The paper analyzes the InfoNCE loss under different temperature schedules using Langevin dynamics.
problem Understanding the dynamics of InfoNCE loss under fixed versus annealed temperature schedules.
method Modeling embedding evolution under Langevin dynamics on a compact Riemannian manifold, with theoretical guarantees for convergence.
result Slow logarithmic inverse-temperature schedules ensure convergence to globally optimal representations, while faster schedules risk suboptimal minima.
Study improves sampling from complex distributions using annealed Langevin Monte Carlo.
problem Sampling from non-log-concave and multimodal distributions.
method Annealed Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm with theoretical guarantees.
result Oracle complexity of O(dβ²A²/ε⁶) for achieving ε² accuracy in Kullback-Leibler divergence.
Study of diffusion annealed Langevin dynamics for generative models.
problem Theoretical efficiency of score-based diffusion processes.
method Rigorous construction and analysis of diffusion processes with Poincaré and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities.
result Improvement in efficiency of diffusion processes through Poincaré and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities.
DALMC provides non-asymptotic error bounds for generative models.
problem Efficiently generating samples from complex data distributions.
method Analysis of diffusion paths and Langevin Monte Carlo.
result Theoretical guarantees for a class of generative models.
Paper analyzes Annealed Langevin Dynamics for multimodal sampling stability.
problem Ensuring stability of Annealed Langevin Dynamics across dimensions.
method Uniform-in-dimension analysis of ALD for Gaussian-mixture targets.
result ALD achieves prescribed accuracy in KL divergence with spectral conditions.
Paper analyzes Langevin dynamics for multimodal Gaussian mixtures, controlling errors across dimensions.
problem Challenges in obtaining stable diffusion-based samplers in high- and infinite-dimensional settings.
method Study of preconditioned Annealed Langevin Dynamics (ALD) for Gaussian mixtures, focusing on Euler-Maruyama (EM) and exponential-integrator schemes.
result Proves dimension-uniform KL bounds for the exponential-integrator scheme, allowing arbitrarily small divergence with dimension.
CoolMomentum combines momentum and Simulated Annealing for deep learning optimization.
problem Global optimization of non-convex functions in deep learning.
method Discretized Langevin dynamics with Simulated Annealing.
result CoolMomentum achieves high accuracy on Resnet-20 on Cifar-10 and Efficientnet-B0 on Imagenet.
Annealed Langevin dynamics improves sampling from composite scores in SBI.
problem Irreducible bias in sampling from composite scores of SBI methods.
method Derive Wasserstein bounds and decision rules for hyperparameters.
result Explicit decision rules for hyperparameters guarantee prescribed sampling accuracy.
Score matching method improves image generation quality.
problem Score matching method underperforms GANs in metrics like Fréchet Inception Distance.
method DSM-ALS with denoising and improved sampling techniques.
result Score matching methods can match GANs in image generation quality.
Combining diffusion models with Langevin dynamics improves posterior sampling efficiency.
problem Sampling from noisy posterior distributions efficiently.
method Annealed Langevin dynamics combined with diffusion models.
result Achieves posterior sampling in polynomial time with a weaker score error bound.
Proposes efficient sampling methods for solving linear inverse problems.
problem Solving linear inverse problems with computational efficiency and accuracy.
method Higher-order Langevin diffusion with pre-conditioning and annealing.
result Provable sampling from posterior distributions with accelerated convergence.
RLD improves combinatorial optimization by avoiding local minima.
problem Efficiently solving combinatorial optimization problems.
method Regularized Langevin Dynamics (RLD) for combinatorial optimization.
result RLD achieves comparable or better performance than previous methods.
AIS uses a suboptimal extended target distribution, which this paper improves using SGM.
problem Improving the efficiency of Annealed Importance Sampling for marginal likelihood estimation.
method Leveraging score-based generative modeling to approximate the optimal extended target distribution.
result Demonstrated novel, differentiable AIS procedures on synthetic and real-world data.
Gradient-descent-based algorithms and their stochastic versions have widespread applications in machine learning and statistical inference. In this work we perform an analytic study of the performances of one of them, the Langevin algorithm, in the context of noisy high-dimensional inference. We employ the Langevin alg…
Algorithm estimates graph structure with prior information and Langevin diffusion.
problem Support estimation of partially known Gaussian graphical models.
method Proposes an algorithm using annealed Langevin diffusion and graph neural networks to estimate the posterior distribution of the graph.
result Demonstrates the benefits of the approach through numerical experiments.
