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Deep generative models have shown immense potential in generating unseen data that has properties of real data. These models learn complex data-generating distributions starting from a smaller set of latent dimensions. However, generative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Subhamoy Chatterjee , Andres Munoz-Jaramillo , Anna Malanushenko

We introduce the Glauber Generative Model (GGM), a new class of discrete diffusion models, to obtain new samples from a distribution given samples from a discrete space. GGM deploys a discrete Markov chain called the heat bath dynamics (or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Harshit Varma , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Karthikeyan Shanmugam

This paper deals with differentiable dynamical models congruent with neural process theories that cast brain function as the hierarchical refinement of an internal generative model explaining observations. Our work extends existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 André Ofner , Sebastian Stober

This position paper argues for the use of \emph{structured generative models} (SGMs) for the understanding of static scenes. This requires the reconstruction of a 3D scene from an input image (or a set of multi-view images), whereby the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Christopher K. I. Williams

Existing approaches for analyzing neural network activations, such as PCA and sparse autoencoders, rely on strong structural assumptions. Generative models offer an alternative: they can uncover structure without such assumptions and act as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Grace Luo , Jiahai Feng , Trevor Darrell , Alec Radford , Jacob Steinhardt

Data-driven inference of the generative dynamics underlying a set of observed time series is of growing interest in machine learning and the natural sciences. In neuroscience, such methods promise to alleviate the need to handcraft models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Eric Volkmann , Alena Brändle , Daniel Durstewitz , Georgia Koppe

Learning generative models for graph-structured data is challenging because graphs are discrete, combinatorial, and the underlying data distribution is invariant to the ordering of nodes. However, most of the existing generative models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Chenhao Niu , Yang Song , Jiaming Song , Shengjia Zhao , Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

The problem of learning the structure of a high dimensional graphical model from data has received considerable attention in recent years. In many applications such as sensor networks and proteomics it is often expensive to obtain samples…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-08 Gautam Dasarathy , Aarti Singh , Maria-Florina Balcan , Jong Hyuk Park

We propose Energy-based generator matching (EGM), a modality-agnostic approach to train generative models from energy functions in the absence of data. Extending the recently proposed generator matching, EGM enables training of arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Dongyeop Woo , Minsu Kim , Minkyu Kim , Kiyoung Seong , Sungsoo Ahn

Many data-driven decision problems are formulated using a nominal distribution estimated from historical data, while performance is ultimately determined by a deployment distribution that may be shifted, context-dependent, partially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xiuyuan Cheng , Yunqin Zhu , Yao Xie

Typical generative diffusion models rely on a Gaussian diffusion process for training the backward transformations, which can then be used to generate samples from Gaussian noise. However, real world data often takes place in discrete-state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Javier E Santos , Zachary R. Fox , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

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

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computational primitives: deterministic neural-network evaluation and stochastic sampling. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nihal Sanjay Singh , Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari

Deep generative models such as diffusion and flow matching are powerful machine learning tools capable of learning and sampling from high-dimensional distributions. They are particularly useful when the training data appears to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Zachary Bogorad , Ibrahim Elsharkawy , Yonatan Kahn , Andrew J. Larkoski , Noam Levi

Generative models have fundamentally reshaped the landscape of decision-making, reframing the problem from pure scalar reward maximization to high-fidelity trajectory generation and distribution matching. This paradigm shift addresses…

Model-based reinforcement learning algorithms make decisions by building and utilizing a model of the environment. However, none of the existing algorithms attempts to infer the dynamics of any state-action pair from known state-action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yanchao Sun , Furong Huang

Over the past few years, research on deep graph learning has shifted from static graphs to temporal graphs in response to real-world complex systems that exhibit dynamic behaviors. In practice, temporal graphs are formalized as an ordered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jintang Li , Ruofan Wu , Xinzhou Jin , Boqun Ma , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

This paper introduces a novel framework for generative models based on Restricted Kernel Machines (RKMs) with joint multi-view generation and uncorrelated feature learning, called Gen-RKM. To enable joint multi-view generation, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Arun Pandey , Joachim Schreurs , Johan A. K. Suykens

Deep generative models provide a systematic way to learn nonlinear data distributions, through a set of latent variables and a nonlinear "generator" function that maps latent points into the input space. The nonlinearity of the generator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-14 Georgios Arvanitidis , Lars Kai Hansen , Søren Hauberg

Deep generative models (DGMs) have the potential to revolutionize diagnostic imaging. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one kind of DGM which are widely employed. The overarching problem with deploying GANs, and other DGMs, in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Rucha Deshpande , Mark A. Anastasio , Frank J. Brooks