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Learning, taking into account full distribution of the data, referred to as generative, is not feasible with deep neural networks (DNNs) because they model only the conditional distribution of the outputs given the inputs. Current solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Boris Flach , Alexander Shekhovtsov , Ondrej Fikar

Despite exceptional predictive performance of Deep sequence models (DSMs), the main concern of their deployment centers around the lack of uncertainty awareness. In contrast, probabilistic models quantify the uncertainty associated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenlong Chen

The Bayesian approach to inference stands out for naturally allowing borrowing information across heterogeneous populations, with different samples possibly sharing the same distribution. A popular Bayesian nonparametric model for…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-25 Antonio Lijoi , Igor Prünster , Giovanni Rebaudo

When modeling class-imbalanced data, it is crucial to address the imbalance, as models trained on such data tend to be biased towards the majority classes. This problem is amplified under partial supervision, where pseudo-labels for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Heegeon Yoon , Heeyoung Kim

Neural networks have proven successful at learning from complex data distributions by acting as universal function approximators. However, they are often overconfident in their predictions, which leads to inaccurate and miscalibrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jeffrey Willette , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

We introduce a new approach to prediction in graphical models with latent-shift adaptation, i.e., where source and target environments differ in the distribution of an unobserved confounding latent variable. Previous work has shown that as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-26 William I. Walker , Arthur Gretton , Maneesh Sahani

In this paper, we propose a deep probabilistic multi-view model that is composed of a linear multi-view layer based on probabilistic canonical correlation analysis (CCA) description in the latent space together with deep generative networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Mahdi Karami , Dale Schuurmans

Diffusion models have recently driven significant breakthroughs in generative modeling. While state-of-the-art models produce high-quality samples on average, individual samples can still be low quality. Detecting such samples without human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Metod Jazbec , Eliot Wong-Toi , Guoxuan Xia , Dan Zhang , Eric Nalisnick , Stephan Mandt

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been successfully applied to regression tasks -- such as time series forecasting and tabular prediction -- by leveraging their in-context learning abilities. However, their autoregressive decoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Julianna Piskorz , Katarzyna Kobalczyk , Mihaela van der Schaar

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in generation of unstructured data, such as, natural images. However, discovery and separation of modes in the generated space, essential for several tasks beyond naive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Deepak Mishra , Prathosh A. P. , Aravind Jayendran , Varun Srivastava , Santanu Chaudhury

Latent space is one of the key concepts in generative AI, offering powerful means for creative exploration through vector manipulation. However, diffusion models like Stable Diffusion lack the intuitive latent vector control found in GANs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhihua Zhong , Xuanyang Huang

The linear classifier is widely used in various image classification tasks. It works by optimizing the distance between a sample and its corresponding class center. However, in real-world data, one class can contain several local clusters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhemin Zhang , Xun Gong

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved rapid progress in learning rich data distributions. However, we argue about two main issues in existing techniques. First, the low quality problem where the learned distribution has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

We present a neural network architecture based upon the Autoencoder (AE) and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that promotes a convex latent distribution by training adversarially on latent space interpolations. By using an AE as both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Tim Sainburg , Marvin Thielk , Brad Theilman , Benjamin Migliori , Timothy Gentner

Mapping data from and/or onto a known family of distributions has become an important topic in machine learning and data analysis. Deep generative models (e.g., generative adversarial networks ) have been used effectively to match known and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Surojit Saha , Shireen Elhabian , Ross T. Whitaker

It is argued that deep learning is efficient for data that is generated from hierarchal generative models. Examples of such generative models include wavelet scattering networks, functions of compositional structure, and deep rendering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Elchanan Mossel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in generating realistic data from some predefined prior distribution (e.g., Gaussian noises). However, such prior distribution is often independent of real data and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jiezhang Cao , Yong Guo , Qingyao Wu , Chunhua Shen , Junzhou Huang , Mingkui Tan

Recent advancements in data-driven task-oriented dialogue systems (ToDs) struggle with incremental learning due to computational constraints and time-consuming issues. Continual Learning (CL) attempts to solve this by avoiding intensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Min Zeng , Wei Xue , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

In this paper, we investigate the latent geometry of generative diffusion models under the manifold hypothesis. For this purpose, we analyze the spectrum of eigenvalues (and singular values) of the Jacobian of the score function, whose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-14 Enrico Ventura , Beatrice Achilli , Gianluigi Silvestri , Carlo Lucibello , Luca Ambrogioni

We study the convergence properties of the Gibbs Sampler in the context of posterior distributions arising from Bayesian analysis of conditionally Gaussian hierarchical models. We develop a multigrid approach to derive analytic expressions…

Computation · Statistics 2019-06-27 Giacomo Zanella , Gareth Roberts