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Topic Modeling On Document Networks With Dirichlet Optimal Transport Barycenter (Extended Abstract), Ce Zhang, Hady Wirawan Lauw Jul 2024

Topic Modeling On Document Networks With Dirichlet Optimal Transport Barycenter (Extended Abstract), Ce Zhang, Hady Wirawan Lauw

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Texts are often interconnected in a network structure, e.g., academic papers via citations. On the one hand, though Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promising ability to derive effective embeddings for networked documents, they do not assume latent topics, resulting in uninterpretahle embeddings. On the other hand, topic models can infer interpretable document representations. However, most topic models focus on plain text and fail to leverage network structure across documents. In this paper, we propose a GNN-based topic model that both captures network connection and derives semantically interpretable text representations. For network modeling, we build our model with Optimal Transport …


Augmenting Decision With Hypothesis In Reinforcement Learning, Minh Quang Nguyen, Hady Wirawan Lauw Jul 2024

Augmenting Decision With Hypothesis In Reinforcement Learning, Minh Quang Nguyen, Hady Wirawan Lauw

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Value-based reinforcement learning is the current State-Of-The-Art due to high sampling efficiency. However, our study shows it suffers from low exploitation in early training period and bias sensitiveness. To address these issues, we propose to augment the decision-making process with hypothesis, a weak form of environment description. Our approach relies on prompting the learning agent with accurate hypotheses, and designing a ready-to-adapt policy through incremental learning. We propose the ALH algorithm, showing detailed analyses on a typical learning scheme and a diverse set of Mujoco benchmarks. Our algorithm produces a significant improvement over value-based learning algorithms and other strong baselines. …


Unified Training Of Universal Time Series Forecasting Transformers, Gerald Woo, Chenghao Liu, Akshat Kumar, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Doyen Sahoo Jul 2024

Unified Training Of Universal Time Series Forecasting Transformers, Gerald Woo, Chenghao Liu, Akshat Kumar, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Doyen Sahoo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Deep learning for time series forecasting has traditionally operated within a one-model-per-dataset framework, limiting its potential to leverage the game-changing impact of large pre-trained models. The concept of universal forecasting, emerging from pre-training on a vast collection of time series datasets, envisions a single Large Time Series Model capable of addressing diverse downstream forecasting tasks. However, constructing such a model poses unique challenges specific to time series data: i) cross-frequency learning, ii) accommodating an arbitrary number of variates for multivariate time series, and iii) addressing the varying distributional properties inherent in large-scale data. To address these challenges, we present novel …


Diffusion Models For Generative Outfit Recommendation, Yiyan Xu, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Yunshan Ma, Jizhi Zhang, Xiangnan He Jul 2024

Diffusion Models For Generative Outfit Recommendation, Yiyan Xu, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Yunshan Ma, Jizhi Zhang, Xiangnan He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Outfit Recommendation (OR) in the fashion domain has evolved through two stages: Pre-defined Outfit Recommendation and Personalized Outfit Composition. However, both stages are constrained by existing fashion products, limiting their effectiveness in addressing users' diverse fashion needs. Recently, the advent of AI-generated content provides the opportunity for OR to transcend these limitations, showcasing the potential for personalized outfit generation and recommendation.To this end, we introduce a novel task called Generative Outfit Recommendation (GOR), aiming to generate a set of fashion images and compose them into a visually compatible outfit tailored to specific users. The key objectives of GOR lie in …


Adaptive Stabilization Based On Machine Learning For Column Generation, Yunzhuang Shen, Yuan Sun, Xiaodong Li, Zhiguang Cao, Eberhard Andrew, Guangquan Zhang Jul 2024

Adaptive Stabilization Based On Machine Learning For Column Generation, Yunzhuang Shen, Yuan Sun, Xiaodong Li, Zhiguang Cao, Eberhard Andrew, Guangquan Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Column generation (CG) is a well-established method for solving large-scale linear programs. It involves iteratively optimizing a subproblem containing a subset of columns and using its dual solution to generate new columns with negative reduced costs. This process continues until the dual values converge to the optimal dual solution to the original problem. A natural phenomenon in CG is the heavy oscillation of the dual values during iterations, which can lead to a substantial slowdown in the convergence rate. Stabilization techniques are devised to accelerate the convergence of dual values by using information beyond the state of the current subproblem. …


Mvmoe: Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver With Mixture-Of-Experts, Jianan Zhou, Zhiguang Cao, Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Yining Ma, Jie Zhang, Chi Xu Jul 2024