The paper analyzes convergence of Langevin dynamics with time-dependent metrics.
problem Analyzing convergence of Langevin dynamics with time-dependent metrics.
method Formulated a modified gradient flow of the Kullback-Leibler divergence, selected a time-dependent relative Fisher information functional, and developed a time-dependent Hessian matrix condition.
result Proved convergence conditions for various Langevin dynamics.
Novel method for nonlinear data assimilation using Langevin sampling.
problem Nonlinear data assimilation challenges in Bayesian filtering.
method Score-based sequential Langevin sampling (SSLS) with dynamic models and annealing.
result Asymptotic stability and error bounds for local posterior sampling.
Flow Annealing Posterior Sampling unifies stochastic-process regression and PDE inverse problems.
problem Function-space posterior sampling for stochastic processes and inverse problems.
method Flow Annealing Posterior Sampling (FAPS) using pretrained function-space flow-matching priors.
result Coherent posterior samples with accurate uncertainty quantification.
Kernel SVGD improves high-dimensional inference with noise adaptation.
problem Challenges in high-dimensional inference with SVGD.
method Noise Conditional Kernel SVGD (NCK-SVGD) with entropic regularization.
result NCK-SVGD produces samples comparable to GANs and SGLD on computer vision benchmarks.
New method samples from posterior distributions efficiently.
problem Posterior sampling in score-based models is intractable.
method Annealed Langevin Monte Carlo with KL and Fisher divergence.
result Tractable sampling from distributions close to posterior and prior.
We consider the problem of minimizing a convex objective function F when one can only evaluate its noisy approximation F^. Unless one assumes some structure on the noise, F^ may be an arbitrary nonconvex function, making the task of minimizing F intractable. To overcome this, prior work has often focu…
New method combines QQA and gradient-based sampling for combinatorial optimization.
problem Scalability challenges in learning-based solvers for combinatorial optimization.
method Integrates gradient-based update through continuous relaxation with Quasi-Quantum Annealing (QQA) and parallel communication.
result Achieves superior speed-quality trade-offs for large-scale instances.
DAIS improves AIS for differentiable marginal likelihood estimation.
problem Differentiable marginal likelihood estimation for complex models.
method Proposes Differentiable Annealed Importance Sampling (DAIS) to make AIS differentiable.
result DAIS achieves convergence and consistency in Bayesian linear regression.
In this paper, we propose a novel uniform generalization bound on the time and inverse temperature for stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD) in a non-convex setting. While previous works derive their generalization bounds by uniform stability, we use Rademacher complexity to make our generalization bound indepen…
We introduce a new generative model where samples are produced via Langevin dynamics using gradients of the data distribution estimated with score matching. Because gradients can be ill-defined and hard to estimate when the data resides on low-dimensional manifolds, we perturb the data with different levels of Gaussian…
Combines SMC and diffusion-based samplers for improved sampling performance.
problem Sampling from unnormalized densities efficiently and robustly.
method Viewing SMC and diffusion-based samplers as continuous-time processes, SCLD combines their strengths.
result SCLD achieves improved performance on multiple benchmark problems with less training budget.
Paper extends MLFD to signed measures via bilevel approach.
problem Risk minimization for infinite width neural networks and sparse deconvolution.
method Bilevel reduction to extend MLFD to signed measures, investigating convergence rates.
result Improved convergence rates for bilevel MFLD in low-noise regime and local exponential convergence for single neuron learning.
Improves generative models by using heavy-tailed noise in score matching.
problem High-dimensional limitations of Gaussian noise in generative models.
method Extended DSM to generalised normal distribution, relaxed key assumptions, developed iterative noise scaling algorithm.
result Heavy-tailed DSM leads to improved generative performance.
Reverse annealing boosts quantum matrix factorization performance.
problem Improving quantum matrix factorization performance.
method Combining forward and reverse annealing for nonnegative/binary matrix factorization.
result Combination of forward and reverse annealing significantly improves performance.
A new sampling method estimates scores without training or nested MCMC.
problem Efficient sampling from complex, unnormalised distributions.
method Multiscale averaging in SDEs for score estimation.
result Empirical results show competitive accuracy and efficiency.
