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GFlowNets is a novel flow-based method for learning a stochastic policy to generate objects via a sequence of actions and with probability proportional to a given positive reward. We contribute to relaxing hypotheses limiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Leo Maxime Brunswic , Yinchuan Li , Yushun Xu , Shangling Jui , Lizhuang Ma

The Generative Flow Network is a probabilistic framework where an agent learns a stochastic policy for object generation, such that the probability of generating an object is proportional to a given reward function. Its effectiveness has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Ling Pan , Dinghuai Zhang , Aaron Courville , Longbo Huang , Yoshua Bengio

Graph neural network (GNN) is a promising approach to learning and predicting physical phenomena described in boundary value problems, such as partial differential equations (PDEs) with boundary conditions. However, existing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Masanobu Horie , Naoto Mitsume

We present Flow-Induced Diagonal Gaussian Processes (FiD-GP), a compression framework that incorporates a compact inducing weight matrix to project a neural network's weight uncertainty into a lower-dimensional subspace. Critically, FiD-GP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Moule Lin , Andrea Patane , Weipeng Jing , Shuhao Guan , Goetz Botterweck

We study the problem of computing deterministic optimal policies for constrained Markov decision processes (MDPs) with continuous state and action spaces, which are widely encountered in constrained dynamical systems. Designing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Sergio Rozada , Dongsheng Ding , Antonio G. Marques , Alejandro Ribeiro

In recent years, the increasing size of deep learning models and their growing demand for computational resources have drawn significant attention to the practice of pruning neural networks, while aiming to preserve their accuracy. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Lingkai Zhu , Can Deniz Bezek , Orcun Goksel

Primary Frequency Control (PFC) is a fast acting mechanism used to ensure high-quality power for the grid that is becoming an increasingly attractive option for load participation. Due to speed requirement and other considerations, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Joshua Comden , Tan N. Le , Yue Zhao , Bong Jun Choi , Zhenhua Liu

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are amortized variational inference algorithms that treat sampling from a distribution over compositional objects as a sequential decision-making problem with a learnable action policy. Unlike other…

Understanding the complex and stochastic nature of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) remains a central challenge in systems biology. Existing modeling paradigms often struggle to effectively capture the intricate, multi-factor regulatory…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-20 Yiyang Jia , Zheng Wei , Zheng Yang , Guohong Peng

Simulations of complex physical systems are typically realized by discretizing partial differential equations (PDEs) on unstructured meshes. While neural networks have recently been explored for surrogate and reduced order modeling of PDE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jiayang Xu , Aniruddhe Pradhan , Karthik Duraisamy

A prominent goal of representation learning research is to achieve representations which are factorized in a useful manner with respect to the ground truth factors of variation. The fields of disentangled and equivariant representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yue Song , T. Anderson Keller , Nicu Sebe , Max Welling

We introduce a generative learning framework to model high-dimensional parametric systems using gradient guidance and virtual observations. We consider systems described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) discretized with structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Han Gao , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Petros Koumoutsakos

Today's data centers face extreme challenges in providing low latency. However, fair sharing, a principle commonly adopted in current congestion control protocols, is far from optimal for satisfying latency requirements. We propose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Chi-Yao Hong , Matthew Caesar , P. Brighten Godfrey

In this work, we propose a stochastic gradient descent (SGD) framework to design data-driven policy gradient descent algorithms for the linear quadratic regulator problem. Two alternative schemes are considered to estimate the policy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Bowen Song , Simon Weissmann , Mathias Staudigl , Andrea Iannelli

We propose a learning-augmented framework for accelerating max-flow computation and image segmentation by integrating Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm. Rather than predicting initial flows, our method learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Eleanor Wiesler , Trace Baxley

Reinforcement learning is essential for neural architecture search and hyperparameter optimization, but the conventional approaches impede widespread use due to prohibitive time and computational costs. Inspired by DeepSeek-V3 multi-token…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Zheng Li , Jerry Cheng , Huanying Helen Gu

An implicit multiscale method with multiple macroscopic prediction for steady state solutions of gas flow in all flow regimes is presented. The method is based on the finite volume discrete velocity method (DVM) framework. At the cell…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Ruifeng Yuan , Chengwen Zhong

We introduce a new characterisation of determinism in Measurement-Based Quantum Computing (MBQC). The one-way model consists in performing local measurements over a large entangled state represented by a graph. The ability to perform an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Mehdi Mhalla , Simon Perdrix , Luc Sanselme

In this paper, we focus on solving a distributed convex optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own convex cost function and the goal is to minimize the sum of the agents' cost functions while obeying the network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Shi Pu , Wei Shi , Jinming Xu , Angelia Nedić

Deep neural networks are being increasingly used for short-term traffic flow prediction, which can be generally categorized as convolutional (CNNs) or graph neural networks (GNNs). CNNs are preferable for region-wise traffic prediction by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-12 Wei Zeng , Chengqiao Lin , Kang Liu , Juncong Lin , Anthony K. H. Tung