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We propose the tensorizing flow method for estimating high-dimensional probability density functions from the observed data. The method is based on tensor-train and flow-based generative modeling. Our method first efficiently constructs an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yinuo Ren , Hongli Zhao , Yuehaw Khoo , Lexing Ying

Computing with discrete representations of high-dimensional probability distributions is fundamental to uncertainty quantification, Bayesian inference, and stochastic modeling. However, storing and manipulating such distributions suffers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Gerhard Kirsten , Bilgesu Bilgin , Janith Petangoda , Phillip Stanley-Marbell

Probably one of the most striking examples of the close connections between global optimization processes and statistical physics is the simulated annealing method, inspired by the famous Monte Carlo algorithm devised by Metropolis et al.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Lorenzo Pareschi

Monte Carlo sampling methods often suffer from long correlation times. Consequently, these methods must be run for many steps to generate an independent sample. In this paper a method is proposed to overcome this difficulty. The method…

Computation · Statistics 2007-09-13 Jonathan Weare

Normalizing flows are tractable density models that can approximate complicated target distributions, e.g. Boltzmann distributions of physical systems. However, current methods for training flows either suffer from mode-seeking behavior,…

We develop a modular approach to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling for unnormalized target densities. In this approach, Markov chains are constructed in parallel, each constrained to a subset of the target space. The Monte Carlo…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-05 Joonha Park

Advanced tensor decomposition, such as Tensor train (TT) and Tensor ring (TR), has been widely studied for deep neural network (DNN) model compression, especially for recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, compressing convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Miao Yin , Yang Sui , Siyu Liao , Bo Yuan

We propose a deterministic sampling framework using Score-Based Transport Modeling for sampling an unnormalized target density $\pi$ given only its score $\nabla \log \pi$. Our method approximates the Wasserstein gradient flow on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Vasily Ilin , Peter Sushko , Jingwei Hu

Annealed Importance Sampling (AIS) and its Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) extensions are state-of-the-art methods for estimating normalizing constants of probability distributions. We propose here a novel Monte Carlo algorithm, Annealed Flow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-12 Michael Arbel , Alexander G. D. G. Matthews , Arnaud Doucet

Scalable sampling of molecular states in thermodynamic equilibrium is a long-standing challenge in statistical physics. Boltzmann Generators tackle this problem by pairing a generative model, capable of exact likelihood computation, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Danyal Rehman , Tara Akhound-Sadegh , Artem Gazizov , Yoshua Bengio , Alexander Tong

Sampling efficiently from a target unnormalized probability density remains a core challenge, with relevance across countless high-impact scientific applications. A promising approach towards this challenge is the design of amortized…

We consider sequential state and parameter learning in state-space models with intractable state transition and observation processes. By exploiting low-rank tensor train (TT) decompositions, we propose new sequential learning methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Yiran Zhao , Tiangang Cui

We propose a simple, scalable algorithm for using stochastic interpolants to sample from unnormalized densities and for fine-tuning generative models. The approach, Tilt Matching, arises from a dynamical equation relating the flow matching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Peter Potaptchik , Cheuk-Kit Lee , Michael S. Albergo

Tensor Train (TT) decompositions provide a powerful framework to compress grid-structured data, such as sampled function values, on regular Cartesian grids. Such high compression, in turn, enables efficient high-dimensional computations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Siddhartha E. Guzman , Egor Tiunov , Leandro Aolita

The Tensor-Train (TT) format is a highly compact low-rank representation for high-dimensional tensors. TT is particularly useful when representing approximations to the solutions of certain types of parametrized partial differential…

This paper focuses on multi-block optimization problems over transport polytopes, which underlie various applications including strongly correlated quantum physics and machine learning. Conventional block coordinate descent-type methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Yukuan Hu , Mengyu Li , Xin Liu , Cheng Meng

In this paper we propose an efficient method to compress a high dimensional function into a tensor ring format, based on alternating least-squares (ALS). Since the function has size exponential in $d$ where $d$ is the number of dimensions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Yuehaw Khoo , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying

Effective modeling of heterogeneous subpopulations presents a significant challenge due to variations in individual characteristics and behaviors. This paper proposes a novel approach to address this issue through multi-task learning (MTL)…

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Low-rank tensors are an established framework for high-dimensional least-squares problems. We propose to extend this framework by including the concept of block-sparsity. In the context of polynomial regression each sparsity pattern…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Michael Götte , Reinhold Schneider , Philipp Trunschke

Inspired by the Boltzmann kinetics, we propose a collision-based dynamics with a Monte Carlo solution algorithm that approximates the solution of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem via randomized pairwise swapping of sample…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mohsen Sadr , Hossein Gorji