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Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a class of generative models have recently emerged as a suitable framework for generating diverse and high-quality molecular structures by learning from unnormalized reward distributions. Previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mohit Pandey , Gopeshh Subbaraj , Emmanuel Bengio

Multimedia systems underpin modern digital interactions, facilitating seamless integration and optimization of resources across diverse multimedia applications. To meet growing personalization demands, multimedia systems must efficiently…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yili Jin , Ling Pan , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Jiangchuan Liu , Xue Liu

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a class of generative models that sample objects in proportion to a specified reward function through a learned policy. They can be trained either on-policy or off-policy, needing a balance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Dominic Phillips , Flaviu Cipcigan

Generative recommendations (GR), which usually include item tokenizers and generative Large Language Models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of scenarios. The majority of existing research efforts primarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yejing Wang , Shengyu Zhou , Jinyu Lu , Qidong Liu , Xinhang Li , Wenlin Zhang , Feng Li , Pengjie Wang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao

We present GFlowState, a visual analytics system designed to illuminate the training process of Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets or GFNs). GFlowNets are a probabilistic framework for generating samples proportionally to a reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Florian Holeczek , Andreas Hinterreiter , Alex Hernandez-Garcia , Marc Streit , Christina Humer

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms that learn a generative policy to sample discrete objects $x$ with non-negative reward $R(x)$. Learning objectives guarantee the GFlowNet samples $x$ from the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Max W. Shen , Emmanuel Bengio , Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Andreas Loukas , Kyunghyun Cho , Tommaso Biancalani

Multi-task reinforcement learning and meta-reinforcement learning have been developed to quickly adapt to new tasks, but they tend to focus on tasks with higher rewards and more frequent occurrences, leading to poor performance on tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Xinyuan Ji , Xu Zhang , Wei Xi , Haozhi Wang , Olga Gadyatskaya , Yinchuan Li

Generative Flow Networks (or GFlowNets for short) are a family of probabilistic agents that learn to sample complex combinatorial structures through the lens of "inference as control". They have shown great potential in generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Ling Pan , Dinghuai Zhang , Moksh Jain , Longbo Huang , Yoshua Bengio

Combinatorial optimization (CO) problems are often NP-hard and thus out of reach for exact algorithms, making them a tempting domain to apply machine learning methods. The highly structured constraints in these problems can hinder either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Dinghuai Zhang , Hanjun Dai , Nikolay Malkin , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio , Ling Pan

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems are prevalent in machine learning. These problems have a set of optimal solutions, called the Pareto front, where each point on the front represents a different trade-off between possibly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Gal Chechik , Ethan Fetaya

Traditional reinforcement learning often struggles to generate diverse, high-reward solutions, especially in domains like drug design and black-box function optimization. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods provide an alternative method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Siyi He

Machine learning algorithms are inherently multiobjective in nature, where approximation error minimization and model's complexity simplification are two conflicting objectives. We proposed a multiobjective genetic programming (MOGP) for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Varun Kumar Ojha , Ajith Abraham , Václav Snášel

Many score-based active learning methods have been successfully applied to graph-structured data, aiming to reduce the number of labels and achieve better performance of graph neural networks based on predefined score functions. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yinchuan Li , Zhigang Li , Wenqian Li , Yunfeng Shao , Yan Zheng , Jianye Hao

Generative models hold great promise for small molecule discovery, significantly increasing the size of search space compared to traditional in silico screening libraries. However, most existing machine learning methods for small molecule…

This paper studies Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), which learn to sample objects proportionally to a given reward function through the trajectory of state transitions. In this work, we observe that GFlowNets tend to under-exploit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hyosoon Jang , Yunhui Jang , Minsu Kim , Jinkyoo Park , Sungsoo Ahn

Although Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are designed to capture multiple modes of a reward function, they often suffer from mode collapse in practice, getting trapped in early-discovered modes and requiring prolonged training to find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Idriss Malek , Aya Laajil , Abhijith Sharma , Eric Moulines , Salem Lahlou

Uncovering rationales behind predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs) has received increasing attention over the years. Existing literature mainly focus on selecting a subgraph, through combinatorial optimization, to provide faithful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wenqian Li , Yinchuan Li , Zhigang Li , Jianye Hao , Yan Pang

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are recently proposed models for learning stochastic policies that generate compositional objects by sequences of actions with the probability proportional to a given reward function. The central problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Anh Do , Duy Dinh , Tan Nguyen , Khuong Nguyen , Stanley Osher , Nhat Ho

The performance of sensor arrays in sensing and wireless communications improves with more elements, but this comes at the cost of increased energy consumption and hardware expense. This work addresses the challenge of selecting $k$ sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Spilios Evmorfos , Zhaoyi Xu , Athina Petropulu

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a new family of probabilistic samplers, have recently emerged as a promising framework for learning stochastic policies that generate high-quality and diverse objects proportionally to their rewards.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chunhui Li , Cheng-Hao Liu , Dianbo Liu , Qingpeng Cai , Ling Pan