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Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a diverse set of candidates in an active learning context, with a training objective that makes them approximately sample in proportion to a given reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yoshua Bengio , Salem Lahlou , Tristan Deleu , Edward J. Hu , Mo Tiwari , Emmanuel Bengio

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

We consider the flow network model to solve the multiprocessor real-time task scheduling problems. Using the flow network model or its generic form, linear programming (LP) formulation, for the problems is not new. However, the previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Hyeonjoong Cho , Arvind Easwaran

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

Scheduling a set of jobs over a collection of machines is a fundamental problem that needs to be solved millions of times a day in various computing platforms: in operating systems, in large data clusters, and in data centers. Along with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Janardhan Kulkarni , Shi Li

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

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn to sample diverse candidates in proportion to a reward function, making them well-suited for scientific discovery, where exploring multiple promising solutions is crucial. Further extending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Seokwon Yoon , Youngbin Choi , Seunghyuk Cho , Seungbeom Lee , MoonJeong Park , Dongwoo Kim

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

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are amortized variational inference algorithms that treat sampling from a distribution over compositional objects as a sequential decision-making problem with a learnable action policy. Unlike other…

Real-world applications often combine learning and optimization problems on graphs. For instance, our objective may be to cluster the graph in order to detect meaningful communities (or solve other common graph optimization problems such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Bryan Wilder , Eric Ewing , Bistra Dilkina , Milind Tambe

Traffic flow forecasting is a critical spatio-temporal data mining task with wide-ranging applications in intelligent route planning and dynamic traffic management. Recent advancements in deep learning, particularly through Graph Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Weiyang Kong , Kaiqi Wu , Sen Zhang , Yubao Liu

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines with conflict constraints, where certain jobs cannot be scheduled simultaneously on different machines. We focus on the case where conflicts can be represented by a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Nour ElHouda Tellache , Lydia Aoudia , Mourad Boudhar

We study the scheduling of flows on a switch with the goal of optimizing metrics related to the response time of the flows. The input to the problem is a sequence of flow requests on a switch, where the switch is represented by a bipartite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Hamidreza Jahanjou , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown significant promise in various domains, such as recommendation systems, bioinformatics, and network analysis. However, the irregularity of graph data poses unique challenges for efficient computation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Pol Puigdemont , Enrico Russo , Axel Wassington , Abhijit Das , Sergi Abadal , Maurizio Palesi

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are amortized sampling methods that learn a distribution over discrete objects proportional to their rewards. GFlowNets exhibit a remarkable ability to generate diverse samples, yet occasionally struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Minsu Kim , Taeyoung Yun , Emmanuel Bengio , Dinghuai Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Sungsoo Ahn , Jinkyoo Park

Parallel machine scheduling has been extensively studied in the past decades, with applications ranging from production planning to job processing in large computing clusters. In this work we study some of these fundamental optimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Yael Mordechai

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a method for learning a stochastic policy for generating compositional objects, such as graphs or strings, from a given unnormalized density by sequences of actions, where many possible action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Nikolay Malkin , Moksh Jain , Emmanuel Bengio , Chen Sun , Yoshua Bengio

We study the problem of executing an application represented by a precedence task graph on a parallel machine composed of standard computing cores and accelerators. Contrary to most existing approaches, we distinguish the allocation and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Marcos Amaris , Giorgio Lucarelli , Clément Mommessin , Denis Trystram

Distributed cloud environments hosting data-intensive applications often experience slowdowns due to network congestion, asymmetric bandwidth, and inter-node data shuffling. These factors are typically not captured by traditional host-level…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sankalpa Timilsina , Susmit Shannigrahi

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets), as an emerging technique, can be used as an alternative to reinforcement learning for exploratory control tasks. GFlowNet aims to generate distribution proportional to the rewards over terminating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yinchuan Li , Shuang Luo , Haozhi Wang , Jianye Hao
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