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Learning stochastic functions from partially observed context-target pairs requires models that are expressive, uncertainty-aware, and strongly conditioned on inputs. Neural Diffusion Processes (NDPs) improve expressivity with denoising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jian Xu , Yican Liu , Delu Zeng , John Paisley , Qibin Zhao

Wasserstein Gradient Flows (WGF) with respect to specific functionals have been widely used in the machine learning literature. Recently, neural networks have been adopted to approximate certain intractable parts of the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Huminhao Zhu , Fangyikang Wang , Chao Zhang , Hanbin Zhao , Hui Qian

Deep neural networks have been shown as a potentially powerful ansatz in variational Monte Carlo for solving quantum many-body problems. We propose two improvements in this direction. The first is graph neural ansatz (GNA), which is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-26 Li Yang , Wenjun Hu , Li Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently predominantly trained using first-order methods. Some of these methods (e.g., Adam, AdaGrad, and RMSprop, and their variants) incorporate a small amount of curvature information by using a diagonal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Achraf Bahamou , Donald Goldfarb , Yi Ren

This paper introduces a novel continual learning framework for synthesising novel views of multiple scenes, learning multiple 3D scenes incrementally, and updating the network parameters only with the training data of the upcoming new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yuze Wang , Junyi Wang , Chen Wang , Wantong Duan , Yongtang Bao , Yue Qi

We introduce NitroFusion, a fundamentally different approach to single-step diffusion that achieves high-quality generation through a dynamic adversarial framework. While one-step methods offer dramatic speed advantages, they typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Dar-Yen Chen , Hmrishav Bandyopadhyay , Kai Zou , Yi-Zhe Song

The sampling of probability distributions specified up to a normalization constant is an important problem in both machine learning and statistical mechanics. While classical stochastic sampling methods such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Hao Wu , Jonas Köhler , Frank Noé

In this work we present a new framework for neural networks compression with fine-tuning, which we called Neural Network Compression Framework (NNCF). It leverages recent advances of various network compression methods and implements some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Alexander Kozlov , Ivan Lazarevich , Vasily Shamporov , Nikolay Lyalyushkin , Yury Gorbachev

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) provide a theoretical framework for understanding computation in biological neural circuits, yet classical results, such as Hopfield's model of associative memory, rely on symmetric connectivity that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-17 Ramón Nartallo-Kaluarachchi , Renaud Lambiotte , Alain Goriely

Batch Normalization (BN) is one of the most widely used techniques in Deep Learning field. But its performance can awfully degrade with insufficient batch size. This weakness limits the usage of BN on many computer vision tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Junjie Yan , Ruosi Wan , Xiangyu Zhang , Wei Zhang , Yichen Wei , Jian Sun

We propose an approach to solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using a set of neural networks which we call Neural Basis Functions (NBF). This NBF framework is a novel variation of the POD DeepONet operator learning approach where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 David Witman , Alexander New , Hicham Alkendry , Honest Mrema

The filtering distribution in hidden Markov models evolves according to the law of a mean-field model in state-observation space. The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) approximates this mean-field model with an ensemble of interacting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-25 Eviatar Bach , Ricardo Baptista , Edoardo Calvello , Bohan Chen , Andrew Stuart

A core technology that has emerged from the artificial intelligence revolution is the recurrent neural network (RNN). Its unique sequence-based architecture provides a tractable likelihood estimate with stable training paradigms, a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-01 Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Martin Ganahl , Lauren E. Hayward , Roger G. Melko , Juan Carrasquilla

The rising computational and energy demands of deep neural networks (DNNs), driven largely by backpropagation (BP), challenge sustainable AI development. This paper rigorously investigates three BP-free training methods: the Forward-Forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Przemysław Spyra

Machine-learning-based variational Monte Carlo simulations are a promising approach for targeting quantum many-body ground states, especially in two dimensions and in cases where the ground state is known to have a non-trivial sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-14 M. Schuyler Moss , Roeland Wiersema , Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Juan Carrasquilla , Roger G. Melko

Online reinforcement learning (RL) has been central to post-training language models, but its extension to diffusion models remains challenging due to intractable likelihoods. Recent works discretize the reverse sampling process to enable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kaiwen Zheng , Huayu Chen , Haotian Ye , Haoxiang Wang , Qinsheng Zhang , Kai Jiang , Hang Su , Stefano Ermon , Jun Zhu , Ming-Yu Liu

We report on a general and automatic data-driven background distribution shape estimation method using neural autoregressive flows (NAF), which is one of the deep generative learning methods. Data-driven background estimation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-11 Suyong Choi , Jaehoon Lim , Hayoung Oh

Normalizing flows and autoregressive models have been successfully combined to produce state-of-the-art results in density estimation, via Masked Autoregressive Flows (MAF), and to accelerate state-of-the-art WaveNet-based speech synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Chin-Wei Huang , David Krueger , Alexandre Lacoste , Aaron Courville

Neural networks have emerged as a powerful paradigm for tasks in high energy physics, yet their opaque training process renders them as a black box. In contrast, the traditional cut flow method offers simplicity and interpretability but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Jing Li , Hao Sun

Neural network-based variational Monte Carlo (NN-VMC) has emerged as a promising cutting-edge technique of ab initio quantum chemistry. However, the high computational cost of existing approaches hinders their applications in realistic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Ruichen Li , Haotian Ye , Du Jiang , Xuelan Wen , Chuwei Wang , Zhe Li , Xiang Li , Di He , Ji Chen , Weiluo Ren , Liwei Wang