• Ruslan Khalitov, Tong Yu, Lei Cheng, and Zhirong Yang. ChordMixer: A Scalable Neural Attention Model for Sequences with Different Length. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023. [paper][code]
  • Lei Cheng, Ruslan Khalitov, Tong Yu, and Zhirong Yang. Classification of long sequential data using circular dilated convolutional neural networks. In Neurocomputing vol. 518, pages 50-59, 2023. [paper][arXiv][code]
  • Lees, John A.; Tonkin-Hill, Gerry; Yang, Zhirong; Corander, Jukka. (2022) Mandrake: visualizing microbial population structure by embedding millions of genomes into a low-dimensional representation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. volum 377 (1861). [paper]
  • Lin, Chengchuang; Chen, Hanbiao; Huang, Jiesheng; Peng, Jing; Guo, Li; Yang, Zhirong; Du, Jiahua; Li, Shuangyin; Yin, Aihua; Zhao, Gansen. (2022) ChromosomeNet: A massive dataset enabling benchmarking and building basedlines of clinical chromosome classification. Computational biology and chemistry. volum 100. [paper]
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  • Tong Yu, Ruslan Khalitov, Lei Cheng, Zhirong Yang. Paramixer: Parameterizing Mixing Links in Sparse Factors Works Better Than Dot-Product Self-Attention. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2022. [paper][arXiv][code]
  • Khalitov, Ruslan; Yu, Tong; Cheng, Lei; Yang, Zhirong. Sparse factorization of square matrices with application to neural attention modeling. Neural Networks, vol. 152, pages 160-168, 2022 [paper][arXiv][code]
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  • Liu, Zhenhui; Dahl, Sondre Strande; Larsen, Erik Stensrud; Yang, Zhirong. A simple machine learning based framework for processing the inline inspection data of subsea pipelines. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. vol. 1201 (012050), 2021.
  • Ulvestad, Anita; Cao, Guangyu; Gustavsen, Kai; Vogt, Matthias; Rismyhr, Tore; Yang, Zhirong. Analysis of the effect of indoor environment on pupils’ health in one Norwegian school during COVID-19 pandemic. Healthy Buildings 2021 – Europe Proceedings of the 17th International Healthy Buildings Conference 21-23 June 2021.
  • Bordin, Chiara; Skjelbred, Hans Ivar; Kong, Jiehong; Yang, Zhirong. Machine Learning for Hydropower Scheduling: State of the Art and Future Research Directions. Procedia Computer Science. vol. 176, 2020
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  • Shao, Hui; Chen, Yuwei; Yang, Zhirong; Jiang, Changhui; Li, Wei; Wu, Haohao; Wang, Shaowei; Yang, Fan; Chen, Jie; Puttnon, Eetu; Hyyppä, Juha. Feasibility study on hyperspectral LiDAR for ancient Huizhou-style architecture preservation. Remote Sensing. vol. 12:88 (1), 2020.
  • Wang, Chao; Liu, Gonghui; Li, Jun; Zhang, Tao; Yang, Zhirong; Jiang, Hailong; Ren, Kai; Wu, Zhe. Non-uniform temperature distribution's impact on downhole weight on bit (DWOB) measurement and the novel compensatory method. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. vol. 184, 2020.
  • Wang, Chao; Liu, Gonghui; Yang, Zhirong; Li, Jun; Zhang, Tao; Jiang, Hailong; Cao, Chenguang. Downhole working conditions analysis and drilling complications detection method based on deep learning. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. vol. 81, 2020
  • Wang, Chao; Liu, Gonghui; Yang, Zhirong; Li, Jun; Zhang, Tao; Jiang, Hailong; He, Miao; Luo, Ming; Li, Wentuo. Downhole gas-kick transient simulation and detection with downhole dual-measurement points in water-based drilling fluid. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. vol. 84, 2020.
  • Xue, Kai; Ding, Yiyu; Yang, Zhirong; Nord, Natasa; Barillec, Mael Roger Albert; Mathisen, Hans Martin; Liu, Meng; Giske, Tor Emil; Stenstad, Liv-Inger; Cao, Guangyu. A Simple and Novel Method to Predict the Hospital Energy Use Based on Machine Learning: A Case Study in Norway. Communications in Computer and Information Science. vol. 1332, 2020.
