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In this work, we look at Score-based generative models (also called diffusion generative models) from a geometric perspective. From a new view point, we prove that both the forward and backward process of adding noise and generating from…

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While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have empirically produced impressive results on learning complex real-world distributions, recent works have shown that they suffer from lack of diversity or mode collapse. The theoretical work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Yu Bai , Tengyu Ma , Andrej Risteski

The advancement of diverse generative deep learning models and their variants has furnished substantial insights for investigating quantum many-body problems. In this work, we design two models based on the foundational architecture of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Yanyang Wang , Feng Gao , Kui Tuo , Wei Li

This paper proposes a new theoretical lens to view Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (WGANs). To minimize the Wasserstein-1 distance between the true data distribution and our estimate of it, we derive a distribution-dependent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-05 Zachariah Malik , Yu-Jui Huang

Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) is a non-parametric inference algorithm that evolves a set of particles to fit a given distribution of interest. We analyze the non-asymptotic properties of SVGD, showing that there exists a set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Qiang Liu , Dilin Wang

This paper develops a generative model by minimizing the second-order Wasserstein loss (the $W_2$ loss) through a distribution-dependent ordinary differential equation (ODE), whose dynamics involves the Kantorovich potential associated with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Yu-Jui Huang , Zachariah Malik

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has been the method of choice for learning large-scale non-convex models. While a general analysis of when SGD works has been elusive, there has been a lot of recent progress in understanding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Satyen Kale , Jason D. Lee , Chris De Sa , Ayush Sekhari , Karthik Sridharan

This paper investigates the stochastic optimization problem with a focus on developing scalable parallel algorithms for deep learning tasks. Our solution involves a reformation of the objective function for stochastic optimization in neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Pengzhan Guo , Zeyang Ye , Keli Xiao , Wei Zhu

Recently, optimization on the Riemannian manifold have provided valuable insights to the optimization community. In this regard, extending these methods to to the Wasserstein space is of particular interest, since optimization on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Mingyang Yi , Bohan Wang

We establish a bridge between spectral clustering and Gromov-Wasserstein Learning (GWL), a recent optimal transport-based approach to graph partitioning. This connection both explains and improves upon the state-of-the-art performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Samir Chowdhury , Tom Needham

Traditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) and many of its variants are trained by minimizing the KL or JS-divergence loss that measures how close the generated data distribution is from the true data distribution. A recent advance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Marios Savvides

We propose a novel deep generative model, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Generative Adversarial Network (KSGAN). Unlike existing approaches, KSGAN formulates the learning process as a minimization of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) distance,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-01 Maciej Falkiewicz , Naoya Takeishi , Alexandros Kalousis

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one of the most practical methods for learning data distributions. A popular GAN formulation is based on the use of Wasserstein distance as a metric between probability distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Maziar Sanjabi , Jimmy Ba , Meisam Razaviyayn , Jason D. Lee

Generative networks have experienced great empirical successes in distribution learning. Many existing experiments have demonstrated that generative networks can generate high-dimensional complex data from a low-dimensional easy-to-sample…

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The conventional understanding of adversarial training in generative adversarial networks (GANs) is that the discriminator is trained to estimate a divergence, and the generator learns to minimize this divergence. We argue that despite the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-09 Mingxuan Yi , Zhanxing Zhu , Song Liu

System representations inspired by the infinite-dimensional Koopman operator (generator) are increasingly considered for predictive modeling. Due to the operator's linearity, a range of nonlinear systems admit linear predictor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Petar Bevanda , Max Beier , Sebastian Kerz , Armin Lederer , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche

In this paper, a new efficient and generalized consistency correction method for weakly-compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics is proposed and successfully implemented in the simulation of violent free-surface flow exhibiting breaking…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yaru Ren , Pengzhi Lin , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

Minimum distance estimation (MDE) gained recent attention as a formulation of (implicit) generative modeling. It considers minimizing, over model parameters, a statistical distance between the empirical data distribution and the model. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Kengo Kato

Predicting molecular ground-state conformation (i.e., energy-minimized conformation) is crucial for many chemical applications such as molecular docking and property prediction. Classic energy-based simulation is time-consuming when solving…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-23 Fanmeng Wang , Minjie Cheng , Hongteng Xu

The curse of dimensionality is a longstanding challenge in Bayesian inference in high dimensions. In this work, we propose a projected Stein variational gradient descent (pSVGD) method to overcome this challenge by exploiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Peng Chen , Omar Ghattas