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In many scientific applications, the target probability distribution cannot be evaluated in closed form or sampled from directly. Instead, it can often be decomposed into multiple components, some of which are accessible only through…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Roxana Darvishi , David C. Stenning , Ted von Hippel , Owen G. Ward

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant promise in various generative tasks; however, they often struggle to satisfy challenging constraints. Our approach addresses this limitation by rethinking training-free loss-guided diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 William Huang , Yifeng Jiang , Tom Van Wouwe , C. Karen Liu

In physics, density $\rho(\cdot)$ is a fundamentally important scalar function to model, since it describes a scalar field or a probability density function that governs a physical process. Modeling $\rho(\cdot)$ typically scales poorly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Maxwell X. Cai , Kin Long Kelvin Lee

A well-known weakness of the probabilistic path planners is the so-called narrow passage problem, where a region with a relatively low probability of being sampled must be explored to find a solution path. Many strategies have been proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-07-10 Josep M. Porta , Léonard Jaillet

We provide a general framework for learning diffusion bridges that transport prior to target distributions. It includes existing diffusion models for generative modeling, but also underdamped versions with degenerate diffusion matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Gerhard Neumann

Sampling from distributions of implicitly defined shapes enables analysis of various energy functionals used for image segmentation. Recent work describes a computationally efficient Metropolis-Hastings method for accomplishing this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Jason Chang , John W. Fisher

This article considers the generative modeling of the (mixed) states of quantum systems, and an approach based on denoising diffusion model is proposed. The key contribution is an algorithmic innovation that respects the physical nature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Yuchen Zhu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Xie Chen , Molei Tao

Flux sampling is an analysis that, based on a distribution, picks randomly an efficient number of points from the solution space of a metabolic model. Unlike most constraint-based analyses, flux sampling does not require an objective…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-01 Haris Zafeiropoulos , Daniel Rios Garza

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have propelled the development of innovative computational materials modeling and design techniques. Generative deep learning models have been used for molecular representation, discovery, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Navid Shervani-Tabar , Nicholas Zabaras

Nonlinear manifolds are pervasive in deep visual features, where Euclidean distances can misrepresent true similarity. This mismatch is particularly detrimental to prototype-based interpretable fine-grained recognition, where even subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Junhao Jia , Yunyou Liu , Yifei Sun , Huangwei Chen , Feiwei Qin , Changmiao Wang , Yong Peng

Generative modeling is typically framed as learning mapping rules, but from an observer's perspective without access to these rules, the task becomes disentangling the geometric support from the probability distribution. We propose that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-04 Rui Tong

In this paper, we propose a general methodology for sampling from un-normalized densities defined on Riemannian manifolds, with a particular focus on multi-modal targets that remain challenging for existing sampling methods. Inspired by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Alain Durmus , Maxence Noble , Thibaut Pellerin

Many processes in chemistry and physics take place on timescales that cannot be explored using standard molecular dynamics simulations. This renders the use of enhanced sampling mandatory. Here we introduce an enhanced sampling method that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Jayashrita Debnath , Michele Parrinello

The optimization of geometries for aerodynamic design often relies on a large number of expensive simulations to evaluate and iteratively improve the geometries. It is possible to reduce the number of simulations by providing a starting…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Thomas Wagenaar , Simone Mancini , Andrés Mateo-Gabín

Generative modeling, which learns joint probability distribution from data and generates samples according to it, is an important task in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Inspired by probabilistic interpretation of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-20 Zhao-Yu Han , Jun Wang , Heng Fan , Lei Wang , Pan Zhang

Diffusions are a successful technique to sample from high-dimensional distributions. The target distribution can be either explicitly given or learnt from a collection of samples. They implement a diffusion process whose endpoint is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Andrea Montanari

Deep generative models such as diffusion and flow matching are powerful machine learning tools capable of learning and sampling from high-dimensional distributions. They are particularly useful when the training data appears to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Zachary Bogorad , Ibrahim Elsharkawy , Yonatan Kahn , Andrew J. Larkoski , Noam Levi

Diffusion models cannot enforce hard constraints, yet applications in the physical sciences demand exact satisfaction of conservation laws, boundary conditions, and observational consistency. In this work, we identify a corrector kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Omer Rochman-Sharabi , Gilles Louppe

Density estimation is an important technique for characterizing distributions given observations. Much existing research on density estimation has focused on cases wherein the data lies in a Euclidean space. However, some kinds of data are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-12 James A. Brofos , Marcus A. Brubaker , Roy R. Lederman

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computational primitives: deterministic neural-network evaluation and stochastic sampling. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nihal Sanjay Singh , Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari