Neural ODEs extended to manifolds for flexible sampling.
problem Sampling from complex multimodal distributions on non-trivial topologies.
method Extending Neural ODEs to smooth manifolds using vector fields.
result A general methodology for building normalizing flows on manifolds.
New paradigm for Neural ODEs stabilizes training and improves model performance.
problem Gradient vanishing-explosion problem in training deep neural networks.
method ODEtoODE: Nested system of flows with orthogonal group constraints.
result Strong convergence results and improved downstream models in reinforcement learning and supervised learning.
Neural Manifold ODEs improve manifold data modeling.
problem Adapting deep generative models to non-Euclidean spaces.
method Introducing Neural Manifold ODEs for manifold generalization and continuous probability computation.
result Improves density estimation and downstream tasks on arbitrary manifolds.
RFM uses tangent vector fields to match data on manifolds, analyzing TV convergence for Euler discretization.
problem Matching data on curved manifolds using flow-based models.
method Developed a nonasymptotic TV convergence analysis for RFM samplers using Euler discretization.
result Explicit bounds on TV convergence separating numerical discretization and learning errors.
Paper analyzes convergence of ODE samplers in Wasserstein distances.
problem Limited theoretical understanding of convergence properties of probability flow ODEs.
method Convergence analysis for general probability flow ODEs in 2-Wasserstein distance.
result First non-asymptotic convergence analysis for probability flow ODE samplers.
Extends normalizing flows to arbitrary smooth manifolds.
problem Current normalizing flows are limited to basic geometries and cannot handle complex real-world data.
method Uses Neural ODEs and geometric control theory to extend flows to arbitrary smooth manifolds.
result Demonstrates scalable unbiased estimator for divergence in generalized setting.
Moser Flow generates models for complex geometries on manifolds without ODE solvers.
problem Learning generative models for complex geometries like spheres and tori.
method Moser Flow is a new class of continuous normalizing flows that parameterizes the model density as the divergence of a neural network.
result Moser Flow achieves significant improvements in density estimation, sample quality, and training complexity over existing methods.
The paper improves the probability flow ODE sampler for faster sampling of natural images.
problem Improving the convergence rate of the probability flow ODE sampler.
method Adapting the probability flow ODE sampler to exploit intrinsic low-dimensional structures in natural image data.
result Achieves a dimension-free convergence rate of O ( k / T ) O(k/T) O ( k / T ) in total variation distance, improving upon existing results. Chow and Hamilton introduced the cross curvature flow on closed 3-manifolds with negative or positive sectional curvature. In this paper, we study the negative cross curvature flow in the case of locally homogenous metrics on 3-manifolds. In each case, we describe the long time behavior of the solutions of the correspo…
A new method for sampling from complex distributions using Langevin samplers.
problem Sampling from unnormalized Boltzmann densities.
method Probability flow ODE derived from linear stochastic interpolants, employing Langevin samplers.
result Efficient simulation of the flow with non-asymptotic convergence rate.
Derives PF-ODE for infinite-dimensional functions, improving function generation tasks.
problem Efficient inference in infinite-dimensional diffusion models.
method Derives PF-ODE in infinite-dimensional function spaces.
result Reduces function evaluations while maintaining sample quality.
Bayesian Gaussian Process ODEs enhanced with normalizing flows for improved flexibility and accuracy.
problem Limitations of standard Gaussian Process ODEs in modeling complex scenarios.
method Introducing normalizing flows to reparameterize the ODE vector field, developing a data-driven variational learning algorithm.
result Improved accuracy and uncertainty estimates for Bayesian Gaussian Process ODEs.
New error bounds for flow matching methods using deterministic sampling.
problem Improving the accuracy of flow matching methods for generating probability distributions.
method Derived error bounds for flow matching methods under deterministic sampling conditions.
result Presented error bounds for flow matching methods using L 2 L^2 L 2 loss and regularity conditions. Exact universal interpolation property for landmark configurations in Euclidean space.
problem Representing and deforming landmark configurations through flows of vector fields.
method Explicitly describe vector fields for exact universal interpolation property in all dimensions.
result Achieve controllability by combining constant and polynomial vector fields.
Flow matching adapts to manifold structures without diffusion.
problem Theoretical understanding of flow matching in manifold-supported settings.
method Flow matching with linear interpolation on smooth manifolds, analyzing velocity field and density estimator.
result Non-asymptotic convergence guarantee and statistical consistency of flow matching on manifolds.