Mvmoe: Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver With Mixture-Of-Experts, Jianan Zhou, Zhiguang Cao, Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Yining Ma, Jie Zhang, Chi Xu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Learning to solve vehicle routing problems (VRPs) has garnered much attention. However, most neural solvers are only structured and trained independently on a specific problem, making them less generic and practical. In this paper, we aim to develop a unified neural solver that can cope with a range of VRP variants simultaneously. Specifically, we propose a multi-task vehicle routing solver with mixture-of-experts (MVMoE), which greatly enhances the model capacity without a proportional increase in computation. We further develop a hierarchical gating mechanism for the MVMoE, delivering a good trade-off between empirical performance and computational complexity. Experimentally, our method significantly promotes …


Is There A Space In Landslide Susceptibility Modelling: A Case Study Of Valtellina Valley, Northern Italy, Min Naing Khant, Mei Yi Victoria Grace Ann, Tin Seong Kam Jul 2024

Is There A Space In Landslide Susceptibility Modelling: A Case Study Of Valtellina Valley, Northern Italy, Min Naing Khant, Mei Yi Victoria Grace Ann, Tin Seong Kam

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Landslides pose significant and ever-threatening risks to human life and infrastructure worldwide. Landslide susceptibility modelling is an emerging field of research seeking to determine contributing factors of these events. Yet, previous studies rarely explored the spatial variation of different landslide factors. Hence, this study aims to demonstrate the potential contribution of spatial nonstationarity in landslide susceptibility modelling using Global Logistic Regression (GLR) and Geographically Weighted Logistic Regression (GWLR). The second objective of this study is to demonstrate the important role of data preparation, data sampling, variable sensing, and variable selections in landslide susceptibility modelling. Using Valtellina Valley in Northern Italy …


The Information Content Of Financial Statement Fraud Risk: An Ensemble Learning Approach, Wei Duan, Nan Hu, Fujing Xue Jul 2024

The Information Content Of Financial Statement Fraud Risk: An Ensemble Learning Approach, Wei Duan, Nan Hu, Fujing Xue

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This study aims to assess the financial statement fraud risk ex ante and empirically explore its information content to help improve decision-making and daily operations. We propose an ex-ante fraud risk index by adopting an ensemble learning approach and a theoretically grounded framework. Our ensemble learning model systematically examines the fraud process and deals effectively with the unique challenges in the financial fraud setting, which yields superior prediction performance. More importantly, we empirically examine the information content of our estimated ex-ante fraud risk from the perspective of operational efficiency. Our empirical results find that the estimated ex-ante fraud risk is …


Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Protection Of Personal Data And Countering False Narratives About The Person, Warren B. Chik Jul 2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Protection Of Personal Data And Countering False Narratives About The Person, Warren B. Chik

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Generative artificial intelligence (“Gen AI”) has rapidly become ubiquitous on online platform services, from chatbots and virtual assistants to search engines and social media. This generated concerns over potentially harmful effects from its use in both social and professional settings, including the added threats to personal data privacy and accuracy of personal information. In this article, the author will explain how Gen AI operates and why it gives rise to these issues, examine the policy and law relating to Gen AI, both existent and anticipated, and suggest possible solutions to the problems in the form of legal and non-legal measures.


Combinatorial Creativity: Knowledge Graphs And Idea Generation In Crowdsourcing Innovation, Zhi Wei Vincent Mack Jun 2024

Combinatorial Creativity: Knowledge Graphs And Idea Generation In Crowdsourcing Innovation, Zhi Wei Vincent Mack

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This dissertation explores the dynamic interplay between combinatorial creativity and technology-driven innovation within various knowledge-intensive fields. It critically examines the role of combinatorial creativity in generating groundbreaking innovations by amalgamating existing ideas and technologies. This research incorporates a detailed examination of how knowledge, whether tacit or explicit, can be transformed into actionable data to foster innovation in crowdsourcing contexts. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the relevant literature on how Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management Systems can support combinatorial creativity. The study further delves into the transformative impact of knowledge management systems, particularly focusing on crowdsourcing platforms that leverage collective …


Does Generative Ai Facilitate Investor Trading? Evidence From Chatgpt Outages, Qiang Cheng, Pengkai Lin, Yue Zhao Jun 2024

Does Generative Ai Facilitate Investor Trading? Evidence From Chatgpt Outages, Qiang Cheng, Pengkai Lin, Yue Zhao

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

In this paper, we use ChatGPT outages to investigate whether investors rely on generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to perform trading-related tasks and the associated impact on stock price informativeness. We first document a significant decline in stock trading volume during ChatGPT outages and find that the effect is stronger for firms with corporate news released immediately before or during the outages. We further document similar declines in the short-run price impact, return variance, and bid-ask spreads, consistent with a reduction in informed trading during the outage periods. Lastly, we use trading volume changes during outages to construct a firm-level measure …


Towards Faster Inference Of Transformers: Strategies For Accelerating Decoding Processes, Cunxiao Du Jun 2024

Towards Faster Inference Of Transformers: Strategies For Accelerating Decoding Processes, Cunxiao Du

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This thesis delves into the acceleration and optimization of Transformer inference, a subject of increasing importance with the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs). The study primarily addresses the challenges posed by two inherent properties of Transformers during inference: the quadratic complexity of the attention mechanism and the sequential nature of autoregressive inference. The research is structured into three main parts. The first part enhances the learning capabilities of non-autoregressive Transformers, achieving a remarkable 15.0x acceleration on machine translation tasks. The following section focuses on lossless acceleration through speculative decoding, where the proposed algorithm, Glide with CAPE, is shown to …


Locality-Aware Tail Node Embeddings On Homogeneous And Heterogeneous Networks, Zemin Liu, Yuan Fang, Wentao Zhang, Xinming Zhang, Steven C. H. Hoi Jun 2024

Locality-Aware Tail Node Embeddings On Homogeneous And Heterogeneous Networks, Zemin Liu, Yuan Fang, Wentao Zhang, Xinming Zhang, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While the state-of-the-art network embedding approaches often learn high-quality embeddings for high-degree nodes with abundant structural connectivity, the quality of the embeddings for low-degree or nodes is often suboptimal due to their limited structural connectivity. While many real-world networks are long-tailed, to date little effort has been devoted to tail node embeddings. In this article, we formulate the goal of learning tail node embeddings as a problem, given the few links on each tail node. In particular, since each node resides in its own local context, we personalize the regression model for each tail node. To reduce overfitting in the …


Posmlp-Video: Spatial And Temporal Relative Position Encoding For Efficient Video Recognition, Yanbin Hao, Diansong Zhou, Zhicai Wang, Chong-Wah Ngo, Xiangnan He, Meng Wang Jun 2024

Posmlp-Video: Spatial And Temporal Relative Position Encoding For Efficient Video Recognition, Yanbin Hao, Diansong Zhou, Zhicai Wang, Chong-Wah Ngo, Xiangnan He, Meng Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In recent years, vision Transformers and MLPs have demonstrated remarkable performance in image understanding tasks. However, their inherently dense computational operators, such as self-attention and token-mixing layers, pose significant challenges when applied to spatio-temporal video data. To address this gap, we propose PosMLP-Video, a lightweight yet powerful MLP-like backbone for video recognition. Instead of dense operators, we use efficient relative positional encoding (RPE) to build pairwise token relations, leveraging small-sized parameterized relative position biases to obtain each relation score. Specifically, to enable spatio-temporal modeling, we extend the image PosMLP’s positional gating unit to temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal variants, namely PoTGU, …


Violet: Visual Analytics For Explainable Quantum Neural Networks, Shaolun Ruan, Zhiding Liang, Qiang Guan, Paul Robert Griffin, Xiaolin Wen, Yanna Lin, Yong Wang Jun 2024

Violet: Visual Analytics For Explainable Quantum Neural Networks, Shaolun Ruan, Zhiding Liang, Qiang Guan, Paul Robert Griffin, Xiaolin Wen, Yanna Lin, Yong Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the rapid development of Quantum Machine Learning, quantum neural networks (QNN) have experienced great advancement in the past few years, harnessing the advantages of quantum computing to significantly speed up classical machine learning tasks. Despite their increasing popularity, the quantum neural network is quite counter-intuitive and difficult to understand, due to their unique quantum-specific layers (e.g., data encoding and measurement) in their architecture. It prevents QNN users and researchers from effectively understanding its inner workings and exploring the model training status. To fill the research gap, we propose VIOLET , a novel visual analytics approach to improve the explainability …


Poster: Profiling Event Vision Processing On Edge Devices, Ila Nitin Gokarn, Archan Misra Jun 2024

Poster: Profiling Event Vision Processing On Edge Devices, Ila Nitin Gokarn, Archan Misra

