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This work proposes an efficient numerical approach for compressing a high-dimensional discrete distribution function into a non-negative tensor train (NTT) format. The two settings we consider are variational inference and density…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Xun Tang , Rajat Dwaraknath , Lexing Ying

We study the efficiency of Thompson sampling for contextual bandits. Existing Thompson sampling-based algorithms need to construct a Laplace approximation (i.e., a Gaussian distribution) of the posterior distribution, which is inefficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Pan Xu , Hongkai Zheng , Eric Mazumdar , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

The current best practice for computing optimal transport (OT) is via entropy regularization and Sinkhorn iterations. This algorithm runs in quadratic time as it requires the full pairwise cost matrix, which is prohibitively expensive for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Johannes Gasteiger , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

Tensor network contractions are widely used in statistical physics, quantum computing, and computer science. We introduce a method to efficiently approximate tensor network contractions using low-rank approximations, where each intermediate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-01 Linjian Ma , Matthew Fishman , Miles Stoudenmire , Edgar Solomonik

Sampling from distributions play a crucial role in aiding practitioners with statistical inference. However, in numerous situations, obtaining exact samples from complex distributions is infeasible. Consequently, researchers often turn to…

Computation · Statistics 2024-04-01 Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Tiefeng Jiang

In this paper we consider a new probability sampling methods based on Langevin diffusion dynamics to resolve the problem of existing Monte Carlo algorithms when draw samples from high dimensional target densities. We extent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Z. Zarezadeh , N. Zarezadeh

We introduce a novel and efficient algorithm called the stochastic approximate gradient descent (SAGD), as an alternative to the stochastic gradient descent for cases where unbiased stochastic gradients cannot be trivially obtained.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yixuan Qiu , Xiao Wang

In this paper we propose efficient randomized fixed-precision techniques for low tubal rank approximation of tensors. The proposed methods are faster and more efficient than the existing fixed-precision algorithms for approximating the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Salman Ahmadi-Asl , Naeim Rezaeian , Cesar F. Caiafa , Andre L. F. de Almeidad

Low-rank tensor approximations have shown great potential for uncertainty quantification in high dimensions, for example, to build surrogate models that can be used to speed up large-scale inference problems (Eigel et al., Inverse Problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Paul B. Rohrbach , Sergey Dolgov , Lars Grasedyck , Robert Scheichl

We study the Riemannian Langevin Algorithm for the problem of sampling from a distribution with density $\nu$ with respect to the natural measure on a manifold with metric $g$. We assume that the target density satisfies a log-Sobolev…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Khashayar Gatmiry , Santosh S. Vempala

We analyze a recently proposed class of algorithms for the problem of sampling from probability distributions $\mu^\ast$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with a Lebesgue density of the form $\mu^\ast(x) \propto \exp(-f(Kx)-g(x))$, where $K$ is a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Martin Burger , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lorenz Kuger , Lukas Weigand

We propose an algorithm for solution of high-dimensional evolutionary equations (ODEs and discretized time-dependent PDEs) in the Tensor Train (TT) decomposition, assuming that the solution and the right-hand side of the ODE admit such a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Sergey V. Dolgov

The convergence of many numerical optimization techniques is highly dependent on the initial guess given to the solver. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach that utilizes tensor methods to initialize existing optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Suhan Shetty , Teguh Lembono , Tobias Loew , Sylvain Calinon

We characterize the measurement complexity of compressed sensing of signals drawn from a known prior distribution, even when the support of the prior is the entire space (rather than, say, sparse vectors). We show for Gaussian measurements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ajil Jalal , Sushrut Karmalkar , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Eric Price

This work proposes a novel tensor train random projection (TTRP) method for dimension reduction, where pairwise distances can be approximately preserved. Our TTRP is systematically constructed through a tensor train (TT) representation with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-22 Yani Feng , Kejun Tang , Lianxing He , Pingqiang Zhou , Qifeng Liao

Flexible Bayesian models are typically constructed using limits of large parametric models with a multitude of parameters that are often uninterpretable. In this article, we offer a novel alternative by constructing an exponentially tilted…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-20 Abhisek Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

Tensor networks have recently found applications in machine learning for both supervised learning and unsupervised learning. The most common approaches for training these models are gradient descent methods. In this work, we consider an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Sheng-Hsuan Lin , Olivier Kuijpers , Sebastian Peterhansl , Frank Pollmann

Entropic optimal transport (OT) and the Sinkhorn algorithm have made it practical for machine learning practitioners to perform the fundamental task of calculating transport distance between statistical distributions. In this work, we focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Xun Tang , Holakou Rahmanian , Michael Shavlovsky , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

Extracting information about dynamical systems from models learned off simulation data has become an increasingly important research topic in the natural and engineering sciences. Modeling the Koopman operator semigroup has played a central…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Marvin Lücke , Feliks Nüske

The tensor train (TT) format enjoys appealing advantages in handling structural high-order tensors. The recent decade has witnessed the wide applications of TT-format tensors from diverse disciplines, among which tensor completion has drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jian-Feng Cai , Jingyang Li , Dong Xia