Ye Yuan

Yu Pan, Ye Yuan, Yichun Yin et al.

Training large models from scratch usually costs a substantial amount of resources. Towards this problem, recent studies such as bert2BERT and LiGO have reused small pretrained models to initialize a large model (termed the ``target model''), leading to a considerable acceleration in training. Despite the successes of these previous studies, they grew pretrained models by mapping partial weights only, ignoring potential correlations across the entire model. As we show in this paper, there are inter- and intra-interactions among the weights of both the pretrained and the target models. As a result, the partial mapping may not capture the complete information and lead to inadequate growth. In this paper, we propose a method that linearly correlates each weight of the target model to all the weights of the pretrained model to further enhance acceleration ability. We utilize multi-linear operators to reduce computational and spacial complexity, enabling acceptable resource requirements. Experiments demonstrate that our method can save 76\% computational costs on DeiT-base transferred from DeiT-small, which outperforms bert2BERT by +12.0\% and LiGO by +20.7\%, respectively.

Shiye Wang, Kaituo Feng, Changsheng Li et al.

Typical Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) depend heavily on large amounts of image data and resort to an iterative optimization algorithm (e.g., SGD or Adam) to learn network parameters, which makes training very time- and resource-intensive. In this paper, we propose a new training paradigm and formulate the parameter learning of ConvNets into a prediction task: given a ConvNet architecture, we observe there exist correlations between image datasets and their corresponding optimal network parameters, and explore if we can learn a hyper-mapping between them to capture the relations, such that we can directly predict the parameters of the network for an image dataset never seen during the training phase. To do this, we put forward a new hypernetwork based model, called PudNet, which intends to learn a mapping between datasets and their corresponding network parameters, and then predicts parameters for unseen data with only a single forward propagation. Moreover, our model benefits from a series of adaptive hyper recurrent units sharing weights to capture the dependencies of parameters among different network layers. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method achieves good efficacy for unseen image datasets on two kinds of settings: Intra-dataset prediction and Inter-dataset prediction. Our PudNet can also well scale up to large-scale datasets, e.g., ImageNet-1K. It takes 8967 GPU seconds to train ResNet-18 on the ImageNet-1K using GC from scratch and obtain a top-5 accuracy of 44.65%. However, our PudNet costs only 3.89 GPU seconds to predict the network parameters of ResNet-18 achieving comparable performance (44.92%), more than 2,300 times faster than the traditional training paradigm.

Ye Yuan, Xin Li, Yong Heng et al.

Imitation Learning (IL) aims to discover a policy by minimizing the discrepancy between the agent's behavior and expert demonstrations. However, IL is susceptible to limitations imposed by noisy demonstrations from non-expert behaviors, presenting a significant challenge due to the lack of supplementary information to assess their expertise. In this paper, we introduce Self-Motivated Imitation LEarning (SMILE), a method capable of progressively filtering out demonstrations collected by policies deemed inferior to the current policy, eliminating the need for additional information. We utilize the forward and reverse processes of Diffusion Models to emulate the shift in demonstration expertise from low to high and vice versa, thereby extracting the noise information that diffuses expertise. Then, the noise information is leveraged to predict the diffusion steps between the current policy and demonstrators, which we theoretically demonstrate its equivalence to their expertise gap. We further explain in detail how the predicted diffusion steps are applied to filter out noisy demonstrations in a self-motivated manner and provide its theoretical grounds. Through empirical evaluations on MuJoCo tasks, we demonstrate that our method is proficient in learning the expert policy amidst noisy demonstrations, and effectively filters out demonstrations with expertise inferior to the current policy.

Ling Wang, Ye Yuan

Dynamic graphs (DG) describe dynamic interactions between entities in many practical scenarios. Most existing DG representation learning models combine graph convolutional network and sequence neural network, which model spatial-temporal dependencies through two different types of neural networks. However, this hybrid design cannot well capture the spatial-temporal continuity of a DG. In this paper, we propose a tensor graph convolutional network to learn DG representations in one convolution framework based on the tensor product with the following two-fold ideas: a) representing the information of DG by tensor form; b) adopting tensor product to design a tensor graph convolutional network modeling spatial-temporal feature simultaneously. Experiments on real-world DG datasets demonstrate that our model obtains state-of-the-art performance.

Xiaoming Deng, Ye Yuan, Yinda Zhang et al.

Hand detection is essential for many hand related tasks, e.g. parsing hand pose, understanding gesture, which are extremely useful for robotics and human-computer interaction. However, hand detection in uncontrolled environments is challenging due to the flexibility of wrist joint and cluttered background. We propose a deep learning based approach which detects hands and calibrates in-plane rotation under supervision at the same time. To guarantee the recall, we propose a context aware proposal generation algorithm which significantly outperforms the selective search. We then design a convolutional neural network(CNN) which handles object rotation explicitly to jointly solve the object detection and rotation estimation tasks. Experiments show that our method achieves better results than state-of-the-art detection models on widely-used benchmarks such as Oxford and Egohands database. We further show that rotation estimation and classification can mutually benefit each other.