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Normalizing flows can transform a simple prior probability distribution into a more complex target distribution. Here, we evaluate the ability and efficiency of generative machine learning methods to sample the Boltzmann distribution of an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-16 Gerhard Jung , Giulio Biroli , Ludovic Berthier

This paper introduces a new latent variable generative model able to handle high dimensional longitudinal data and relying on variational inference. The time dependency between the observations of an input sequence is modelled using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-28 Clément Chadebec , Stéphanie Allassonnière

Despite the significant recent progress in deep generative models, the underlying structure of their latent spaces is still poorly understood, thereby making the task of performing semantically meaningful latent traversals an open research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yue Song , T. Anderson Keller , Nicu Sebe , Max Welling

Normalizing Flows (NF) are Generative models which transform a simple prior distribution into the desired target. They however require the design of an invertible mapping whose Jacobian determinant has to be computable. Recently introduced,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Vincent Souveton , Arnaud Guillin , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Manon Michel

Variational Inference is a powerful tool in the Bayesian modeling toolkit, however, its effectiveness is determined by the expressivity of the utilized variational distributions in terms of their ability to match the true posterior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-10 Artem Sobolev , Dmitry Vetrov

Most real-world datasets consist of a natural hierarchy between classes or an inherent label structure that is either already available or can be constructed cheaply. However, most existing representation learning methods ignore this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Aditya Sinha , Siqi Zeng , Makoto Yamada , Han Zhao

Normalizing Flows are a promising new class of algorithms for unsupervised learning based on maximum likelihood optimization with change of variables. They offer to learn a factorized component representation for complex nonlinear data and,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Reuben Feinman , Nikhil Parthasarathy

We present a rotated hyperbolic wrapped normal distribution (RoWN), a simple yet effective alteration of a hyperbolic wrapped normal distribution (HWN). The HWN expands the domain of probabilistic modeling from Euclidean to hyperbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Seunghyuk Cho , Juyong Lee , Jaesik Park , Dongwoo Kim

Most previous heterogeneous graph embedding models represent elements in a heterogeneous graph as vector representations in a low-dimensional Euclidean space. However, because heterogeneous graphs inherently possess complex structures, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jongmin Park , Seunghoon Han , Soohwan Jeong , Sungsu Lim

Normalizing flows have recently demonstrated the ability to learn the Boltzmann distribution of the Hubbard model, opening new avenues for generative modeling in condensed matter physics. In this work, we investigate the steps required to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-27 Janik Kreit , Andrea Bulgarelli , Lena Funcke , Thomas Luu , Dominic Schuh , Simran Singh , Lorenzo Verzichelli

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning task for uncovering patterns in data. While Gaussian Blurring Mean Shift (GBMS) has proven effective for identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters in Euclidean space, it struggles with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Arghya Pratihar , Arnab Seal , Swagatam Das , Inesh Chattopadhyay

A new method to describe hyperbolic patterns in two dimensional flows is proposed. The method is based on the Covariant Lyapunov Vectors (CLVs), which have the properties to be covariant with the dynamics, and thus being mapped by the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-29 Giovanni Conti , Gualtiero Badin

Hyperbolic space is quickly gaining traction as a promising geometry for hierarchical and robust representation learning. A core open challenge is the development of a mathematical formulation of hyperbolic neural networks that is both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Robert van der Klis , Ricardo Chávez Torres , Max van Spengler , Yuhui Ding , Thomas Hofmann , Pascal Mettes

Hyperbolic space can naturally embed hierarchies that often exist in real-world data and semantics. While high-dimensional hyperbolic embeddings lead to better representations, most hyperbolic models utilize low-dimensional embeddings, due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yunhui Guo , Haoran Guo , Stella Yu

The recent introduction of Machine Learning techniques, especially Normalizing Flows, for the sampling of lattice gauge theories has shed some hope on improving the sampling efficiency of the traditional Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-09-21 David Albandea , Luigi Del Debbio , Pilar Hernández , Richard Kenway , Joe Marsh Rossney , Alberto Ramos

Given an image set without any labels, our goal is to train a model that maps each image to a point in a feature space such that, not only proximity indicates visual similarity, but where it is located directly encodes how prototypical the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yunhui Guo , Youren Zhang , Yubei Chen , Stella X. Yu

Normalizing flows are a powerful technique for obtaining reparameterizable samples from complex multimodal distributions. Unfortunately current approaches fall short when the underlying space has a non trivial topology, and are only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-12 Luca Falorsi , Patrick Forré

Learning graph representations via low-dimensional embeddings that preserve relevant network properties is an important class of problems in machine learning. We here present a novel method to embed directed acyclic graphs. Following prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Gary Bécigneul , Thomas Hofmann

We present a generative model that is defined on finite sets of exchangeable, potentially high dimensional, data. As the architecture is an extension of RealNVPs, it inherits all its favorable properties, such as being invertible and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kashif Rasul , Ingmar Schuster , Roland Vollgraf , Urs Bergmann