Research
On-device research index

arXiv research

A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.

168,695 papers · 148 categories

Trend · papers per month

60120179239 · Jun 202019922001200920172026
48 results for joint variation

Improved multimodal variational models capture more complex joint distributions.

problem Limited expressiveness of multimodal variational models.
method Used normalizing flows to approximate and transform a simple parametric joint posterior into a more complex one.
result The model improves on state-of-the-art multimodal variational methods on various tasks.

VPP learns joint policies for multi-agent RL through interactions.

problem Learning effective joint policies for multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method VPP integrates variational inference into policy layers for efficient sampling and differentiability.
result VPP outperforms previous methods on large-scale multi-agent tasks.

New model improves multimodal autoencoders by learning joint and conditional distributions.

problem Limitations in recent multimodal autoencoders restrict their quality on complex datasets.
method Proposes a multistage training process with variational inference and Normalizing Flows, leveraging shared modality information.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmark datasets.

Integrative analysis of disparate data blocks measured on a common set of experimental subjects is a major challenge in modern data analysis. This data structure naturally motivates the simultaneous exploration of the joint and individual variation within each data block resulting in new insights. For instance, there i…

2017-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate deep generative models that can exchange multiple modalities bi-directionally, e.g., generating images from corresponding texts and vice versa. Recently, some studies handle multiple modalities on deep generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs). However, these models typically assume that…

2016-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) have been widely applied for learning compact, low-dimensional latent representations of high-dimensional data. When the correlation structure among data points is available, previous work proposed Correlated Variational Auto-Encoders (CVAEs), which employ a structured mixture model as …

2019-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified model learns joint and individual features from brain imaging data.

problem Integrating structural and functional connectivity data for behavioral phenotypes.
method Cross-Modal Joint-Individual Variational Network (CM-JIVNet) with multi-head attention fusion.
result CM-JIVNet outperforms in cross-modal reconstruction and behavioral trait prediction.

Hidden regular variation is a sub-model of multivariate regular variation and facilitates accurate estimation of joint tail probabilities. We generalize the model of hidden regular variation to what we call hidden domain of attraction. We exhibit examples that illustrate the need for a more general model and discuss de…

2011-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves joint distribution learning for high-dimensional datasets with complex correlations.

problem Conditional independence assumption limitations in VAE decoders for high-dimensional datasets.
method Cramer-Wold distance regularization and two-step learning method for flexible prior modeling.
result Effective joint distributional learning for high-dimensional datasets with multiple categorical variables.

Online method for state estimation and parameter learning in SSMs.

problem State estimation and parameter learning in state-space models.
method Stochastic gradient optimization of variational lower bound, using backward decompositions and Bellman recursions.
result Ability to operate online without revisiting historic observations.

This paper analyzes AJIVE for estimating shared subspace across multiple datasets, revealing its strengths and limitations.

problem Estimating shared subspace across multiple datasets with varying degrees of misalignment.
method Angle-based Joint and Individual Variation Explained (AJIVE) method, a two-stage spectral approach.
result AJIVE's performance in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regimes and its non-diminishing error in low-SNR settings.

Learning network representations is a fundamental task for many graph applications such as link prediction, node classification, graph clustering, and graph visualization. Many real-world networks are interpreted as dynamic networks and evolve over time. Most existing graph embedding algorithms were developed for stati…

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates parameters of interconnected linear systems using total variation penalization.

problem Joint estimation of parameters in interconnected linear dynamical systems.
method Total variation penalized least-squares estimator.
result The MSE goes to zero as the number of systems increases, even with constant trajectory length.

Enhances multimodal generation with Normalizing Flows and correlation analysis.

problem Generating coherent cross-modal data from multiple sources.
method Uses Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis for shared information, Normalizing Flows for diversity, and Product of Experts for scalability.
result Improves likelihood, diversity, and coherence in conditional generation.

NeuralFLoC unifies registration and clustering of functional data, overcoming phase variation challenges.

problem Challenges in clustering functional data due to phase variation and temporal misalignment.
method NeuralFLoC uses Neural ODE-driven diffeomorphic flows and spectral clustering for joint registration and clustering.
result NeuralFLoC effectively disentangles phase and amplitude variation, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

In this document we are going to derive the equations needed to implement a Variational Bayes i-vector extractor. This can be used to extract longer i-vectors reducing the risk of overfittig or to adapt an i-vector extractor from a database to another with scarce development data. This work is based on Patrick Kenny's …

2015-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

While it's always possible to compute a variational approximation to a posterior distribution, it can be difficult to discover problems with this approximation. We propose two diagnostic algorithms to alleviate this problem. The Pareto-smoothed importance sampling (PSIS) diagnostic gives a goodness of fit measurement f…

2018-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

MHVAE learns cross-modality inference inspired by human cognition.

problem Cross-modality inference in multimodal data.
method Hierarchical multimodal generative model with modality-specific and joint-modality distributions.
result MHVAE performs on par with state-of-the-art models on multimodal datasets.

JoVA combines two VAEs to learn user and item representations for better recommendation.

problem Collaborative filtering with implicit feedback.
method Joint Variational Autoencoders (JoVA) with a hinge-based pairwise loss function (JoVA-Hinge).
result JoVA-Hinge outperforms state-of-the-art methods in top-k recommendation.

This paper presents a Bayesian method for estimating the rank of a low-rank tensor model of joint PMF.

problem Estimating the rank of a low-rank tensor model of joint PMF from observed data.
method Bayesian framework for estimating low-rank components and rank simultaneously, using variational inference.
result Automatic rank detection and improved estimation accuracy compared to cross-validation methods.

Paper addresses state estimation in sensor networks with intermittent data.

problem State estimation in sensor networks with packet dropouts and corrupted observations.
method Bayesian variational inference with a dual-mask generative model.
result The method effectively identifies system states and noise parameters.

We formalize the problem of learning interdomain correspondences in the absence of paired data as Bayesian inference in a latent variable model (LVM), where one seeks the underlying hidden representations of entities from one domain as entities from the other domain. First, we introduce implicit latent variable models,…

2018-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Variational dropout (VD) is a generalization of Gaussian dropout, which aims at inferring the posterior of network weights based on a log-uniform prior on them to learn these weights as well as dropout rate simultaneously. The log-uniform prior not only interprets the regularization capacity of Gaussian dropout in netw…

2018-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

VJE learns latent representations without contrastive learning, providing probabilistic semantics.

problem Learning latent representations without contrastive signals.
method VJE maximizes a symmetric conditional evidence lower bound (ELBO) on paired encoder embeddings, using a Student-t distribution on a polar representation.
result VJE outperforms standard non-contrastive baselines in ImageNet-1K, CIFAR-10/100, and STL-10.

Recurrent neural networks like long short-term memory (LSTM) are important architectures for sequential prediction tasks. LSTMs (and RNNs in general) model sequences along the forward time direction. Bidirectional LSTMs (Bi-LSTMs) on the other hand model sequences along both forward and backward directions and are gene…

2017-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Generating graph structures is a challenging problem due to the diverse representations and complex dependencies among nodes. In this paper, we introduce Graph Variational Recurrent Neural Network (GraphVRNN), a probabilistic autoregressive model for graph generation. Through modeling the latent variables of graph data…

2019-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method combines Laplace and Variational Bayes for scalable inference.

problem Complex models and large datasets make exact inference infeasible.
method Low-Rank Variational Bayes Correction (VBC) using Laplace method and Variational Bayes correction in a lower dimension.
result The method ensures scalability in both model complexity and data size.