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In recent years, mixup regularization has gained popularity as an effective way to improve the generalization performance of deep learning models by training on convex combinations of training data. While many mixup variants have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yousef El-Laham , Niccolò Dalmasso , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Vamsi K. Potluru , Manuela Veloso

Big data and machine learning are driving comprehensive economic and social transformations and are rapidly re-shaping the toolbox and the methodologies of applied scientists. Machine learning tools are designed to learn functions from data…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 M. A. Mendez , J. Dominique , M. Fiore , F. Pino , P. Sperotto , J. Van den Berghe

Fair representation learning is an attractive approach that promises fairness of downstream predictors by encoding sensitive data. Unfortunately, recent work has shown that strong adversarial predictors can still exhibit unfairness by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Mislav Balunović , Anian Ruoss , Martin Vechev

The present study presents a novel application for normalizing flows for domain adaptation. The study investigates the ability of flow based neural networks to improve signal extraction of $\Lambda$ Hyperons at CLAS12. Normalizing Flows can…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-22 Rowan Kelleher , Matthew McEneaney , Anselm Vossen

The recent introduction of machine learning techniques, especially normalizing flows, for the sampling of lattice gauge theories has shed some hope on improving the sampling efficiency of the traditional HMC algorithm. Naive use of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-06 David Albandea , Luigi Del Debbio , Pilar Hernández , Richard Kenway , Joe Marsh Rossney , Alberto Ramos

A normalizing flow models a complex probability density as an invertible transformation of a simple density. The invertibility means that we can evaluate densities and generate samples from a flow. In practice, autoregressive flow-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Conor Durkan , Artur Bekasov , Iain Murray , George Papamakarios

By chaining a sequence of differentiable invertible transformations, normalizing flows (NF) provide an expressive method of posterior approximation, exact density evaluation, and sampling. The trend in normalizing flow literature has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Robert Giaquinto , Arindam Banerjee

A Normalizing Flow computes a bijective mapping from an arbitrary distribution to a predefined (e.g. normal) distribution. Such a flow can be used to address different tasks, e.g. anomaly detection, once such a mapping has been learned. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Bodo Rosenhahn , Christoph Hirche

We present a novel, conditional generative probabilistic model of set-valued data with a tractable log density. This model is a continuous normalizing flow governed by permutation equivariant dynamics. These dynamics are driven by a…

Imitation learning is a promising approach for enabling generalist capabilities in humanoid robots, but its scaling is fundamentally constrained by the scarcity of high-quality expert demonstrations. This limitation can be mitigated by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Quentin Rouxel , Clemente Donoso , Fei Chen , Serena Ivaldi , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

This work presents mixed variational flows (MixFlows), a new variational family that consists of a mixture of repeated applications of a map to an initial reference distribution. First, we provide efficient algorithms for i.i.d. sampling,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Zuheng Xu , Naitong Chen , Trevor Campbell

Humanoid robots could benefit from using their upper bodies for support contacts, enhancing their workspace, stability, and ability to perform contact-rich and pushing tasks. In this paper, we propose a unified approach that combines an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Quentin Rouxel , Andrea Ferrari , Serena Ivaldi , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

To model manifold data using normalizing flows, we employ isometric autoencoders to design embeddings with explicit inverses that do not distort the probability distribution. Using isometries separates manifold learning and density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Eike Cramer , Felix Rauh , Alexander Mitsos , Raúl Tempone , Manuel Dahmen

In the quest to build generative surrogate models as computationally efficient alternatives to rule-based simulations, the quality of the generated samples remains a crucial frontier. So far, normalizing flows have been among the models…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-05 Thorsten Buss , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Claudius Krause , David Shih

Smart active particles can acquire some limited knowledge of the fluid environment from simple mechanical cues and exert a control on their preferred steering direction. Their goal is to learn the best way to navigate by exploiting the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-02 Simona Colabrese , Kristian Gustavsson , Antonio Celani , Luca Biferale

This paper studies the cooperative learning of two generative flow models, in which the two models are iteratively updated based on the jointly synthesized examples. The first flow model is a normalizing flow that transforms an initial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-17 Jianwen Xie , Yaxuan Zhu , Jun Li , Ping Li

Normalizing flows have shown great promise for modelling flexible probability distributions in a computationally tractable way. However, whilst data is often naturally described on Riemannian manifolds such as spheres, torii, and hyperbolic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-10 Emile Mathieu , Maximilian Nickel

In this work, we demonstrate how to reliably estimate epistemic uncertainty while maintaining the flexibility needed to capture complicated aleatoric distributions. To this end, we propose an ensemble of Normalizing Flows (NF), which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Lucas Berry , David Meger

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Recent optical flow methods focus on training deep networks to approach the problem. However, the training data used by them does not cover the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Anurag Ranjan , David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Siyu Tang , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

With more well-performing anomaly detection methods proposed, many of the single-view tasks have been solved to a relatively good degree. However, real-world production scenarios often involve complex industrial products, whose properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Mathis Kruse , Bodo Rosenhahn