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

As RGB camera resolutions and frame-rates improve, their increased energy requirements make it challenging to deploy fast, efficient, and low-power applications on edge devices. Newer classes of sensors, such as the biologically inspired neuromorphic event-based camera, capture only changes in light intensity per-pixel to achieve operational superiority in sensing latency (O(μs)), energy consumption (O(mW)), high dynamic range (140dB), and task accuracy such as in object tracking, over traditional RGB camera streams. However, highly dynamic scenes can yield an event rate of up to 12MEvents/second, the processing of which could overwhelm …


Criticality Aware Canvas-Based Visual Perception At The Edge, Ila Gokarn Jun 2024

Criticality Aware Canvas-Based Visual Perception At The Edge, Ila Gokarn

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Efficient and effective machine perception remains a formidable challenge in sustaining high fidelity and high throughput of perception tasks on affordable edge devices. This is especially due to the continuing increase in resolution of sensor streams (e.g., video input streams generated by 4K/8K cameras and neuromorphic event cameras that produce ≥ 10 MEvents/second) and computational complexity of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, which overwhelms edge platforms, adversely impacting machine perception efficiency. Given the insufficiency of the available computation resources, a question then arises on whether selected regions/components of the perception task can be prioritized (and executed preferentially) to achieve highest …


Refining Chatgpt-Generated Code: Characterizing And Mitigating Code Quality Issues, Yue Liu, Thanh Le-Cong, Ratnadira Widyasari, Chakkrit Kla Tantihamthavorn, Li Li, Xuan-Bach Dinh Le, David Lo Jun 2024

Refining Chatgpt-Generated Code: Characterizing And Mitigating Code Quality Issues, Yue Liu, Thanh Le-Cong, Ratnadira Widyasari, Chakkrit Kla Tantihamthavorn, Li Li, Xuan-Bach Dinh Le, David Lo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Since its introduction in November 2022, ChatGPT has rapidly gained popularity due to its remarkable ability in language understanding and human-like responses. ChatGPT, based on GPT-3.5 architecture, has shown great promise for revolutionizing various research fields, including code generation. However, the reliability and quality of code generated by ChatGPT remain unexplored, raising concerns about potential risks associated with the widespread use of ChatGPT-driven code generation.In this article, we systematically study the quality of 4,066 ChatGPT-generated programs of code implemented in two popular programming languages, i.e., Java and Python, for 2,033 programming tasks. The goal of this work is threefold. First, …


Predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment Through Ambient Sensing And Artificial Intelligence, Ah-Hwee Tan, Weng Yan Ying, Budhitama Subagdja, Anni Huang, Shanthoshigaa D, Tony Chin-Ian Tay, Iris Rawtaer Jun 2024

Predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment Through Ambient Sensing And Artificial Intelligence, Ah-Hwee Tan, Weng Yan Ying, Budhitama Subagdja, Anni Huang, Shanthoshigaa D, Tony Chin-Ian Tay, Iris Rawtaer

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper reports an emerging application leveraging ambient and artificial intelligence techniques for in-home sensing and cognitive health assessment. The application involves a prospective longitudinal study, wherein non-pervasive sensing devices are installed in homes of over 63 real users undergoing clinical cognitive assessment, and digital signals of the users’ activities and behaviour are transmitted to a central cloud-based data server for further processing and analysis. Based on the sensor readings, we identify a set of digital biomarkers covering four key aspects of daily living, namely physical, activity, cognitive, and sleep, and develop a suite of customized feature extraction methods for …


Open-Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection, Peng Wu, Xuerong Zhou, Guansong Pang, Yujia Sun, Jing Liu, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang Jun 2024

Open-Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection, Peng Wu, Xuerong Zhou, Guansong Pang, Yujia Sun, Jing Liu, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Current video anomaly detection (VAD) approaches with weak supervisions are inherently limited to a closed-set setting and may struggle in open-world applications where there can be anomaly categories in the test data unseen during training. A few recent studies attempt to tackle a more realistic setting, open-set VAD, which aims to de-tect unseen anomalies given seen anomalies and normal videos. However, such a setting focuses on predicting frame anomaly scores, having no ability to recognize the specific categories of anomalies, despite the fact that this ability is essential for building more informed video surveillance systems. This paper takes a step …


Anomaly Heterogeneity Learning For Open-Set Supervised Anomaly Detection, Jiawen Zhu, Choubo Ding, Yu Tian, Guansong Pang Jun 2024

