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Deep generative models (DGMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable success in capturing complex probability distributions over graphs. Although their excellent performance is attributed to powerful and scalable deep neural networks, it is,…

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This paper introduces JAX-FEM, an open-source differentiable finite element method (FEM) library. Constructed on top of Google JAX, a rising machine learning library focusing on high-performance numerical computing, JAX-FEM is implemented…

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We implement a trust region method on the GPU for nonlinear least squares curve fitting problems using a new deep learning Python library called JAX. Our open source package, JAXFit, works for both unconstrained and constrained curve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Lucas R. Hofer , Milan Krstajić , Robert P. Smith

In the realm of unsupervised learning, Bayesian nonparametric mixture models, exemplified by the Dirichlet Process Mixture Model (DPMM), provide a principled approach for adapting the complexity of the model to the data. Such models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Or Dinari , Raz Zamir , John W. Fisher , Oren Freifeld

We present new message passing algorithms for performing inference with graphical models. Our methods are designed for the most difficult inference problems where loopy belief propagation and other heuristics fail to converge. Belief…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anna Grim , Pedro Felzenszwalb

Large-scale pre-trained models such as CLIP excel in transferability and robust generalization across diverse datasets. However, adapting these models to new datasets or domains is computationally costly, especially in low-resource or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 YongTaek Lim , Suho Kang , Yewon Kim , Dokyung Yoon , KyungWoo Song

BlackJAX is a library implementing sampling and variational inference algorithms commonly used in Bayesian computation. It is designed for ease of use, speed, and modularity by taking a functional approach to the algorithms' implementation.…

Multi-robot systems require scalable and federated methods to model complex environments under computational and communication constraints. Gaussian Processes (GPs) offer robust probabilistic modeling, but suffer from cubic computational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sanket A. Salunkhe , George P. Kontoudis

Propagation models are essential for modeling and simulating dynamic processes such as epidemics and information diffusion. However, existing tools struggle to scale to large-scale graphs that emerge across social networks, epidemic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chang Guo , Juyuan Zhang , Chang Su , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lü

Generating functions, which are widely used in combinatorics and probability theory, encode function values into the coefficients of a polynomial. In this paper, we explore their use as a tractable probabilistic model, and propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Honghua Zhang , Brendan Juba , Guy Van den Broeck

We introduce Atomistic learned potentials in JAX (apax), a flexible and efficient open source software package for training and inference of machine-learned interatomic potentials. Built on the JAX framework, apax supports GPU acceleration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Moritz René Schäfer , Nico Segreto , Fabian Zills , Christian Holm , Johannes Kästner

Belief propagation (BP) algorithm is a widely used message-passing method for inference in graphical models. BP on loop-free graphs converges in linear time. But for graphs with loops, BP's performance is uncertain, and the understanding of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-30 Dong Liu , Minh Thành Vu , Zuxing Li , Lars K. Rasmussen

Value iteration can find the optimal replenishment policy for a perishable inventory problem, but is computationally demanding due to the large state spaces that are required to represent the age profile of stock. The parallel processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Joseph Farrington , Kezhi Li , Wai Keong Wong , Martin Utley

The open-source PyNX toolkit [Favre-Nicolin et al (2011) arXiv:1010.2641, Mandula et al (2016)] has been extended to provide tools for coherent X-ray imaging data analysis and simulation. All calculations can be executed on graphical…

We introduce Probabilistic Dependency Graphs (PDGs), a new class of directed graphical models. PDGs can capture inconsistent beliefs in a natural way and are more modular than Bayesian Networks (BNs), in that they make it easier to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Oliver Richardson , Joseph Y Halpern

StepMix is an open-source Python package for the pseudo-likelihood estimation (one-, two- and three-step approaches) of generalized finite mixture models (latent profile and latent class analysis) with external variables (covariates and…

Low-precision formats such as float8 have been introduced in machine learning accelerated hardware to improve computational efficiency for large language models training and inference. Nevertheless, adoption by the ML community has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Paul Balança , Sam Hosegood , Carlo Luschi , Andrew Fitzgibbon

Belief propagation is known to perform extremely well in many practical statistical inference and learning problems using graphical models, even in the presence of multiple loops. The iterative use of belief propagation algorithm on loopy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Xiangqiong Shi , Dan Schonfeld , Daniela Tuninetti

We present an implementation of interval analysis and mixed monotone interval reachability analysis as function transforms in Python, fully composable with the computational framework JAX. The resulting toolbox inherits several key features…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Akash Harapanahalli , Saber Jafarpour , Samuel Coogan

This document serves to complement our website which was developed with the aim of exposing the students to Gaussian Processes (GPs). GPs are non-parametric Bayesian regression models that are largely used by statisticians and geospatial…

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