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48 results for Neural Density Estimators

Quantum method improves neural density estimation in high dimensions.

problem High-dimensional density estimation with poor performance and high computational complexity.
method Adaptive Fourier features based on quantum density matrices, integrated with neural networks.
result Competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods in various datasets.

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.

MCD reformulates conditional density estimation into binary classification.

problem Conditional density estimation in statistical and machine learning.
method Marginal Contrastive Discrimination, reformulating into marginal and ratio density functions for binary classification.
result Significantly outperforms existing methods on most density models and regression datasets.

In this work, we propose new objective functions to train deep neural network based density ratio estimators and apply it to a change point detection problem. Existing methods use linear combinations of kernels to approximate the density ratio function by solving a convex constrained minimization problem. Approximating…

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Conditional density estimation is a general framework for solving various problems in machine learning. Among existing methods, non-parametric and/or kernel-based methods are often difficult to use on large datasets, while methods based on neural networks usually make restrictive parametric assumptions on the probabili…

2018-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new criterion for reliable uncertainty estimation in deep neural networks.

problem Inability of existing approaches to provide reliable uncertainty estimates for deep neural networks.
method Develops a density uncertainty layer architecture that satisfies the proposed criterion.
result Density uncertainty layers provide more reliable uncertainty estimates and robust out-of-distribution detection.

LGKDE learns graph density using neural networks and perturbations.

problem Graph density estimation challenges in capturing structural patterns and semantic variations.
method LGKDE uses graph neural networks to represent graphs as discrete distributions and learns graph metrics via maximum mean discrepancy.
result LGKDE outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in graph anomaly detection.

The paper introduces a new method for multivariate density estimation using deep neural mixture models.

problem Multivariate density estimation is a fundamental but underexplored task in machine learning.
method The paper extends Neural Mixture Densities (NMMs) to multivariate Deep Neural Mixture Models (DNMMs) using maximum-likelihood algorithm.
result The DNMMs can model any probability density function to any degree of precision and outperform traditional statistical estimation techniques.

New method improves sample-efficiency in neural posterior estimation using simulator gradients.

problem High-fidelity posterior estimation with complex physical simulations is time-consuming.
method Neural Posterior Estimation (NPE) with differentiable simulators and gradient information.
result Improves sample-efficiency in posterior density estimation.

I consider two problems in machine learning and statistics: the problem of estimating the joint probability density of a collection of random variables, known as density estimation, and the problem of inferring model parameters when their likelihood is intractable, known as likelihood-free inference. The contribution o…

2019-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates high-dimensional posterior densities by marginal distributions and neural networks.

problem High-dimensional probability density estimation for inference is difficult.
method Direct estimation of lower-dimensional marginal distributions, using Moment Networks for fast computation of moments.
result Demonstrates estimation of gravitational wave time series and applications in cosmology.

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.

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 …

2019-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Transforms conditional density estimation into a nonparametric regression problem.

problem Conditional density estimation in high dimensions.
method Introduces auxiliary samples to transform into nonparametric regression.
result Estimator converges to true conditional density in data limit.

Paper improves speech separation by using deep neural networks for more accurate density priors.

problem Improving the accuracy of source priors for independent vector analysis in speech separation.
method Estimating the derivative of speech density using deep neural networks to optimize performance indices.
result Neural network density priors outperform previous ones in convergence speed and SIR.

This paper studies neural network operators and their convergence properties.

problem Understanding the approximation and convergence of neural network operators.
method Proves density results, convergence estimates, and Voronovskaya-type theorems.
result Establishes quantitative convergence estimates and derives Voronovskaya-type theorems.

Meta-learning improves relative density-ratio estimation from limited data.

problem Estimating relative density-ratios from few instances.
method Meta-learning using neural networks to extract and embed dataset information for relative DRE.
result Meta-learning enables efficient and effective adaptation to few instances for relative DRE.

This work proposes a new neural implicit manifold model for more accurate density estimation on manifolds.

problem Current generative models struggle with representing manifolds accurately and learning densities within them.
method Proposes a neural implicit manifold model and a constrained energy-based model to learn manifold-supported distributions.
result The proposed model can learn manifold-supported distributions with complex topologies more accurately than pushforward models.

A neural network method estimates densities from characteristic functions.

problem Estimating fixed-horizon probability densities from empirical characteristic functions.
method Data-driven Fourier-mixture neural-network method trained in Fourier space.
result Competitive performance and clear gains on heavy-tailed targets.

Various problems in Engineering and Statistics require the computation of the likelihood ratio function of two probability densities. In classical approaches the two densities are assumed known or to belong to some known parametric family. In a data-driven version we replace this requirement with the availability of da…

2019-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New α\alpha-divergence loss function improves neural density ratio estimation.

problem Optimization challenges in existing DRE methods, especially overfitting and high sample requirements.
method Derived α\alpha-divergence loss function (α\alpha-Div) for neural density ratio estimation.
result The α\alpha-divergence loss function (α\alpha-Div) offers stable and effective optimization for DRE.

Deep learning speeds spectral density estimation for large 2D/3D grids.

problem Computational challenges in estimating spectral densities for large grids.
method Deep learning neural network for spectral density estimation.
result Deep learning estimator is a universal approximator and faster than existing methods.

We introduce a novel conditional density estimation model termed the conditional density operator (CDO). It naturally captures multivariate, multimodal output densities and shows performance that is competitive with recent neural conditional density models and Gaussian processes. The proposed model is based on a novel …

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Kolmogorov-Arnold network improves GW catalog posterior construction.

problem Efficiently constructing posterior distributions for GW catalogs.
method Using the Kolmogorov-Arnold network to create lightweight neural density estimators.
result Kolmogorov-Arnold network achieves superior interpretability and accuracy in posterior construction.

The Normalizing Flow (NF) models a general probability density by estimating an invertible transformation applied on samples drawn from a known distribution. We introduce a new type of NF, called Deep Diffeomorphic Normalizing Flow (DDNF). A diffeomorphic flow is an invertible function where both the function and its i…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

This work uses neural density estimation to analyze laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy data, enabling accurate predictions and uncertainty quantification.

problem Inference of probability densities in high-dimensional spectral data is often intractable.
method Normalizing flows on structured spectral latent spaces for density estimation and uncertainty quantification.
result The approach enables generation of realistic spectral samples and accurate prediction of state vectors with well-calibrated uncertainties.

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 ↗

Riesz regression connects to density ratio estimation for causal inference.

problem Estimating average treatment effects in causal inference.
method Riesz regression as a signed density ratio and least-squares importance fitting.
result Riesz regression and DRE are equivalent, allowing transfer of DRE results.