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Modern ML methods excel when training data is IID, large-scale, and well labeled. Learning in less ideal conditions remains an open challenge. The sub-fields of few-shot, continual, transfer, and representation learning have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Matthew Wallingford , Aditya Kusupati , Keivan Alizadeh-Vahid , Aaron Walsman , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Ali Farhadi

Any-to-any generation seeks to translate between arbitrary subsets of modalities, enabling flexible cross-modal synthesis. Despite recent success, existing flow-based approaches are challenged by their inefficiency, as they require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yeonwoo Cha , Semin Kim , Jinhyeon Kwon , Seunghoon Hong

Reward-maximizing RL methods have shown to be capable of enhancing the reasoning performance of LLMs, but often lead to reduced generation diversity. Recent works address this issue by adopting GFlowNets, training LLMs to match a target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Dohyung Kim , Minbeom Kim , Jeonghye Kim , Sangmook Lee , Sojeong Rhee , Kyomin Jung

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have demonstrated significant performance improvements for generating diverse discrete objects $x$ given a reward function $R(x)$, indicating the utility of the object and trained independently from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Chanakya Ekbote , Moksh Jain , Payel Das , Yoshua Bengio

Active learning aims to develop label-efficient algorithms by sampling the most representative queries to be labeled by an oracle. We describe a pool-based semi-supervised active learning algorithm that implicitly learns this sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Samarth Sinha , Sayna Ebrahimi , Trevor Darrell

Many real-world applications of flow-based generative models desire a diverse set of samples that cover multiple modes of the target distribution. However, the predominant approach for obtaining diverse sets is not sample-efficient, as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mashrur M. Morshed , Vishnu Boddeti

In deep active learning, it is especially important to choose multiple examples to markup at each step to work efficiently, especially on large datasets. At the same time, existing solutions to this problem in the Bayesian setup, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Aleksandr Rubashevskii , Daria Kotova , Maxim Panov

Active learning (AL) is a promising ML paradigm that has the potential to parse through large unlabeled data and help reduce annotation cost in domains where labeling data can be prohibitive. Recently proposed neural network based AL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Prateek Munjal , Nasir Hayat , Munawar Hayat , Jamshid Sourati , Shadab Khan

Generative Flow Networks for continuous scenarios (CFlowNets) have shown promise in solving sequential decision-making tasks by learning stochastic policies using a flow and a retrieval network. Despite their demonstrated efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zahin Sufiyan , Shadan Golestan , Yoshihiro Mitsuka , Shotaro Miwa , Osmar Zaiane

High-content phenotypic screening, including high-content imaging (HCI), has gained popularity in the last few years for its ability to characterize novel therapeutics without prior knowledge of the protein target. When combined with deep…

Generative Flow Networks or GFlowNets are related to Monte-Carlo Markov chain methods (as they sample from a distribution specified by an energy function), reinforcement learning (as they learn a policy to sample composed objects through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ling Pan , Nikolay Malkin , Dinghuai Zhang , Yoshua Bengio

Disentangled representations can be useful in many downstream tasks, help to make deep learning models more interpretable, and allow for control over features of synthetically generated images that can be useful in training other models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Aadhithya Sankar , Matthias Keicher , Rami Eisawy , Abhijeet Parida , Franz Pfister , Seong Tae Kim , Nassir Navab

As deep learning continues to evolve, the need for data efficiency becomes increasingly important. Considering labeling large datasets is both time-consuming and expensive, active learning (AL) provides a promising solution to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yifeng Wang , Xueying Zhan , Siyu Huang

GFlowNets have exhibited promising performance in generating diverse candidates with high rewards. These networks generate objects incrementally and aim to learn a policy that assigns probability of sampling objects in proportion to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 George Ma , Emmanuel Bengio , Yoshua Bengio , Dinghuai Zhang

Optimizing fluid-dynamic performance is an important engineering task. Traditionally, experts design shapes based on empirical estimations and verify them through expensive experiments. This costly process, both in terms of time and space,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Yang Chen

The FlowNet demonstrated that optical flow estimation can be cast as a learning problem. However, the state of the art with regard to the quality of the flow has still been defined by traditional methods. Particularly on small displacements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Eddy Ilg , Nikolaus Mayer , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

This paper proposes asal, a new GAN based active learning method that generates high entropy samples. Instead of directly annotating the synthetic samples, ASAL searches similar samples from the pool and includes them for training. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Christoph Mayer , Radu Timofte

GFlowNets are probabilistic models that sequentially generate compositional structures through a stochastic policy. Among GFlowNets, temperature-conditional GFlowNets can introduce temperature-based controllability for exploration and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Minsu Kim , Joohwan Ko , Taeyoung Yun , Dinghuai Zhang , Ling Pan , Woochang Kim , Jinkyoo Park , Emmanuel Bengio , Yoshua Bengio

Designing mRNA sequences is a major challenge in developing next-generation therapeutics, since it involves exploring a vast space of possible nucleotide combinations while optimizing sequence properties like stability, translation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Aya Laajil , Abduragim Shtanchaev , Sajan Muhammad , Eric Moulines , Salem Lahlou

Active learning, a powerful paradigm in machine learning, aims at reducing labeling costs by selecting the most informative samples from an unlabeled dataset. However, the traditional active learning process often demands extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Gábor Németh , Tamás Matuszka