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The progressive hedging algorithm (PHA) is a cornerstone among algorithms for large-scale stochastic programming problems. However, its traditional implementation is hindered by some limitations, including the requirement to solve all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Di Zhang , Yihang Zhang , Suvrajeet Sen

Differential replication through copying refers to the process of replicating the decision behavior of a machine learning model using another model that possesses enhanced features and attributes. This process is relevant when external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Nahuel Statuto , Irene Unceta , Jordi Nin , Oriol Pujol

Transition path sampling (TPS), which involves finding probable paths connecting two points on an energy landscape, remains a challenge due to the complexity of real-world atomistic systems. Current machine learning approaches use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Sanjeev Raja , Martin Šípka , Michael Psenka , Tobias Kreiman , Michal Pavelka , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan

Thompson sampling (TS) is a powerful and widely used strategy for sequential decision-making, with applications ranging from Bayesian optimization to reinforcement learning (RL). Despite its success, the theoretical foundations of TS remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jasmine Bayrooti , Sattar Vakili , Amanda Prorok , Carl Henrik Ek

Support points summarize a large dataset through a smaller set of representative points that can be used for data operations, such as Monte Carlo integration, without requiring access to the full dataset. In this sense, support points offer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-01 Peiqi Zhao , Carlos E. Rodríguez , Ramsés H. Mena , Stephen G. Walker

Generating random variates from high-dimensional distributions is often done approximately using Markov chain Monte Carlo. In certain cases, perfect simulation algorithms exist that allow one to draw exactly from the stationary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Mark Huber

Sparse sequences of neural spikes are posited to underlie aspects of working memory, motor production, and learning. Discovering these sequences in an unsupervised manner is a longstanding problem in statistical neuroscience. Promising…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Alex H. Williams , Anthony Degleris , Yixin Wang , Scott W. Linderman

This paper presents an algorithm for sampling random variables that allows to separation of the sampling process into subproblems by dividing the sample space into overlapping parts. The subproblems can be solved independently of each other…

Computation · Statistics 2016-01-26 Jonas Hallgren , Timo Koski

The large volumes of data generated by human activities such as online purchases, health records, spatial mobility etc. are stored as a sequence of events over a continuous time. Learning deep learning methods over such sequences is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Vinayak Gupta

A temporal point process is a mathematical model for a time series of discrete events, which covers various applications. Recently, recurrent neural network (RNN) based models have been developed for point processes and have been found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Takahiro Omi , Naonori Ueda , Kazuyuki Aihara

Real-world data often exhibits sequential dependence, across diverse domains such as human behavior, medicine, finance, and climate modeling. Probabilistic methods capture the inherent uncertainty associated with prediction in these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-08 Alex Boyd

Foundation models have revolutionized general-purpose problem-solving, offering rapid task adaptation through pretraining, meta-training, and finetuning. Recent crucial advances in these paradigms reveal the importance of challenging task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Qi Wang , Zehao Xiao , Yixiu Mao , Yun Qu , Jiayi Shen , Yiqin Lv , Xiangyang Ji

This work introduces a novel approach to modeling temporal point processes using diffusion models with an asynchronous noise schedule. At each step of the diffusion process, the noise schedule injects noise of varying scales into different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Amartya Mukherjee , Ruizhi Deng , He Zhao , Yuzhen Mao , Leonid Sigal , Frederick Tung

Speculative decoding has proven to be an efficient solution to large language model (LLM) inference, where the small drafter predicts future tokens at a low cost, and the target model is leveraged to verify them in parallel. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zilin Xiao , Hongming Zhang , Tao Ge , Siru Ouyang , Vicente Ordonez , Dong Yu

Pattern counting in graphs is fundamental to network science tasks, and there are many scalable methods for approximating counts of small patterns, often called motifs, in large graphs. However, modern graph datasets now contain richer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Paul Liu , Austin Benson , Moses Charikar

Parallel tempering, also known as replica exchange sampling, is an important method for simulating complex systems. In this algorithm simulations are conducted in parallel at a series of temperatures, and the key feature of the algorithm is…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-14 Paul Dupuis , Yufei Liu , Nuria Plattner , J. D. Doll

We introduce a novel, training-free method for sampling differentiable representations (diffreps) using pretrained diffusion models. Rather than merely mode-seeking, our method achieves sampling by "pulling back" the dynamics of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yash Savani , Marc Finzi , J. Zico Kolter

We present a perfect sampling algorithm for Gibbs point processes, based on the partial rejection sampling of Guo et al. (2017). Our particular focus is on pairwise interaction processes, penetrable spheres mixture models and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-18 Sarat B. Moka , Dirk P. Kroese

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting the moment when an ongoing asynchronous parallel iterative process can be terminated to provide a sufficiently precise solution to a fixed-point problem being solved. Formulating the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Guillaume Gbikpi-Benissan , Frederic Magoules

We introduce an adaptive scheduling for adaptive sampling as a novel way of machine learning in the construction of part-of-speech taggers. The goal is to speed up the training on large data sets, without significant loss of performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Manuel Vilares Ferro , Victor M. Darriba Bilbao , Jesús Vilares Ferro