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Normalizing Flows are a promising new class of algorithms for unsupervised learning based on maximum likelihood optimization with change of variables. They offer to learn a factorized component representation for complex nonlinear data and,…

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Object Oriented Data Analysis is a new area in statistics that studies populations of general data objects. In this article we consider populations of tree-structured objects as our focus of interest. We develop improved analysis tools for…

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Ordinary differential equations (ODE) have been widely used for modeling dynamical complex systems. For high-dimensional ODE models where the number of differential equations is large, it remains challenging to estimate the ODE parameters…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-20 Muye Nanshan , Nan Zhang , Xiaolei Xun , Jiguo Cao

Normalizing flows provide an elegant approach to generative modeling that allows for efficient sampling and exact density evaluation of unknown data distributions. However, current techniques have significant limitations in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sahil Sidheekh , Chris B. Dock , Tushar Jain , Radu Balan , Maneesh K. Singh

Normalizing flows provide a general mechanism for defining expressive probability distributions, only requiring the specification of a (usually simple) base distribution and a series of bijective transformations. There has been much recent…

Estimating the causal structure of observational data is a challenging combinatorial search problem that scales super-exponentially with graph size. Existing methods use continuous relaxations to make this problem computationally tractable…

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We present a generalized theoretical framework for olfactory representation and plasticity, using the theory of smooth manifolds and sheaves to depict categorical odor learning via distributed neural computation. Beginning with the space of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-13 Jack A. Cook , Thomas A. Cleland

Understanding the inner workings of neural networks is essential for enhancing model performance and interpretability. Current research predominantly focuses on examining the connection between individual neurons and the model's final…

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Artificial neural networks, widely recognised for their role in machine learning, are now transforming the study of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), bridging data-driven modelling with classical dynamical systems and enabling the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Dario Izzo , Sebastien Origer , Giacomo Acciarini , Francesco Biscani

This paper aims at building a unified framework to deal with a wide class of local and nonlocal translation-invariant geometric flows. First, we introduce a class of generalized curvatures, and prove the existence and uniqueness for the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Marcello Ponsiglione

Studying the dynamics of open quantum systems can enable breakthroughs both in fundamental physics and applications to quantum engineering and quantum computation. Since the density matrix $\rho$, which is the fundamental description for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Owen Dugan , Peter Y. Lu , Rumen Dangovski , Di Luo , Marin Soljačić

Existing optical flow methods make generic, spatially homogeneous, assumptions about the spatial structure of the flow. In reality, optical flow varies across an image depending on object class. Simply put, different objects move…

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Generative models based on flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in various domains, yet they suffer from a fundamental limitation: the lack of interpretability in their intermediate generation steps. In fact these models learn…

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We propose a data-driven scene flow estimation algorithm exploiting the observation that many 3D scenes can be explained by a collection of agents moving as rigid bodies. At the core of our method lies a deep architecture able to reason at…

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The application of deep learning toward discovery of data-driven models requires careful application of inductive biases to obtain a description of physics which is both accurate and robust. We present here a framework for discovering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Ravi G. Patel , Nathaniel A. Trask , Mitchell A. Wood , Eric C. Cyr

Deep learning has shown great potential for modeling the physical dynamics of complex particle systems such as fluids. Existing approaches, however, require the supervision of consecutive particle properties, including positions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Shanyan Guan , Huayu Deng , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

In the quest for controlled thermonuclear fusion, tokamaks present complex challenges in understanding burning plasma dynamics. This study introduces a multi-region multi-timescale transport model, employing Neural Ordinary Differential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Zefang Liu , Weston M. Stacey

We present a new flow framework for separation logic reasoning about programs that manipulate general graphs. The framework overcomes problems in earlier developments: it is based on standard fixed point theory, guarantees least flows,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Roland Meyer , Thomas Wies , Sebastian Wolff

The Earth's main geomagnetic field arises from the constant motion of the fluid outer core. By assuming that the field changes are advection-dominated, the fluid motion at the core surface can be related to the secular variation of the…

The advent of large-scale neural recordings has enabled new methods to discover the computational mechanisms of neural circuits by understanding the rules that govern how their state evolves over time. While these \textit{neural dynamics}…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-13 Christopher Versteeg , Andrew R. Sedler , Jonathan D. McCart , Chethan Pandarinath