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This paper raises an implicit manifold learning perspective in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), by studying how the support of the learned distribution, modelled as a submanifold $\mathcal{M}_{\theta}$, perfectly match with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-01 Kry Yik Chau Lui , Yanshuai Cao , Maxime Gazeau , Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang

To improve the performance of classical generative adversarial network (GAN), Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (W-GAN) was developed as a Kantorovich dual formulation of the optimal transport (OT) problem using Wasserstein-1…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Byeongsu Sim , Gyutaek Oh , Jeongsol Kim , Chanyong Jung , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models, which convert noise into new data instances by learning to reverse a diffusion process, have become a cornerstone in contemporary generative modeling. In this work, we develop non-asymptotic convergence theory for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gen Li , Yuting Wei , Yuejie Chi , Yuxin Chen

Sampling from Flow Matching generative models requires solving an ordinary differential equation (ODE) whose computational cost is dominated by neural network forward passes. We derive four classical ODE solvers -- Euler, Explicit Midpoint,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Xiao

In the field of modern high-energy physics research, there is a growing emphasis on utilizing deep learning techniques to optimize event simulation, thereby expanding the statistical sample size for more accurate physical analysis.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Chu-Cheng Pan , Xiang Dong , Yu-Chang Sun , Ao-Yan Cheng , Ao-Bo Wang , Yu-Xuan Hu , Hao Cai

This paper aims to conduct a comprehensive theoretical analysis of current diffusion models. We introduce a novel generative learning methodology utilizing the Schr{\"o}dinger bridge diffusion model in latent space as the framework for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-24 Yuling Jiao , Lican Kang , Huazhen Lin , Jin Liu , Heng Zuo

The unsupervised task of aligning two or more distributions in a shared latent space has many applications including fair representations, batch effect mitigation, and unsupervised domain adaptation. Existing flow-based approaches estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Zeyu Zhou , Ziyu Gong , Pradeep Ravikumar , David I. Inouye

We provide attainable analytical tools to estimate the error of flow-based generative models under the Wasserstein metric and to establish the optimal sampling iteration complexity bound with respect to dimension as $O(\sqrt{d})$. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiangjun Meng , Zhongjian Wang

We study data-driven decision problems where historical observations are generated by a time-evolving distribution whose consecutive shifts are bounded in Wasserstein distance. We address this nonstationarity using a distributionally robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Dominic S. T. Keehan , Edward J. Anderson , Wolfram Wiesemann

Out-of-distribution (OoD) detection is a natural downstream task for deep generative models, due to their ability to learn the input probability distribution. There are mainly two classes of approaches for OoD detection using deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yujia Huang , Sihui Dai , Tan Nguyen , Richard G. Baraniuk , Anima Anandkumar

Differential equations in general and neural ODEs in particular are an essential technique in continuous-time system identification. While many deterministic learning algorithms have been designed based on numerical integration via the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Lenart Treven , Philippe Wenk , Florian Dörfler , Andreas Krause

Generative models based on latent variables, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational auto-encoders (VAEs), have gained lots of interests due to their impressive performance in many fields. However, many data such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-30 Yixuan Qiu , Qingyi Gao , Xiao Wang

We compute the ground state $u$ of the Gross--Pitaevskii equation (GPE) via Wasserstein gradient descent in diffeomorphism space. We represent the density $\rho=u^2$ as the push-forward of a fixed reference measure through a parameterized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Xiangxiong Zhang , Haomin Zhou

Minimum expected distance estimation (MEDE) algorithms have been widely used for probabilistic models with intractable likelihood functions and they have become increasingly popular due to their use in implicit generative modeling (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-25 Kimia Nadjahi , Alain Durmus , Umut Şimşekli , Roland Badeau

We propose a novel diffusion-based image generation method called the observation-guided diffusion probabilistic model (OGDM), which effectively addresses the tradeoff between quality control and fast sampling. Our approach reestablishes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Junoh Kang , Jinyoung Choi , Sungik Choi , Bohyung Han

Recent ODE/SDE-based generative models, such as diffusion models, rectified flows, and flow matching, define a generative process as a time reversal of a fixed forward process. Even though these models show impressive performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sangyun Lee , Beomsu Kim , Jong Chul Ye

This monograph develops a comprehensive statistical learning framework that is robust to (distributional) perturbations in the data using Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) under the Wasserstein metric. Beginning with fundamental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-23 Ruidi Chen , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

We propose Drifting Field Policy (DFP), a non-ODE one-step generative policy built on the drifting model paradigm. We frame the policy update as a reverse-KL Wasserstein-2 gradient flow toward a soft target policy, so that each DFP update…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Juil Koo , Mingue Park , Jiwon Choi , Yunhong Min , Minhyuk Sung

Gradient flow in the 2-Wasserstein space is widely used to optimize functionals over probability distributions and is typically implemented using an interacting particle system with $n$ particles. Analyzing these algorithms requires showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chandan Tankala , Dheeraj M. Nagaraj , Anant Raj

With the rapidly growing model complexity and data volume, training deep generative models (DGMs) for better performance has becoming an increasingly more important challenge. Previous research on this problem has mainly focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yufan Zhou , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu