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Minimum expected distance estimation (MEDE) algorithms have been widely used for probabilistic models with intractable likelihood functions and they have become increasingly popular due to their use in implicit generative modeling (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-25 Kimia Nadjahi , Alain Durmus , Umut Şimşekli , Roland Badeau

High-quality power flow datasets are essential for training machine learning models in power systems. However, security and privacy concerns restrict access to real-world data, making statistically accurate and physically consistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Milad Hoseinpour , Vladimir Dvorkin

Diffusion models (DMs) represent state-of-the-art generative models for continuous inputs. DMs work by constructing a Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) in the input space (ie, position space), and using a neural network to reverse it.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu , Laurent Dinh , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Joshua Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Learning conditional densities and identifying factors that influence the entire distribution are vital tasks in data-driven applications. Conventional approaches work mostly with summary statistics, and are hence inadequate for a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-13 Chengliang Tang , Nathan Lenssen , Ying Wei , Tian Zheng

The relative entropy for two different degenerate diffusion processes is estimated by using the Wasserstein distance of initial distributions and the difference between coefficients. As applications, the entropy cost inequality and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Zhongmin Qian , Panpan Ren , Feng-Yu Wang

While efficient distribution learning is no doubt behind the groundbreaking success of diffusion modeling, its theoretical guarantees are quite limited. In this paper, we provide the first rigorous analysis on approximation and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-06 Kazusato Oko , Shunta Akiyama , Taiji Suzuki

Recent advances in powerful pre-trained diffusion models encourage the development of methods to improve the sampling performance under well-trained diffusion models. This paper introduces Diffusion Rejection Sampling (DiffRS), which uses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Byeonghu Na , Yeongmin Kim , Minsang Park , Donghyeok Shin , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

Predictive and real-time inference capability for the upstream separatrix electron density, $n_\text{e, sep}$, is essential for design and control of core-edge integrated plasma scenarios. In this study, both supervised and semi-supervised…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 A. Kit , A. Jaervinen , S. Wiesen , Y. Poels , L. Frassinetti

Generative models play an important role in missing data imputation in that they aim to learn the joint distribution of full data. However, applying advanced deep generative models (such as Diffusion models) to missing data imputation is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hengrui Zhang , Liancheng Fang , Qitian Wu , Philip S. Yu

In the Text-to-speech(TTS) task, the latent diffusion model has excellent fidelity and generalization, but its expensive resource consumption and slow inference speed have always been a challenging. This paper proposes Discrete Diffusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zhichao Wu , Qiulin Li , Sixing Liu , Qun Yang

While diffusion models have shown great success in image generation, their noise-inverting generative process does not explicitly consider the structure of images, such as their inherent multi-scale nature. Inspired by diffusion models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Severi Rissanen , Markus Heinonen , Arno Solin

Learning nonlinear dynamics from diffusion data is a challenging problem since the individuals observed may be different at different time points, generally following an aggregate behaviour. Existing work cannot handle the tasks well since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yisen Wang , Bo Dai , Lingkai Kong , Sarah Monazam Erfani , James Bailey , Hongyuan Zha

Diffusion-based generative models have emerged as highly effective methods for synthesizing high-quality samples. Recent works have focused on analyzing the convergence of their generation process with minimal assumptions, either through…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-25 Nishant Jain , Tong Zhang

We propose a relative entropy gradient sampler (REGS) for sampling from unnormalized distributions. REGS is a particle method that seeks a sequence of simple nonlinear transforms iteratively pushing the initial samples from a reference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-07 Xingdong Feng , Yuan Gao , Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Xu Liu

Point processes are becoming very popular in modeling asynchronous sequential data due to their sound mathematical foundation and strength in modeling a variety of real-world phenomena. Currently, they are often characterized via intensity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Shuai Xiao , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Xiaojing Ye , Junchi Yan , Le Song , Hongyuan Zha

Score-based diffusion models learn to reverse a stochastic differential equation that maps data to noise. However, for complex tasks, numerical error can compound and result in highly unnatural samples. Previous work mitigates this drift…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-12 Aaron Lou , Stefano Ermon

We propose DiffSep, a new single channel source separation method based on score-matching of a stochastic differential equation (SDE). We craft a tailored continuous time diffusion-mixing process starting from the separated sources and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Robin Scheibler , Youna Ji , Soo-Whan Chung , Jaeuk Byun , Soyeon Choe , Min-Seok Choi

Despite Flow Matching and diffusion models having emerged as powerful generative paradigms for continuous variables such as images and videos, their application to high-dimensional discrete data, such as language, is still limited. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Itai Gat , Tal Remez , Neta Shaul , Felix Kreuk , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Gabriel Synnaeve , Yossi Adi , Yaron Lipman

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) offer a flexible framework for sampling from high dimensional data distributions. DDMs generate a path of probability distributions interpolating between a reference Gaussian distribution and a data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-12 Christopher Williams , Andrew Campbell , Arnaud Doucet , Saifuddin Syed

The proliferation of intermittent distributed renewable energy sources (RES) in modern power systems has fundamentally compromised the reliability and accuracy of deterministic net load forecasting. Generative models, particularly diffusion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Yixiang Huang , Jianhua Pei , Luocheng Chen , Zhenchang Du , Jinfu Chen , Zirui Peng