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We present energy-based generative flow networks (EB-GFN), a novel probabilistic modeling algorithm for high-dimensional discrete data. Building upon the theory of generative flow networks (GFlowNets), we model the generation process by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Dinghuai Zhang , Nikolay Malkin , Zhen Liu , Alexandra Volokhova , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a new family of probabilistic samplers, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities to generate diverse sets of high-reward candidates, in contrast to standard return maximization approaches (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Haoran He , Can Chang , Huazhe Xu , Ling Pan

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a flexible family of amortized samplers trained to generate discrete and compositional objects with probability proportional to a reward function. However, learning efficiency is constrained by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Pedro Dall'Antonia , Tiago da Silva , Daniel Csillag , Salem Lahlou , Diego Mesquita

Generative flow networks (GFNs) are a class of models for sequential sampling of composite objects, which approximate a target distribution that is defined in terms of an energy function or a reward. GFNs are typically trained using a flow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-17 Heiko Zimmermann , Fredrik Lindsten , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Christian A. Naesseth

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a method for learning a stochastic policy for generating compositional objects, such as graphs or strings, from a given unnormalized density by sequences of actions, where many possible action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Nikolay Malkin , Moksh Jain , Emmanuel Bengio , Chen Sun , Yoshua Bengio

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are deep-learning architectures designed for graph-type data, where understanding relationships among individual observations is crucial. However, achieving promising GNN performance, especially on unseen data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Lequan Lin , Dai Shi , Andi Han , Zhiyong Wang , Junbin Gao

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are recently proposed models for learning stochastic policies that generate compositional objects by sequences of actions with the probability proportional to a given reward function. The central problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Anh Do , Duy Dinh , Tan Nguyen , Khuong Nguyen , Stanley Osher , Nhat Ho

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) excel at sampling diverse, high-reward objects. In many practical applications where active reward queries are infeasible, these models must be trained using static offline datasets. Prevailing training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruishuo Chen , Xun Wang , Rui Hu , Zhuoran Li , Longbo Huang

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are amortized variational inference algorithms that are trained to sample from unnormalized target distributions over compositional objects. A key limitation of GFlowNets until this time has been that…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been applied into a variety of graph tasks. Most existing work of GNNs is based on the assumption that the given graph data is optimal, while it is inevitable that there exists missing or incomplete edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Qianggang Ding , Deheng Ye , Tingyang Xu , Peilin Zhao

This work applies Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) to three graph optimization problems: the Traveling Salesperson Problem, Minimum Spanning Tree, and Shortest Path. GFlowNets are generative models that learn to sample solutions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mark Phillip Matovic

Generative Flow Networks, or GFlowNets, offer a promising framework for molecular design, but their internal decision policies remain opaque. This limits adoption in drug discovery, where chemists require clear and interpretable rationales…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Amirtha Varshini A S , Duminda S. Ranasinghe , Hok Hei Tam

We explore a data-driven approach for learning to optimize neural networks. We construct a dataset of neural network checkpoints and train a generative model on the parameters. In particular, our model is a conditional diffusion transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 William Peebles , Ilija Radosavovic , Tim Brooks , Alexei A. Efros , Jitendra Malik

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a novel class of generative models designed to sample from unnormalized distributions and have found applications in various important tasks, attracting great research interest in their training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Rui Hu , Yifan Zhang , Zhuoran Li , Longbo Huang

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) aim to generate diverse trajectories from a distribution in which the final states of the trajectories are proportional to the reward, serving as a powerful alternative to reinforcement learning for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Shuang Luo , Yinchuan Li , Shunyu Liu , Xu Zhang , Yunfeng Shao , Chao Wu

Gating mechanisms have emerged as an effective strategy integrated into model designs beyond recurrent neural networks for addressing long-range dependency problems. In a broad understanding, it provides adaptive control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yifan Wang , Xu Ma , Yitian Zhang , Zhongruo Wang , Sung-Cheol Kim , Vahid Mirjalili , Vidya Renganathan , Yun Fu

Symbolic regression (SR) is an area of interpretable machine learning that aims to identify mathematical expressions, often composed of simple functions, that best fit in a given set of covariates $X$ and response $y$. In recent years, deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Sida Li , Ioana Marinescu , Sebastian Musslick

We introduce BatchGFN -- a novel approach for pool-based active learning that uses generative flow networks to sample sets of data points proportional to a batch reward. With an appropriate reward function to quantify the utility of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Shreshth A. Malik , Salem Lahlou , Andrew Jesson , Moksh Jain , Nikolay Malkin , Tristan Deleu , Yoshua Bengio , Yarin Gal

Generative Flow Network (GFlowNet) objectives implicitly fix an equal mixing of forward and backward policies, potentially constraining the exploration-exploitation trade-off during training. By further exploring the link between GFlowNets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Lin Chen , Samuel Drapeau , Fanghao Shao , Xuekai Zhu , Bo Xue , Yunchong Song , Mathieu Laurière , Zhouhan Lin

This paper studies generative flow networks (GFlowNets) to sample objects from the Boltzmann energy distribution via a sequence of actions. In particular, we focus on improving GFlowNet with partial inference: training flow functions with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Hyosoon Jang , Minsu Kim , Sungsoo Ahn