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We study the consequences of mode-collapse of normalizing flows in the context of lattice field theory. Normalizing flows allow for independent sampling. For this reason, it is hoped that they can avoid the tunneling problem of local-update…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-06 Kim A. Nicoli , Christopher J. Anders , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Pan Kessel , Shinichi Nakajima

We present a machine learning-based framework for blending data-driven turbulent closures in the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations, aimed at improving their generalizability across diverse flow regimes. Specialized models…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-05 Mourad Oulghelou , Soufiane Cherroud , Xavier Merle , Paola Cinnella

We propose a unified framework for adaptive connection sampling in graph neural networks (GNNs) that generalizes existing stochastic regularization methods for training GNNs. The proposed framework not only alleviates over-smoothing and…

Normalizing flows are flexible, parameterized distributions that can be used to approximate expectations from intractable distributions via importance sampling. However, current flow-based approaches are limited on challenging targets where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Laurence Illing Midgley , Vincent Stimper , Gregor N. C. Simm , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

A generic algorithm for the extraction of probabilistic (Bayesian) information about model parameters from data is presented. The algorithm propagates an ensemble of particles in the product space of model parameters and outputs. Each…

Computation · Statistics 2015-09-18 Carlo Albert

Interpretable representation learning is a central challenge in modern machine learning, particularly in high-dimensional settings such as neuroimaging, genomics, and text analysis. Current methods often struggle to balance the competing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-11 Brian B. Avants , Nicholas J. Tustison , James R Stone

Model comparison and calibrated uncertainty quantification often require integrating over parameters, but scalable inference can be challenging for complex, multimodal targets. Nested Sampling is a robust alternative to standard MCMC, yet…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-12 David Yallup , Namu Kroupa , Will Handley

Recently, machine learning has been applied successfully for identifying phases and phase transitions of the Ising models. The continuous phase transition is characterized by spontaneous symmetry breaking, which can not be detected in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-03 Tomoyuki Morishita , Synge Todo

We present the first application of a Nested Sampling algorithm to explore the high-dimensional phase space of particle collision events. We describe the adaptation of the algorithm, designed to perform Bayesian inference computations, to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-09 David Yallup , Timo Janßen , Steffen Schumann , Will Handley

The goal of this work is the computation of very compact binary hashes for image instance retrieval. Our approach has two novel contributions. The first one is Nested Invariance Pooling (NIP), a method inspired from i-theory, a mathematical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Olivier Morère , Jie Lin , Antoine Veillard , Vijay Chandrasekhar , Tomaso Poggio

Many important challenges in science and technology can be cast as optimization problems. When viewed in a statistical physics framework, these can be tackled by simulated annealing, where a gradual cooling procedure helps search for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-17 Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Estelle M. Inack , Roeland Wiersema , Roger G. Melko , Juan Carrasquilla

Many inference problems involve inferring the number $N$ of components in some region, along with their properties $\{\mathbf{x}_i\}_{i=1}^N$, from a dataset $\mathcal{D}$. A common statistical example is finite mixture modelling. In the…

Computation · Statistics 2015-01-15 Brendon J. Brewer

Gaussian distributions are commonly used as a key building block in many generative models. However, their applicability has not been well explored in deep networks. In this paper, we propose a novel deep generative model named as Normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Jay Nandy , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are widely used in deep generative models for their exact likelihood estimation and efficient sampling. However, they require substantial memory since the latent space matches the input dimension. Multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Wei Chen , Shian Du , Shigui Li , Delu Zeng , John Paisley

In this work, we use a tempering-based adaptive particle filter to infer from a partially observed stochastic rotating shallow water (SRSW) model which has been derived using the Stochastic Advection by Lie Transport (SALT) approach. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Peter Jan van Leeuwen , Dan Crisan , Oana Lang , Roland Potthast

We present a machine-learning approach, based on normalizing flows, for modelling atomic solids. Our model transforms an analytically tractable base distribution into the target solid without requiring ground-truth samples for training. We…

Deep generative models have recently garnered significant attention across various fields, from physics to chemistry, where sampling from unnormalized Boltzmann-like distributions represents a fundamental challenge. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Janik Kreit , Dominic Schuh , Kim A. Nicoli , Lena Funcke

Neural network observers (NNOs) are proposed for real-time estimation of fluid flows, addressing a key challenge in flow control: obtaining real-time flow states from a limited set of sparse and noisy sensor data. For this task, we propose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-06 Tarcísio C. Déda , William R. Wolf , Scott T. M. Dawson , Brener L. O. Ramos

Fluid mechanics is a fundamental field in engineering and science. Solving the Navier-Stokes equation (NSE) is critical for understanding the behavior of fluids. However, the NSE is a complex partial differential equation that is difficult…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 Ayoub Farkane , Mounir Ghogho , Mustapha Oudani , Mohamed Boutayeb

Recent advances in machine learning have led to the development of new methods for enhancing Monte Carlo methods such as Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and importance sampling (IS). One such method is normalizing flows, which use a neural…

Computation · Statistics 2024-01-12 Charly Andral