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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

Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, offering faster sampling and simpler training by learning continuous flows governed by ordinary differential equations. Despite growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mudit Gaur , Prashant Trivedi , Shuchin Aeron , Amrit Singh Bedi , George K. Atia , Vaneet Aggarwal

The automated mining of predictive signals, or alphas, is a central challenge in quantitative finance. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for generating formulaic alphas, existing frameworks are…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-20 Binqi Chen , Hongjun Ding , Ning Shen , Jinsheng Huang , Taian Guo , Luchen Liu , Ming Zhang

Generative models see increasing use in computer-aided drug design. However, while performing well at capturing distributions of molecular motifs, they often produce synthetically inaccessible molecules. To address this, we introduce…

Accurately modeling complex dynamic spatio-temporal systems requires capturing flow-mediated interdependencies and context-sensitive interaction dynamics. Existing methods, predominantly graph-based or attention-driven, rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yutong Feng , Xu Liu , Yutong Xia , Yuxuan Liang

The remarkable performance of deep neural networks depends on the availability of massive labeled data. To alleviate the load of data annotation, active deep learning aims to select a minimal set of training points to be labelled which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dan Kushnir , Luca Venturi

In this work, we propose GLUE (Graph Deviation Network with Local Uncertainty Estimation), building on the recently proposed Graph Deviation Network (GDN). GLUE not only automatically learns complex dependencies between variables and uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Saswati Ray , Sana Lakdawala , Mononito Goswami , Chufan Gao

An adaptive sampling approach for efficient detection of bifurcation boundaries in parametrized fluid flow problems is presented herein. The study extends the machine-learning approach of Silvester~(J. Comput. Phys., 553 (2026), 114743),…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-19 Anshima Singh , David J. Silvester

We introduce Adjoint Sampling, a highly scalable and efficient algorithm for learning diffusion processes that sample from unnormalized densities, or energy functions. It is the first on-policy approach that allows significantly more…

As advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) demonstrate unprecedented levels of performance in many critical applications, their vulnerability to attacks is still an open question. We consider evasion attacks at testing time against Deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Alesia Chernikova , Alina Oprea

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

Modeling distributions of covariates, or density estimation, is a core challenge in unsupervised learning. However, the majority of work only considers the joint distribution, which has limited utility in practical situations. A more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ryan R. Strauss , Junier B. Oliva

Phylogenetics is a branch of computational biology that studies the evolutionary relationships among biological entities. Its long history and numerous applications notwithstanding, inference of phylogenetic trees from sequence data remains…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-26 Mingyang Zhou , Zichao Yan , Elliot Layne , Nikolay Malkin , Dinghuai Zhang , Moksh Jain , Mathieu Blanchette , Yoshua Bengio

Deep learning-based trajectory prediction models for autonomous driving often struggle with generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios, sometimes performing worse than simple rule-based models. To address this limitation, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jinning Li , Jiachen Li , Sangjae Bae , David Isele

In complex networks it is common for each node to belong to several communities, implying a highly overlapping community structure. Recent advances in benchmarking indicate that existing community assignment algorithms that are capable of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-13 Conrad Lee , Fergal Reid , Aaron McDaid , Neil Hurley

Conventional generative models for materials discovery are predominantly trained and validated using data from Density Functional Theory (DFT) with approximate exchange-correlation functionals. This creates a fundamental bottleneck: these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mahule Roy

Evolutionary Computation (EC) has been shown to be able to quickly train Deep Artificial Neural Networks (DNNs) to solve Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems. While a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is well-suited for exploiting reward functions…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Eyal Segal , Moshe Sipper

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

There are many frameworks for deep generative modeling, each often presented with their own specific training algorithms and inference methods. Here, we demonstrate the connections between existing deep generative models and the recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Dinghuai Zhang , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Nikolay Malkin , Yoshua Bengio

Exploration-Exploitation (E{\&}E) algorithms are commonly adopted to deal with the feedback-loop issue in large-scale online recommender systems. Most of existing studies believe that high uncertainty can be a good indicator of potential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kailun Wu , Zhangming Chan , Weijie Bian , Lejian Ren , Shiming Xiang , Shuguang Han , Hongbo Deng , Bo Zheng