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Recently, there is a growing interest in the study of median-based algorithms for distributed non-convex optimization. Two prominent such algorithms include signSGD with majority vote, an effective approach for communication reduction via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Xiangyi Chen , Tiancong Chen , Haoran Sun , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Mingyi Hong

In image generation, Multiple Latent Variable Generative Models (MLVGMs) employ multiple latent variables to gradually shape the final images, from global characteristics to finer and local details (e.g., StyleGAN, NVAE), emerging as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Dario Serez , Marco Cristani , Alessio Del Bue , Vittorio Murino , Pietro Morerio

Stochastic neural networks such as Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) have been successfully used in applications ranging from speech recognition to image classification. Inference and learning in these algorithms use a Markov Chain Monte…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bruno U. Pedroni , Srinjoy Das , John V. Arthur , Paul A. Merolla , Bryan L. Jackson , Dharmendra S. Modha , Kenneth Kreutz-Delgado , Gert Cauwenberghs

Score-based generative modeling (SGM) has grown to be a hugely successful method for learning to generate samples from complex data distributions such as that of images and audio. It is based on evolving an SDE that transforms white noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Holden Lee , Jianfeng Lu , Yixin Tan

The Gaussian process state-space model (GPSSM) has garnered considerable attention over the past decade. However, the standard GP with a preliminary kernel, such as the squared exponential kernel or Mat\'{e}rn kernel, that is commonly used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhid Lin , Feng Yin , Juan Maroñas

We propose a novel generative saliency prediction framework that adopts an informative energy-based model as a prior distribution. The energy-based prior model is defined on the latent space of a saliency generator network that generates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jing Zhang , Jianwen Xie , Nick Barnes , Ping Li

This paper introduces the open-source framework, GIRA, which implements fundamental robotics algorithms for reconstruction, pose estimation, and occupancy modeling using compact generative models. Compactness enables perception in the large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Kshitij Goel , Wennie Tabib

This paper introduces the Univariate Gaussian Mixture Model Neural Network (uGMM-NN), a novel neural architecture that embeds probabilistic reasoning directly into the computational units of deep networks. Unlike traditional neurons, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zakeria Sharif Ali

Spatial generalized linear mixed models (SGLMMs) are popular and flexible models for non-Gaussian spatial data. They are useful for spatial interpolations as well as for fitting regression models that account for spatial dependence, and are…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-26 Yawen Guan , Murali Haran

We have developed a Generative Recurrent Neural Networks (GRNN) that learns the probability of the next residue torsions $X_{i+1}=\ [\phi_{i+1},\psi_{i+1},\omega _{i+1}, \chi_{i+1}]$ from the previous residue in the sequence $X_i$ to…

Multi-modal medical image completion has been extensively applied to alleviate the missing modality issue in a wealth of multi-modal diagnostic tasks. However, for most existing synthesis methods, their inferences of missing modalities can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Xiangxi Meng , Yuning Gu , Yongsheng Pan , Nizhuan Wang , Peng Xue , Mengkang Lu , Xuming He , Yiqiang Zhan , Dinggang Shen

Score-based diffusion models demonstrate superior performance in generative tasks but encounter fundamental bottlenecks in inverse problems due to the analytical intractability of the time-dependent likelihood score. To bridge this gap, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Boyang Zhang , Zhiguo Wang , Ya-Feng Liu

Generative AI has achieved remarkable empirical success, but from the perspective of statistics it often remains opaque: its predictions may be accurate, yet the underlying mechanism is difficult to interpret, analyze, and trust. This book…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Shinto Eguchi

A novel Gaussian mixture model (GMM) aided sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) framework is proposed for channel state information (CSI) estimation in orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) modulated systems. The key attribute of the proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Surbhi Gehlot , Suraj Srivastava , Sandeep Kumar Yadav , Lajos Hanzo

We introduce a framework for generating highly multimodal datasets with explicitly calculable mutual information (MI) between modalities. This enables the construction of benchmark datasets that provide a novel testbed for systematic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-26 Raheem Karim Hashmani , Garrett W. Merz , Helen Qu , Mariel Pettee , Kyle Cranmer

Generative models and inferential autoencoders mostly make use of $\ell_2$ norm in their optimization objectives. In order to generate perceptually better images, this short paper theoretically discusses how to use Structural Similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Benyamin Ghojogh , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

We present an empirical evaluation of fMRI data augmentation via synthesis. For synthesis we use generative mod-els trained on real neuroimaging data to produce novel task-dependent functional brain images. Analyzed generative mod-els…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Peiye Zhuang , Alexander G. Schwing , Sanmi Koyejo

State-space models (SSM) are central to describe time-varying complex systems in countless signal processing applications such as remote sensing, networks, biomedicine, and finance to name a few. Inference and prediction in SSMs are…

Computation · Statistics 2022-10-26 Víctor Elvira , Émilie Chouzenoux

Accurate learning of system dynamics is becoming increasingly crucial for advanced control and decision-making in engineering. However, real-world systems often exhibit multiple channels and highly nonlinear transition dynamics, challenging…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Tengjie Zheng , Jilan Mei , Di Wu , Lin Cheng , Shengping Gong

In this paper, we develop a Bayesian evidence maximization framework to solve the sparse non-negative least squares (S-NNLS) problem. We introduce a family of probability densities referred to as the Rectified Gaussian Scale Mixture (R-…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Alican Nalci , Igor Fedorov , Maher Al-Shoukairi , Thomas T. Liu , Bhaskar D. Rao