Jingyi Yuan

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10ranked-venue papers
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10since 2021 · last 2026
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 7 · 6 first-author · 7 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 6 · 6 first-author · 6 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 2 · 2 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Collaboratively optimized multi-level adaptive image enhancement for underwater ship inspection
Jiashuo Shang, Ying Li 0043, Jingyi Yuan, Shen Guo
Expert Syst. Appl.3
2026 Dual-Path Hierarchical Attention Fusion Module for Cooperative Object Detection Under Heterogeneous Coupled Disturbances
abstract
Collaborative 3D object detection leverages information sharing among connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to overcome occlusions and limited sensing range. In real-world deployments confront multiple heterogeneously coupled communication disturbances, such as asynchronicity, localization errors, and transmission noise. Existing fusion methods typically model and mitigate each disturbance in isolation, assuming ideal conditions and overlooking their joint effects. As a result, these interactions cause feature misalignment and degraded detection performance. To address this challenge, we propose the Dual-path Hierarchical Attention Fusion Module (DHAFM), which features a cooperative path to enrich CAV feature representations, a stable path to emphasize reliable ego-vehicle features, and a NoiseGate Fusion Module that dynamically reweights these paths based on estimated disturbance levels, prioritizing stability under severe noise and collaboration when communication is reliable. Extensive evaluations on OPV2V, V2XSet, and V2V4REAL benchmarks demonstrate that DHAFM achieves state-of-the-art 3D detection accuracy and markedly improved robustness under both individual and coupled disturbance scenarios.
Ziao Li, Chenqiang Gao, Junyin Zhang, Jingyi Yuan
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.5
2025 Self-Supervised Distribution Correction to Boost Information Gain in Offline Reinforcement Learning
abstract
Offline reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to learn decision-making policies from historical datasets when online interaction is costly and risky. Static logs are common with suboptimal or noisy transitions and incomplete data coverage. Previous behavior-cloning methods regularize policies to shrink updates, yet they repeatedly sample low-quality transitions. Such uniform treatment propagates biases/errors in approximating Qfunction. Resampling strategies (e.g., PER and DisCor) attempt to identify the most valuable transitions but rely on online feedback or heuristic reward as utility estimates, inapplicable in purely offline contexts. We tackle this limitation with$S^{2} D C$, a selfsupervised distribution correction framework to reweight offline samples without any external supervision.$\mathbf{S}^{\mathbf{2}}$DC quantifies the information gain via how much each transition sharpens the current value estimate. It then adaptively reweights transitions to amplify high-utility transitions while downweighting redundant or suboptimal samples. Experiments on standard D4RL benchmarks and critical power system management show that$\mathbf{S}^{2}$DC significantly improves policy performance, convergence speed, and stability. This demonstrates that$\mathrm{S}^{2} \text{DC}$converts biased logs, which were previously intractable, into a learning asset to boost fully offline RL.
Jingyi Yuan, Hamad Alduaij, Yang Weng
ICDM1
2025 Rethinking Invertible Neural Networks: Architecture Tradeoffs and Customization Across Domains
abstract
Invertible neural networks (INNs) have gained attention for solving inverse problems where learning a bijective mapping is essential. However, despite their popularity, little guidance exists on how to select, adapt, or deploy different INN architectures, such as i-ResNet, NICE, or DipDNN, across diverse application domains. In this paper, we provide a unified theoretical and empirical analysis of two major INN families: iterative-contraction networks (e.g., i-ResNet) and triangular coupling networks (e.g., NICE, DipDNN). We show that these models exhibit fundamental tradeoffs in invertibility, expressivity, and compatibility with domain constraints. For example, contractive models fail to recover mappings with large gains or sign flips, whereas triangular schemes inherit rigid channel splits that can restrict feature richness. Building on these insights, we introduce a general-purpose customization framework. It decouples physics-informed constraints from measurement-driven inversion through a parallel INN design. We benchmark representative INNs on cross-domain tasks: edge monitoring, PDE dynamics, and robotic control. Our findings offer first comprehensive design guideline for choosing and adapting INN architectures based on problem structure, shedding light on when and how invertibility-based bidirectional inferences can be reliably applied in practice.
Jingyi Yuan, Muhao Guo, Yang Weng
ICDM1
2025 A ground-based dataset and diffusion model for on-orbit low-light image enhancement
abstract
On-orbit service is important for maintaining the sustainability of the space environment. A space-based visible camera is an economical and lightweight sensor for situational awareness during on-orbit service. However, it can be easily affected by the low illumination environment. Recently, deep learning has achieved remarkable success in image enhancement of natural images, but it is seldom applied in space due to the data bottleneck. In this study, we first propose a dataset of BeiDou navigation satellites for on-orbit low-light image enhancement (LLIE). In the automatic data collection scheme, we focus on reducing the domain gap and improving the diversity of the dataset. We collect hardware-in-the-loop images based on a robotic simulation testbed imitating space lighting conditions. To evenly sample poses of different orientations and distances without collision, we propose a collision-free workspace and pose-stratified sampling. Subsequently, we develop a novel diffusion model. To enhance the image contrast without over-exposure and blurred details, we design fused attention guidance to highlight the structure and the dark region. Finally, a comparison of our method with previous methods indicates that our method has better on-orbit LLIE performance.
