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We introduce a probabilistic generative model for disentangling spatio-temporal disease trajectories from series of high-dimensional brain images. The model is based on spatio-temporal matrix factorization, where inference on the sources is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Clement Abi Nader , Nicholas Ayache , Philippe Robert , Marco Lorenzi

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have demonstrated exceptional capability of generating high-quality and diverse images, but their practical application is hindered by the intensive computational cost during inference. The DPM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jen-Yuan Huang

Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) methods are used to approximate posterior distributions in models with unknown or computationally intractable likelihoods. Both the accuracy and computational efficiency of ABC depend on the choice of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-17 Bai Jiang , Tung-yu Wu , Charles Zheng , Wing H. Wong

This paper introduces a new algorithm for the fundamental problem of generating a random integer from a discrete probability distribution using a source of independent and unbiased random coin flips. We prove that this algorithm, which we…

Computation · Statistics 2020-07-03 Feras A. Saad , Cameron E. Freer , Martin C. Rinard , Vikash K. Mansinghka

Diffusion models accomplish remarkable success in data generation tasks across various domains. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally expensive. Consistency models are proposed to learn consistency functions to map from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yiding Chen , Yiyi Zhang , Owen Oertell , Wen Sun

We present a probabilistic divide-and-conquer (PDC) method for \emph{exact} sampling of conditional distributions of the form $\mathcal{L}( {\bf X}\, |\, {\bf X} \in E)$, where ${\bf X}$ is a random variable on $\mathcal{X}$, a complete,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Stephen DeSalvo

We propose efficient techniques for generating independent identically distributed uniform random samples inside semialgebraic sets. The proposed algorithm leverages recent results on the approximation of indicator functions by polynomials…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Fabrizio Dabbene , Didier Henrion , Constantino Lagoa

Boltzmann sampling is commonly used to uniformly sample objects of a particular size from large combinatorial sets. For this technique to be effective, one needs to prove that (1) the sampling procedure is efficient and (2) objects of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Megan Bernstein , Matthew Fahrbach , Dana Randall

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have achieved impressive success in visual generation. While, they suffer from slow inference speed due to iterative sampling. Employing fewer sampling steps is an intuitive solution, but this will also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hu Yu , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Feng Zhao

In this article we describe a new coupling technique which is useful in a variety of perfect sampling algorithms. A multishift coupler generates a random function f() so that for each real x, f(x)-x is governed by the same fixed probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-11 David Bruce Wilson

We present a novel framework for performing statistical sampling, expectation estimation, and partition function approximation using \emph{arbitrary} heuristic stochastic processes defined over discrete state spaces. Using a highly parallel…

Computation · Statistics 2015-12-04 Firas Hamze , Evgeny Andryash

We propose a novel sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method for sampling from unnormalized target distributions based on a reverse denoising diffusion process. While recent diffusion-based samplers simulate the reverse diffusion using…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-06 Luhuan Wu , Yi Han , Christian A. Naesseth , John P. Cunningham

We propose a novel method for sampling and optimization tasks based on a stochastic interacting particle system. We explain how this method can be used for the following two goals: (i) generating approximate samples from a given target…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-05 J. A. Carrillo , F. Hoffmann , A. M. Stuart , U. Vaes

This paper considers direct sampling methods from discrete target distributions. The inverse transform sampling (ITS) method is one of the most popular direct sampling methods. The main purpose of this paper is to propose a direct sampling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Hiroyuki Masuyama

Score-based diffusion models have achieved remarkable empirical success in generating high-quality samples from target data distributions. Among them, the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) is one of the most widely used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-16 Yuchen Jiao , Yuchen Zhou , Gen Li

Score-based diffusion models, while achieving minimax optimality for sampling, are often hampered by slow sampling speeds due to the high computational burden of score function evaluations. Despite the recent remarkable empirical advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Gen Li , Changxiao Cai

Consistency distillation methods have demonstrated significant success in accelerating generative tasks of diffusion models. However, since previous consistency distillation methods use simple and straightforward strategies in selecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Cunzheng Wang , Ziyuan Guo , Yuxuan Duan , Huaxia Li , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Markov decision processes (MDP) are useful to model optimisation problems in concurrent systems. To verify MDPs with efficient Monte Carlo techniques requires that their nondeterminism be resolved by a scheduler. Recent work has introduced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pedro D'Argenio , Axel Legay , Sean Sedwards , Louis-Marie Traonouez

We establish finite sample bounds for the error of standard and waste-free SMC samplers. Our results cover estimates of both expectations and normalising constants of the target distributions. We consider first an arbitrary sequence of…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-15 Yvann Le Fay , Nicolas Chopin , Matti Vihola

The scarcity of publicly available medical imaging data limits the development of effective AI models. This work proposes a memory-efficient patch-wise denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) for generating synthetic medical images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Kathrin Khadra , Utku Türkbey
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