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We propose an information-theoretic knowledge distillation approach for the compression of generative adversarial networks, which aims to maximize the mutual information between teacher and student networks via a variational optimization…

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A recent line of research has exploited pre-trained generative diffusion models as priors for solving Bayesian inverse problems. We contribute to this research direction by designing a sequential Monte Carlo method for linear-Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Filip Ekström Kelvinius , Zheng Zhao , Fredrik Lindsten

The thermodynamics of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the vicinity of infinite temperature is explicitly solved in the microcanonical ensemble by means of large-deviation techniques. A first-order phase transition between a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-08 Giacomo Gradenigo , Stefano Iubini , Roberto Livi , Satya N. Majumdar

Diffusion models (DMs) are a class of generative machine learning methods that sample a target distribution by transforming samples of a trivial (often Gaussian) distribution using a learned stochastic differential equation. In standard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-15 Luke Causer , Grant M. Rotskoff , Juan P. Garrahan

This article addresses online variational estimation in parametric state-space models. We propose a new procedure for efficiently computing the evidence lower bound and its gradient in a streaming-data setting, where observations arrive…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-09 Mathis Chagneux , Mathias Müller , Pierre Gloaguen , Sylvain Le Corff , Jimmy Olsson

Bayesian model comparison relies upon the model evidence, yet for many models of interest the model evidence is unavailable in closed form and must be approximated. Many of the estimators for evidence that have been proposed in the Monte…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-02 Chris J. Oates , Theodore Papamarkou , Mark Girolami

Thermodynamic phase transitions, a central concept in physics and chemistry, are typically controlled by an interplay of enthalpic and entropic contributions. In most cases, the estimation of the enthalpy in simulations is straightforward…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Yamin Ben-Shimon , Barak Hirshberg , Yohai Bar-Sinai

We introduce a non-linear differential flow equation for density matrices that provides a monotonic decrease of the free energy and reaches a fixed point at the Gibbs thermal state. We use this equation to build a variational approach for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-04 Tao Shi , Eugene Demler , J. Ignacio Cirac

We derive an exact quantum propagator for nonadiabatic dynamics in multi-state systems using the mapping variable representation, where classical-like Cartesian variables are used to represent both continuous nuclear degrees of freedom and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Timothy J. H. Hele , Nandini Ananth

In several physical systems, important properties characterizing the system itself are theoretically related with specific degrees of freedom. Although standard Monte Carlo simulations provide an effective tool to accurately reconstruct the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-05-29 Marco Cristoforetti , Giuseppe Jurman , Andrea I. Nardelli , Cesare Furlanello

Quantum generative modeling has emerged as a promising application of quantum computers, aiming to model complex probability distributions beyond the reach of classical methods. In practice, however, training such models often requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Zoltán Kolarovszki , Bence Bakó , Michał Oszmaniec , Changhun Oh , Zoltán Zimborás

We study the temperature dependence of energy diffusion in two chaotic gapped quantum spin chains, a tilted-field Ising model and an XZ model, using an open system approach. We introduce an energy imbalance by coupling the chain to thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Cristian Zanoci , Brian Swingle

We introduce a generative learning framework to model high-dimensional parametric systems using gradient guidance and virtual observations. We consider systems described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) discretized with structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Han Gao , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Petros Koumoutsakos

Accurate thermal analysis of composites and porous media requires detailed characterization of local thermal properties in small scale. For some important applications such as lithium-ion batteries, changes in the properties during the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Fazlolah Mohaghegh , Jayathi Murthy

We introduce a new class of generative quantum-neural-network-based models called Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models (QHBMs). In doing so, we establish a paradigmatic approach for quantum-probabilistic hybrid variational learning, where we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Guillaume Verdon , Jacob Marks , Sasha Nanda , Stefan Leichenauer , Jack Hidary

In order to gain a deeper understanding of complex systems and infer key information using minimal data, I classify all configurations based on classical probability, starting from the dimensions of energy and different categories of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-18 Yonglong Ding

We report a series of deep learning models to solve complex forward and inverse design problems in molecular modeling and design. Using both diffusion models inspired by nonequilibrium thermodynamics and attention-based transformer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Rachel K. Luu , Marcin Wysokowski , Markus J. Buehler

Recent papers have demonstrated the possibility of energy-based text generation by adapting gradient-based sampling algorithms, a paradigm of MCMC algorithms that promises fast convergence. However, as we show in this paper, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Li Du , Afra Amini , Lucas Torroba Hennigen , Xinyan Velocity Yu , Jason Eisner , Holden Lee , Ryan Cotterell

We introduce the thermodynamic variational objective (TVO) for learning in both continuous and discrete deep generative models. The TVO arises from a key connection between variational inference and thermodynamic integration that results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Vaden Masrani , Tuan Anh Le , Frank Wood