Qi Qian

Qi Qian

Ph.D.

Alibaba Group
Email: qi.qian [at] alibaba-inc [dot] com

Biography

I joined Alibaba in 2015. Before that, I obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University in August 2015, under the supervision of Dr. Rong Jin .

I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University in June 2008 and June 2011, respectively. As a master student, I joined the LAMDA group and my supervisor was Dr. Zhi-Hua Zhou.


We are hiring research interns in Hangzhou. We look for candidates, who have a strong background on generative model (e.g., diffusion) and can spend more than 3 months with us. If you are interested, please send me your resume via email.


Research Interests

Machine Learning: Distance Metric Learning, Multiple Clustering, Online Learning

Computer Vision: Fine-grained Visual Categorization, Representation Learning, Object Detection


Full Publication List

Google Scholar


Selected Publications

Conference Papers

Q. Qian, Y. Xu, J.Hu. Intra-Modal Proxy Learning for Zero-Shot Visual Categorization with CLIP. To appear: Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'23), New Orleans, LA, 2023. [Pre-Print PDF] [Code]
Q. Qian. Stable Cluster Discrimination for Deep Clustering. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'23), Paris, France, 2023. [Pre-Print PDF] [Code]
J. Wang, Y. Xu, J. Hu, M. Yan, J. Sang, Q. Qian. Improved Visual Fine-tuning with Natural Language Supervision. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'23), Paris, France, 2023. [Oral] [Pre-Print PDF] [Code]
Z. Liu, Y. Xu, Y. Xu, Q. Qian, H. Li, X. Ji, A. Chan, R. Jin. Improved Fine-Tuning by Better Leveraging Pre-Training Data. In: Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'22), New Orleans, LA, 2022. [Pre-Print PDF] [Code]
Q. Qian, Y. Xu, J. Hu, H. Li, R. Jin. Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning by Online Constrained K-Means. In: Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'22), New Orleans, LA, 2022. [Pre-Print PDF] [Code]
Q. Qian, H. Li, J. Hu. Improved Knowledge Distillation via Full Kernel Matrix Transfer. In: Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'22), Alexandria, VA, 2022. [Pre-Print PDF] [Code]
Y. Xu, Q. Qian, J. Hu, H. Li, R. Jin. Weakly Supervised Representation Learning with Coarse Labels. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'21), Virtual, 2021. [Pre-Print PDF] [Code]
Y. Xu, L. Shang, J. Ye, Q. Qian, Y. Li, B. Sun, H. Li, R. Jin. Dash: Semi-Supervised Learning with Dynamic Thresholding. In: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'21), Virtual, 2021. [Pre-Print PDF] [Code]
Q. Qian, L. Chen, H. Li, R. Jin. DR Loss: Improving Object Detection by Distributional Ranking. In: Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'20), Seattle, WA, 2020. [Pre-Print PDF] [Code]
Q. Qian, J. Hu, H. Li. Hierarchically Robust Representation Learning. In: Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'20), Seattle, WA, 2020. [Pre-Print PDF] [Concepts in ImageNet]
Q. Qian, L. Shang, B. Sun, J. Hu, H. Li, R. Jin. SoftTriple Loss: Deep Metric Learning Without Triplet Sampling. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'19), Seoul, Korea, 2019. [PDF] [Code]
Q. Qian, S. Zhu, J. Tang, R. Jin, B. Sun, H. Li. Robust Optimization over Multiple Domains. In: Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI'19), Honolulu, HI, 2019. [Pre-Print PDF]
Q. Qian, J. Tang, H. Li, S. Zhu and R. Jin. Large-scale Distance Metric Learning with Uncertainty. In: Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'18), Salt Lake City, UT, 2018. [Spotlight] [PDF]
G. Liu, Q. Qian, Z. Wang, Q. Zhao, T. Wang, H. Li, J. Xue, S. Zhu, R. Jin and T. Zhao. The Opensesame NIST 2016 Speaker Recognition Evaluation System. In: Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH (INTERSPEECH'17), Stockholm, Sweden, 2017.
J. Hu, Q. Qian, J. Pei, R. Jin and S. Zhu. Finding Multiple Stable Clusterings. In: Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'15), Atlantic City, NJ, 2015. [Invited to KAIS SI on "Bests of ICDM 2015"]
Q. Qian, R. Jin, S. Zhu and Y. Lin. Fine-Grained Visual Categorization via Multi-stage Metric Learning. In: Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'15), Boston, MA, 2015. [PDF] [Code]
Q. Qian, J. Hu, R. Jin, J. Pei and S. Zhu. Distance Metric Learning using Dropout: A Structured Regularization Approach. In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'14), New York, NY, 2014. [PDF]
J. Yi, L. Zhang, R. Jin, Q. Qian and A. K. Jain. Semi-supervised Clustering by Input Pattern Assisted Pairwise Similarity Matrix Completion. In: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'13), Atlanta, GA, 2013. [PDF]

Journal Articles

J. Hu, Q. Qian, J. Pei, R. Jin and S. Zhu. Finding Multiple Stable Clusterings. Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2016. DOI:10.1007/s10115-016-0998-9. ["Bests of ICDM 2015"]
Q. Qian, R. Jin, J. Yi, L. Zhang and S. Zhu. Efficient Distance Metric Learning by Adaptive Sampling and Mini-Batch Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). Machine Learning Journal (MLJ), 2015.

Professional Services

Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, TKDD, TIP, TMM, TBD, EAAI, NEUCOM

Senior PC: IJCAI21

PC Member/Conference Reviewer: CVPR(20, 21, 22, 23, 24), ICCV(19, 21, 23), ECCV(22), ICML(18, 21, 22, 23), NeurIPS(18, 19, 20, 22, 23), ICLR(19, 20), KDD(22,23), IJCAI(19, 20, 22, 23), AAAI(19, 20, 21)
Last modifed on Nov 27, 2023 by Qi Qian.