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Efficient gradient computation of the Jacobian determinant term is a core problem in many machine learning settings, and especially so in the normalizing flow framework. Most proposed flow models therefore either restrict to a function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 T. Anderson Keller , Jorn W. T. Peters , Priyank Jaini , Emiel Hoogeboom , Patrick Forré , Max Welling

In this paper, we establish a connection between the parameterization of flow-based and energy-based generative models, and present a new flow-based modeling approach called energy-based normalizing flow (EBFlow). We demonstrate that by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Chen-Hao Chao , Wei-Fang Sun , Yen-Chang Hsu , Zsolt Kira , Chun-Yi Lee

Modern reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have found success by using powerful probabilistic models, such as transformers, energy-based models, and diffusion/flow-based models. To this end, RL researchers often choose to pay the price…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Raj Ghugare , Benjamin Eysenbach

We propose a training-free conditional sampling method for flow matching models based on importance sampling. Because a na\"ive application of importance sampling suffers from weight degeneracy in high-dimensional settings, we modify and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-16 Qianqian Qu , Jun S. Liu

We consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation derived from a Cucker-Smale model for flocking with noise. There is a known phase transition depending on the noise between a regime with a unique stationary solution which is isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Alexandre Surin

Fueled by the expressive power of deep neural networks, normalizing flows have achieved spectacular success in generative modeling, or learning to draw new samples from a distribution given a finite dataset of training samples. Normalizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Yuehaw Khoo , Michael Lindsey , Hongli Zhao

Traditional resolvent analysis is a powerful framework for identifying the most amplified input-output structures in fluid flows from a stationary base state. Extending this resolvent analysis to periodic base flows poses computational…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Max Howell , Sicheng He

We address the problem of policy evaluation in discounted Markov decision processes, and provide instance-dependent guarantees on the $\ell_\infty$-error under a generative model. We establish both asymptotic and non-asymptotic versions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-17 Koulik Khamaru , Ashwin Pananjady , Feng Ruan , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

We generalize the Time-Dependent Variational Principle (TDVP) to dissipative systems using Monte Carlo methods, allowing the application of existing variational classes for pure states, such as Matrix Product States (MPS), to the simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 F. W. G. Transchel , A. Milsted , Tobias J. Osborne

In this work, the primary goal is to establish rigorous connection between the Fokker-Planck equation of neural networks with its microscopic model: the diffusion-jump stochastic process that captures the mean field behavior of collections…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Jian-guo Liu , Ziheng Wang , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

Particle flow filters solve Bayesian inference problems by smoothly transforming a set of particles into samples from the posterior distribution. Particles move in state space under the flow of an McKean-Vlasov-Ito process. This work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Amit N Subrahmanya , Andrey A Popov , Adrian Sandu

Likelihood-free inference is quickly emerging as a powerful tool to perform fast/effective parameter estimation. We demonstrate a technique of optimizing likelihood-free inference to make it even faster by marginalizing symmetries in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Deep Chatterjee , Philip C. Harris , Maanas Goel , Malina Desai , Michael W. Coughlin , Erik Katsavounidis

We introduce TzK (pronounced "task"), a conditional probability flow-based model that exploits attributes (e.g., style, class membership, or other side information) in order to learn tight conditional prior around manifolds of the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Micha Livne , David J. Fleet

We analytically derive novel explicit integral representations for the solution of nonhomogeneous initial-boundary-value problems for a large category of evolution partial differential equations of Sobolev-Galpern type with generic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Andreas Chatziafratis

Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) are a generative method for learning probability distributions, which is based on ordinary differential equations. This method has shown remarkable empirical success across various applications, including…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-02 Yuan Gao , Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Shurong Zheng

This paper is concerned with a nonparametric regression problem in which the input variables and the errors are autocorrelated in time. The motivation for the research stems from modeling wind power curves. Using existing model selection…

Applications · Statistics 2024-09-13 Abhinav Prakash , Rui Tuo , Yu Ding

This article proposes and studies warped-linear models for time series classification. The proposed models are time-warp invariant analogues of linear models. Their construction is in line with time series averaging and extensions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Brijnesh J. Jain

We present a model-based output-only method for identifying from time series the parameters governing the dynamics of stochastically forced oscillators. In this context, suitable models of the oscillator's damping and stiffness properties…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-04 Edouard Boujo , Nicolas Noiray

Learning high-dimensional distributions is an important yet challenging problem in machine learning with applications in various domains. In this paper, we introduce new techniques to formulate the problem as solving Fokker-Planck equation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yufan Zhou , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu