Autoregressive networks can achieve promising performance in many sequence modeling tasks with short-range dependence. However, when handling high-dimensional inputs and outputs, the huge amount of parameters in the network lead to expensive computational cost and low learning efficiency. The problem can be alleviated …
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A new neural network for efficient density estimation.
problem Efficient density estimation for high-dimensional data.
method Triangular neural network implementation of neural autoregressive flow (NAF).
result Achieves state-of-the-art bits-per-dimension indices on MNIST and CIFAR-10.
Vector autoregressive models characterize a variety of time series in which linear combinations of current and past observations can be used to accurately predict future observations. For instance, each element of an observation vector could correspond to a different node in a network, and the parameters of an autoregr…
Unbiased Monte Carlo Cluster Updates with Autoregressive Neural Networkscond-mat.stat-mech
New method makes machine learning approximations unbiased and efficient.
problem Efficient sampling of complex probability distributions.
method Uses autoregressive neural networks with cluster updates and physical symmetries.
result Shows unbiased and low-variance approximations for phase transitions.
ARMA cell simplifies neural autoregressive modeling for time series.
problem Complex RNN cells are not always necessary and can be inferior.
method Introduces ARMA cell, a simpler, modular approach for neural time series modeling.
result The ARMA cell is competitive with popular alternatives in performance.
Mutual information of spin systems from autoregressive neural networkscond-mat.stat-mech
New method estimates spin system mutual information using neural networks.
problem Estimating mutual information in spin systems.
method Monte Carlo sampling enhanced by autoregressive neural networks.
result Area law satisfied for temperatures away from critical temperature.
Global information is essential for dense prediction problems, whose goal is to compute a discrete or continuous label for each pixel in the images. Traditional convolutional layers in neural networks, initially designed for image classification, are restrictive in these problems since the filter size limits their rece…
Identification of a groundwater contaminant source simultaneously with the hydraulic conductivity in highly-heterogeneous media often results in a high-dimensional inverse problem. In this study, a deep autoregressive neural network-based surrogate method is developed for the forward model to allow us to solve efficien…
We introduce Hyper-Conditioned Neural Autoregressive Flow (HCNAF); a powerful universal distribution approximator designed to model arbitrarily complex conditional probability density functions. HCNAF consists of a neural-net based conditional autoregressive flow (AF) and a hyper-network that can take large conditions …
Paper uses surprisal to dynamically allocate computation between fast and slow models.
problem Dynamic allocation of computation in neural networks.
method Surprisal-based dynamic model selection.
result Model can match baseline performance with 15% fewer FLOPs.
Normalizing flows and autoregressive models have been successfully combined to produce state-of-the-art results in density estimation, via Masked Autoregressive Flows (MAF), and to accelerate state-of-the-art WaveNet-based speech synthesis to 20x faster than real-time, via Inverse Autoregressive Flows (IAF). We unify a…
Improved simulation of phase transitions using hierarchical autoregressive networks.
problem Simulating phase transitions in complex systems.
method Hierarchical Autoregressive Neural (HAN) network sampling algorithm.
result Significant improvement in statistical uncertainty compared to the Wolff cluster algorithm.
Paper proposes a new MAR model for global economic forecasting.
problem Joint modeling of economic and financial variables across countries.
method Sparse matrix autoregressive model with trade network integration.
result Sparse component differentiates systematic and idiosyncratic cross-predictability.
The framework of normalizing flows provides a general strategy for flexible variational inference of posteriors over latent variables. We propose a new type of normalizing flow, inverse autoregressive flow (IAF), that, in contrast to earlier published flows, scales well to high-dimensional latent spaces. The proposed f…
Efficiently combines autoregressive and set-based models for joint distributions.
problem Joint distributions over multiple predictions from set-based models.
method Causal autoregressive buffer that caches context and captures dependencies.
result Up to 20x faster joint sampling and density evaluation, up to 7x lower memory usage.
Statistical Mechanics Calculations Using Variational Autoregressive Networks and Quantum Annealingcond-mat.dis-nn
New method uses quantum annealing and VAN for better statistical mechanics calculations.
problem Difficulty in computing partition function in statistical mechanics.
method Combines quantum annealing samples with variational autoregressive networks.
result Enhanced accuracy in finite-size Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model.
Normalising flows (NFS) map two density functions via a differentiable bijection whose Jacobian determinant can be computed efficiently. Recently, as an alternative to hand-crafted bijections, Huang et al. (2018) proposed neural autoregressive flow (NAF) which is a universal approximator for density functions. Their fl…
This review compares various deep generative models.
problem Training deep neural networks to model data distributions.
method Comprehensive comparison of VAEs, GANs, flows, energy models, and autoregressives.
result Trade-offs and interrelationships among different models.
VB approach for dynamic network models improves efficiency and accuracy.
problem Estimating dynamic network models in large-scale systems.
method Variational Bayesian inference for network autoregression.
result VB approach detects proper active structures and achieves similar or better accuracy.
Paper proposes a neural network method for fast, interpretable AR model estimation.
problem Computational inefficiency and convergence issues in conventional AR model estimation.
method Embeds autoregressive structure into a feedforward neural network for coefficient estimation via backpropagation.
result Neural network method consistently recovers AR model coefficients, converging in all cases and providing reliable estimates.
EventFlow forecasts event sequences without autoregression, improving accuracy.
problem Forecasting errors in autoregressive models for event sequences.
method EventFlow uses flow matching to learn joint distributions over event times directly.
result EventFlow reduces forecast error by 20%-53% compared to baselines.
New method forecasts multilinear data using tensor autoregression.
problem Forecasting 2D data in big data.
method L-Transform Tensor autoregressive (L-TAR) method.
result Statistical independence achieved through invertible discrete linear transforms.
Improved lattice field theory simulations with local-Autoregressive Conditional Normalizing Flow.
problem Efficiently sampling lattice field theories with computational challenges.
method Integrates locality into autoregressive conditional normalizing flows.
result Autocorrelation times improved by orders of magnitude for theory on a 2D lattice.
Latent Block-Diffusion Temporal Point Processes (LBDTPP) is a semi-autoregressive framework for generating asynchronous event sequences.
problem Generating asynchronous event sequences
method Latent Block-Diffusion Temporal Point Processes
result Outperforms state-of-the-art TPP baselines in both unconditional and conditional generation tasks
A new framework predicts links in time-dependent networks using Bernoulli autoregression.
problem Predicting links in time-dependent networks with additional auxiliary information.
method A Bernoulli autoregressive model with regularization for link discovery.
result The model can discover new links not present in the data.
The autoregressive neural network architecture of the Boltzmann distribution of pairwise interacting spins systemscond-mat.dis-nn
This work maps Boltzmann distributions to ARNNs for better physics-based model approximations.
problem Approximating Boltzmann distributions of binary systems.
method Exact mapping of Boltzmann distribution to autoregressive neural network architecture.
result New ARNN architectures derived from physical models show superior performance.
Listen and Fill in the Missing Letters: Non-Autoregressive Transformer for Speech Recognitioneess.AS
Recently very deep transformers have outperformed conventional bi-directional long short-term memory networks by a large margin in speech recognition. However, to put it into production usage, inference computation cost is still a serious concern in real scenarios. In this paper, we study two different non-autoregressi…
Transformers can simulate MLE for Bayesian network sequences.
problem Understanding transformers' capabilities in Bayesian network sequence generation.
method In-context maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) for autoregressive sequence generation.
result A simple transformer model can estimate Bayesian network probabilities and generate new samples.
Neural density estimators are flexible families of parametric models which have seen widespread use in unsupervised machine learning in recent years. Maximum-likelihood training typically dictates that these models be constrained to specify an explicit density. However, this limitation can be overcome by instead using …
In this paper, we consider a model called CHARME (Conditional Heteroscedastic Autoregressive Mixture of Experts), a class of generalized mixture of nonlinear nonparametric AR-ARCH time series. Under certain Lipschitz-type conditions on the autoregressive and volatility functions, we prove that this model is stationary,…
Tensor networks for unsupervised machine learningcond-mat.stat-mech
Tensor networks improve unsupervised learning performance.
problem Improving unsupervised machine learning models.
method Autoregressive Matrix Product States (AMPS) combining quantum and machine learning.
result AMPS significantly outperforms existing tensor network models and neural networks.
LMConv improves autoregressive models for image generation and completion.
problem Limited generation order in autoregressive models restricts their applicability.
method Introduces LMConv, a modified 2D convolution that allows arbitrary masks to be applied to weights.
result LMConv achieves improved performance on image density estimation and coherent completions.
Transformers become faster by linearizing self-attention.
problem Quadratic complexity of transformers makes them slow for long sequences.
method Expressed self-attention as a linear dot-product and used matrix product associativity to reduce complexity.
result Linear transformers are up to 4000x faster on long sequences.
Long short-term memory network outperforms seasonal model in JSE Top 40 forecasting.
problem Comparing neural network performance to traditional models in financial forecasting.
method Used long short-term memory network for JSE Top 40 return data forecasting.
result Long short-term memory network outperforms seasonal model in forecasting.
PARNN improves ARNN with ARIMA feedback for accurate long-range forecasting.
problem Accurate long-range forecasting of complex time series data.
method Improves ARNN using ARIMA feedback, providing uncertainty quantification.
result PARNN outperforms state-of-the-art forecasters across various horizons.
We introduce a deep, generative autoencoder capable of learning hierarchies of distributed representations from data. Successive deep stochastic hidden layers are equipped with autoregressive connections, which enable the model to be sampled from quickly and exactly via ancestral sampling. We derive an efficient approx…
Multivariate binary distributions can be decomposed into products of univariate conditional distributions. Recently popular approaches have modeled these conditionals through neural networks with sophisticated weight-sharing structures. It is shown that state-of-the-art performance on several standard benchmark dataset…
We introduce the use of autoregressive normalizing flows for rapid likelihood-free inference of binary black hole system parameters from gravitational-wave data with deep neural networks. A normalizing flow is an invertible mapping on a sample space that can be used to induce a transformation from a simple probability …
Solving Statistical Mechanics Using Variational Autoregressive Networkscond-mat.stat-mech
We propose a general framework for solving statistical mechanics of systems with finite size. The approach extends the celebrated variational mean-field approaches using autoregressive neural networks, which support direct sampling and exact calculation of normalized probability of configurations. It computes variation…
CTRNNs improve blood glucose forecasting in ICU, outperforming traditional models.
problem Forecasting blood glucose in ICU with irregular measurements.
method Continuous time autoregressive recurrent neural networks (CTRNNs) using neural ODE or neural flow layers.
result CTRNNs generally outperform traditional autoregressive models in probabilistic forecasting of blood glucose.
We introduce autoregressive implicit quantile networks (AIQN), a fundamentally different approach to generative modeling than those commonly used, that implicitly captures the distribution using quantile regression. AIQN is able to achieve superior perceptual quality and improvements in evaluation metrics, without incu…
We consider high-dimensional distribution estimation through autoregressive networks. By combining the concepts of sparsity, mixtures and parameter sharing we obtain a simple model which is fast to train and which achieves state-of-the-art or better results on several standard benchmark datasets. Specifically, we use a…
Develops a new model for network estimation from multi-variate data.
problem Network estimation from multi-variate point process or time series data.
method Semi-parametric approach based on the monotone single-index multi-variate autoregressive model (SIMAM).
result Achieves optimal rates of convergence and superior performance in prediction and network estimation.
Context-dependent self-exciting point processes: models, methods, and risk bounds in high dimensionsstat.ML
This paper models how features influence event triggers in high-dimensional networks.
problem Estimating context-dependent networks in high-dimensional marked point processes.
method Leveraging compositional time series and regularization methods, the paper considers autoregressive multinomial and logistic-normal models for network estimation.
result The logistic-normal model leads to a convex negative log-likelihood objective and captures dependence across categories.
ARDMs are a new model class for autoregressive diffusion that generalize existing models and can compress data efficiently.
problem Efficient data compression and generation.
method Autoregressive Diffusion Models (ARDMs) that generalize existing autoregressive models and discrete diffusion models.
result ARDMs require significantly fewer steps for compression compared to discrete diffusion models.
ARTree uses deep learning to infer tree topologies efficiently.
problem Efficient phylogenetic inference from tree topologies.
method Deep autoregressive model based on graph neural networks (GNNs).
result ARTree provides a flexible family of distributions over tree topologies.
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.
PARD generates graphs efficiently and invariantly to node ordering.
problem Graph generation sensitivity to node ordering.
method Integrates autoregressive and diffusion models with a partial order for nodes and edges.
result PARD achieves state-of-the-art performance on molecular and non-molecular datasets.