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Fluid dynamics spans phenomena from the Cheerios effect to cosmic evolution and has been called the 'queen mother' of science. Traditional modelling relies on numerical methods, including finite differences, volumes, and elements, that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-09 Kwame Agyei-Baah , Muhammad Rizwanur Rahman , E. R. Smith

This paper presents a parameter scan technique for BSM signal models based on normalizing flow. Normalizing flow is a type of deep learning model that transforms a simple probability distribution into a complex probability distribution as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-09-23 Masahiko Saito , Masahiro Morinaga , Tomoe Kishimoto , Junichi Tanaka

This paper introduces the kernel mixture network, a new method for nonparametric estimation of conditional probability densities using neural networks. We model arbitrarily complex conditional densities as linear combinations of a family of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-22 Luca Ambrogioni , Umut Güçlü , Marcel A. J. van Gerven , Eric Maris

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are flexible explicit generative models that have been shown to accurately model complex real-world data distributions. However, their invertibility constraint imposes limitations on data distributions that reside on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Janis Postels , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Normalizing Flows (NFs) have been established as a principled framework for generative modeling. Standard NFs consist of a forward process and a reverse process: the forward process maps data to noise, while the reverse process generates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yiyang Lu , Qiao Sun , Xianbang Wang , Zhicheng Jiang , Hanhong Zhao , Kaiming He

Learning can be seen as approximating an unknown function by interpolating the training data. Kriging offers a solution to this problem based on the prior specification of a kernel. We explore a numerical approximation approach to kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-01 Houman Owhadi , Gene Ryan Yoo

Normalizing flows have shown great success as general-purpose density estimators. However, many real world applications require the use of domain-specific knowledge, which normalizing flows cannot readily incorporate. We propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-17 Gianluigi Silvestri , Emily Fertig , Dave Moore , Luca Ambrogioni

We present a novel particle flow for sampling called kernel variational inference flow (KVIF). KVIF do not require the explicit formula of the target distribution which is usually unknown in filtering problem. Therefore, it can be applied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Weiye Gan , Zhijun Zeng , Junqing Chen , Zuoqiang Shi

Normalizing flows are constructed from a base distribution with a known density and a diffeomorphism with a tractable Jacobian. The base density of a normalizing flow can be parameterised by a different normalizing flow, thus allowing maps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Samuel Klein , John Andrew Raine , Tobias Golling

Flows in networks (or graphs) play a significant role in numerous computer vision tasks. The scalar-valued edges in these graphs often lead to a loss of information and thereby to limitations in terms of expressiveness. For example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Viktoria Ehm , Daniel Cremers , Florian Bernard

In this paper, the flexibility, versatility and predictive power of kernel regression are combined with now lavishly available network data to create regression models with even greater predictive performances. Building from previous work…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-05 E. Pei , E. Fokoué

Identifying the intrinsic coordinates or modes of the dynamical systems is essential to understand, analyze, and characterize the underlying dynamical behaviors of complex systems. For nonlinear dynamical systems, this presents a critical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-27 Abdolvahhab Rostamijavanani , Shanwu Li , Yongchao Yang

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are emerging as a powerful class of generative models, as they not only allow for efficient sampling, but also deliver, by construction, density estimation. They are of great potential usage in High Energy Physics…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-01 Humberto Reyes-Gonzalez , Riccardo Torre

This paper presents a kernel-based framework for physics-informed nonlinear system identification. The key contribution is a structured methodology that extends kernel-based techniques to seamlessly embed partially known physics-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Cesare Donati , Martina Mammarella , Giuseppe C. Calafiore , Fabrizio Dabbene , Constantino Lagoa , Carlo Novara

Kernel methods are considered an effective technique for on-line learning. Many approaches have been developed for compactly representing the dual solution of a kernel method when the problem imposes memory constraints. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Giovanni Da San Martino , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

Kernel estimation is generally one of the key problems for blind image super-resolution (SR). Recently, Double-DIP proposes to model the kernel via a network architecture prior, while KernelGAN employs the deep linear network and several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Jingyun Liang , Kai Zhang , Shuhang Gu , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Normalizing flows are an established approach for modelling complex probability densities through invertible transformations from a base distribution. However, the accuracy with which the target distribution can be captured by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-02 Harry Bevins , Will Handley , Thomas Gessey-Jones

Conventional diffusion models typically relies on a fixed forward process, which implicitly defines complex marginal distributions over latent variables. This can often complicate the reverse process' task in learning generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-10 Grigory Bartosh , Dmitry Vetrov , Christian A. Naesseth

Flow models have rapidly become the go-to method for training and deploying large-scale generators, owing their success to inference-time flexibility via adjustable integration steps. A crucial ingredient in flow training is the choice of…

Normalizing flow is a generative modeling approach with efficient sampling. However, Flow-based models suffer two issues: 1) If the target distribution is manifold, due to the unmatch between the dimensions of the latent target distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Qinglong Meng , Chongkun Xia , Xueqian Wang