  • Yao Lu, Jukka Corander and Zhirong Yang. Doubly Stochastic Neighbor Embedding on Spheres. Pattern Recognition Letters vol. 128, pages 100-106, 2019. [paper] [arXiv] [code].
  • Shao, Hui; Chen, Yuwei; Yang, Zhirong; Jiang, Changhui; Li, Wei; Wu, Haohao; Wen, Zhijie; Wang, Shaowei; Puttnon, Eetu; Hyyppä, Juha. A 91-Channel Hyperspectral LiDAR for Coal/Rock Classification. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2019.
  • Lu, Yao; Yang, Zhirong; Kannala, Juho; Kaski, Samuel. Learning Image Relations with Contrast Association Networks. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2019.
  • Abudahab, Khalil; Prada, Joaquín; Yang, Zhirong; Bentley, Stephen; Croucher, Nicholas; Corander, Jukka; Anensen, David. PANINI: Pangenome Neighbour Identification for Bacterial Populations. Microbial Genomics. vol. 5 (4), 2018.
  • Sedov, Denis; Yang, Zhirong. Word Embedding based on Low-Rank Doubly Stochastic Matrix Decomposition. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2018.
  • Chewapreecha, Claire; Holden, Matthew T.G.; Vehkala, Minna; Välimäki, Niko; Yang, Zhirong; Harris, Simon R.; Mather, Alison E.; Tuanyok, Apichai; De Smet, Birgit; Le Hello, Simon; Bizet, Chantal; Mayo, Mark; Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn; Limmathurotsakul, Direk; Phetsouvanh, Rattanaphone; Spratt, Brian G.; Corander, Jukka; Keim, Paul; Dougan, Gordon; Dance, David A.B.; Currie, Bart J.; Parkhill, Julian; Peacock, Sharon J.. Global and regional dissemination and evolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Nature Microbiology. vol. 2:16263, 2017.
  • Zhirong Yang, Jukka Corander and Erkki Oja. Low-Rank Doubly Stochastic Matrix Decomposition for Cluster Analysis. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 17(187): 1-25, 2016. [paper]
  • Onur Dikmen, Zhirong Yang, Erkki Oja. Learning the Information Divergence. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 37(7): 1442-1454, 2015. [preprint] [final pdf]
  • He Zhang, Mehmet Gönen, Zhirong Yang, Erkki Oja. Understanding Emotional Impact of Images Using Bayesian Multiple Kernel Learning. Neurocomputing, 165(1): 3-13, 2015. [preprint] [final pdf]
  • He Zhang, Zhirong Yang and Erkki Oja. Improving Cluster Analysis by Co-initializations. Pattern Recognition Letters, 45: 71-77, 2014. [preprint] [final pdf] [supplemental document] [Datasets and Matlab codes]
  • He Zhang, Zhirong Yang and Erkki Oja. Adaptive multiplicative updates for quadratic nonnegative matrix factorization. Neurocomputing. 134: 206-213, 2014 [preprint] [final pdf] [Datasets and Matlab codes]
  • Zhirong Yang and Erkki Oja. Quadratic Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. Pattern Recognition. 45(4): 1500-1510, 2012. [preprint] [final pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Erkki Oja. Unified Development of Multiplicative Algorithms for Linear and Quadratic Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. 22(12): 1878-1891, 2011. [preprint] [final pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Erkki Oja. Projective Nonnegative Matrix Factorization based on α-Divergence. Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research. 1(1): 7-16, 2011.
  • Erkki Oja and Zhirong Yang. Orthogonal nonnegative learning for sparse feature extraction and approximate combinatorial optimization. Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in China, 5(3):261-273, 2010. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Erkki Oja. Linear and Nonlinear Projective Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 21(5):734-749, 2010. [preprint] [final pdf] [codes]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Principal Whitened Gradients for Information Geometry. Neural Networks, 21(2-3):232-240, 2008 [final pdf] [reprint pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang, Zhijian Yuan, and Jorma Laaksonen. Projective non-negative matrix factorization with applications to facial image processing. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 21(8):1353-1362, 2007. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Multiplicative updates for non-negative projections. Neurocomputing, 71(1-3):363-373, 2007. [final pdf] [reprint pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Lei Li. Hierarchical index of high-dimensional point data based on self-organizing map. Computer Research and Development, 40(1):100-106, 2003. In Chinese.