Qin Zhao

Dr. Qin Zhao

National University of Singapore, Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore
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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

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9 May 2020 in Entropy
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Qin Zhao
QZQin Zhao
Qin Zhao
CLChangjian Liu
Changjian Liu
PZPeng Zhang
Peng Zhang
Ruifeng XuRuifeng Xu
Ruifeng Xu
Quantum-inspired language models have been introduced to Information Retrieval due to their transparency and interpretability. While exciting progresses have been made, current studies mainly investigate the relationship between density matrices of difference sentence subspaces of a semantic Hilbert space. The Hilbert space as a whole which has a unique density matrix is lack of exploration. In this paper, we propose a novel Quantum Expectation Value based Language Model (QEV-LM). A unique shared density matrix is constructed for the Semantic Hilbert Space. Words and sentences are viewed as different observables in this quantum model. Under this background, a matching score describing the similarity between a question-answer pair is naturally explained as the quantum expectation value of a joint question-answer observable. In addition to the theoretical soundness, experiment results on the TREC-QA and WIKIQA datasets demonstrate the computational efficiency of our proposed model with excellent performance and low time consumption.

29 April 2022 in Entropy
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Qin Zhao
CHChenguang Hou
Chenguang Hou
Ruifeng XuRuifeng Xu
Ruifeng Xu
Aiming at classifying the polarities over aspects, aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained task of sentiment analysis. The vector representations of current models are generally constrained to real values. Based on mathematical formulations of quantum theory, quantum language models have drawn increasing attention. Words in such models can be projected as physical particles in quantum systems, and naturally represented by representation-rich complex-valued vectors in a Hilbert Space, rather than real-valued ones. In this paper, the Hilbert Space representation for ABSA models is investigated and the complexification of three strong real-valued baselines are constructed. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of complexification and the outperformance of our complex-valued models, illustrating that the complex-valued embedding can carry additional information beyond the real embedding. Especially, a complex-valued RoBERTa model outperforms or approaches the previous state-of-the-art on three standard benchmarking datasets.

15 September 2017 in The European Physical Journal C
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QZQin Zhao
Qin Zhao
MFMir Faizal
Mir Faizal
MSMushtaq B. Shah
Mushtaq B. Shah
ABAnha Bhat
Anha Bhat
PGPrince A. Ganai
Prince A. Ganai
RIRaja Muhammad Irfan
Raja Muhammad Irfan
In this paper, we will analyze a supersymmetric field theory deformed by generalized uncertainty principle and Lifshitz scaling. It will be observed that this deformed supersymmetric field theory contains non-local fractional derivative terms. In order to construct such a deformed \(\mathcal {N} =1\) supersymmetric theory, a harmonic extension of functions will be used. However, the supersymmetry will only be preserved for a free theory and will be broken by the inclusion of interaction terms.

1 October 2019
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XHXinhong Hei*
Xinhong Hei*
YCYi Chen
Yi Chen
LZLei Zhu
Lei Zhu
QZQin Zhao
Qin Zhao
LPLong Pan
Long Pan
The rail transit Codes contain a large number of schemaless data and text, which are difficult to extract and process. Knowledge Graph can handle large-scale schemaless data, thus it is used to effectively store and manipulate relevant information of rail transit Codes. As an essential component, Chinese word segmentation is a difficult problem for building the Knowledge Graph of rail transit Codes. In this paper, we propose a bi-directional maximum matching algorithm and some rules based Chinese word segmentation method, for design Codes of rail transit. In the proposed method, the item information, attribute values and Code names are first segmented by preprocessing. Then, the bidirectional matching algorithm with double dictionary is used to generate the preliminary results. Finally, the preliminary results are further optimized with rules to generate the final results. With testing some design Codes, the experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the accuracy and efficiency of Chinese word segmentation in this field, and it can deal with the update of noun entity library.

5 May 2017 in arXiv
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ABAnha Bhat
Anha Bhat
SDSanjib Dey
Sanjib Dey
MFMir Faizal
Mir Faizal
CHChenguang Hou
Chenguang Hou
QZQin Zhao
Qin Zhao
We study the correction of the energy spectrum of a gravitational quantum well due to the combined effect of the braneworld model with infinite extra dimensions and generalized uncertainty principle. The correction terms arise from a natural deformation of a semiclassical theory of quantum gravity governed by the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation based on a minimal length framework. The two fold correction in the energy yields new values of the spectrum, which are closer to the values obtained in the GRANIT experiment. This raises the possibility that the combined theory of the semiclassical quantum gravity and the generalized uncertainty principle may provide an intermediate theory between the semiclassical and the full theory of quantum gravity. We also prepare a schematic experimental set-up which may guide to the understanding of the phenomena in the laboratory.