Despite substantial progress in signal source separation, results for richly structured data continue to contain perceptible artifacts. In contrast, recent deep generative models can produce authentic samples in a variety of domains that are indistinguishable from samples of the data distribution. This paper introduces…
We empirically evaluate a stochastic annealing strategy for Bayesian posterior optimization with variational inference. Variational inference is a deterministic approach to approximate posterior inference in Bayesian models in which a typically non-convex objective function is locally optimized over the parameters of t…
For many applications it is critical to know the uncertainty of a neural network's predictions. While a variety of neural network parameter estimation methods have been proposed for uncertainty estimation, they have not been rigorously compared across uncertainty measures. We assess four of these parameter estimation m…
New method uses reinforcement learning to improve Simulated Annealing.
problem Optimization problems with unknown cost functions.
method Replaces Metropolis engine with Macau Algorithm.
result Effective heuristic for unknown cost functions.
aMCL uses annealing to improve hypothesis diversity in ambiguous tasks.
problem Limitations of Winner-takes-all in predicting plausible hypotheses.
method Combines simulated annealing with Multiple Choice Learning (MCL).
result Enhanced exploration of hypothesis space during training.
This work extends diffusion models to function space for better generative modeling.
problem Limited applicability of diffusion models to functional data domains.
method Introduces Denoising Diffusion Operators (DDOs) for training diffusion models in function space.
result Demonstrates accurate function-valued generation at fixed cost.
This paper presents studies on a deterministic annealing algorithm based on quantum annealing for variational Bayes (QAVB) inference, which can be seen as an extension of the simulated annealing for variational Bayes (SAVB) inference. QAVB is as easy as SAVB to implement. Experiments revealed QAVB finds a better local …
Quantum annealers aim at solving non-convex optimization problems by exploiting cooperative tunneling effects to escape local minima. The underlying idea consists in designing a classical energy function whose ground states are the sought optimal solutions of the original optimization problem and add a controllable qua…
Mathematical analysis shows annealing prevents mode collapse in Gaussian mixtures.
problem Mode collapse in variational inference for multimodal distributions.
method Analyzed annealing strategies for Gaussian mixtures, derived formulas, and tested on neural networks.
result Appropriately chosen annealing schemes can robustly prevent mode collapse.
Improves diffusion model performance and efficiency through classical search.
problem Tackles inference-time control in diffusion models.
method Proposes a framework combining local and global search for efficient navigation.
result Significant gains in performance and efficiency across various domains.
We introduce a novel framework for adversarial training where the target distribution is annealed between the uniform distribution and the data distribution. We posited a conjecture that learning under continuous annealing in the nonparametric regime is stable irrespective of the divergence measures in the objective fu…
Proposes a method to improve SLMC for multimodal distributions.
problem Difficulty of applying SLMC to multimodal distributions.
method Parallel adaptive annealing with VAE-SLMC.
result Can proficiently obtain accurate samples from multimodal distributions.
Simulated annealing improves candidate optimization for multi-objective Bayesian optimization.
problem Efficient candidate optimization for multi-objective acquisition functions in Bayesian optimization.
method Simulated annealing-based approach for batch acquisition function optimization.
result Simulated annealing outperforms SLSQP in most multi-objective optimization problems, achieving higher hypervolume values and better convergence characteristics.
Develops diffusion samplers for target distributions with efficient score and density estimates.
problem Estimating scores and densities for time-varying distributions.
method Sequential Monte Carlo with diffusion paths and control variates.
result Effective samplers for time-varying distributions with theoretical guarantees and practical applications.
New analysis of annealing paths in sampling and estimation.
problem Sampling from complex distributions and estimating normalization constants.
method Extending known results on Bregman divergence to quasi-arithmetic means under monotonic embedding.
result Analogous result for quasi-arithmetic means, highlighting the interplay between means, parametric families, and divergence functionals.
AdaAnn optimizes annealing for efficient probability density approximation.
problem Efficiently approximating complex probability distributions with multiple modes.
method AdaAnn is an adaptive annealing scheduler that adjusts temperature increments based on KL divergence.
result AdaAnn improves computational efficiency in variational inference and parameter estimation.
CRAFT improves on existing methods for sampling complex distributions.
problem Sampling from complex probability distributions.
method Combines SMC with variational inference using normalizing flows.
result Improves on Annealed Flow Transport Monte Carlo and MCMC-based Stochastic Normalizing Flows.
We investigate a hybrid quantum-classical solution method to the mean-variance portfolio optimization problems. Starting from real financial data statistics and following the principles of the Modern Portfolio Theory, we generate parametrized samples of portfolio optimization problems that can be related to quadratic b…