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This work studies how to estimate the mean-field density of large-scale systems in a distributed manner. Such problems are motivated by the recent swarm control technique that uses mean-field approximations to represent the collective…

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Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) by numerical methods meet computational cost challenge for getting the accurate solution since fine grids and small time steps are required. Machine learning can accelerate this process, but…

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The Neural Autoregressive Distribution Estimator (NADE) and its real-valued version RNADE are competitive density models of multidimensional data across a variety of domains. These models use a fixed, arbitrary ordering of the data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-14 Benigno Uria , Iain Murray , Hugo Larochelle

In this work, we study wavelet projection estimators for density estimation, focusing on their construction from $\mathcal{S}$-regular, compactly supported wavelet bases. A key aspect of such estimators is the choice of the resolution…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Van Ha Hoang , Tien Dat Nguyen , Thi Mong Ngoc Nguyen

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) enforce governing equations by penalizing PDE residuals at interior collocation points, but standard collocation strategies - uniform sampling and residual-based adaptive refinement - can oversample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hadi Salloum , Maximilian Mifsud Bonici , Sinan Ibrahim , Pavel Osinenko , Alexei Kornaev

Particle flow (PFL) is an effective method for overcoming particle degeneracy, the main limitation of particle filtering. In PFL, particles are migrated towards regions of high likelihood based on the solution of a partial differential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Wenyu Zhang , Mohammad J. Khojasteh , Nikolay A. Atanasov , Florian Meyer

One of the fundamental problems in machine learning is the estimation of a probability distribution from data. Many techniques have been proposed to study the structure of data, most often building around the assumption that observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-22 Oren Rippel , Ryan Prescott Adams

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved brain tumour segmentation techniques; however, the results still lack confidence and robustness as they solely consider image data without biophysical priors or pathological…

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Binary density ratio estimation (DRE), the problem of estimating the ratio $p_1/p_2$ given their empirical samples, provides the foundation for many state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms such as contrastive representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Lantao Yu , Yujia Jin , Stefano Ermon

In the post-Moore era, the need for efficient solutions to non-deterministic polynomial-time (NP) problems is becoming more pressing. In this context, the Ising model implemented by the probabilistic computing systems with probabilistic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Chao Fang , Yihan He , Xiao Gong , Gengchiau Liang

This article presents a new high-order accurate algorithm for finding a particular solution to a linear, constant-coefficient partial differential equation (PDE) by means of a convolution of the volumetric source function with the Green's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Thomas G. Anderson , Hai Zhu , Shravan Veerapaneni

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have rapidly advanced and are becoming a common backbone for downstream clinical tasks, offering strong transferability across tissues and institutions. However, for dense prediction (e.g., segmentation),…

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We give a highly efficient "semi-agnostic" algorithm for learning univariate probability distributions that are well approximated by piecewise polynomial density functions. Let $p$ be an arbitrary distribution over an interval $I$ which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Siu-On Chan , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rocco A. Servedio , Xiaorui Sun

In this paper we study the dynamics of a fast-slow Fokker-Planck partial differential equation (PDE) viewed as the evolution equation for the density of a multiscale planar stochastic differential equation (SDE). Our key focus is on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Christian Kuehn , Jan-Eric Sulzbach

We present the extention and application of a new unsupervised statistical learning technique--the Partition Decoupling Method--to gene expression data. Because it has the ability to reveal non-linear and non-convex geometries present in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-24 Rosemary Braun , Gregory Leibon , Scott Pauls , Daniel Rockmore

Optimal control problems including partial differential equation (PDE) as well as integer constraints merge the combinatorial difficulties of integer programming and the challenges related to large-scale systems resulting from discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Dominik Garmatter , Margherita Porcelli , Francesco Rinaldi , Martin Stoll

We propose a hybrid method combining partial differential equation (PDE) and Monte Carlo (MC) techniques to obtain efficient estimates of statistics for plastic deformation related to kinematic hardening models driven by transient coloured…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Harry L. F. Ip , Charlie Mathey , Laurent Mertz , Jonathan J. Wylie

We present a generative learning framework for probabilistic sampling based on an extension of the Probabilistic Learning on Manifolds (PLoM) approach, which is designed to generate statistically consistent realizations of a random vector…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Dimitris G Giovanis , Nikolaos Evangelou , Ioannis G Kevrekidis , Roger G Ghanem

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a fundamental topic of geometric computer vision and a core technique for many downstream applications. Recently, several methods reframe the MDE as a classification-regression problem where a linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu , Weihai Chen , Zhengguo Li

We present an initial implementation of a probabilistic PDE-constrained shape optimization algorithm. Our method is based on a novel probabilistic representation of the shape derivative, which is evaluated using Monte Carlo sampling; and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Stephan Schmidt , Maximilian Würschmidt