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Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is one of the current state-of-the-art methods for partitioning data points into the union of subspaces, with strong theoretical guarantees. However, it is not practical for large data sets as it requires…

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A multiscale method is proposed for a parabolic stochastic partial differential equation with additive noise and highly oscillatory diffusion. The framework is based on the localized orthogonal decomposition (LOD) method and computes a…

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In this paper, we propose a general methodology for sampling from un-normalized densities defined on Riemannian manifolds, with a particular focus on multi-modal targets that remain challenging for existing sampling methods. Inspired by the…

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Gaussian latent variable models are a key class of Bayesian hierarchical models with applications in many fields. Performing Bayesian inference on such models can be challenging as Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms struggle with the…

Computation · Statistics 2020-11-09 Charles C. Margossian , Aki Vehtari , Daniel Simpson , Raj Agrawal

Diffusion models generate conditional samples by progressively denoising Gaussian noise, yet the denoising trajectory can stall at visually plausible but low-quality outcomes with conditional misalignment or structural artifacts. We…

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In high-dimensions, many variable selection methods, such as the lasso, are often limited by excessive variability and rank deficiency of the sample covariance matrix. Covariance sparsity is a natural phenomenon in high-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-06-08 X. Jessie Jeng And Z. John Daye

Simulating a depositional (or stratigraphic) sequence conditionally on borehole data is a long-standing problem in hydrogeology and in petroleum geostatistics. This paper presents a new rule-based approach for simulating depositional…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-26 Denis Allard , Paolo Fabbri , Carlo Gaetan

We consider a fast approximation method for a solution of a certain stochastic non-local pseudodifferential equation. This equation defines a Mat\'ern class random field. The approximation method is based on the spectral compactness of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Lassi Roininen , Sari Lasanen , Mikko Orispää , Simo Särkkä

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based reduced order modeling method for stochastic underground flow problems in highly heterogeneous media. We aim to utilize supervised learning to build a reduced surrogate model from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Yiran Wang , Eric Chung , Shubin Fu

We propose a multiscale method for mixed-dimensional elliptic problems with highly heterogeneous coefficients arising, for example, in the modeling of fractured porous media. The method is based on the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Moritz Hauck , Axel Målqvist , Malin Mosquera

Hybrid Monte Carlo is a powerful Markov Chain Monte Carlo method for sampling from complex continuous distributions. However, a major limitation of HMC is its inability to be applied to discrete domains due to the lack of gradient signal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Priyank Jaini , Didrik Nielsen , Max Welling

We consider Gaussian Random Fields on metric graphs defined implicitly as the stationary solution to a fractional SPDE driven by Gaussian white noise. Sampling from the finite element approximation requires the Cholesky factorization of the…

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We propose a simple algorithm to train stochastic neural networks to draw samples from given target distributions for probabilistic inference. Our method is based on iteratively adjusting the neural network parameters so that the output…

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Diffusions are a successful technique to sample from high-dimensional distributions. The target distribution can be either explicitly given or learnt from a collection of samples. They implement a diffusion process whose endpoint is a…

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Generative modeling of spatio-temporal fields is crucial for a variety of applications, including stochastic weather generators and climate-model surrogates. However, many such fields exhibit complex dependence structures that vary across…

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Generating diverse samples under hard constraints is a core challenge in many areas. With this work we aim to provide an integrative view and framework to combine methods from the fields of MCMC, constrained optimization, as well as…

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The subject of this work is an adaptive stochastic Galerkin finite element method for parametric or random elliptic partial differential equations, which generates sparse product polynomial expansions with respect to the parametric…

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New classes of stochastic differential equations can now be studied using rough path theory (e.g. Lyons et al. [LCL07] or Friz--Hairer [FH14]). In this paper we investigate, from a numerical analysis point of view, stochastic differential…

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We develop a new approach for detecting changes in the behavior of stochastic processes and random fields based on tensor product representations such as the Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve expansion. From the associated eigenspaces of the covariance…

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Modeling data with non-stationary covariance structure is important to represent heterogeneity in geophysical and other environmental spatial processes. In this work, we investigate a multistage approach to modeling non-stationary…

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