Anomaly Heterogeneity Learning For Open-Set Supervised Anomaly Detection, Jiawen Zhu, Choubo Ding, Yu Tian, Guansong Pang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Open-set supervised anomaly detection (OSAD) - a recently emerging anomaly detection area - aims at utilizing a few samples of anomaly classes seen during training to detect unseen anomalies (i.e., samples from open-set anomaly classes), while effectively identifying the seen anomalies. Benefiting from the prior knowledge illustrated by the seen anomalies, current OSAD methods can often largely reduce false positive errors. However, these methods are trained in a closed-set setting and treat the anomaly examples as from a homogeneous distribution, rendering them less effective in generalizing to unseen anomalies that can be drawn from any distribution. This paper proposes to …


Learning Transferable Negative Prompts For Out-Of-Distribution Detection, Tianqi Li, Guansong Pang, Xiao Bai, Wenjun Miao, Jin Zheng Jun 2024

Learning Transferable Negative Prompts For Out-Of-Distribution Detection, Tianqi Li, Guansong Pang, Xiao Bai, Wenjun Miao, Jin Zheng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Existing prompt learning methods have shown certain capabilities in Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection, but the lack of OOD images in the target dataset in their training can lead to mismatches between OOD images and In-Distribution (ID) categories, resulting in a high false positive rate. To address this issue, we introduce a novel OOD detection method, named ‘NegPrompt’, to learn a set of negative prompts, each representing a negative connotation of a given class label, for delineating the boundaries between ID and OOD images. It learns such negative prompts with ID data only, without any reliance on external out-lier data. Further, current …


Toward Generalist Anomaly Detection Via In-Context Residual Learning With Few-Shot Sample Prompts, Jiawen Zhu, Guansong Pang Jun 2024

Toward Generalist Anomaly Detection Via In-Context Residual Learning With Few-Shot Sample Prompts, Jiawen Zhu, Guansong Pang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper explores the problem of Generalist Anomaly Detection (GAD), aiming to train one single detection model that can generalize to detect anomalies in diverse datasets from different application domains without any further training on the target data. Some recent studies have showed that large pre-trained Visual-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have strong generalization capabilities on detecting industrial defects from various datasets, but their methods rely heavily on handcrafted text prompts about defects, making them difficult to generalize to anomalies in other applications, e.g., medical image anomalies or semantic anomalies in natural images. In this work, we propose to train …


Drag Your Noise: Interactive Point-Based Editing Via Diffusion Semantic Propagation, Haofeng Liu, Chenshu Xu, Yifei Yang, Lihua Zeng, Shengfeng He Jun 2024

Drag Your Noise: Interactive Point-Based Editing Via Diffusion Semantic Propagation, Haofeng Liu, Chenshu Xu, Yifei Yang, Lihua Zeng, Shengfeng He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Point-based interactive editing serves as an essential tool to complement the controllability of existing generative models. A concurrent work, DragDiffusion, updates the diffusion latent map in response to user inputs, causing global latent map alterations. This results in imprecise preservation of the original content and unsuccessful editing due to gradient vanishing. In contrast, we present DragNoise, offering robust and accelerated editing without retracing the latent map. The core rationale of DragNoise lies in utilizing the predicted noise output of each U-Net as a semantic editor. This approach is grounded in two critical observations: firstly, the bottleneck features of U-Net inherently …


Beyond Textual Constraints : Learning Novel Diffusion Conditions With Fewer Examples, Yuyang Yu, Bangzhen Liu, Chenxi Zheng, Xuemiao Xu, Huaidong Zhang, Shengfeng He Jun 2024

Beyond Textual Constraints : Learning Novel Diffusion Conditions With Fewer Examples, Yuyang Yu, Bangzhen Liu, Chenxi Zheng, Xuemiao Xu, Huaidong Zhang, Shengfeng He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we delve into a novel aspect of learning novel diffusion conditions with datasets an order of magnitude smaller. The rationale behind our approach is the elimination of textual constraints during the few-shot learning process. To that end, we implement two optimization strategies. The first, prompt-free conditional learning, utilizes a prompt-free encoder derived from a pre-trained Stable Diffusion model. This strategy is designed to adapt new conditions to the diffusion process by minimizing the textual-visual cor-relation, thereby ensuring a more precise alignment between the generated content and the specified conditions. The second strategy entails condition-specific negative rectification, which …


Learning With Unreliability : Fast Few-Shot Voxel Radiance Fields With Relative Geometric Consistency, Yingjie Xu, Bangzhen Liu, Hao Tang, Bailin Deng, Shengfeng He Jun 2024

