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Modeling complex conditional distributions is critical in a variety of settings. Despite a long tradition of research into conditional density estimation, current methods employ either simple parametric forms or are difficult to learn in…

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Each training step for a variational autoencoder (VAE) requires us to sample from the approximate posterior, so we usually choose simple (e.g. factorised) approximate posteriors in which sampling is an efficient computation that fully…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Laurence Aitchison , Vincent Adam , Srinivas C. Turaga

Many real-world networks exhibit hierarchical, tree-like structure and heavy-tailed degree distributions, phenomena not readily captured by standard statistical models for network data. Extensions of the popular continuous latent space…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-13 Yiwei Gong , Anna L. Smith , Dena Asta , Catherine A. Calder

Stochastic Interpolants (SI) is a powerful framework for generative modeling, capable of flexibly transforming between two probability distributions. However, its use in jointly optimized latent variable models remains unexplored as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Saurabh Singh , Dmitry Lagun

We present STARFlow, a scalable generative model based on normalizing flows that achieves strong performance in high-resolution image synthesis. The core of STARFlow is Transformer Autoregressive Flow (TARFlow), which combines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiatao Gu , Tianrong Chen , David Berthelot , Huangjie Zheng , Yuyang Wang , Ruixiang Zhang , Laurent Dinh , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Learning low-dimensional numerical representations from symbolic data, e.g., embedding the nodes of a graph into a geometric space, is an important concept in machine learning. While embedding into Euclidean space is common, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Thomas Bläsius , Jean-Pierre von der Heydt , Maximilian Katzmann , Nikolai Maas

High-fidelity numerical simulations of chaotic, high dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems are computationally expensive, necessitating the development of efficient surrogate models. Most surrogate models for such systems are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dibyajyoti Chakraborty , Hojin Kim , Romit Maulik

Network data is ubiquitous in various scientific disciplines, including sociology, economics, and neuroscience. Latent space models are often employed in network data analysis, but the geometric effect of latent space curvature remains a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-11 Jinming Li , Gongjun Xu , Ji Zhu

Recently, there has been a rising surge of momentum for deep representation learning in hyperbolic spaces due to theirhigh capacity of modeling data like knowledge graphs or synonym hierarchies, possessing hierarchical structure. We refer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Wei Peng , Tuomas Varanka , Abdelrahman Mostafa , Henglin Shi , Guoying Zhao

In this paper, sparsity-promoting regression techniques are employed to automatically identify from data relevant triadic interactions between modal structures in large Galerkin-based models of two-dimensional unsteady flows. The approach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-24 Riccardo Rubini , Davide Lasagna , Andrea Da Ronch

Normalizing flows are objects used for modeling complicated probability density functions, and have attracted considerable interest in recent years. Many flexible families of normalizing flows have been developed. However, the focus to date…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-18 Tin Lok James Ng , Andrew Zammit-Mangion

We present a computational framework for efficient learning, sampling, and distribution of general Bayesian posterior distributions. The framework leverages a machine learning approach for the construction of normalizing flows for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Yukari Yamauchi , Landon Buskirk , Pablo Giuliani , Kyle Godbey

A convolutional encoder-decoder-based transformer model is proposed for autoregressively training on spatio-temporal data of turbulent flows. The prediction of future fluid flow fields is based on the previously predicted fluid flow field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-31 Aakash Patil , Jonathan Viquerat , Elie Hachem

Forward modeling approaches in cosmology have made it possible to reconstruct the initial conditions at the beginning of the Universe from the observed survey data. However the high dimensionality of the parameter space still poses a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Chirag Modi , Yin Li , David Blei

Normalizing flows provide an elegant approach to generative modeling that allows for efficient sampling and exact density evaluation of unknown data distributions. However, current techniques have significant limitations in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sahil Sidheekh , Chris B. Dock , Tushar Jain , Radu Balan , Maneesh K. Singh

Natural language text exhibits hierarchical structure in a variety of respects. Ideally, we could incorporate our prior knowledge of this hierarchical structure into unsupervised learning algorithms that work on text data. Recent work by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Bhuwan Dhingra , Christopher J. Shallue , Mohammad Norouzi , Andrew M. Dai , George E. Dahl

Sampling from high-dimensional and structured probability distributions is a fundamental challenge in computational physics, particularly in the context of lattice field theory (LFT), where generating field configurations efficiently is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jehu Martinez , Andrea Delgado

A generative model based on a continuous-time normalizing flow between any pair of base and target probability densities is proposed. The velocity field of this flow is inferred from the probability current of a time-dependent density that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Michael S. Albergo , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Detecting events and their evolution through time is a crucial task in natural language understanding. Recent neural approaches to event temporal relation extraction typically map events to embeddings in the Euclidean space and train a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xingwei Tan , Gabriele Pergola , Yulan He

In recent years, there has been a growing trend of incorporating hyperbolic geometry methods into computer vision. While these methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various metric learning tasks using hyperbolic distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yun Yue , Fangzhou Lin , Guanyi Mou , Ziming Zhang