This project serves to analyze the behavior of Ricci Flow in five dimensional manifolds. Ricci Flow was introduced by Richard Hamilton in 1982 and was an essential tool in proving the Geometrization and Poincare Conjectures. In general, Ricci Flow is a nonlinear PDE whose solutions are rather difficult to calculate; ho…
Steerable neural ODEs on homogeneous spaces for equivariant feature dynamics.
problem Learning continuous-time equivariant dynamics of vector-valued features on homogeneous spaces.
method Introduces steerable neural ordinary differential equations on homogeneous spaces, interpreting features as sections of associated vector bundles over M M M . result Steerable NODEs are G G G -equivariant when the flow and connection are G G G -invariant, and they incorporate existing models. A new method for learning conditional distributions using ODEs and neural networks.
problem Learning conditional distributions efficiently and accurately.
method Conditional Föllmer Flow, discretized with Euler's method, using nonparametric velocity estimation.
result Effective approximation of target conditional distributions, with convergence results for Wasserstein-2 distance.
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 L 1 L^1 L 1 -dense among all probability densities. Flow-based models use ODEs to generate complex data distributions.
problem Generating high-dimensional data with complex probability distributions.
method Flow-based models use invertible mappings governed by ODEs to capture these distributions.
result Flow-based models provide exact likelihood estimation and efficient sampling.
The paper provides convergence guarantees for ODE-based generative models using transformers.
problem Theoretical guarantees for ODE-based generative models.
method A pre-trained autoencoder maps inputs to a latent space, and a transformer predicts the velocity field.
result The distribution of samples generated via estimated ODE flow converges to the target distribution in Wasserstein-2 distance.
OpFlow predicts robust OD flows by learning choice potentials conditioned on spatial exposures.
problem Deep models trained on raw counts are vulnerable to distribution shift.
method OpFlow learns row-centered choice potentials and reconstructs flows by combining them with a calibrated origin scale.
result OpFlow improves robustness under environment shifts, as shown by controlled synthetic shifts and a real-world experiment.
New method speeds up generative modeling without requiring diffusion steps.
problem Improving the speed and efficiency of generative modeling techniques.
method Probability flow ODE with a corrector step, achieving better dimension dependence.
result Better dimension dependence ( O ( d ) O(\sqrt{d}) O ( d ) vs. O ( d ) O(d) O ( d ) , assuming smoothness of the data distribution). Ancient solutions arise in the study of Ricci flow singularities. Motivated by the work of Fateev on 3-dimensional ancient solutions we construct high dimensional ancient solutions to Ricci flow on spheres and complex projective spaces as well as the twistor spaces over a compact quaternion-Kahler manifold. Differing f…
Riemannian flows model curved spaces better.
problem Normalizing flows misspecified on curved spaces.
method Riemannian continuous normalizing flows using ODE solutions.
result Improves modeling on spheres, torii, and hyperbolic spaces.
The study focuses on estimating and predicting time-varying origin to destination (OD) trip tables for a dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) model. A bi-level optimisation problem is formulated and solved to estimate OD flows from pre-existent demand matrix and historical traffic flow counts. The estimated demand is then …
Deep residual networks implicitly converge to neural ODEs.
problem Link between discrete and continuous deep learning models.
method Establishing implicit regularization for residual networks towards neural ODEs.
result Deep residual networks initialized as discretizations of neural ODEs converge to such ODEs during training.
SeqRF straightens generative model flows to speed up sampling.
problem High global truncation error in ODE-based solvers for generative models.
method SeqRF, a learning technique that straightens the probability flow.
result Significantly improved sampling speed and synthesis quality.
In the vector space of algebraic curvature operators we study the reaction ODE $$\frac{dR}{dt} = R^2+R^{#}= Q(R)$$ which is associated to the evolution equation of the Riemann curvature oper- ator along the Ricci flow. More precisely, we analyze the stability of a special class of zeros of this ODE up to suitable norma…
New bounds for generative models under weaker assumptions.
problem Establishing convergence guarantees for generative models under weak assumptions.
method Non-asymptotic 2-Wasserstein distance bounds for probability flow ODEs under weak log-concavity and Lipschitz continuity.
result Concrete convergence rates for generative models, including non-log-concave distributions.
New theory improves diffusion model convergence for generating data.
problem Improving convergence of diffusion models for data generation.
method Developed a non-asymptotic convergence theory for probability flow ODEs.
result Proves d / ε d/\varepsilon d / ε iterations suffice for approximating target distributions. Neural ODEs' performance varies with numerical method, requiring adaptive step size control.
problem Neural ODEs' performance depends on the numerical method used during training.
method Proposes an adaptive step size control algorithm to ensure a valid ODE without increasing computational cost.
result Valid Neural ODEs require careful numerical method selection and step size adaptation.
