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Token sampling strategies critically influence text generation quality in large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods introduce additional hyperparameters, requiring extensive tuning and complicating deployment. We present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xiaodong Cai , Hai Lin , Shaoxiong Zhan , Weiqi Luo , Hong-Gee Kim , Hongyan Hao , Yu Yang , Hai-Tao Zheng

Approximate message passing (AMP) is a low-cost iterative parameter-estimation technique for certain high-dimensional linear systems with non-Gaussian distributions. However, AMP only applies to independent identically distributed (IID)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Lei Liu , Shunqi Huang , Brian M. Kurkoski

We propose a new family of message passing techniques for MAP estimation in graphical models which we call {\em Sequential Reweighted Message Passing} (SRMP). Special cases include well-known techniques such as {\em Min-Sum Diffusion} (MSD)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Vladimir Kolmogorov

Probabilistic inference problems arise naturally in distributed systems such as sensor networks and teams of mobile robots. Inference algorithms that use message passing are a natural fit for distributed systems, but they must be robust to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Mark Paskin , Carlos E. Guestrin

Entropy production (EP) is known as a fundamental quantity for measuring the irreversibility of processes in thermal equilibrium and states far from equilibrium. In stochastic thermodynamics, the EP becomes more visible in terms of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jaewoo Jung , Jaegon Um , Deokjae Lee , Yong W. Kim , D. Y. Lee , H. K. Pak , B. Kahng

We propose a method for inferring entropy production (EP) in high-dimensional stochastic systems, including many-body systems and non-Markovian systems with long memory. Standard techniques for estimating EP become intractable in such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-20 Miguel Aguilera , Sosuke Ito , Artemy Kolchinsky

The Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is a versatile tool for model parameter estimation in latent data models. When processing large data sets or data stream however, EM becomes intractable since it requires the whole data set to be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-18 Sylvain Le Corff , Gersende Fort

In this paper, we provide a new algorithm for the problem of prediction in Reinforcement Learning, \emph{i.e.}, estimating the Value Function of a Markov Reward Process (MRP) using the linear function approximation architecture, with memory…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Ajin George Joseph , Shalabh Bhatnagar

In Monte Carlo simulations of lattice field theory with a $\theta$ term, one confronts the complex weight problem, or the sign problem. This is circumvented by performing the Fourier transform of the topological charge distribution $P(Q)$.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-01 Masahiro Imachi , Yasuhiko Shinno , Hiroshi Yoneyama

Entropy metrics (for example, permutation entropy) are nonlinear measures of irregularity in time series (one-dimensional data). Some of these entropy metrics can be generalised to data on periodic structures such as a grid or lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-22 John Stewart Fabila-Carrasco , Chao Tan , Javier Escudero

We present the design of an autoregressive active inference agent in the form of message passing on a factor graph. Expected free energy is derived and distributed across a planning graph. The proposed agent is validated on a robot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wouter M. Kouw , Tim N. Nisslbeck , Wouter L. N. Nuijten

The max-product algorithm, a local message-passing scheme that attempts to compute the most probable assignment (MAP) of a given probability distribution, has been successfully employed as a method of approximate inference for applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Nicholas Ruozzi , Sekhar Tatikonda

We consider the estimation of an i.i.d. (possibly non-Gaussian) vector $\xbf \in \R^n$ from measurements $\ybf \in \R^m$ obtained by a general cascade model consisting of a known linear transform followed by a probabilistic componentwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher , Michael Unser

For approximate inference in the generalized quadratic equations model, many state-of-the-art algorithms lack any prior knowledge of the target signal structure, exhibits slow convergence, and can not handle any analytic prior knowledge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Huimin Zhu

When studying interacting systems, computing their statistical properties is a fundamental problem in various fields such as physics, applied mathematics, and machine learning. However, this task can be quite challenging due to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-04 Yijia Wang , Yuwen Ebony Zhang , Feng Pan , Pan Zhang

Entropy and free-energy estimation are key in thermodynamic characterization of simulated systems ranging from spin models through polymers, colloids, protein structure, and drug-design. Current techniques suffer from being model specific,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-30 Ram Avinery , Micha Kornreich , Roy Beck

The principle of maximum entropy (Maxent) is often used to obtain prior probability distributions as a method to obtain a Gibbs measure under some restriction giving the probability that a system will be in a certain state compared to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Hector Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

I report on the development of a novel statistical mechanical formalism for the analysis of random graphs with many short loops, and processes on such graphs. The graphs are defined via maximum entropy ensembles, in which both the degrees…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-05-04 A C C Coolen

While loopy belief propagation (LBP) performs reasonably well for inference in some Gaussian graphical models with cycles, its performance is unsatisfactory for many others. In particular for some models LBP does not converge, and in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-28 Ying Liu , Venkat Chandrasekaran , Animashree Anandkumar , Alan S. Willsky

This letter proposes a Message Passing (MP) based algorithm for demodulating the time-encoded digital modulation signal. The proposed algorithm processes the spikes generated by the Time-Encoding Machine (TEM) directly on a per-spike basis,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Yuan Xu , Wenhui Xiong