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48 results for General Densities

New method minimizes robust density power-based divergences for general parametric densities.

problem Computational complexity of minimizing DPD for general parametric densities.
method Stochastic approach to minimize DPD for general parametric density models.
result Proposed method can be applied to minimize other density power-based γ-divergences.

Defines hierarchical clustering axioms for various densities.

problem Defining hierarchical clustering for different types of densities.
method An axiomatic approach to piecewise constant densities, then extending to general densities.
result Our axiomatic definition results in Hartigan's cluster tree under certain conditions.

Learning probabilistic models that can estimate the density of a given set of samples, and generate samples from that density, is one of the fundamental challenges in unsupervised machine learning. We introduce a new generative model based on denoising density estimators (DDEs), which are scalar functions parameterized…

2020-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

A normalizing flow models a complex probability density as an invertible transformation of a simple density. The invertibility means that we can evaluate densities and generate samples from a flow. In practice, autoregressive flow-based models are slow to invert, making either density estimation or sample generation sl…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method uses SoS densities and α-divergences for efficient sequential transport maps.

problem Efficiently generating samples from approximated densities.
method Sequential transport maps using Sum-of-Squares (SoS) densities and α-divergences.
result Convex optimization problems with efficient semidefinite programming solutions.

Proposes a new method for high-dimensional density estimation.

problem Estimating high-dimensional probability density functions efficiently.
method Tensorizing flow method combining tensor-train and flow-based generative modeling.
result Efficiently constructs an approximate density in tensor-train form and trains a flow model to match empirical distribution.

Optimizes kernel density ratios for better predictions and information measures.

problem Improving accuracy of kernel density estimates for density ratios.
method Derives an optimal weight function using calculus of variations.
result Reduces bias in kernel density estimates, leading to improved prediction posteriors and information-theoretic measures.

Proposes a neural density estimator that adapts to low-dimensional structures and integrates into generative models.

problem Challenges in implementing neural density estimators and lack of theoretical understanding.
method Structure-agnostic neural density estimator that is easy to implement and provably adaptive.
result Adapts to low-dimensional structures and achieves faster convergence rates.

Paper uses GMM and MAF for probabilistic classification, outperforming simpler models.

problem Classifying data with complex distributions.
method Density estimation using Gaussian Mixture Model and Masked Autoregressive Flow.
result Proposed classifiers outperform simpler models like linear discriminant analysis.

New bounds on generalization error using information density moments.

problem Bounding the generalization error of randomized learning algorithms.
method Derives bounds on average and tail probabilities of generalization error using mth central moments of the information density.
result Explicit bounds on generalization error are derived, showing better dependence on confidence level with higher-order information density moments.

Partition Tree estimates conditional densities for mixed continuous and categorical variables.

problem Estimating conditional densities for mixed data types.
method Tree-based framework modeling conditional distributions as piecewise-constant densities on adaptive partitions, minimizing conditional negative log-likelihood.
result Improved probabilistic prediction compared to CART-style trees and state-of-the-art methods.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are successful deep generative models. GANs are based on a two-player minimax game. However, the objective function derived in the original motivation is changed to obtain stronger gradients when learning the generator. We propose a novel algorithm that repeats the density ratio e…

2016-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative model prices basket options efficiently.

problem Real-time pricing of basket options with varying market inputs.
method Truncated path signatures and Mixture Density Networks (MDN) for learning the terminal density.
result The model produces small pricing errors and matches Monte Carlo simulations closely.

Method uses normalizing flows to efficiently sample from complex target densities.

problem Sampling from complex target densities with zero values in regions of transformation.
method Normalizing flows to address exploding reverse Kullback-Leibler divergence.
result Demonstrated efficient sampling from multi-mode complex density function.

Generative models learn smoother densities to sample from unknown distributions.

problem Sampling from unknown distributions in high-dimensional spaces.
method Formalizes sampling problem, introduces multimeasurement noise model, derives Bayes estimator, and uses underdamped Langevin MCMC.
result Formulation leads to efficient sampling methods and theoretical connections with denoising autoencoders.

Adaptive multi-stage density ratio estimation improves learning of latent space EBM.

problem Learning energy-based models in latent space is computationally expensive and challenging.
method Adaptive multi-stage density ratio estimation using NCE to bridge the gap between prior and posterior densities.
result The method enables more expressive prior models and sharpens the latent space EBM.

It can be difficult to tell whether a trained generative model has learned to generate novel examples or has simply memorized a specific set of outputs. In published work, it is common to attempt to address this visually, for example by displaying a generated example and its nearest neighbor(s) in the training set (in,…

2017-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel unsupervised random forests improve density estimation and data synthesis.

problem Density estimation and data synthesis for complex tabular data.
method Recursive unsupervised random forests with alternating generation and discrimination rounds.
result Provable consistency and smooth densities with fast execution.

Kernel density matrices simplify probabilistic deep learning.

problem Representing joint probability distributions of continuous and discrete variables.
method Extending density matrices to a reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
result Versatile representation for marginal and joint probability distributions.

We propose a \textbf{uni}fied \textbf{f}ramework for \textbf{i}mplicit \textbf{ge}nerative \textbf{m}odeling (UnifiGem) with theoretical guarantees by integrating approaches from optimal transport, numerical ODE, density-ratio (density-difference) estimation and deep neural networks. First, the problem of implicit gene…

2020-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently samples and learns densities with symmetries using equivariant methods.

problem Efficiently sampling and learning densities with symmetries.
method Equivariant Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) and equivariant energy based models.
result Improves and scales up training of energy based models.

Proposes differentially private normalizing flows for privacy-preserving density estimation.

problem Privacy concerns in density estimation models when individuals are directly associated with the training data.
method Uses normalizing flow models with explicit differential privacy guarantees.
result Substantially outperforms previous state-of-the-art approaches in privacy-preserving density estimation.

Improved GANs estimate convergence rate for density estimation.

problem Improving the accuracy of density estimation with GANs.
method Proved an oracle inequality for JS divergence between GAN estimate and true density.
result JS-divergence rate of convergence is (logn/n)2β/(2β+d)(\log{n}/n)^{2β/(2β+ d)}.

Diffusion models adapt to low-dimensional structures for nonparametric density estimation.

problem High-dimensional statistical inference challenges.
method Viewing diffusion models as implicit density estimators and exploiting their low-dimensional structure.
result Achieves minimax optimal rate for total variation distance with factorizable density.

Develops method to compute Chern-Simons potentials from higher-dimensional Pontryagin densities.

problem Computing Chern-Simons potentials from higher-dimensional Pontryagin densities.
method Systematic approach using a generic affine connection with non-vanishing torsion and non-metricity.
result Algorithm and code for determining Chern-Simons potential from Pontryagin density in arbitrary even dimensions.

Autoregressive models are among the best performing neural density estimators. We describe an approach for increasing the flexibility of an autoregressive model, based on modelling the random numbers that the model uses internally when generating data. By constructing a stack of autoregressive models, each modelling th…

2017-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