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Qian Zhao

28 accepted papers

2026

WSM: Decay-Free Learning Rate Schedule via Checkpoint Merging for LLM Pre-training

ICLR 2026oral

Recent advances in learning rate~(LR) scheduling have demonstrated the effectiveness of decay-free approaches that eliminate the traditional decay phase while maintaining competitive performance. Model merging techniques have emerged as particularly promising solutions in this domain. We present War…

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2025

Bagging-Expert Network for Multi-Task Learning: A Depolarization Solution in Multi-Gate Mixture-of-Experts

AAAI 2025technical

Multi-task learning (MTL) is widely utilized across a variety of real-world applications, including recommendation systems. For instance, in the field of e-commerce, MTL is commonly employed to simultaneously model click, conversion, and user dwelling time. Among a various of MTL models, the Multi-g…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DroughtSet: Understanding Drought Through Spatial-Temporal Learning

AAAI 2025technical

Drought is one of the most destructive and expensive natural disasters, severely impacting natural resources and risks by depleting water resources and diminishing agricultural yields. Under climate change, accurately predicting drought is critical for mitigating drought-induced risks. However, the…

2025

Graph Domain Adaptation with Dual-branch Encoder and Two-level Alignment for Whole Slide Image-based Survival Prediction

ICCV 2025poster

In recent years, whole slide image (WSI)-based survival analysis has attracted much attention. In practice, WSIs usually come from different hospitals (or domains) and may have significant differences. These differences generally result in large gaps in distribution between different WSI domains and…

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2025

Latent Imputation before Prediction: A New Computational Paradigm for De Novo Peptide Sequencing

ICML 2025poster

*De novo* peptide sequencing is a fundamental computational technique for ascertaining amino acid sequences of peptides directly from tandem mass spectrometry data, eliminating the need for reference databases. Cutting-edge models encode the observed mass spectra into latent representations from whi…

2024

Leveraging Contextual Information for Effective Entity Salience Detection

NAACL 2024findings

In text documents such as news articles, the content and key events usually revolve around a subset of all the entities mentioned in a document. These entities, often deemed as salient entities, provide useful cues of the aboutness of a document to a reader. Identifying the salience of entities was…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

MDGNN: Multi-Relational Dynamic Graph Neural Network for Comprehensive and Dynamic Stock Investment Prediction

AAAI 2024technical

The stock market is a crucial component of the financial system, but predicting the movement of stock prices is challenging due to the dynamic and intricate relations arising from various aspects such as economic indicators, financial reports, global news, and investor sentiment. Traditional sequent…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2023

Interactive Segmentation As Gaussion Process Classification

CVPR 2023highlight

Click-based interactive segmentation (IS) aims to extract the target objects under user interaction. For this task, most of the current deep learning (DL)-based methods mainly follow the general pipelines of semantic segmentation. Albeit achieving promising performance, they do not fully and explici…

2022

Blind Image Super-Resolution With Elaborate Degradation Modeling on Noise and Kernel

CVPR 2022poster

While researches on model-based blind single image super-resolution (SISR) have achieved tremendous successes recently, most of them do not consider the image degradation sufficiently. Firstly, they always assume image noise obeys an independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Gaussian or Lapla…

Cited by 76PDFcodeScholar
2022

KXNet: A Model-Driven Deep Neural Network for Blind Super-Resolution

ECCV 2022poster

"Although current deep learning-based methods have gained promising performance in the blind single image super-resolution (SISR) task, most of them mainly focus on heuristically constructing diverse network architectures and put less emphasis on the explicit embedding of the physical generation mec…

2021

Learning an Explicit Weighting Scheme for Adapting Complex HSI Noise

CVPR 2021poster

A general approach for handling hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising issue is to impose weights on different HSI pixels to suppress negative influence brought by noisy elements. Such weighting scheme, however, largely depends on the prior understanding or subjective distribution assumption on HSI noi…

Cited by 17PDFScholar
2021

Learning to Purify Noisy Labels via Meta Soft Label Corrector

AAAI 2021technical

Recent deep neural networks (DNNs) can easily overfit to biased training data with noisy labels. Label correction strategy is commonly used to alleviate this issue by identifying suspected noisy labels and then correcting them. Current approaches to correcting corrupted labels usually need manually…

2020

Dual Adversarial Network: Toward Real-world Noise Removal and Noise Generation

ECCV 2020poster

Real-world image noise removal is a long-standing yet very challenging task in computer vision. The success of deep neural network in denoising stimulates the research of noise generation, aiming at synthesizing more pairs of clean-noisy images to facilitate the training of deep. In this work, we pr…

2019

Meta-Weight-Net: Learning an Explicit Mapping For Sample Weighting

NeurIPS 2019poster

Current deep neural networks(DNNs) can easily overfit to biased training data with corrupted labels or class imbalance. Sample re-weighting strategy is commonly used to alleviate this issue by designing a weighting function mapping from training loss to sample weight, and then iterating between weig…

2019

Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Fusion by MS/HS Fusion Net

CVPR 2019poster

Hyperspectral imaging can help better understand the characteristics of different materials, compared with traditional image systems. However, only high-resolution multispectral (HrMS) and low-resolution hyperspectral (LrHS) images can generally be captured at video rate in practice. In this paper,…

Cited by 291PDFcodeScholar
2019

Variational Denoising Network: Toward Blind Noise Modeling and Removal

NeurIPS 2019poster

Blind image denoising is an important yet very challenging problem in computer vision due to the complicated acquisition process of real images. In this work we propose a new variational inference method, which integrates both noise estimation and image denoising into a unique Bayesian framework, fo…

2018

Video Rain Streak Removal by Multiscale Convolutional Sparse Coding

CVPR 2018poster

Videos captured by outdoor surveillance equipments sometimes contain unexpected rain streaks, which brings difficulty in subsequent video processing tasks. Rain streak removal from a video is thus an important topic in recent computer vision research. In this paper, we raise two intrinsic characte…

Cited by 228SourcePDFScholar
2017

Should We Encode Rain Streaks in Video as Deterministic or Stochastic?

ICCV 2017poster

Videos taken in the wild sometimes contain unexpected rain streaks, which brings difficulty in subsequent video processing tasks. Rain streak removal in a video (RSRV) is thus an important issue and has been attracting much attention in computer vision. Different from previous RSRV methods formulati…

Cited by 162PDFScholar
2016

Multispectral Images Denoising by Intrinsic Tensor Sparsity Regularization

CVPR 2016spotlight

Multispectral images (MSI) can help deliver more faithful representation for real scenes than the traditional image system, and enhance the performance of many computer vision tasks. In real cases, however, an MSI is always corrupted by various noises. In this paper, we propose a new tensor-based de…

Cited by 280PDFScholar
2015

A Self-Paced Multiple-Instance Learning Framework for Co-Saliency Detection

ICCV 2015poster

As an interesting and emerging topic, co-saliency detection aims at simultaneously extracting common salient objects in a group of images. Traditional co-saliency detection approaches rely heavily on human knowledge for designing hand-crafted metrics to explore the intrinsic patterns underlying co-s…

Cited by 155PDFScholar
2015

Low-Rank Matrix Factorization Under General Mixture Noise Distributions

ICCV 2015oral

Many computer vision problems can be posed as learning a low-dimensional subspace from high dimensional data. The low rank matrix factorization (LRMF) represents a commonly utilized subspace learning strategy. Most of the current LRMF techniques are constructed on the optimization problem using L_1…

Cited by 98PDFScholar