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most citedProbabilistic Reconstruction in Compressed Sensing: Algorithms, Phase Diagrams, and Threshold Achieving Matrices

198 citations · 1k across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

Bag of Tricks and A Strong baseline for Image Copy Detection

Wenhao Wang, Weipu Zhang, Yifan Sun +1

Image copy detection is of great importance in real-life social media. In this paper, a bag of tricks and a strong baseline are proposed for image copy detection. Unsupervised pre-…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

DLV: A Data-Driven and Local-Verification Approach for Image Copy Detection

Wenhao Wang, Yifan Sun, Weipu Zhang +1

Image copy detection is of great importance in real-life social media. In this paper, a data-driven and local-verification (DLV) approach is proposed to compete for Image Simil…

cs.RO2021

Bumblebee: A Path Towards Fully Autonomous Robotic Vine Pruning

Abhisesh Silwal, Francisco Yandun, Anjana Nellithimaru +2

Dormant season grapevine pruning requires skilled seasonal workers during the winter season which are becoming less available. As workers hasten to prune more vines in less time am…

cs.CV2021★ 5 cited

Spatial Ensemble: a Novel Model Smoothing Mechanism for Student-Teacher Framework

Tengteng Huang, Yifan Sun, Xun Wang +2

Model smoothing is of central importance for obtaining a reliable teacher model in the student-teacher framework, where the teacher generates surrogate supervision signals to train…

cs.CV2021★ 7 cited

IDM: An Intermediate Domain Module for Domain Adaptive Person Re-ID

Yongxing Dai, Jun Liu, Yifan Sun +3

Unsupervised domain adaptive person re-identification (UDA re-ID) aims at transferring the labeled source domain's knowledge to improve the model's discriminability on the unlabele…

math.OC2021

Approximate Frank-Wolfe Algorithms over Graph-structured Support Sets

Baojian Zhou, Yifan Sun

In this paper, we consider approximate Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithms to solve convex optimization problems over graph-structured support sets where the linear minimization oracle (LM…

math.OC2021

Continuous Time Frank-Wolfe Does Not Zig-Zag, But Multistep Methods Do Not Accelerate

Zhaoyue Chen, Mokhwa Lee, Yifan Sun

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has regained much interest in its use in structurally constrained machine learning applications. However, one major limitation of the Frank-Wolfe algorith…

cs.DC2021★ 1 cited

Daisen: A Framework for Visualizing Detailed GPU Execution

Yifan Sun, Yixuan Zhang, Ali Mosallaei +3

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have been widely used to accelerate artificial intelligence, physics simulation, medical imaging, and information visualization applications. To im…

cs.CV2021

Dynamic Metric Learning: Towards a Scalable Metric Space to Accommodate Multiple Semantic Scales

Yifan Sun, Yuke Zhu, Yuhan Zhang +4

This paper introduces a new fundamental characteristic, \ie, the dynamic range, from real-world metric tools to deep visual recognition. In metrology, the dynamic range is a basic…

cs.HC2021★ 73 cited

Mapping the Landscape of COVID-19 Crisis Visualizations

Yixuan Zhang, Yifan Sun, Lace Padilla +3

In response to COVID-19, a vast number of visualizations have been created to communicate information to the public. Information exposure in a public health crisis can impact peopl…

cs.LG2020

Latent Group Structured Multi-task Learning

Xiangyu Niu, Yifan Sun, Jinyuan Sun

In multi-task learning (MTL), we improve the performance of key machine learning algorithms by training various tasks jointly. When the number of tasks is large, modeling task stru…

cs.AR2020★ 3 cited

MGPU-TSM: A Multi-GPU System with Truly Shared Memory

Saiful A. Mojumder, Yifan Sun, Leila Delshadtehrani +6

The sizes of GPU applications are rapidly growing. They are exhausting the compute and memory resources of a single GPU, and are demanding the move to multiple GPUs. However, the p…

cs.CV2020★ 3 cited

Memory-based Jitter: Improving Visual Recognition on Long-tailed Data with Diversity In Memory