Yiman Zhu, Jingyi Yuan
Frontiers Inf. Technol. Electron. Eng.3
2024 DipDNN: Preserving Inverse Consistency and Approximation Efficiency for Invertible Learning
abstract
Consistent bi-directional inferences are the key for many machine learning applications. Without consistency, inverse learning-based inferences can cause fuzzy images, erroneous control signals, and cascading failure in SCADA systems. Since standard deep neural networks (DNNs) are not inherently invertible to offer consistency, some past methods reconstruct DNN architecture analytically for one-to-one correspondence but compromise key features such as universal approximation. Other work maintains the capability of universal approximation in DNNs via iterative numerical approximation. However, these methods limit their applications significantly due to Lipschitz conditions and issues of numerical convergence. The dilemma of the analytical and numerical methods is the incompatibility between nonlinear layer compositions and bijective function construction for inverse modeling. Based on the observation, we propose decomposed-invertible-pathway DNNs (DipDNN). It relaxes the redundant reconstruction of nested DNN in the former methods and eases the Lipschitz constraint. As a result, we strictly guarantee the consistency of global inverse modeling without harming DNN's capability for universal approximation. As numerical stability and generalizability are keys for controlling critical infrastructures, we integrate contractive property with a parallel structure for inductive biases, leading to stable performance. Numerical results show that DipDNN performs significantly better than past methods, thanks to its enforcement of inverse consistency, numerical stability, and physical regularization.
Jingyi Yuan, Yang Weng, Erik Blasch
KDD1
2023 An attention-based bidirectional GRU network for temporal action proposals generation
Xiaoxin Liao, Jingyi Yuan, Jian-Huang Lai
J. Supercomput.2
2022 Intrinsic-Motivated Sensor Management: Exploring with Physical Surprise
abstract
In modern complex physical systems, advanced sensing technologies extend the sensor coverage but also increase the difficulties of improving system monitoring capabilities based on real-time data availability. Traditional model-based methods of sensor management are limited to specific systems/settings, which can be challenged when system knowledge is intractable. Fortunately, the large amount of data collected in real-time allows machine learning methods to be a complement. Especially, reinforcement learning-based control is recognized for its capability to dynamically interact with systems. However, the direct implementation of learning methods easily overfits and results in inaccurate physics modeling for sensor management. Although physical regularization is a popular direction to bridge the gap, learning-based sensor control still suffers from convergence failure under highly complex and uncertain scenarios. This paper develops physics-embedded and self-supervised reinforcement learning for sensor management using an intrinsic reward. Specifically, the intrinsic-motivated sensor management (IMSM) constructs the local surprise information from the physical latent features, which captures hidden states in observations, and thus intrinsically motivates the agent to speed-up exploration. We show that the designs can not only relieve the lack of consistency with underlying physics/physical dynamics, but also adapt the global objective of maximizing monitoring capabilities to local environment changes. We demonstrate its effectiveness by experiments on physical system sensor control. The proposed model is implemented for the sensor management of unmanned vehicles and sensor rescheduling in complex/settled power systems, with or without observability constraints. Numerical results show that our model provides consistently higher threat detection accuracy and better observability recovery, as compared to existing methods.
Jingyi Yuan, Yang Weng, Erik Blasch
KDD1
2022 Physically Invertible System Identification for Monitoring System Edges with Unobservability
Jingyi Yuan, Yang Weng
ECML/PKDD (6)1
2021 Physics Interpretable Shallow-Deep Neural Networks for Physical System Identification with Unobservability
abstract
The large amount of data collected in complex physical systems allows machine learning models to solve a variety of prediction problems. However, the directly applied learning approaches, especially deep neural networks (DNN), are difficult to balance between universal approximation to minimize error and the interpretability to reveal underlying physical law. Their performance drops even faster with system unobservability (of measurements) issues due to limited measurements. In this paper, we construct the novel physics interpretable shallow-deep neural networks to integrate exact physical interpretation and universal approximation to address the concerns in previous methods. We show that not only the shallow layer of the structural DNN extracts interpretable physical features but also the designed physical-input convex property of the DNN guarantees the true physical function recovery. While input convexity conditions are strict, the proposed model retains the representation capability to universally approximate for the unobservable system regions. We demonstrate its effectiveness by experiments on physical systems. In particular, we implement the proposed model on the forward kinematics and complex power flow reproduction tasks, with or without observability issues. We show that, besides the physical interpretability, our model provides consistently smaller or similar prediction error for system identification, compared to the state-of-art learning methods.
Jingyi Yuan, Yang Weng
ICDM1