ASVGD accelerates SVGD for efficient sampling from Gaussian targets.
problem Efficient sampling from Gaussian distributions using SVGD.
method Accelerated gradient flow in a metric space of probability densities, including momentum and Wasserstein regularization.
result ASVGD achieves optimal convergence rate for Gaussian targets, independent of covariance.
Proposes a deep model for Bayesian quantile regression without Gaussian assumptions.
problem Uncertainty quantification from single forward-pass models is computationally expensive and restrictive.
method Deep evidential learning for Bayesian quantile regression.
result Achieves calibrated uncertainties on non-Gaussian distributions.
Paper uses VAEs to detect radar targets in complex noise.
problem Detecting radar targets in compound clutter and thermal noise.
method Proposes a VAE architecture to distinguish radar targets from various noise types.
result The VAE outperforms classical detectors in challenging noise conditions.
Gaussian-SVGD dynamics converge to Gaussian distributions under certain conditions.
problem Understanding the theoretical properties of SVGD, especially for Gaussian targets.
method Detailed theoretical study of Gaussian-SVGD dynamics, considering both mean-field PDE and discrete particle systems.
result Gaussian-SVGD dynamics converge linearly to the Gaussian distribution closest to the target in KL divergence.
HyperVAE encodes distributions of distributions using variational inference.
problem Modeling distributions of distributions efficiently and preserving information.
method Variational inference with Gaussian mixture models and matrix-network decoders.
result HyperVAE encodes parameters of a VAE in a low-dimensional Gaussian distribution, preserving more information.
End-to-end learnable Gaussian mixture priors improve diffusion models' exploration and expressiveness.
problem Challenges in diffusion models when priors differ from target distributions.
method End-to-end learnable Gaussian mixture priors (GMPs) with iterative refinement.
result Significant performance improvements across various benchmark problems.
This paper improves active learning for Gaussian process regression to handle distributional uncertainty.
problem Active learning for Gaussian process regression does not guarantee accurate predictions for target distributions.
method Proposes two methods to reduce worst-case expected error for Gaussian process regression.
result Shows an upper bound of the worst-case expected squared error, suggesting finite data labels can achieve arbitrarily small error.
The paper proposes a neural network architecture inspired by Langevin Monte Carlo for sampling from target distributions.
problem Sampling from complex target distributions efficiently.
method A neural network architecture inspired by Langevin Monte Carlo is proposed to map samples from a simple reference distribution to samples from the target.
result The proposed neural network architecture achieves approximation rates in the Wasserstein-2 distance for smooth, log-concave target distributions.
Deep Gaussian Processes improve likelihood-free inference for complex distributions.
problem Limited flexibility of Bayesian Optimization with GPs for multimodal distributions.
method Proposes Deep Gaussian Processes (DGPs) as a surrogate model for likelihood-free inference.
result DGPs outperform GPs on multimodal distributions while maintaining comparable performance on unimodal cases.
Conditional diffusion models can approximate target distributions well with Gaussian-mixture reverse kernels.
problem Approximating target distributions in conditional diffusion models.
method Using finite Gaussian mixtures with ReLU-network logits as reverse kernels, reducing the problem to static conditional density approximation.
result The resulting neural reverse-kernel class is dense in conditional KL divergence under exact terminal matching.
Efficient algorithm for learning halfspaces in a new model with polynomial time complexity.
problem Learning halfspaces in the testable learning model with distributional constraints.
method Developed new tests using labels and combined with moment-matching approach.
result Achieved near optimal error rates for Gaussian and strongly log-concave distributions.
BaM improves BBVI by optimizing a score-based divergence, leading to faster convergence.
problem Slow convergence of black-box variational inference methods.
method Batch and match (BaM) approach based on a score-based divergence.
result BaM converges exponentially quickly to the target mean and covariance.
A new method for Gaussian process regression with categorical inputs.
problem Challenges in building a predictive and computationally efficient Gaussian process with categorical inputs.
method Distributional encoding based on maximum mean discrepancy and Wasserstein distance.
result State-of-the-art predictive performance on various datasets.
