Xin He

Mingyang Ren, Xin He, Junhui Wang

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) has been widely employed to represent directional relationships among a set of collected nodes. Yet, the available data in one single study is often limited for accurate DAG reconstruction, whereas heterogeneous data may be collected from multiple relevant studies. It remains an open question how to pool the heterogeneous data together for better DAG structure reconstruction in the target study. In this paper, we first introduce a novel set of structural similarity measures for DAG and then present a transfer DAG learning framework by effectively leveraging information from auxiliary DAGs of different levels of similarities. Our theoretical analysis shows substantial improvement in terms of DAG reconstruction in the target study, even when no auxiliary DAG is overall similar to the target DAG, which is in sharp contrast to most existing transfer learning methods. The advantage of the proposed transfer DAG learning is also supported by extensive numerical experiments on both synthetic data and multi-site brain functional connectivity network data.

Hongyan An, Kuan Zhu, Xin He et al.

Pedestrian attribute recognition (PAR) is a fundamental perception task in intelligent transportation and security. To tackle this fine-grained task, most existing methods focus on extracting regional features to enrich attribute information. However, a regional feature is typically used to predict a fixed set of pre-defined attributes in these methods, which limits the performance and practicality in two aspects: 1) Regional features may compromise fine-grained patterns unique to certain attributes in favor of capturing common characteristics shared across attributes. 2) Regional features cannot generalize to predict unseen attributes in the test time. In this paper, we propose the \textbf{F}ine-grained \textbf{O}ptimization with semanti\textbf{C} g\textbf{U}ided under\textbf{S}tanding (FOCUS) approach for PAR, which adaptively extracts fine-grained attribute-level features for each attribute individually, regardless of whether the attributes are seen or not during training. Specifically, we propose the Multi-Granularity Mix Tokens (MGMT) to capture latent features at varying levels of visual granularity, thereby enriching the diversity of the extracted information. Next, we introduce the Attribute-guided Visual Feature Extraction (AVFE) module, which leverages textual attributes as queries to retrieve their corresponding visual attribute features from the Mix Tokens using a cross-attention mechanism. To ensure that textual attributes focus on the appropriate Mix Tokens, we further incorporate a Region-Aware Contrastive Learning (RACL) method, encouraging attributes within the same region to share consistent attention maps. Extensive experiments on PA100K, PETA, and RAPv1 datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and strong generalization ability of our method.

Hangyang Kong, Wenbo Zhou, Xuxiang He et al.

Huge amount of data is the key of the success of deep learning, however, redundant information impairs the generalization ability of the model and increases the burden of calculation. Dataset Distillation (DD) compresses the original dataset into a smaller but representative subset for high-quality data and efficient training strategies. Existing works for DD generate synthetic images by treating each image as an independent entity, thereby overlooking the common features among data. This paper proposes a dataset distillation method based on Matching Training Trajectories with Low-rank Space Sampling(MTT-LSS), which uses low-rank approximations to capture multiple low-dimensional manifold subspaces of the original data. The synthetic data is represented by basis vectors and shared dimension mappers from these subspaces, reducing the cost of generating individual data points while effectively minimizing information redundancy. The proposed method is tested on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and SVHN datasets, and outperforms the baseline methods by an average of 9.9%.