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  • Zhongfei Mark Zhang

    Possible advisor · last author on 13 of their early first-author papers, 2003–2007

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  • ProphetNet: Predicting Future N-gram for Sequence-to-SequencePre-training

    Weizhen Qi, Yu Yan, Yeyun Gong, Dayiheng Liu, Nan Duan, Jiusheng Chen, Ruofei Zhang, Ming Zhou

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 · 2020

    A new sequence-to-sequence pre-training model called ProphetNet is presented, which introduces a novel self-supervised objective named future n-gram prediction and the proposed n-stream self-attention mechanism that predicts the next n tokens simultaneously based on previous context tokens at each time step.

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  • XGLUE: A New Benchmark Dataset for Cross-lingual Pre-training, Understanding and Generation

    Yaobo Liang, Nan Duan, Yeyun Gong, Ning Wu, Fenfei Guo, Weizhen Qi, Ming Gong, Linjun Shou, +16 more

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020

    A recent cross-lingual pre-trained model Unicoder is extended to cover both understanding and generation tasks, which is evaluated on XGLUE as a strong baseline and the base versions of Multilingual BERT, XLM and XLM-R are evaluated for comparison.

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  • Learning to Rank by Optimizing NDCG Measure

    Hamed Valizadegan, Rong Jin, Ruofei Zhang, Jianchang Mao

    Neural Information Processing Systems · 2009

    This work proposes a probabilistic framework that addresses the challenge of evaluating ranking algorithms using the expectation of NDCG over all the possible permutations of documents, and proposes an algorithm that outperforms state-of-the-art ranking algorithms on several benchmark data sets.

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  • HittER: Hierarchical Transformers for Knowledge Graph Embeddings

    Sanxing Chen, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Jian Jiao, Ruofei Zhang, Yangfeng Ji

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2021

    This paper proposes HittER, a Hierarchical Transformer model to jointly learn Entity-relation composition and Relational contextualization based on a source entity’s neighborhood and designs a masked entity prediction task to balance information from the relational context and the source entity itself.

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  • A probabilistic semantic model for image annotation and multi-modal image retrieval

    Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei Mark Zhang, Mingjing Li, Wei‐Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang

    Multimedia Systems · 2006

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  • DeepIntent

    Shuangfei Zhai, Keng-hao Chang, Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei Mark Zhang

    ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · 2016

    This paper proposes a novel attention network, which learns to assign attention scores to different word locations according to their intent importance, and shows that using the learned attention scores, one is able to produce sub-queries that are of better qualities than those of the state-of-the-art methods.

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  • TwinBERT

    Wenhao Lu, Jian Jiao, Ruofei Zhang

    Proceedings of the ... ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management · 2020

    TwinBERT model, a compressed multi-layer transformer encoder is proposed with special training strategies as a substitution of the original complex BERT encoder, which has met the real-time latency requirement and achieve close or on-par performance to BERT-Base model.

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  • Bid landscape forecasting in online ad exchange marketplace

    Ying De Cui, Ruofei Zhang, Wei Li, Jianchang Mao

    ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · 2011

    A divide-and-conquer approach that breaks down the campaign-level forecasting problem and can accurately forecast the bid distributions for various campaigns running on the world's largest NGD advertising exchange system, outperforming two baseline methods in term of forecasting errors.

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  • Exploitation and exploration in a performance based contextual advertising system

    Wei Li, Xuerui Wang, Ruofei Zhang, Ying De Cui, Jianchang Mao, Rong Jin

    ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · 2010

    This paper develops two novel EE strategies for online advertising that can adaptively balance the two aspects of EE by automatically learning the optimal tradeoff and incorporating confidence metrics of historical performance.

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  • Mask Attention Networks: Rethinking and Strengthen Transformer

    Zhihao Fan, Yeyun Gong, Dayiheng Liu, Zhongyu Wei, Siyuan Wang, Jian Jiao, Nan Duan, Ruofei Zhang, +1 more

    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2021

    A novel understanding of SAN and FFN are presented as Mask Attention Networks (MANs) and it is shown that they are two special cases of MANs with static mask matrices, which limit the capability for localness modeling in text representation learning.

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  • GLGE: A New General Language Generation Evaluation Benchmark

    Dayiheng Liu, Yu Yan, Yeyun Gong, Weizhen Qi, Hang Zhang, Jian Jiao, Weizhu Chen, Jie Fu, +10 more

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021 · 2021

    The General Language Generation Evaluation (GLGE), a new multi-task benchmark for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLG models across eight language generation tasks, is presented and a leaderboard with strong baselines including MASS, BART, and ProphetNet is built.

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  • Multimedia features for click prediction of new ads in display advertising

    Haibin Cheng, Roelof van Zwol, Javad Azimi, Eren Manavoglu, Ruofei Zhang, Yang Zhou, Vidhya Navalpakkam

    ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · 2012

    It is demonstrated that adding multimedia features can significantly improve the accuracy of click prediction for new ads, compared to a state-of-the-art baseline model.

