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One of the grand challenges of cell biology is inferring the gene regulatory network (GRN) which describes interactions between genes and their products that control gene expression and cellular function. We can treat this as a causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Lazar Atanackovic , Alexander Tong , Bo Wang , Leo J. Lee , Yoshua Bengio , Jason Hartford

Adversarial neural networks solve many important problems in data science, but are notoriously difficult to train. These difficulties come from the fact that optimal weights for adversarial nets correspond to saddle points, and not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Abhay Yadav , Sohil Shah , Zheng Xu , David Jacobs , Tom Goldstein

This article presents novel methods for synthesizing distributionally robust stabilizing neural controllers and certificates for control systems under model uncertainty. A key challenge in designing controllers with stability guarantees for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Kehan Long , Jorge Cortes , Nikolay Atanasov

A generative adversarial network (GAN) has been a representative backbone model in generative artificial intelligence (AI) because of its powerful performance in capturing intricate data-generating processes. However, the GAN training is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-21 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song

We propose a method for training ordinary differential equations by using a control-theoretic Lyapunov condition for stability. Our approach, called LyaNet, is based on a novel Lyapunov loss formulation that encourages the inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez , Aaron D. Ames , Yisong Yue

Efficiently solving constrained optimization problems is crucial for numerous real-world applications, yet traditional solvers are often computationally prohibitive for real-time use. Machine learning-based approaches have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Hoang T. Nguyen , Priya L. Donti

While deep learning has shown tremendous success in a wide range of domains, it remains a grand challenge to incorporate physical principles in a systematic manner to the design, training, and inference of such models. In this paper, we aim…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Rui Wang , Karthik Kashinath , Mustafa Mustafa , Adrian Albert , Rose Yu

We propose a new approach for propagating stable probability distributions through neural networks. Our method is based on local linearization, which we show to be an optimal approximation in terms of total variation distance for the ReLU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Felix Petersen , Aashwin Mishra , Hilde Kuehne , Christian Borgelt , Oliver Deussen , Mikhail Yurochkin

Accurate quantification of uncertainty in neural network predictions remains a central challenge for scientific applications involving high-dimensional, correlated data. While existing methods capture either aleatoric or epistemic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Harrison J. Goldwyn , Mitchell Krock , Johann Rudi , Daniel Getter , Julie Bessac

We introduce a novel training principle for probabilistic models that is an alternative to maximum likelihood. The proposed Generative Stochastic Networks (GSN) framework is based on learning the transition operator of a Markov chain whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-29 Guillaume Alain , Yoshua Bengio , Li Yao , Jason Yosinski , Eric Thibodeau-Laufer , Saizheng Zhang , Pascal Vincent

We propose a theoretical framework for studying behavior cloning of complex expert demonstrations using generative modeling. Our framework invokes low-level controllers - either learned or implicit in position-command control - to stabilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Adam Block , Ali Jadbabaie , Daniel Pfrommer , Max Simchowitz , Russ Tedrake

Recently, combinations of generative and Bayesian machine learning have been introduced in particle physics for both fast detector simulation and inference tasks. These neural networks aim to quantify the uncertainty on the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Sebastian Bieringer , Sascha Diefenbacher , Gregor Kasieczka , Mathias Trabs

In this work, a novel approach for the construction and training of time series models is presented that deals with the problem of learning on large time series with non-equispaced observations, which at the same time may possess features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Charilaos Mylonas , Eleni Chatzi

Voltage prediction in distribution grids is a critical yet difficult task for maintaining power system stability. Machine learning approaches, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), offer significant speedups but suffer from poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ehimare Okoyomon , Arbel Yaniv , Christoph Goebel

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) play a crucial role in various fields. However, most existing deep graph learning frameworks assume pre-stored static graphs and do not support training on graph streams. In contrast, many real-world graphs are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yuchen Zhong , Guangming Sheng , Tianzuo Qin , Minjie Wang , Quan Gan , Chuan Wu

Machine learning algorithms with empirical risk minimization are vulnerable under distributional shifts due to the greedy adoption of all the correlations found in training data. There is an emerging literature on tackling this problem by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiashuo Liu , Zheyan Shen , Peng Cui , Linjun Zhou , Kun Kuang , Bo Li

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

Feed-forward neural networks (FNNs) work as standard building blocks in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to the physical world. They allow learning the dynamics of unknown physical systems (e.g., biological and chemical) {to predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yu Wang , Qitong Gao , Miroslav Pajic

Recent progress in style transfer on images has focused on improving the quality of stylized images and speed of methods. However, real-time methods are highly unstable resulting in visible flickering when applied to videos. In this work we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Agrim Gupta , Justin Johnson , Alexandre Alahi , Li Fei-Fei

Accurate estimation of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty is crucial to build safe and reliable systems. Traditional approaches, such as dropout and ensemble methods, estimate uncertainty by sampling probability predictions from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Bertrand Charpentier , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann