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In this paper, we propose a sensitivity-free and multi-objective structural design methodology called data-driven topology design. It is schemed to obtain high-performance material distributions from initially given material distributions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Shintaro Yamasaki , Kentaro Yaji , Kikuo Fujita

Each training step for a variational autoencoder (VAE) requires us to sample from the approximate posterior, so we usually choose simple (e.g. factorised) approximate posteriors in which sampling is an efficient computation that fully…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Laurence Aitchison , Vincent Adam , Srinivas C. Turaga

Diffusion-based generative graph models have been proven effective in generating high-quality small graphs. However, they need to be more scalable for generating large graphs containing thousands of nodes desiring graph statistics. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xiaohui Chen , Jiaxing He , Xu Han , Li-Ping Liu

Diffusion and flow-based models have become the state of the art for generative AI across a wide range of data modalities, including images, videos, shapes, molecules, music, and more. This tutorial provides a self-contained introduction to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Peter Holderrieth , Ezra Erives

Simulation-free methods for training continuous-time generative models construct probability paths that go between noise distributions and individual data samples. Recent works, such as Flow Matching, derived paths that are optimal for each…

Normalizing flows are exact-likelihood generative neural networks which approximately transform samples from a simple prior distribution to samples of the probability distribution of interest. Recent work showed that such generative models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Jonas Köhler , Leon Klein , Frank Noé

A generative model based on training deep architectures is proposed. The model consists of K networks that are trained together to learn the underlying distribution of a given data set. The process starts with dividing the input data into K…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Ershad Banijamali , Ali Ghodsi , Pascal Poupart

We develop a continuous mathematical model of population dynamics that describes the sequential emergence of new genotypes under limited resources. The framework models genotype density as a nonlinear flow in mutation space, combining…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 Alexander Bratus , Tatiana Yakushkina , Vladimir Posvyanski

We propose conformal generative modeling, a framework for generative modeling on 2D surfaces approximated by discrete triangle meshes. Our approach leverages advances in discrete conformal geometry to develop a map from a source triangle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Victor Dorobantu , Charlotte Borcherds , Yisong Yue

Deep generative models open new avenues for simulating realistic genomic data while preserving privacy and addressing data accessibility constraints. While previous studies have primarily focused on generating gene expression or haplotype…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Sihan Xie , Thierry Tribout , Didier Boichard , Blaise Hanczar , Julien Chiquet , Eric Barrey

This paper introduces Gauge Flow Models, a novel class of Generative Flow Models. These models incorporate a learnable Gauge Field within the Flow Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE). A comprehensive mathematical framework for these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Alexander Strunk , Roland Assam

Strongly nonlinear flows, which commonly arise in geophysical and engineering turbulence, are characterized by persistent and intermittent energy transfer between various spatial and temporal scales. These systems are difficult to model and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Hassan Arbabi , Themistoklis Sapsis

These lecture notes introduce the statistical analysis of continuous-time generative models built from Markov dynamics. We begin with the stochastic-calculus foundations of score-based diffusion models, including time reversal, score…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Eddie Aamari , Arthur Stéphanovitch

We propose Manifold Free-Form Flows (M-FFF), a simple new generative model for data on manifolds. The existing approaches to learning a distribution on arbitrary manifolds are expensive at inference time, since sampling requires solving a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Peter Sorrenson , Felix Draxler , Armand Rousselot , Sander Hummerich , Ullrich Köthe

Machine learning-based unfolding has enabled unbinned and high-dimensional differential cross section measurements. Two main approaches have emerged in this research area: one based on discriminative models and one based on generative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Sascha Diefenbacher , Guan-Horng Liu , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Weili Nie

Generative modeling provides a powerful framework for learning data distributions. These models initially relied on probabilistic methods such as Gaussian Processes (GP) for uncertainty-aware predictions and shifted towards larger trainable…

Finding a transformation between two unknown probability distributions from finite samples is crucial for modeling complex data distributions and performing tasks such as sample generation, domain adaptation and statistical inference. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhe Xiong , Qiaoqiao Ding , Xiaoqun Zhang

Normalizing flows are a powerful technique for obtaining reparameterizable samples from complex multimodal distributions. Unfortunately, current approaches are only available for the most basic geometries and fall short when the underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-03 Luca Falorsi

Distribution matching (DM) is a versatile domain-invariant representation learning technique that has been applied to tasks such as fair classification, domain adaptation, and domain translation. Non-parametric DM methods struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziyu Gong , Jim Lim , David I. Inouye

Reconstructing PDE solutions from sparse observations is a core challenge in scientific computing. We present FM4PDE, a flow-matching generative framework that learns the joint distribution of PDE coefficients (or initial states) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Xifeng Zhang , Jin Zhao