English
Related papers

Related papers: Tensor train based sampling algorithms for approxi…

200 papers

In this paper, we revisit the recently established theoretical guarantees for the convergence of the Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm of sampling from a smooth and (strongly) log-concave density. We improve the existing results when the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Arnak S. Dalalyan

This paper presents a method for approximate Gaussian process (GP) regression with tensor networks (TNs). A parametric approximation of a GP uses a linear combination of basis functions, where the accuracy of the approximation depends on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-01 Clara Menzen , Eva Memmel , Kim Batselier , Manon Kok

We propose a localized consensus-based method for sampling from non-Gaussian distributions. This method arises from an alternative derivation of consensus-based sampling (CBS). Starting from ensemble-preconditioned Langevin dynamics, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Arne Bouillon , Alexander Bodard , Panagiotis Patrinos , Dirk Nuyens , Giovanni Samaey

In recent years, the application of tensors has become more widespread in fields that involve data analytics and numerical computation. Due to the explosive growth of data, low-rank tensor decompositions have become a powerful tool to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Lingjie Li , Wenjian Yu , Kim Batselier

We consider the population Wasserstein barycenter problem for random probability measures supported on a finite set of points and generated by an online stream of data. This leads to a complicated stochastic optimization problem where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Daniil Tiapkin , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky

This work proposes a novel general-purpose estimator for supervised machine learning (ML) based on tensor trains (TT). The estimator uses TTs to parametrize discretized functions, which are then optimized using Riemannian gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Bart Vandereycken , Rik Voorhaar

This article presents a general approximation-theoretic framework to analyze measure transport algorithms for probabilistic modeling. A primary motivating application for such algorithms is sampling -- a central task in statistical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Ricardo Baptista , Bamdad Hosseini , Nikola B. Kovachki , Youssef M. Marzouk , Amir Sagiv

Deep generative models hold great promise for representing complex physical systems, but their deployment is currently limited by the lack of guarantees on the physical plausibility of the generated outputs. Ensuring that known physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Matthieu Blanke , Yongquan Qu , Sara Shamekh , Pierre Gentine

We propose the tensorizing flow method for estimating high-dimensional probability density functions from the observed data. The method is based on tensor-train and flow-based generative modeling. Our method first efficiently constructs an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yinuo Ren , Hongli Zhao , Yuehaw Khoo , Lexing Ying

We propose an algorithm for the efficient and robust sampling of the posterior probability distribution in Bayesian inference problems. The algorithm combines the local search capabilities of the Manifold Metropolis Adjusted Langevin…

The classical (overdamped) Langevin dynamics provide a natural algorithm for sampling from its invariant measure, which uniquely minimizes an energy functional over the space of probability measures, and which concentrates around the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Giovanni Conforti , Daniel Lacker , Soumik Pal

We propose a new algorithm for the computation of a singular value decomposition (SVD) low-rank approximation of a matrix in the Matrix Product Operator (MPO) format, also called the Tensor Train Matrix format. Our tensor network randomized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Kim Batselier , Wenjian Yu , Luca Daniel , Ngai Wong

This paper studies a class of multiagent stochastic optimization problems where the objective is to minimize the expected value of a function which depends on a random variable. The probability distribution of the random variable is unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Ashish Cherukuri , Jorge Cortes

In this paper, we introduce a sketching algorithm for constructing a tensor train representation of a probability density from its samples. Our method deviates from the standard recursive SVD-based procedure for constructing a tensor train.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 YH. Hur , J. G. Hoskins , M. Lindsey , E. M. Stoudenmire , Y. Khoo

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization offers a framework for model fitting in machine learning under potential shifts in the data distribution. We study a regularized variant of this problem in which entropic smoothing produces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Tam Le

The problem of sampling a target probability distribution on a constrained domain arises in many applications including machine learning. For constrained sampling, various Langevin algorithms such as projected Langevin Monte Carlo (PLMC),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-07 Yingli Wang , Changwei Tu , Xiaoyu Wang , Lingjiong Zhu

Sampling from probability distributions of the form $\sigma \propto e^{-\beta V}$, where $V$ is a continuous potential, is a fundamental task across physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and statistics. However, when $V$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jiaqi Leng , Zhiyan Ding , Zherui Chen , Lin Lin

Wasserstein barycenters provide a geometrically meaningful way to aggregate probability distributions, built on the theory of optimal transport. They are difficult to compute in practice, however, leading previous work to restrict their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lingxiao Li , Aude Genevay , Mikhail Yurochkin , Justin Solomon

Learning representations that capture both intrinsic data geometry and target-relevant structure remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in settings where data reduction must balance compression with predictive fidelity. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sai-Aakash Ramesh , Archit Sood , Andrew Corbett , Tim Dodwell

High-dimensional generative modeling is fundamentally a manifold-learning problem: real data concentrate near a low-dimensional structure embedded in the ambient space. Effective generators must therefore balance support fidelity -- placing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-24 Xinyu Tian , Xiaotong Shen