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48 results for knowledge flows

It is always demanding to learn robust visual representation for various learning problems; however, this learning and maintenance process usually suffers from noise, incompleteness or knowledge domain mismatch. Thus, robust representation learning by removing noisy features or samples, complementing incomplete data, a…

2019-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals similarities in knowledge flows between pharmaceutical and AI industries.

problem Understanding the dynamics of drug pipelines in global pharmaceutical industry.
method Multilayer network analysis of drug pipeline, global supply chain, and ownership data.
result Proven similarities in knowledge flows between pharmaceutical and AI industries.

A zoo of deep nets is available these days for almost any given task, and it is increasingly unclear which net to start with when addressing a new task, or which net to use as an initialization for fine-tuning a new model. To address this issue, in this paper, we develop knowledge flow which moves 'knowledge' from mult…

2019-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we propose a novel index to quantify and measure the flow of information on macro and micro scales. We discuss the implications of this index for knowledge management fields and also as intellectual capital that can thus be utilized by entrepreneurs. We explore different function and human oriented metric…

2011-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified geometric flows improve deep learning efficiency and simplify neural network topologies.

problem Improving deep learning performance and simplifying neural network structures.
method Proposes a thermodynamically coupled Ricci flow that dynamically adapts parameter space geometry to loss landscape topology, enabling automated singularity resolution and providing entanglement entropy bounds.
result Demonstrates 2.1× convergence acceleration and 63% topological simplification while maintaining O(NlogN)\mathcal{O}(N\log N) complexity, outperforming Riemannian baselines by 15.2% in few-shot accuracy.

ContextFlow++ improves generative models by conditioning on mixed-variable contexts.

problem Lack of effective methods for context conditioning in flow-based generative models.
method Proposes ContextFlow++ with additive conditioning and mixed-variable architecture.
result ContextFlow++ achieves higher performance metrics and faster training.

EMFs combine deep learning and probabilistic models for better density estimation.

problem Combining domain-specific knowledge with general-purpose deep learning.
method Alternating transformations with structured layers that embed domain-specific inductive biases.
result EMFs induce desirable properties like multimodality and hierarchical coupling.

Study on veering triangulations and their flow graphs, proving new applications.

problem Understanding the structure of veering triangulations and their flow graphs.
method Analyzing the infinitesimal components of the flow graph associated with veering triangulations.
result Infinitesimal components of veering triangulations' flow graphs have specific forms related to subsets called 'walls'.

Study infinite combinatorial Ricci flow on spherical surfaces.

problem Investigate infinite combinatorial Ricci flow with spherical background.
method Establish existence and convergence of solution for infinite cellular decompositions.
result Existence and convergence of solution for infinite combinatorial Ricci flow in spherical geometry.

The article analyzes the stability of a curve shortening flow for planar networks.

problem Stability analysis of anisotropic curve shortening flow for planar networks.
method Used Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality to derive stability results.
result For initial data close to an energy minimizer, the flow exists globally and converges to a different energy minimum.

In this paper, we prove that any solution of Kähler-Ricci flow on a Fano compactification MM of semisimple complex Lie group, is of type II, if MM admits no Kähler-Einstein metrics. As an application, we found two Fano compactifications of SO4(C)\mathrm{SO}_4(\mathbb{C}) and one Fano compactification of $\mathrm{Sp}_4(\m…

2018-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗

E-NFs generate molecules and their positions while preserving Euclidean symmetries.

problem Generating molecules with their positions while preserving Euclidean symmetries.
method Integrating E(n) graph neural networks into a differential equation to create an invertible equivariant function.
result E-NFs significantly outperform baselines and existing methods in log-likelihood for particle systems and molecules.

A new method speeds up sampling of Boltzmann distribution in high-dimensional systems.

problem High computational cost of obtaining Jacobian of flow-based models in high dimensions.
method Flow perturbation method that incorporates stochastic perturbations and reweighting.
result Achieves unbiased sampling of Boltzmann distribution with orders of magnitude speedup.