We propose a probabilistic model for refining coarse-grained spatial data by utilizing auxiliary spatial data sets. Existing methods require that the spatial granularities of the auxiliary data sets are the same as the desired granularity of target data. The proposed model can effectively make use of auxiliary data set…
This paper proposes a DGP approach with UCBs for point target tracking over WSNs.
problem Uncertainty quantification in distributed machine learning-based tracking over WSNs.
method Distributed Gaussian process (DGP) approach with upper confidence bounds (UCBs).
result UCBs provide 88% and 42% higher probability of encompassing true target states in X and Y coordinates, respectively.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have a drawback when working with a target distribution or likelihood function that is computationally expensive to evaluate, specially when working with big data. This paper focuses on Metropolis-Hastings (MH) algorithm for unimodal distributions. Here, an enhanced MH algorithm …
Efficiently transforms Gaussian data to simulate various target distributions.
problem Generating observations from different target distributions given a single Gaussian observation.
method Designs computationally efficient procedures to approximate target distributions.
result Establishes reduction-based computational lower bounds for high-dimensional statistical models.
Enhances diffusion models by preprocessing data to improve reconstruction quality.
problem Slow sampling and poor reconstruction quality in diffusion models, especially for small-scale networks.
method Applying Gaussianization preprocessing to the training data to make the target distribution more Gaussian-like.
result Improves generation quality, especially in the early stages of reconstruction with small networks.
A new method combines Gaussian graphical models for better distributed Gaussian process predictions.
problem Poor results from traditional DGP due to violated conditional independence assumption.
method Proposes using Gaussian graphical models to aggregate local predictions from subsets of data.
result Our method outperforms other state-of-the-art DGP approaches on both synthetic and real datasets.
Bi-Lipschitz flows approximate a wide range of distributions.
problem Characterizing the expressivity of bi-Lipschitz normalizing flows.
method Linking score regularity to transport map bi-Lipschitzness via probability flow ODE.
result Gaussian pullbacks induced by bi-Lipschitz variance-preserving transport maps are L1-dense among all probability densities. We propose Gaussian optimal transport for Image style transfer in an Encoder/Decoder framework. Optimal transport for Gaussian measures has closed forms Monge mappings from source to target distributions. Moreover interpolates between a content and a style image can be seen as geodesics in the Wasserstein Geometry. Usi…
New sampling method uses stochastic interpolants and FBSDEs.
problem Sampling from high-dimensional distributions with unnormalized densities.
method Stochastic interpolants and FBSDEs to define and solve diffusion process.
result Effective sampling from challenging distributions.
This work incorporates the multi-modality of the data distribution into a Gaussian Process regression model. We approach the problem from a discriminative perspective by learning, jointly over the training data, the target space variance in the neighborhood of a certain sample through metric learning. We start by using…
This study examines biases in flow matching samplers using finite-sample estimation.
problem Biases in flow matching samplers when using finite-sample surrogates.
method Finite-sample plug-in estimation and hierarchy of empirical FM models.
result Exact empirical minimizer and smoothed plug-in regime identified for affine conditional flows.
Stein discrepancy improves UDA performance in low-data scenarios.
problem Improving model performance on unlabeled target domains with limited data.
method Proposes a novel UDA framework using Stein discrepancy, an asymmetric measure that depends on the target distribution through its score function.
result Consistently outperforms prior UDA approaches under limited target data across multiple benchmarks.
This paper proposes a new method for conditional sampling using optimal transport.
problem Sampling conditional distributions in Bayesian inference and density estimation.
method Iterative block-triangular transport maps solving an optimal transport problem with a weighted L2 cost function.
result The proposed method extends the data-driven approach for conditional sampling.
EigenVI uses orthogonal function expansions for efficient variational inference.
problem Efficiently approximate complex distributions in variational inference.
method EigenVI constructs variational approximations using orthogonal function expansions, minimizing Fisher divergence.
result EigenVI provides more accurate approximations than existing methods for Gaussian BBVI.
The key idea of Bayesian optimization is replacing an expensive target function with a cheap surrogate model. By selection of an acquisition function for Bayesian optimization, we trade off between exploration and exploitation. The acquisition function typically depends on the mean and the variance of the surrogate mod…
Generative models improve for multiscale scientific data with new noise and interpolation techniques.
problem Numerical challenges in generating high-fidelity samples for multiscale scientific data.
method Design of noise distributions and interpolation schedules in function space to ensure Lipschitz regularity and finite noise roughness.
result Scale-adaptive noise and interpolation schedules improve numerical efficiency and fidelity of generated samples.
SKT improves EKI for Bayesian inverse problems with non-Gaussian targets.
problem Efficiently solving Bayesian inverse problems with expensive forward models and non-Gaussian posterior distributions.
method Embedding EKI and FAKI within a Bayesian annealing scheme to adapt tpCN sampler.
result Significant improvements in convergence rate compared to standard SMC and pCN.
A new variational inference method using Gaussian score matching.
problem Approximating posterior distributions in Bayesian statistics.
method Score matching principle applied to variational inference.
result Gaussian score matching VI (GSM-VI) is faster and requires fewer gradient evaluations.