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  • Effective Image Retrieval Based on Hidden Concept Discovery in Image Database

    Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei Mark Zhang

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2007

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  • A clustering based approach to efficient image retrieval

    Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei Mark Zhang

    Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, TAI · 2003

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  • ProphetNet-X: Large-Scale Pre-training Models for English, Chinese, Multi-lingual, Dialog, and Code Generation

    Weizhen Qi, Yeyun Gong, Yu Yan, Can Xu, Bolun Yao, Bartuer Zhou, Biao Cheng, Daxin Jiang, +4 more

    Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations · 2021

    The ProphetNet family pre-training models, named ProphetNet-X, where X can be English, Chinese, Multi-lingual, and so on, are presented, and achieve new state-of-the-art performance on 10 benchmarks.

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  • Hidden semantic concept discovery in region based image retrieval

    Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei Mark Zhang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2004

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  • Generating Better Search Engine Text Advertisements with Deep Reinforcement Learning

    John Weston Hughes, Keng-hao Chang, Ruofei Zhang

    ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) · 2019

    This work jointly train a model to minimize cross-entropy on an existing corpus of Landing Page/Text Ad pairs using typical sequence to sequence training techniques while also optimizing the expected click-through rate as predicted by an existing oracle model using SCST.

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  • GalaXC: Graph Neural Networks with Labelwise Attention for Extreme Classification

    Deepak Saini, Arnav Jain, Kushal S. Dave, Jian Jiao, Amit Prakash Singh, Ruofei Zhang, Manik Varma

    Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 · 2021

    The GalaXC algorithm for Extreme Classification is developed, where the task is to annotate a document with the most relevant subset of labels from an extremely large label set, and was found to be up to 25% more accurate than extreme classification algorithms specifically designed for warm start settings.

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  • Click-Through Rate Estimation for Rare Events in Online Advertising

    Xuerui Wang, Wei Li, Ying De Cui, Ruofei Zhang, Jianchang Mao

    Advances in multimedia and interactive technologies book series · 2011

    This chapter develops models and methods to smoothen CTR estimation by taking advantage of the data hierarchy in nature or by clustering and data continuity in time to leverage information from data close to the events of interest.

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  • The impact of visual appearance on user response in online display advertising

    Javad Azimi, Ruofei Zhang, Yang Zhou, Vidhya Navalpakkam, Jianchang Mao, Xiaoli Z. Fern

    International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · 2012

    This paper quantitatively study the relationship between the visual appearance and performance of creatives using large scale data in the world's largest display ads exchange system, RightMedia, and presents recommendations of visual features that have the most important impact on CTR to the professional designers in order to optimize their creative design.

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  • Nanozymes and Their Potential Roles in the Origin of Life

    Long Ma, Zimo Liang, Yinyin Hou, Ruofei Zhang, Kelong Fan, Xiyun Yan

    Advanced Materials · 2024

    This study proposes that nanozymes, nanomaterials with enzyme‐like activities, act as efficient prebiotic catalysts in the origin of life and hopes the research on nanozymes and the origin of life will bridge the gap between inorganic precursors and biomolecules under primitive environments.

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  • Rare Query Expansion Through Generative Adversarial Networks in Search Advertising

    Mu-Chu Lee, Bin Gao, Ruofei Zhang

    ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) · 2018

    Using GAN to generate bid keywords directly from query in sponsored search ads selection, especially for rare queries, shows big potential to bring extra revenue improvement and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of query-keyword matching based ads selection in search advertising.

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  • A stochastic learning-to-rank algorithm and its application to contextual advertising

    Maryam Karimzadehgan, Wei Li, Ruofei Zhang, Jianchang Mao

    International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · 2011

    This paper proposes a simple yet effective stochastic optimization algorithm to directly minimize any loss function, which can be defined on NDCG or MAP for the learning-to-rank problem, and employs Simulated Annealing along with Simplex method for its parameter search.

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  • Multimedia Data Mining

    Zhongfei Mark Zhang, Ruofei Zhang

    Springer eBooks · 2009

    This novel, self-contained book examines how the merging of multimedia and data mining research can promote the understanding and advance the development of knowledge discovery in multimedia data.

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  • Large-Scale Multi-Label Learning with Incomplete Label Assignments

    Xiangnan Kong, Zhaoming Wu, Li-Jia Li, Ruofei Zhang, Philip S. Yu, Hang Wu, Wei Fan

    SIAM International Conference on Data Mining · 2014

    This paper proposes an approach, called Mpu, based upon positive and unlabeled stochastic gradient descent and stacked models that can effectively and efficiently consider missing labels and label correlations simultaneously, and is very scalable, that has linear time complexities over the size of the data.

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