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In this work, we propose the Generative Latent Flow (GLF), an algorithm for generative modeling of the data distribution. GLF uses an Auto-encoder (AE) to learn latent representations of the data, and a normalizing flow to map the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Zhisheng Xiao , Qing Yan , Yali Amit

We show the existence of a broad class of affine Markov processes in the cone of positive self-adjoint Hilbert-Schmidt operators. Such processes are well-suited as infinite dimensional stochastic volatility models. The class of processes we…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Sonja Cox , Sven Karbach , Asma Khedher

In the past, normalizing generative flows have emerged as a promising class of generative models for natural images. This type of model has many modeling advantages: the ability to efficiently compute log-likelihood of the input data, fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Alexander Kolesnikov , André Susano Pinto , Michael Tschannen

Diffusion models recently developed for generative AI tasks can produce high-quality samples while still maintaining diversity among samples to promote mode coverage, providing a promising path for learning stochastic closure models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Xinghao Dong , Huchen Yang , Jin-long Wu

Diffusion models have recently attained significant interest within the community owing to their strong performance as generative models. Furthermore, its application to inverse problems have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models are proficient at generating high-quality images. They are however effective only when operating at the resolution used during training. Inference at a scaled resolution leads to repetitive patterns and structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Haosen Yang , Adrian Bulat , Isma Hadji , Hai X. Pham , Xiatian Zhu , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

The analytical tractability of affine (short rate) models, such as the Vasicek and the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross models, has made them a popular choice for modelling the dynamics of interest rates. However, in order to account properly for the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-09-08 Philipp Harms , David Stefanovits , Josef Teichmann , Mario Wüthrich

Motivated by recent results of Tao-Ziegler [Discrete Anal. 2016] and Greenfeld-Tao (2022 preprint) on concatenating affine-linear functions along subgroups of an abelian group, we show three results on recovering affine-linearity of…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Apoorva Khare , Akaki Tikaradze

It is well-known that affine Hecke algebras are very useful to describe the smooth representations of any connected reductive p-adic group G, in terms of the supercuspidal representations of its Levi subgroups. The goal of this paper is to…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Anne-Marie Aubert , Ahmed Moussaoui , Maarten Solleveld

Diffusion and flow-based models are ubiquitously used for generative modelling and density estimation. They admit a deterministic probability flow ordinary differential equation (PF-ODE), analogous to continuous normalizing flows (CNFs),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Gurjeet Jagwani , Stephen Thorp , Sinan Deger , Hiranya Peiris

We propose Functional Flow Matching (FFM), a function-space generative model that generalizes the recently-introduced Flow Matching model to operate in infinite-dimensional spaces. Our approach works by first defining a path of probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Gavin Kerrigan , Giosue Migliorini , Padhraic Smyth

We propose a family of multivariate Gaussian process models for correlated outputs, based on assuming that the likelihood function takes the generic form of the multivariate exponential family distribution (EFD). We denote this model as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-11-05 Antoni B. Chan

Stochastic processes generated by non-stationary distributions are difficult to represent with conventional models such as Gaussian processes. This work presents Recurrent Autoregressive Flows as a method toward general stochastic process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-20 John Mern , Peter Morales , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We present adversarial flow models, a class of generative models that belongs to both the adversarial and flow families. Our method supports native one-step and multi-step generation and is trained with an adversarial objective. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Shanchuan Lin , Ceyuan Yang , Zhijie Lin , Hao Chen , Haoqi Fan

Normalizing flows are a class of probabilistic generative models which allow for both fast density computation and efficient sampling and are effective at modelling complex distributions like images. A drawback among current methods is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Jason J. Yu , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Marcus A. Brubaker

Wall-bounded turbulent flows are chaotic and multiscale, rendering real-time prediction at high Reynolds numbers computationally prohibitive in applications such as wind farms. Classical data assimilation methods are based on repeated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Fabian Steinbrenner , Baris Turan , Hao Teng , Heng Xiao

As an effective data preprocessing step, feature selection has shown its effectiveness to prepare high-dimensional data for many machine learning tasks. The proliferation of high di-mension and huge volume big data, however, has brought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ning Gui , Danni Ge , Ziyin Hu

This Ph.D. thesis explores approximations and regularity for the Heston stochastic volatility model through three interconnected works. The first work focuses on developing high-order weak approximations for the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Edoardo Lombardo

Affine point processes are a class of simple point processes with self- and mutually-exciting properties, and they have found useful applications in several areas. In this paper, we obtain large-time asymptotic expansions in large…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Xuefeng Gao , Lingjiong Zhu

We revisit affine diffusion processes on general and on the canonical state space in particular. A detailed study of theoretic and applied aspects of this class of Markov processes is given. In particular, we derive admissibility conditions…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-10-10 Damir Filipovic , Eberhard Mayerhofer