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We present a new algorithm to optimize distributions defined implicitly by parameterized stochastic diffusions. Doing so allows us to modify the outcome distribution of sampling processes by optimizing over their parameters. We introduce a…

The exact treatment of Markovian models of complex systems requires knowledge of probability distributions exponentially large in the number of components $n$. Mean-field approximations provide an effective reduction in complexity of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-12 Wout Merbis , Madelon Geurts , Clélia de Mulatier , Philippe Corboz

Emerging applications of machine learning in numerous areas involve continuous gathering of and learning from streams of data. Real-time incorporation of streaming data into the learned models is essential for improved inference in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Matthew Nokleby , Haroon Raja , Waheed U. Bajwa

Learning to sample from complex unnormalized distributions is a fundamental challenge in computational physics and machine learning. While score-based and variational methods have achieved success in continuous domains, extending them to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Lei Li , Zhen Wang , Lishuo Zhang

We consider the problem of inference in discrete probabilistic models, that is, distributions over subsets of a finite ground set. These encompass a range of well-known models in machine learning, such as determinantal point processes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Alkis Gotovos , Hamed Hassani , Andreas Krause , Stefanie Jegelka

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) capture some of the efficiency of biological brains for inference and learning via the dynamic, online, event-driven processing of binary time series. Most existing learning algorithms for SNNs are based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone

Stochastic gradient descent samples uniformly the training set to build an unbiased gradient estimate with a limited number of samples. However, at a given step of the training process, some data are more helpful than others to continue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Thibault Lahire

Distributed multi-party learning provides an effective approach for training a joint model with scattered data under legal and practical constraints. However, due to the quagmire of a skewed distribution of data labels across participants…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Maoguo Gong , Yuan Gao , Yue Wu , A. K. Qin

We tackle the problem of sampling from intractable high-dimensional density functions, a fundamental task that often appears in machine learning and statistics. We extend recent sampling-based approaches that leverage controlled stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Dinghuai Zhang , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Cheng-Hao Liu , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

To create state-of-the-art models for many downstream tasks, it has become common practice to fine-tune a pre-trained large vision model. However, it remains an open question of how to best determine which of the many possible model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Simon Guiroy , Mats Richter , Sarath Chandar , Christopher Pal

Semantic segmentation is essential in computer vision for various applications, yet traditional approaches face significant challenges, including the high cost of annotation and extensive training for supervised learning. Additionally, due…

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy leverages nuclear magnetization to probe molecules' chemical environment, structure, and dynamics, with applications spanning from pharmaceuticals to the petroleum industry. Despite its utility,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Sen Yan , Fabrizio Gabellieri , Etienne Goffinet , Filippo Castiglione , Thomas Launey

Conditional diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in various generative tasks recently, but their training typically relies on large-scale datasets that inevitably contain imprecise information in conditional inputs. Such…

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In recent years, graph neural networks (GNN) have achieved unprecedented successes in node classification tasks. Although GNNs inherently encode specific inductive biases (e.g., acting as low-pass or high-pass filters), most existing…

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In this study, we introduce a novel family of tensor networks, termed constrained matrix product states (MPS), designed to incorporate exactly arbitrary discrete linear constraints, including inequalities, into sparse block structures.…

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Training Neural Networks (NNs) to behave as Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithms is an effective way to implement them in constrained embedded devices. By collecting large amounts of input-output data, where inputs represent system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Alberto Castillo , Elliot Pryor , Anas El Fathi , Boris Kovatchev , Marc Breton

We characterize the connectivity structure of feed-forward, deep neural networks (DNNs) using network motif theory. To address whether a particular motif distribution is characteristic of the training task, or function of the DNN, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Olivia T. Zahn , Thomas L. Daniel , J. Nathan Kutz

Transmission Neural Networks (TransNNs) introduced by Gao and Caines (2022) connect virus spread models over networks and neural networks with tuneable activation functions. This paper presents the approximation technique and the underlying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Shuang Gao , Peter E. Caines

Synchronous strategies with data parallelism, such as the Synchronous StochasticGradient Descent (S-SGD) and the model averaging methods, are widely utilizedin distributed training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), largely owing to itseasy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Qing Ye , Yuhao Zhou , Mingjia Shi , Yanan Sun , Jiancheng Lv