This paper compares two methods for training neural ODEs in time-series regression and CNFs.
problem Training neural ODEs for time-series regression and CNFs efficiently.
method Discretize-Optimize (Disc-Opt) vs. Optimize-Discretize (Opt-Disc) approaches.
result Disc-Opt methods can achieve similar performance as Opt-Disc at inference with drastically reduced training costs.
We accelerate CNF by reducing ODE truncation errors with polynomial regularization.
problem High computation cost of CNF due to large truncation errors in solving ODEs.
method Add polynomial regularization to approximate ODE trajectories with polynomial functions.
result 42.3% to 71.3% reduction of NFE on density estimation, 19.3% to 32.1% on variational auto-encoder.
CNFs learn on manifolds using PPD, improving likelihood and sample quality.
problem Training CNFs on manifolds efficiently and accurately.
method Minimizing PPD, a novel divergence, to train CNFs on manifolds.
result CNFs trained with PPD achieve state-of-the-art results on manifold benchmarks.
Paper proves higher-order flow matching preserves optimality in generative modeling.
problem Theoretical guarantees for higher-order flow matching in generative modeling.
method Neural network approximations with controlled depth, width, and sparsity.
result Proves worst case optimality for second-order flow matching.
Functional central limit theorem for kernel gradient flow and infinitesimal gradient boosting
problem Fluctuations of boosting processes around their deterministic limit
method Stochastic perturbation analysis of ODEs in Banach spaces
result Rescaled deviations converge to a Gaussian process
JKO-iFlow uses neural ODEs to improve generative models with reduced memory and training complexity.
problem Efficiently training deep generative models in high dimensions with reduced memory and training complexity.
method JKO scheme inspired neural ODE flow network with adaptive time reparameterization.
result JKO-iFlow achieves competitive performance compared to existing models at reduced computational and memory cost.
Higher-order ODE solvers improve deep learning performance.
problem Improving deep learning performance using higher-order ODE solvers.
method Evaluation and improvement of Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for deep learning.
result Higher-order RK solvers can improve deep learning performance by incorporating key ingredients of optimizers.
Improved neural ODEs learn adaptable flows.
problem Neural ODEs struggle with expressive power and adaptability.
method Introduce N-CODE modules with dynamic parameters controlled by a trainable map.
result N-CODE modules enhance expressivity of neural ODEs.
Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) have been attracting increasing attention in various research domains recently. There have been some works studying optimization issues and approximation capabilities of neural ODEs, but their robustness is still yet unclear. In this work, we fill this important gap by expl…
Efficiently trains forward processes to minimize generative trajectories curvature.
problem High curvature of generative trajectories slows down sampling speed.
method Trains forward process to minimize curvature without ODE/SDE simulation.
result Lower curvature than previous models, decreased sampling costs.
Paper develops a generative model using Wasserstein-2 loss.
problem Creating realistic data samples from limited data.
method Uses a distribution-dependent ODE with a gradient flow for W2 loss.
result The method converges to the true data distribution exponentially.
We extend rectified flow to infinite-dimensional Hilbert space.
problem Extending rectified flow to infinite-dimensional spaces.
method Established a rigorous functional formulation using the superposition principle for continuity equations.
result Demonstrated superior performance compared to existing models.
We present a particle flow realization of Bayes' rule, where an ODE-based neural operator is used to transport particles from a prior to its posterior after a new observation. We prove that such an ODE operator exists. Its neural parameterization can be trained in a meta-learning framework, allowing this operator to re…
A new ODE model explains gradient descent dynamics near edge of stability.
problem Understanding gradient-based training over non-convex landscapes.
method Rod Flow, a new ODE approximation of GD dynamics.
result Rod Flow accurately predicts critical sharpness threshold and self-stabilization in quartic potentials.
OT-Flow uses optimal transport to improve CNFs for faster and more accurate density estimation.
problem Computational challenges in continuous normalizing flows.
method OT-Flow leverages optimal transport to regularize CNFs and uses exact trace computation.
result OT-Flow achieves competitive performance with one-fourth the number of weights and significant speedups.
A simple regularization technique speeds up training of Neural ODEs.
problem Training Neural ODEs is computationally expensive.
method Randomly sampling the end time of the ODE during training.
result Significantly decreases training time and improves performance.