Peng Yang

Parallel Exploration via Negatively Correlated Search

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Effective exploration is a key to successful search. The recently proposed Negatively Correlated Search (NCS) tries to achieve this by parallel exploration, where a set of search processes are driven to be negatively correlated so …

Efficient Learning to Learn a Robust CTR Model for Web-scale Online Sponsored Search Advertising

2021

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is crucial for online sponsored search advertising. Several successful CTR models have been adopted in the industry, including the regularized logistic regression (LR). Nonetheless, the learning process suffers from two limitations: …

Efficient Mixed-Protocol Secure Four-Party Computation with Private Robustness

2022

Secure honest-majority four-party computation (4PC) protocol was proposed for four mutually-distrusting parties to jointly evaluate a complex function on their private inputs with private robustness by cheater identification. This capability has great potential for distributed …