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Lei Cheng

22 accepted papers

2026

First Learn, Then Review: Human-Like Continual Learning for Cross-View Geo-Localization with Limited Field of View

AAAI 2026technical

This paper addresses cross-view geo-localization in real-world scenarios, where the field-of-view (FoV) is restricted and the orientation is unknown for ground-view images. This task is extremely challenging due to the huge domain gap. Existing methods typically treat tasks with different FoVs as in

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

G-UBS: Towards Robust Understanding of Implicit Feedback via Group-Aware User Behavior Simulation

AAAI 2026technical

User feedback is critical for refining recommendation systems, yet explicit feedback (e.g., likes or dislikes) remains scarce in practice. As a more feasible alternative, inferring user preferences from massive implicit feedback has shown great potential (e.g., a user quickly skipping a recommended

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

VRAgent-R1: Boosting Video Recommendation with MLLM-based Agents via Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2026technical

Large language model (LLM) agents have emerged as a promising solution for enhancing recommendation systems via user simulation. However, existing studies predominantly resort to prompt-based simulation using frozen LLMs, which frequently results in suboptimal item modeling and user preference learn

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

When Top-ranked Recommendations Fail: Modeling Multi-Granular Negative Feedback for Explainable and Robust Video Recommendation

AAAI 2026technical

Existing video recommendation systems, relying mainly on ID-based embedding mapping and collaborative filtering, often fail to capture in-depth video content semantics. Moreover, most struggle to address biased user behaviors (e.g., accidental clicks, fast skips), leading to inaccurate interest mode

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Basis Function Learning for Variable-Length and Continuous-Indexed Signals

ICASSP 2025accepted

Representing variable-length and continuous-indexed signals through a linear combination of basis functions poses a fundamental challenge in science and engineering. Current approaches resort to preprocessing steps, such as interpolation and extrapolation, to handle irregular and off-grid measuremen…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

DOGR: Leveraging Document-Oriented Contrastive Learning in Generative Retrieval

AAAI 2025technical

Generative retrieval constitutes an innovative approach in information retrieval, leveraging generative language models(LM) to generate a ranked list of document identifiers (docid) for a given query. It simplifies the retrieval pipeline by replacing the large external index with model parameters. H…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

EDCFlow: Exploring Temporally Dense Difference Maps for Event-based Optical Flow Estimation

CVPR 2025poster

Recent learning-based methods for event-based optical flow estimation utilize cost volumes for pixel matching but suffer from redundant computations and limited scalability to higher resolutions for flow refinement. In this work, we take advantage of the complementarity between temporally dense feat…

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2025

Functional Complexity-adaptive Temporal Tensor Decomposition

NeurIPS 2025poster

Tensor decomposition is a fundamental tool for analyzing multi-dimensional data by learning low-rank factors to represent high-order interactions. While recent works on temporal tensor decomposition have made significant progress by incorporating continuous timestamps in latent factors, they still s…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Generating Full-field Evolution of Physical Dynamics from Irregular Sparse Observations

NeurIPS 2025poster

Modeling and reconstructing multidimensional physical dynamics from sparse and off-grid observations presents a fundamental challenge in scientific research. Recently, diffusion-based generative modeling shows promising potential for physical simulation. However, current approaches typically operate…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Bayesian Activity Detection for Massive Connectivity in Cell-Free IoT Networks

ICASSP 2024accepted

Activity detection is an important task in the next generation Internet-of-things (IoT) networks. Existing algorithms mostly require precise information about the network, such as large-scale fading, noise variance, and small-scale fading statistics. Acquiring such information would take a significa…

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2024

Layerwise Change of Knowledge in Neural Networks

ICML 2024poster

This paper aims to explain how a deep neural network (DNN) gradually extracts new knowledge and forgets noisy features through layers in forward propagation. Up to now, although how to define knowledge encoded by the DNN has not reached a consensus so far, previous studies have derived a series of m…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

Physically-Based Photometric Bundle Adjustment in Non-Lambertian Environments

IROS 2024poster

Photometric bundle adjustment (PBA) is widely used in estimating the camera pose and 3D geometry by assuming a Lambertian world. However, the assumption of photometric consistency is often violated since the non-diffuse reflection is common in real-world environments. The photometric inconsistency s…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

ChordMixer: A Scalable Neural Attention Model for Sequences with Different Length

ICLR 2023poster

Sequential data naturally have different lengths in many domains, with some very long sequences. As an important modeling tool, neural attention should capture long-range interaction in such sequences. However, most existing neural attention models admit only short sequences, or they have to employ…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2023

Overcoming Posterior Collapse in Variational Autoencoders Via EM-Type Training

ICASSP 2023accepted

Variational autoencoders (VAE) are one of the most prominent deep generative models for learning the underlying statistical distribution of high-dimensional data. However, training VAEs suffers from a severe issue called posterior collapse; that is, the learned posterior distribution collapses to th…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

REMIT: Reinforced Multi-Interest Transfer for Cross-Domain Recommendation

AAAI 2023technical

Cold-start problem is one of the most challenging problems for recommender systems. One promising solution to this problem is cross-domain recommendation (CDR) which leverages rich information from an auxiliary source domain to improve the performance of recommender system in the target domain. In p…

2022

Paramixer: Parameterizing Mixing Links in Sparse Factors Works Better Than Dot-Product Self-Attention

CVPR 2022poster

Self-Attention is a widely used building block in neural modeling to mix long-range data elements. Most self-attention neural networks employ pairwise dot-products to specify the attention coefficients. However, these methods require O(N^2) computing cost for sequence length N. Even though some appr…

Cited by 14PDFcodeScholar
2021

Matching Distributions between Model and Data: Cross-domain Knowledge Distillation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

ACL 2021long

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer the knowledge of source domain to the unlabeled target domain. Existing methods typically require to learn to adapt the target model by exploiting the source data and sharing the network architecture across domains. However, this pipeline makes t…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2021

Pushing The Limit of Type I Codebook For Fdd Massive Mimo Beamforming: A Channel Covariance Reconstruction Approach

ICASSP 2021accepted

There is a fundamental trade-off between the channel representation resolution of codebooks and the overheads of feedback communications in the fifth generation new radio (5G NR) frequency division duplex (FDD) massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In particular, two types of co…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2019

Massive MIMO Multicast Beamforming via Accelerated Random Coordinate Descent

ICASSP 2019accepted

One key feature of massive multiple-input multiple-output systems is the large number of antennas and users. As a result, reducing the computational complexity of beamforming design becomes imperative. To this end, the goal of this paper is to achieve a lower complexity order than that of existing b…

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2016

Dynamic modeling of cable driven elongated surgical instruments for sensorless grip force estimation

ICRA 2016

Haptic feedback plays a key role in surgeries, but it is still a missing component in robotic Minimally Invasive Surgeries. This paper proposes a dynamic model-based sensorless grip force estimation method to address the haptic perception problem for commonly used elongated cable-driven surgical ins

Cited by 46SourceScholar