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We present GFlowState, a visual analytics system designed to illuminate the training process of Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets or GFNs). GFlowNets are a probabilistic framework for generating samples proportionally to a reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Florian Holeczek , Andreas Hinterreiter , Alex Hernandez-Garcia , Marc Streit , Christina Humer

The performance of sensor arrays in sensing and wireless communications improves with more elements, but this comes at the cost of increased energy consumption and hardware expense. This work addresses the challenge of selecting $k$ sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Spilios Evmorfos , Zhaoyi Xu , Athina Petropulu

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a new family of probabilistic samplers, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities to generate diverse sets of high-reward candidates, in contrast to standard return maximization approaches (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Haoran He , Can Chang , Huazhe Xu , Ling Pan

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a diverse set of candidates with probabilities proportional to a given reward. However, GFlowNets can only be used with a predefined scalar reward, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yihang Chen , Lukas Mauch

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have demonstrated significant performance improvements for generating diverse discrete objects $x$ given a reward function $R(x)$, indicating the utility of the object and trained independently from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Chanakya Ekbote , Moksh Jain , Payel Das , Yoshua Bengio

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets; GFNs) are a class of generative models that learn to sample compositional objects proportionally to their a priori unknown value, their reward. We focus on the case where the reward has a specified,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Alexandre Larouche , Audrey Durand

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets or GFNs) are probabilistic models predicated on Markov flows, and they employ specific amortization algorithms to learn stochastic policies that generate compositional substances including biomolecules,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shuai Guo , Jielei Chu , Lin Ma , Zhaoyu Li , Tianrui Li

Personalized recommender systems fulfill the daily demands of customers and boost online businesses. The goal is to learn a policy that can generate a list of items that matches the user's demand or interest. While most existing methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Shuchang Liu , Qingpeng Cai , Zhankui He , Bowen Sun , Julian McAuley , Dong Zheng , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

In this work, we consider the radio resource allocation problem in a wireless system with various integrated functionalities, such as communication, sensing and computing. We design suitable resource management techniques that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Charbel Bou Chaaya , Mehdi Bennis

While Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (MCMC) provide a general framework to sample from a probability distribution defined up to normalization, they often suffer from slow convergence to the target distribution when the latter is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tristan Deleu , Yoshua Bengio

The scalability of pool-based active learning is limited by the computational cost of evaluating large unlabeled datasets, a challenge that is particularly acute in virtual screening for drug discovery. While active learning strategies such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Renfei Zhang , Mohit Pandey , Artem Cherkasov , Martin Ester

Generative Flow Network (GFlowNet) objectives implicitly fix an equal mixing of forward and backward policies, potentially constraining the exploration-exploitation trade-off during training. By further exploring the link between GFlowNets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Lin Chen , Samuel Drapeau , Fanghao Shao , Xuekai Zhu , Bo Xue , Yunchong Song , Mathieu Laurière , Zhouhan Lin

Multimedia systems underpin modern digital interactions, facilitating seamless integration and optimization of resources across diverse multimedia applications. To meet growing personalization demands, multimedia systems must efficiently…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yili Jin , Ling Pan , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Jiangchuan Liu , Xue Liu

Drug-drug interactions pose a significant challenge in clinical pharmacology, with severe class imbalance among interaction types limiting the effectiveness of predictive models. Common interactions dominate datasets, while rare but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Azmine Toushik Wasi

Generative Flow Networks (GFNs) were initially introduced on directed acyclic graphs to sample from an unnormalized distribution density. Recent works have extended the theoretical framework for generative methods allowing more flexibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Leo Maxime Brunswic , Mateo Clemente , Rui Heng Yang , Adam Sigal , Amir Rasouli , Yinchuan Li

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are amortized variational inference algorithms that are trained to sample from unnormalized target distributions over compositional objects. A key limitation of GFlowNets until this time has been that…

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generating composite structures, demonstrating considerable promise across diverse applications. While substantial progress has been made in exploring their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Tianshu Yu

Symbolic regression (SR) is an area of interpretable machine learning that aims to identify mathematical expressions, often composed of simple functions, that best fit in a given set of covariates $X$ and response $y$. In recent years, deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Sida Li , Ioana Marinescu , Sebastian Musslick

This paper builds bridges between two families of probabilistic algorithms: (hierarchical) variational inference (VI), which is typically used to model distributions over continuous spaces, and generative flow networks (GFlowNets), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Nikolay Malkin , Salem Lahlou , Tristan Deleu , Xu Ji , Edward Hu , Katie Everett , Dinghuai Zhang , Yoshua Bengio

The Generative Flow Network (GFlowNet) is a probabilistic framework in which an agent learns a stochastic policy and flow functions to sample objects proportionally to an unnormalized reward function. A number of recent works explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Haoran He , Emmanuel Bengio , Qingpeng Cai , Ling Pan