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We study sampling from posterior distributions with nonsmooth composite potentials, a setting in which proximal-based Langevin methods are theoretically appealing but in practice limited to simple functions with closed-form proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Susan Ghaderi , Alireza Kabgani , Yves Moreau , Masoud Ahookhosh

This paper provides a finite-sample analysis of a passive stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (PSGLD) algorithm. This algorithm is designed to achieve adaptive inverse reinforcement learning (IRL). Adaptive IRL aims to estimate the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Luke Snow , Vikram Krishnamurthy

Recent semi-dense image matching methods have achieved remarkable success, but two long-standing issues still impair their performance. At the coarse stage, the over-exclusion issue of their mutual nearest neighbor (MNN) matching layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ke Jin , Jiming Chen , Qi Ye

Flow Matching (FM) models achieve remarkable results in generative tasks. Building upon diffusion models, FM's simulation-free training paradigm enables simplicity and efficiency but introduces a train-inference gap: model outputs cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhaoyi Li , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li , Shihua Li

Most modern imaging systems incorporate a computational pipeline to infer the image of interest from acquired measurements. The Bayesian approach to solve such ill-posed inverse problems involves the characterization of the posterior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Pakshal Bohra , Thanh-an Pham , Jonathan Dong , Michael Unser

Distributed inference serves as a promising approach to enabling the inference of large language models (LLMs) at the network edge. It distributes the inference process to multiple devices to ensure that the LLMs can fit into the device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xing Liu , Lizhuo Luo , Ming Tang , Chao Huang , Xu Chen

Sampling-based Motion Planners (SMPs) have become increasingly popular as they provide collision-free path solutions regardless of obstacle geometry in a given environment. However, their computational complexity increases significantly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

We present FlowCapX, a physics-enhanced framework for flow reconstruction from sparse video inputs, addressing the challenge of jointly optimizing complex physical constraints and sparse observational data over long time horizons. Existing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ningxiao Tao , Liru Zhang , Xingyu Ni , Mengyu Chu , Baoquan Chen

Diffusion models have recently achieved success in solving Bayesian inverse problems with learned data priors. Current methods build on top of the diffusion sampling process, where each denoising step makes small modifications to samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bingliang Zhang , Wenda Chu , Julius Berner , Chenlin Meng , Anima Anandkumar , Yang Song

This paper presents a novel framework for aligning learnable latent spaces to arbitrary target distributions by leveraging flow-based generative models as priors. Our method first pretrains a flow model on the target features to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yizhuo Li , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Ping Luo

This paper focuses on the alignment of flow matching models with human preferences. A promising way is fine-tuning by directly backpropagating reward gradients through the differentiable generation process of flow matching. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhanhao Liang , Tao Yang , Jie Wu , Chengjian Feng , Liang Zheng

Deep generative models are becoming widely used across science and industry for a variety of purposes. A common challenge is achieving a precise implicit or explicit representation of the data probability density. Recent proposals have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Ramon Winterhalder , Marco Bellagente , Benjamin Nachman

Computational approach to imaging around the corner, or non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging, is becoming a reality thanks to major advances in imaging hardware and reconstruction algorithms. A recent development towards practical NLOS imaging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Fangzhou Mu , Sicheng Mo , Jiayong Peng , Xiaochun Liu , Ji Hyun Nam , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Andreas Velten , Yin Li

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful foundation model for visual generations. With an appropriate sampling process, it can effectively serve as a generative prior for solving general inverse problems. Current posterior sampling-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shijie Zhou , Huaisheng Zhu , Rohan Sharma , Jiayi Chen , Ruiyi Zhang , Kaiyi Ji , Changyou Chen

In the past few years, deep learning-based methods have demonstrated enormous success for solving inverse problems in medical imaging. In this work, we address the following question:\textit{Given a set of measurements obtained from real…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-24 Ortal Senouf , Sanketh Vedula , Tomer Weiss , Alex Bronstein , Oleg Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky

Most of the recent few-shot learning (FSL) algorithms are based on transfer learning, where a model is pre-trained using a large amount of source data, and the pre-trained model is fine-tuned using a small amount of target data. In transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Yujin Kim , Jaehoon Oh , Sungnyun Kim , Se-Young Yun

This paper presents a novel generative model to synthesize fluid simulations from a set of reduced parameters. A convolutional neural network is trained on a collection of discrete, parameterizable fluid simulation velocity fields. Due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Byungsoo Kim , Vinicius C. Azevedo , Nils Thuerey , Theodore Kim , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler

Variational inference with normalizing flows (NFs) is an increasingly popular alternative to MCMC methods. In particular, NFs based on coupling layers (Real NVPs) are frequently used due to their good empirical performance. In theory,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-27 Daniel Andrade

We build on the dynamical systems approach to deep learning, where deep residual networks are idealized as continuous-time dynamical systems, from the approximation perspective. In particular, we establish general sufficient conditions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Qianxiao Li , Ting Lin , Zuowei Shen

Approximate Thompson sampling with Langevin Monte Carlo broadens its reach from Gaussian posterior sampling to encompass more general smooth posteriors. However, it still encounters scalability issues in high-dimensional problems when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-24 Haoyang Zheng , Wei Deng , Christian Moya , Guang Lin