Jialun Liu, Jingwei Zhang, Yi yang +3

This paper considers deep visual recognition on long-tailed data. To be general, we consider two applied scenarios, \ie, deep classification and deep metric learning. Under the lon…

cs.CV2020★ 13 cited

CycAs: Self-supervised Cycle Association for Learning Re-identifiable Descriptions

Zhongdao Wang, Jingwei Zhang, Liang Zheng +4

This paper proposes a self-supervised learning method for the person re-identification (re-ID) problem, where existing unsupervised methods usually rely on pseudo labels, such as t…

cs.AR2020★ 3 cited

HALCONE : A Hardware-Level Timestamp-based Cache Coherence Scheme for Multi-GPU systems

Saiful A. Mojumder, Yifan Sun, Leila Delshadtehrani +6

While multi-GPU (MGPU) systems are extremely popular for compute-intensive workloads, several inefficiencies in the memory hierarchy and data movement result in a waste of GPU reso…

eess.AS2020★ 3 cited

Embodied Self-supervised Learning by Coordinated Sampling and Training

Yifan Sun, Xihong Wu

Self-supervised learning can significantly improve the performance of downstream tasks, however, the dimensions of learned representations normally lack explicit physical meanings.…

cs.CV2020★ 102 cited

Circle Loss: A Unified Perspective of Pair Similarity Optimization

Yifan Sun, Changmao Cheng, Yuhan Zhang +4

This paper provides a pair similarity optimization viewpoint on deep feature learning, aiming to maximize the within-class similarity and minimize the between-class similarit…

cs.CV2020★ 37 cited

Deep Representation Learning on Long-tailed Data: A Learnable Embedding Augmentation Perspective

Jialun Liu, Yifan Sun, Chuchu Han +2

This paper considers learning deep features from long-tailed data. We observe that in the deep feature space, the head classes and the tail classes present different distribution p…

cs.DC2019★ 66 cited

Summarizing CPU and GPU Design Trends with Product Data

Yifan Sun, Nicolas Bohm Agostini, Shi Dong +1

Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling have guided the semiconductor industry for the past few decades. Recently, both laws have faced validity challenges as transistor sizes approach the…

cs.CV2019★ 15 cited

Vehicle Re-identification with Viewpoint-aware Metric Learning

Ruihang Chu, Yifan Sun, Yadong Li +3

This paper considers vehicle re-identification (re-ID) problem. The extreme viewpoint variation (up to 180 degrees) poses great challenges for existing approaches. Inspired by the…

cs.CV2019★ 1 cited

Perceive Where to Focus: Learning Visibility-aware Part-level Features for Partial Person Re-identification

Yifan Sun, Qin Xu, Yali Li +4

This paper considers a realistic problem in person re-identification (re-ID) task, i.e., partial re-ID. Under partial re-ID scenario, the images may contain a partial observation o…

cs.DC2018★ 4 cited

MGSim + MGMark: A Framework for Multi-GPU System Research

Yifan Sun, Trinayan Baruah, Saiful A. Mojumder +10

The rapidly growing popularity and scale of data-parallel workloads demand a corresponding increase in raw computational power of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). As single-GPU sy…

math.OC2018

ADMM for combinatorial graph problems

Chuangchuang Sun, Yifan Sun, Ran Dai

We investigate a class of general combinatorial graph problems, including MAX-CUT and community detection, reformulated as quadratic objectives over nonconvex constraints and solve…

cs.LG2017★ 37 cited

Deep Unsupervised Clustering Using Mixture of Autoencoders

Dejiao Zhang, Yifan Sun, Brian Eriksson +1

Unsupervised clustering is one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning. A popular hypothesis is that data are generated from a union of low-dimensional nonlinear man…