CCVFM uses coreset to improve generative models by refining residual flows.
problem Generating multimodal distributions from scratch is challenging.
method Augments hierarchical rectified flow with a data-informed source distribution using a coreset.
result CCVFM achieves competitive few-step generation without a learned noise-to-data map.
Paper analyzes SGMs for learning sub-Gaussian distributions without dimensionality constraints.
problem Learning sub-Gaussian distributions in high dimensions with SGMs.
method Introduced complexity notion and proved approximation and generalization rates.
result SGMs can approximate target sub-Gaussian distributions in total variation with dimension-independent rate.
We propose a new Bayesian tracking and parameter learning algorithm for non-linear non-Gaussian multiple target tracking (MTT) models. We design a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to sample from the posterior distribution of the target states, birth and death times, and association of observations to targets, …
We show that stochastic interpolation flow maps are Lipschitz with a sharp constant.
problem High dimensional sampling and transport problems.
method Investigating stochastic interpolation flow for generating data samples.
result Stochastic interpolation flow maps are Lipschitz with a sharp constant matching optimal transport maps.
New methods use transport maps to improve Langevin dynamics for sampling.
problem Sampling high-dimensional, non-Gaussian distributions efficiently.
method Apply transport maps to accelerate Langevin dynamics convergence.
result Discretized processes converge to target distribution with non-asymptotic bounds.
SVGD algorithm converges at rate 1/sqrt(log log n) for sub-Gaussian distributions.
problem Approximating a probability distribution with particles.
method Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) with finite particles and sub-Gaussian target distribution.
result SVGD achieves a convergence rate of 1/sqrt(log log n) for sub-Gaussian distributions.
Paper proves diffusion models work on manifolds.
problem Current diffusion models assume densities are w.r.t. Lebesgue measure, limiting their applicability.
method Introduced convergence results for diffusion models on more general target distributions.
result Quantitative bounds on Wasserstein distance for target and generated distributions.
Gaussianization flows transform any random vector into a Gaussian, enabling efficient computation and sample generation.
problem Transforming any random vector into a Gaussian for efficient computation and sample generation.
method Iterative Gaussianization and normalizing flow model.
result Gaussianization flows are universal approximators and achieve better performance on tabular datasets.
We introduce a novel approach for training adversarial models by replacing the discriminator score with a bi-modal Gaussian distribution over the real/fake indicator variables. In order to do this, we train the Gaussian classifier to match the target bi-modal distribution implicitly through meta-adversarial training. W…
We consider the problem of learning a Gaussian variational approximation to the posterior distribution for a high-dimensional parameter, where we impose sparsity in the precision matrix to reflect appropriate conditional independence structure in the model. Incorporating sparsity in the precision matrix allows the Gaus…
New path-gradient estimator for continuous normalizing flows.
problem Limitation of simple Gaussian variational distributions in complex applications.
method Proposed a path-gradient estimator for continuous normalizing flows.
result Empirical evidence of superior performance of the new estimator.
This study analyzes theoretical guarantees for VI with fixed-variance Gaussian mixtures.
problem Theoretical analysis of variational inference with non-Gaussian distributions.
method Formulates variational inference as minimizing a mollified relative entropy, solving it through gradient descent on particle positions.
result Establishes descent lemma and approximation error bounds for optimization of variational inference.
This paper analyzes sampling from heavy-tailed distributions using discretized Itô diffusions.
problem Sampling from heavy-tailed distributions with finite variance.
method Mean-square analysis of discretized Itô diffusions with weighted Poincaré inequalities.
result Explicit iteration complexity for obtaining samples close to target distributions in Wasserstein-2 metric.
We propose an efficient transfer Bayesian optimization method, which finds the maximum of an expensive-to-evaluate black-box function by using data on related optimization tasks. Our method uses auxiliary information that represents the task characteristics to effectively transfer knowledge for estimating a distributio…
SVDD and Deep SVDD improve radar target detection in clutter.
problem Clutter and thermal noise degrade classical radar detection methods.
method Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) and Deep SVDD for one-class learning.
result SVDD and Deep SVDD outperform traditional methods on simulated radar data.
Piecewise normalizing flows improve multi-modal distribution modeling.
problem Improving accuracy in modeling multi-modal distributions.
method Divide target distribution into clusters, train flows to match standard normal base.
result Piecewise flows outperform standard approaches in accuracy.
GnIES recovers causal structure from unknown interventions.
problem Recovering causal structure from unknown interventions.
method Characterization of equivalence classes, greedy learning algorithm GnIES.
result GnIES recovers the equivalence class of the data-generating model.