Laming Chen

Research Scientist, Facebook

Email: chenlm06[at]gmail[dot]com

Short Biography

Laming Chen received the B.E. degree and Ph.D. degree, both with honors, in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2010 and 2016, respectively. He was a visiting student researcher in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech from April to September, 2013. He received the National Scholarship for Ph.D. Student in 2013 and the Award for Best Presentation of Journal Paper of IEEE ChinaSIP in 2015. He served as a reviewer for NeurIPS 2021, ICML 2021, ICLR 2021, ICASSP 2021, ICML 2020, ICASSP 2020, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and Signal Processing. After graduation, he joined Hulu as a Researcher focusing on recommendation algorithms. Currently he is a Research Scientist at Facebook.

Conference Papers

  • Laming Chen, Guoxin Zhang, and Hanning Zhou. "Fast greedy MAP inference for determinantal point process to improve recommendation diversity." In Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), pp. 5623-5634. 2018. [code]

  • Xiaoran Xu, Laming Chen, Songpeng Zu, and Hanning Zhou. "Hulu video recommendation: from relevance to reasoning." In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), pp. 482-482. ACM, 2018.

  • Ruiyang Song, Laming Chen, and Yuantao Gu. "Performance estimation of sparse signal recovery under Bernoulli random projection with oracle information." In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), pp. 695-699. IEEE, 2016.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "Fast sparse recovery via non-convex optimization." In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), pp. 1275-1279. IEEE, 2015.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "Local and global optimality of Lp minimization for sparse recovery." In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3596-3600. IEEE, 2015.

  • Jiawei Zhou, Laming Chen, and Yuantao Gu. "Dynamic zero-point attracting projection for time-varying sparse signal recovery." In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5485-5489. IEEE, 2015.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "Robust sparse recovery via non-convex optimization." In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), pp. 742-747. IEEE, 2014.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "Robust recovery of low-rank matrices via non-convex optimization." In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), pp. 355-360. IEEE, 2014.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "The convergence guarantees of a non-convex approach for sparse recovery using regularized least squares." In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3350-3354. IEEE, 2014.

  • Jinye Zhang, Laming Chen, Petros T. Boufounos, and Yuantao Gu. "On the theoretical analysis of cross validation in compressive sensing." In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3370-3374. IEEE, 2014.

  • Yaming Wang, Laming Chen, and Yuantao Gu. "On estimating the loss of signal-to-noise ratio in compressive sensing based systems." In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE China Summit & International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP), pp. 54-57. IEEE, 2013.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "From least squares to sparse: A non-convex approach with guarantee." In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5875-5879. IEEE, 2013.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "Backtracking matching pursuit with supplement set of arbitrary size." In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 6541-6545. IEEE, 2013.

  • Jie Ding, Laming Chen, and Yuantao Gu. "Robustness of orthogonal matching pursuit for multiple measurement vectors in noisy scenario." In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3813-3816. IEEE, 2012.

  • Yaming Wang, Laming Chen, and Yuantao Gu. "Quantization reference voltage of the modulated wideband converter." In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3681-3684. IEEE, 2012.

  • Laming Chen, Jiong Chen, and Yuantao Gu. "Greedy pursuits: Stability of recovery performance against general perturbations." In Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 897-901. IEEE, 2012.

  • Jie Ding, Laming Chen, and Yuantao Gu. "Performance analysis of orthogonal matching pursuit under general perturbations." In Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 892-896. IEEE, 2012.

  • Laming Chen, Jian Jin, and Yuantao Gu. "A calibration system and perturbation analysis for the modulated wideband converter." In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), pp. 78-81. IEEE, 2010.

Journal Papers

  • Xinyue Shen, Laming Chen, Yuantao Gu, and Hing-Cheung So. "Square-root lasso with nonconvex regularization: An ADMM approach." IEEE Signal Processing Letters 23, no. 7 (2016): 934-938.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "On the null space constant for Lp minimization." IEEE Signal Processing Letters 22, no. 10 (2015): 1600-1603.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "The convergence guarantees of a non-convex approach for sparse recovery." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 62, no. 15 (2014): 3754-3767.

  • Laming Chen and Yuantao Gu. "Oracle-order recovery performance of greedy pursuits with replacement against general perturbations." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 61, no. 18 (2013): 4625-4636.

  • Yujie Tang, Laming Chen, and Yuantao Gu. "On the performance bound of sparse estimation with sensing matrix perturbation." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 61, no. 17 (2013): 4372-4386.

  • Jie Ding, Laming Chen, and Yuantao Gu. "Perturbation analysis of orthogonal matching pursuit." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 61, no. 2 (2013): 398-410.

  • Yang You, Laming Chen, Yuantao Gu, Wei Feng, and Hui Dai. "Retrieval of sparse solutions of multiple-measurement vectors via zero-point attracting projection." Signal Processing 92, no. 12 (2012): 3075-3079.

  • Xiaohan Wang, Yuantao Gu, and Laming Chen. "Proof of convergence and performance analysis for sparse recovery via zero-point attracting projection." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 60, no. 8 (2012): 4081-4093.

Workshop Paper

  • Laming Chen, Guoxin Zhang, and Hanning Zhou. "Improving the diversity of top-N recommendation via determinantal point process." In the 5th Large Scale Recommendation Systems Workshop (LSRS 2017), in conjunction with the 11th ACM conference on Recommender Systems. 2017.

Patent

  • Laming Chen, Guoxin Zhang, Bangsheng Tang, and Hanning Zhou. "Selecting recommendations in a video delivery system using diversity and relevance." U.S. Patent 9,992,523, issued June 5, 2018.