Learning With Unreliability : Fast Few-Shot Voxel Radiance Fields With Relative Geometric Consistency, Yingjie Xu, Bangzhen Liu, Hao Tang, Bailin Deng, Shengfeng He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We propose a voxel-based optimization framework, Re VoRF, for few-shot radiance fields that strategically ad-dress the unreliability in pseudo novel view synthesis. Our method pivots on the insight that relative depth relationships within neighboring regions are more reliable than the ab-solute color values in disoccluded areas. Consequently, we devise a bilateral geometric consistency loss that carefully navigates the trade-off between color fidelity and geometric accuracy in the context of depth consistency for uncertain regions. Moreover, we present a reliability-guided learning strategy to discern and utilize the variable quality across syn-thesized views, complemented by a reliability-aware voxel smoothing algorithm that smoothens …


D3still : Decoupled Differential Distillation For Asymmetric Image Retrieval, Yi Xie, Yihong Lin, Wenjie Cai, Xuemiao Xu, Huaidong Zhang, Yong Du, Shengfeng He Jun 2024

D3still : Decoupled Differential Distillation For Asymmetric Image Retrieval, Yi Xie, Yihong Lin, Wenjie Cai, Xuemiao Xu, Huaidong Zhang, Yong Du, Shengfeng He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Existing methods for asymmetric image retrieval employ a rigid pairwise similarity constraint between the query network and the larger gallery network. However, these oneto-one constraint approaches often fail to maintain retrieval order consistency, especially when the query network has limited representational capacity. To overcome this problem, we introduce the Decoupled Differential Distillation (D3still) framework. This framework shifts from absolute one-to-one supervision to optimizing the relational differences in pairwise similarities produced by the query and gallery networks, thereby preserving a consistent retrieval order across both networks. Our method involves computing a pairwise similarity differential matrix within the gallery domain, which is …


Rethinking Multi-View Representation Learning Via Distilled Disentangling, Guanzhou Ke, Bo Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Shengfeng He Jun 2024

Rethinking Multi-View Representation Learning Via Distilled Disentangling, Guanzhou Ke, Bo Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Shengfeng He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Multi-view representation learning aims to derive robust representations that are both view-consistent and view-specific from diverse data sources. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of existing approaches in this domain, highlighting a commonly overlooked aspect: the redundancy between view-consistent and view-specific representations. To this end, we propose an innovative framework for multi-view representation learning, which incorporates a technique we term 'distilled disentangling'. Our method introduces the concept of masked cross-view prediction, enabling the extraction of compact, high-quality view-consistent representations from various sources without incurring extra computational overhead. Additionally, we develop a distilled disentangling module that efficiently filters out consistency-related information …


The Whole Is Better Than The Sum : Using Aggregated Demonstrations In In-Context Learning For Sequential Recommendation, Wang Lei, Ee-Peng Lim Jun 2024

The Whole Is Better Than The Sum : Using Aggregated Demonstrations In In-Context Learning For Sequential Recommendation, Wang Lei, Ee-Peng Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Large language models (LLMs) have shown excellent performance on various NLP tasks. To use LLMs as strong sequential recommenders, we explore the in-context learning approach to sequential recommendation. We investigate the effects of instruction format, task consistency, demonstration selection, and number of demonstrations. As increasing the number of demonstrations in ICL does not improve accuracy despite using a long prompt, we propose a novel method called LLMSRec-Syn that incorporates multiple demonstration users into one aggregated demonstration. Our experiments on three recommendation datasets show that LLMSRec-Syn outperforms state-of-the-art LLM-based sequential recommendation methods. In some cases, LLMSRec-Syn can perform on par with …


Zero-Shot Out-Of-Distribution Detection With Outlier Label Exposure, Choubo Ding, Guansong Pang Jun 2024

Zero-Shot Out-Of-Distribution Detection With Outlier Label Exposure, Choubo Ding, Guansong Pang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

As vision-language models like CLIP are widely applied to zero-shot tasks and gain remarkable performance on in-distribution (ID) data, detecting and rejecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs in the zero-shot setting have become crucial for ensuring the safety of using such models on the fly. Most existing zero-shot OOD detectors rely on ID class label-based prompts to guide CLIP in classifying ID images and rejecting OOD images. In this work we instead propose to leverage a large set of diverse auxiliary outlier class labels as pseudo OOD class text prompts to CLIP for enhancing zero-shot OOD detection, an approach we called Outlier …