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Low-altitude Gaussian splatting (LAGS) facilitates 3D scene reconstruction by aggregating aerial images from distributed drones. However, as LAGS prioritizes maximizing reconstruction quality over communication throughput, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yikun Wang , Yujie Wan , Wei Zuo , Shuai Wang , Yik-Chung Wu , Chengzhong Xu , Huseyin Arslan

Deep generative models are becoming widely used across science and industry for a variety of purposes. A common challenge is achieving a precise implicit or explicit representation of the data probability density. Recent proposals have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Ramon Winterhalder , Marco Bellagente , Benjamin Nachman

Understanding the dimension dependency of computational complexity in high-dimensional sampling problem is a fundamental problem, both from a practical and theoretical perspective. Compared with samplers with unbiased stationary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xunpeng Huang , Hanze Dong , Difan Zou , Tong Zhang

Optimising deep neural networks is a challenging task due to complex training dynamics, high computational requirements, and long training times. To address this difficulty, we propose the framework of Generalisable Agents for Neural…

Effective training of deep neural networks suffers from two main issues. The first is that the parameter spaces of these models exhibit pathological curvature. Recent methods address this problem by using adaptive preconditioning for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-25 Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen , David Carlson , Lawrence Carin

The StyleGAN family succeed in high-fidelity image generation and allow for flexible and plausible editing of generated images by manipulating the semantic-rich latent style space.However, projecting a real image into its latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Bingchuan Li , Tianxiang Ma , Peng Zhang , Miao Hua , Wei Liu , Qian He , Zili Yi

In various applications, we deal with high-dimensional positive-valued data that often exhibits sparsity. This paper develops a new class of continuous global-local shrinkage priors tailored to analyzing gamma-distributed observations where…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-08 Yasuyuki Hamura , Takahiro Onizuka , Shintaro Hashimoto , Shonosuke Sugasawa

Following early work on Hessian-free methods for deep learning, we study a stochastic generalized Gauss-Newton method (SGN) for training DNNs. SGN is a second-order optimization method, with efficient iterations, that we demonstrate to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Matilde Gargiani , Andrea Zanelli , Moritz Diehl , Frank Hutter

We introduce a novel and efficient algorithm called the stochastic approximate gradient descent (SAGD), as an alternative to the stochastic gradient descent for cases where unbiased stochastic gradients cannot be trivially obtained.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yixuan Qiu , Xiao Wang

Score-based generative modeling (SGM) is a highly successful approach for learning a probability distribution from data and generating further samples. We prove the first polynomial convergence guarantees for the core mechanic behind SGM:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Holden Lee , Jianfeng Lu , Yixin Tan

We present a novel method for drawing samples from Gibbs distributions with densities of the form $\pi(x) \propto \exp(-U(x))$. The method accelerates the unadjusted Langevin algorithm by introducing an inertia term similar to Polyak's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alexander Falk , Andreas Habring , Christoph Griesbacher , Thomas Pock

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) allow us to reason about uncertainty in a principled way. Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) enables efficient BNN learning by drawing samples from the BNN posterior using mini-batches. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Kuan-Chieh Wang , Paul Vicol , James Lucas , Li Gu , Roger Grosse , Richard Zemel

Deep generative models are powerful priors for imaging inverse problems, but training-free solvers for latent flow models face a practical finite-step trade-off. Optimization-heavy methods quickly improve measurement consistency, but in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jonghyun Park , Jong Chul Ye

Sparse inverse covariance estimation (i.e., edge de-tection) is an important research problem in recent years, wherethe goal is to discover the direct connections between a set ofnodes in a networked system based upon the observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Hang Yin , Xinyue Liu , Xiangnan Kong

With the rapidly growing model complexity and data volume, training deep generative models (DGMs) for better performance has becoming an increasingly more important challenge. Previous research on this problem has mainly focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yufan Zhou , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

Training generative adversarial networks requires balancing of delicate adversarial dynamics. Even with careful tuning, training may diverge or end up in a bad equilibrium with dropped modes. In this work, we improve CS-GAN with natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Yan Wu , Jeff Donahue , David Balduzzi , Karen Simonyan , Timothy Lillicrap

StyleGAN models show editing capabilities via their semantically interpretable latent organizations which require successful GAN inversion methods to edit real images. Many works have been proposed for inverting images into StyleGAN's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ahmet Burak Yildirim , Hamza Pehlivan , Aysegul Dundar

Unsupervised deep learning has recently demonstrated the promise of producing high-quality samples. While it has tremendous potential to promote the image colorization task, the performance is limited owing to the high-dimension of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Jin Li , Wanyun Li , Zichen Xu , Yuhao Wang , Qiegen Liu

We propose a discrete latent distribution for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Instead of drawing latent vectors from a continuous prior, we sample from a finite set of learnable latents. However, a direct parametrization of such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Evangelos Ntavelis , Mohamad Shahbazi , Iason Kastanis , Radu Timofte , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool

We propose a method for efficiently incorporating constraints into a stochastic gradient Langevin framework for the training of deep neural networks. Constraints allow direct control of the parameter space of the model. Appropriately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Benedict Leimkuhler , Timothée Pouchon , Tiffany Vlaar , Amos Storkey