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Optimising probabilistic models is a well-studied field in statistics. However, its connection with the training of generative models remains largely under-explored. In this paper, we show that the evolution of time-varying generative…

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Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved enormous success in the field of image generation and manipulation. In this paper, we explore a novel paradigm of using the diffusion model and classifier guidance in the latent semantic space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Changhao Shi , Haomiao Ni , Kai Li , Shaobo Han , Mingfu Liang , Martin Renqiang Min

We showed how to use trained neural networks to perform Bayesian reasoning in order to solve tasks outside their initial scope. Deep generative models provide prior knowledge, and classification/regression networks impose constraints. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jakob Knollmüller , Torsten Enßlin

The Bayesian Classification represents a supervised learning method as well as a statistical method for classification. Assumes an underlying probabilistic model and it allows us to capture uncertainty about the model in a principled way by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Vikramkumar , Vijaykumar B , Trilochan

This article presents the first results from using a learning classifier system capable of performing adaptive computation with deep neural networks. Individual classifiers within the population are composed of two neural networks. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Richard J. Preen , Larry Bull

We pursue tractable Bayesian analysis of generalized linear models (GLMs) for categorical data. Thus far, GLMs are difficult to scale to more than a few dozen categories due to non-conjugacy or strong posterior dependencies when using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-02 Michael T. Wojnowicz , Shuchin Aeron , Eric L. Miller , Michael C. Hughes

We connect a broad class of generative models through their shared reliance on sequential decision making. Motivated by this view, we develop extensions to an existing model, and then explore the idea further in the context of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Philip Bachman , Doina Precup

In light of the recent advancements in machine learning, we propose a novel approach to neutron source distribution estimation through the utilisation of probabilistic generative models. The estimation is based on a Monte Carlo particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-13 Jose Ignacio Robledo , Norberto Schmidt , Klaus Lieutenant , Jingjing Li , Stefan Kesselheim , Paul Zakalek

The aim of global optimization is to find the global optimum of arbitrary classes of functions, possibly highly multimodal ones. In this paper we focus on the subproblem of global optimization for differentiable functions and we propose an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Louis Faury , Flavian Vasile , Clément Calauzènes , Olivier Fercoq

Generative models are typically trained on grid-like data such as images. As a result, the size of these models usually scales directly with the underlying grid resolution. In this paper, we abandon discretized grids and instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Emilien Dupont , Yee Whye Teh , Arnaud Doucet

We introduce discriminator guidance in the setting of Autoregressive Diffusion Models. The use of a discriminator to guide a diffusion process has previously been used for continuous diffusion models, and in this work we derive ways of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Filip Ekström Kelvinius , Fredrik Lindsten

We propose a deep generative approach to sampling from a conditional distribution based on a unified formulation of conditional distribution and generalized nonparametric regression function using the noise-outsourcing lemma. The proposed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Xingyu Zhou , Yuling Jiao , Jin Liu , Jian Huang

The Bayesian approach to solving inverse problems relies on the choice of a prior. This critical ingredient allows the formulation of expert knowledge or physical constraints in a probabilistic fashion and plays an important role for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-08 Manuel Marschall , Gerd Wübbeler , Franko Schmähling , Clemens Elster

The recent success of Bayesian methods in neuroscience and artificial intelligence gives rise to the hypothesis that the brain is a Bayesian machine. Since logic and learning are both practices of the human brain, it leads to another…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Hiroyuki Kido , Keishi Okamoto

We demonstrate in this paper that a generative model can be designed to perform classification tasks under challenging settings, including adversarial attacks and input distribution shifts. Specifically, we propose a conditional variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Houpu Yao , Malcolm Regan , Yezhou Yang , Yi Ren

Graph-based collaborative filtering methods have prevailing performance for recommender systems since they can capture high-order information between users and items, in which the graphs are constructed from the observed user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hongjian Gu , Yaochen Hu , Yingxue Zhang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can implicitly learn rich distributions over images, audio, and data which are hard to model with an explicit likelihood. We present a practical Bayesian formulation for unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Yunus Saatchi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a learning framework that rely on training a discriminator to estimate a measure of difference between a target and generated distributions. GANs, as normally formulated, rely on the generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-23 R Devon Hjelm , Athul Paul Jacob , Tong Che , Adam Trischler , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

We present a method for dynamically generating Bayesian networks from knowledge bases consisting of first-order probability logic sentences. We present a subset of probability logic sufficient for representing the class of Bayesian networks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Peter Haddawy

In the Naive Bayes classification model the class conditional densities are estimated as the products of their marginal densities along the cardinal basis directions. We study the problem of obtaining an alternative basis for this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-19 David P. Hofmeyr , Francois Kamper , Michail C. Melonas