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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown expressive performance on graph representation learning by aggregating information from neighbors. Recently, some studies have discussed the importance of modeling neighborhood distribution on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wendong Bi , Lun Du , Qiang Fu , Yanlin Wang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

To overcome the computational bottleneck of various data perturbation procedures such as the bootstrap and cross validations, we propose the Generative Multiple-purpose Sampler (GMS), which constructs a generator function to produce…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-18 Minsuk Shin , Shijie Wang , Jun S Liu

Graph generation is a crucial task in many fields, including network science and bioinformatics, as it enables the creation of synthetic graphs that mimic the properties of real-world networks for various applications. Graph Generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Salvatore Romano , Marco Grassia , Giuseppe Mangioni

Probabilistic generative models provide a powerful framework for representing data that avoids the expense of manual annotation typically needed by discriminative approaches. Model selection in this generative setting can be challenging,…

While Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (MCMC) provide a general framework to sample from a probability distribution defined up to normalization, they often suffer from slow convergence to the target distribution when the latter is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tristan Deleu , Yoshua Bengio

Score-based and flow-based generative models exhibit remarkable expressive capacity in capturing complex distributions, and have been extensively deployed in tasks ranging from image generation to reinforcement learning. Nevertheless, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yiyan , Liang , Sifei Liu , Weitong Zhang

Generative Flow Networks (GFNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for sampling discrete objects from unnormalized distributions, offering a scalable alternative to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. While GFNs draw inspiration from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Sobhan Mohammadpour , Emmanuel Bengio , Emma Frejinger , Pierre-Luc Bacon

In image generation, generative models can be evaluated naturally by visually inspecting model outputs. However, this is not always the case for graph generative models (GGMs), making their evaluation challenging. Currently, the standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Rylee Thompson , Boris Knyazev , Elahe Ghalebi , Jungtaek Kim , Graham W. Taylor

We design generative neural networks that generate Monte Carlo configurations with complete absence of autocorrelation from which only short Markov chains are needed before making measurements for physical observables, irrespective of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-25 Hongyu Lu , Chuhao Li , Bin-Bin Chen , Wei Li , Yang Qi , Zi Yang Meng

We study signal processing tasks in which the signal is mapped via some generalized time-frequency transform to a higher dimensional time-frequency space, processed there, and synthesized to an output signal. We show how to approximate such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Ron Levie , Haim Avron , Gitta Kutyniok

Copulas are a powerful tool for modeling multivariate distributions as they allow to separately estimate the univariate marginal distributions and the joint dependency structure. However, known parametric copulas offer limited flexibility…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-11 Tim Janke , Mohamed Ghanmi , Florian Steinke

The goal of generative machine learning is to model the probability distribution underlying a given data set. This probability distribution helps to characterize the generation process of the data samples. While classical generative machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Christa Zoufal

Generative diffusions are a powerful class of Monte Carlo samplers that leverage bridging Markov processes to approximate complex, high-dimensional distributions, such as those found in image processing and language models. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-20 Zheng Zhao , Ziwei Luo , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

We present GraphMoE, a novel neural network-based approach to learning generative models for random graphs. The neural network is trained to match the distribution of a class of random graphs by way of a moment estimator. The features used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-19 Vittorio Loprinzo , Laurent Younes

Generating random graphs to model networks has a rich history. In this paper, we analyze and improve upon the multifractal network generator (MFNG) introduced by Palla et al. We provide a new result on the probability of subgraphs existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , Carlos Riquelme , Sven Schmit

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a diverse set of candidates in an active learning context, with a training objective that makes them approximately sample in proportion to a given reward…

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This paper studies semi-supervised object classification in relational data, which is a fundamental problem in relational data modeling. The problem has been extensively studied in the literature of both statistical relational learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Meng Qu , Yoshua Bengio , Jian Tang

We consider the problem of learning deep generative models from data. We formulate a method that generates an independent sample via a single feedforward pass through a multilayer perceptron, as in the recently proposed generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Yujia Li , Kevin Swersky , Richard Zemel

We propose a general framework for non-normal multivariate data analysis called multivariate covariance generalized linear models (McGLMs), designed to handle multivariate response variables, along with a wide range of temporal and spatial…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-25 Wagner Hugo Bonat , Bent Jørgensen