However, previous data augmentation methods usually treat the augmented samples e…

cs.LG2021

BN-invariant sharpness regularizes the training model to better generalization

Mingyang Yi, Huishuai Zhang, Wei Chen +2

It is arguably believed that flatter minima can generalize better. However, it has been pointed out that the usual definitions of sharpness, which consider either the maxima or the…

cs.LG2021

Accelerating Training of Batch Normalization: A Manifold Perspective

Mingyang Yi

Batch normalization (BN) has become a critical component across diverse deep neural networks. The network with BN is invariant to positively linear re-scale transformation, which m…

cs.LG2020

Characterization of Excess Risk for Locally Strongly Convex Population Risk

Mingyang Yi, Ruoyu Wang, Zhi-Ming Ma

We establish upper bounds for the expected excess risk of models trained by proper iterative algorithms which approximate the local minima. Unlike the results built upon the strong…

cs.LG2019★ 11 cited

Positively Scale-Invariant Flatness of ReLU Neural Networks

Mingyang Yi, Qi Meng, Wei Chen +2

It was empirically confirmed by Keskar et al.\cite{SharpMinima} that flatter minima generalize better. However, for the popular ReLU network, sharp minimum can also generalize well…

cs.LG2019

Stabilize Deep ResNet with A Sharp Scaling Factor

Huishuai Zhang, Da Yu, Mingyang Yi +2

We study the stability and convergence of training deep ResNets with gradient descent. Specifically, we show that the parametric branch in the residual block should be scaled down…