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Learning probability models from data is at the heart of many machine learning endeavors, but is notoriously difficult due to the curse of dimensionality. We introduce a new framework for learning \emph{normalized} energy (log probability)…

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This paper explores the use of Maximum Causal Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) within the context of discrete-time stationary Mean-Field Games (MFGs) characterized by finite state spaces and an infinite-horizon,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Berkay Anahtarci , Can Deha Kariksiz , Naci Saldi

Approaches based on generative adversarial networks for imitation learning are promising because they are sample efficient in terms of expert demonstrations. However, training a generator requires many interactions with the actual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Eiji Uchibe

Contrastive learning on graphs aims at extracting distinguishable high-level representations of nodes. In this paper, we theoretically illustrate that the entropy of a dataset can be approximated by maximizing the lower bound of the mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yixuan Ma , Xiaolin Zhang , Peng Zhang , Kun Zhan

Latent class model (LCM), which is a finite mixture of different categorical distributions, is one of the most widely used models in statistics and machine learning fields. Because of its non-continuous nature and the flexibility in shape,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-23 Hao Chen , Lanshan Han , Alvin Lim

We train a generator by maximum likelihood and we also train the same generator architecture by Wasserstein GAN. We then compare the generated samples, exact log-probability densities and approximate Wasserstein distances. We show that an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Ivo Danihelka , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Benigno Uria , Daan Wierstra , Peter Dayan

Modern deep neural networks achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation tasks. However, it has recently been observed that they tend to produce overconfident estimates, even in situations of high uncertainty, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Agostina Larrazabal , Cesar Martinez , Jose Dolz , Enzo Ferrante

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are successfully used for image synthesis but are known to face instability during training. In contrast, probabilistic diffusion models (DMs) are stable and generate high-quality images, at the cost…

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This paper addresses the problem of active learning of a multi-output Gaussian process (MOGP) model representing multiple types of coexisting correlated environmental phenomena. In contrast to existing works, our active learning problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-25 Yehong Zhang , Trong Nghia Hoang , Kian Hsiang Low , Mohan Kankanhalli

(Neal and Hinton, 1998) recast maximum likelihood estimation of any given latent variable model as the minimization of a free energy functional $F$, and the EM algorithm as coordinate descent applied to $F$. Here, we explore alternative…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-21 Juan Kuntz , Jen Ning Lim , Adam M. Johansen

Deep generative models, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs), have been employed for $de~novo$ molecular generation in drug discovery. Most prior studies have utilized reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, particularly Monte…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-09 Huidong Tang , Chen Li , Sayaka Kamei , Yoshihiro Yamanishi , Yasuhiko Morimoto

Building on the success of deep learning, two modern approaches to learn a probability model from the data are Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs). VAEs consider an explicit probability model for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Yogesh Balaji , Hamed Hassani , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

Stochastic network models play a central role across a wide range of scientific disciplines, and questions of statistical inference arise naturally in this context. In this paper we investigate goodness-of-fit and two-sample testing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Subhro Ghosh , Rathindra Nath Karmakar , Samriddha Lahiry

This paper studies the fundamental learning problem of the energy-based model (EBM). Learning the EBM can be achieved using the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), which typically involves the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jiali Cui , Tian Han

Imitation learning (IL) algorithms use expert demonstrations to learn a specific task. Most of the existing approaches assume that all expert demonstrations are reliable and trustworthy, but what if there exist some adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Mostafa Hussein , Brendan Crowe , Marek Petrik , Momotaz Begum

We show that the mutual information between the representation of a learning machine and the hidden features that it extracts from data is bounded from below by the relevance, which is the entropy of the model's energy distribution. Models…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-01-28 O Duranthon , M Marsili , R Xie

Maximum entropy approach to classification is very well studied in applied statistics and machine learning and almost all the methods that exists in literature are discriminative in nature. In this paper, we introduce a maximum entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Ambedkar Dukkipati , Gaurav Pandey , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Paramita Koley , D. M. V. Satya Sriram

The principle of maximum entropy is a broadly applicable technique for computing a distribution with the least amount of information possible constrained to match empirical data, for instance, feature expectations. We seek to generalize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Kenneth Bogert

Many applications in machine learning can be framed as minimization problems and solved efficiently using gradient-based techniques. However, recent applications of generative models, particularly GANs, have triggered interest in solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Paulina Grnarova , Yannic Kilcher , Kfir Y. Levy , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

We propose a generative model that achieves minimax-optimal convergence rates for estimating probability distributions supported on unknown low-dimensional manifolds. Building on Fefferman's solution to the geometric Whitney problem, our…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Arthur Stéphanovitch