The paper defines flows on Z\mathbb{Z}-graded manifolds and proves unique maximal flows for vector fields.

problem Lack of a treatment for flows on Z\mathbb{Z}-graded manifolds.
method Definition and proof of maximal flows for vector fields on Z\mathbb{Z}-graded manifolds.
result Every vector field admits a unique maximal flow, with conditions for vector fields invariant under flows and commuting flows.

Improved physics-integrated generative models with noise robustness and fidelity.

problem Enhancing generative models to produce outputs that comply with physical laws and improve generalization.
method Integrating variational autoencoder with planar normalizing flow and attention mechanisms to learn latent posterior distributions and mitigate noise.
result Significant improvement in reconstruction quality and robustness against noise.

Active researches are currently being performed to incorporate the wealth of scientific knowledge into data-driven approaches (e.g., neural networks) in order to improve the latter's effectiveness. In this study, the Theory-guided Neural Network (TgNN) is proposed for deep learning of subsurface flow. In the TgNN, as s…

2019-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We formulate a new class of conditional generative models based on probability flows. Trained with maximum likelihood, it provides efficient inference and sampling from class-conditionals or the joint distribution, and does not require a priori knowledge of the number of classes or the relationships between classes. Th…

2019-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Shrinkers are special solutions of mean curvature flow (MCF) that evolve by rescaling and model the singularities. While there are infinitely many in each dimension, [CM1] showed that the only generic are round cylinders $\SS^k\times \RR^{n-k}$. We prove here that round cylinders are rigid in a very strong sense. Namel…

2013-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Lossless compression methods shorten the expected representation size of data without loss of information, using a statistical model. Flow-based models are attractive in this setting because they admit exact likelihood optimization, which is equivalent to minimizing the expected number of bits per message. However, con…

2019-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies parallel spinor flows on 3D Cauchy hypersurfaces and provides initial data characterizations.

problem Characterizing parallel spinors on Ricci flat Lorentzian four-manifolds.
method Evolution flow defined by parallel spinors, proving preservation of constraints, solving left-invariant flows.
result Initial data characterization of parallel spinors on Ricci flat Lorentzian four-manifolds.

The field of fluid mechanics is rapidly advancing, driven by unprecedented volumes of data from field measurements, experiments and large-scale simulations at multiple spatiotemporal scales. Machine learning offers a wealth of techniques to extract information from data that could be translated into knowledge about the…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate Liouville theorems and dimension estimates for the space of exponentially growing holomorphic functions on complete Kähler manifolds. While our work is motivated by the study of gradient Ricci solitons in the theory of Ricci flow, the most general results we prove here do not require any knowledge of cur…

2013-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Graphical normalizing flows use Bayesian networks to improve normalizing flows' interpretability and performance.

problem Improving the interpretability and performance of normalizing flows.
method Revisiting normalizing flows as probabilistic graphical models, proposing graphical normalizing flows with either prescribed or learnable graph structures.
result Graphical conditioners lead to competitive white box density estimators.

Maximum entropy modeling is a flexible and popular framework for formulating statistical models given partial knowledge. In this paper, rather than the traditional method of optimizing over the continuous density directly, we learn a smooth and invertible transformation that maps a simple distribution to the desired ma…

2017-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Domain adaptation leverages the knowledge in one domain - the source domain - to improve learning efficiency in another domain - the target domain. Existing heterogeneous domain adaptation research is relatively well-progressed, but only in situations where the target domain contains at least a few labeled instances. I…

2017-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Two fundamental problems in unsupervised learning are efficient inference for latent-variable models and robust density estimation based on large amounts of unlabeled data. Algorithms for the two tasks, such as normalizing flows and generative adversarial networks (GANs), are often developed independently. In this pape…

2017-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Flow Annealing Posterior Sampling unifies stochastic-process regression and PDE inverse problems.

problem Function-space posterior sampling for stochastic processes and inverse problems.
method Flow Annealing Posterior Sampling (FAPS) using pretrained function-space flow-matching priors.
result Coherent posterior samples with accurate uncertainty quantification.

A new flow-based Bayesian filter tackles high-dimensional nonlinear stochastic systems.

problem Bayesian filtering for high-dimensional nonlinear systems is challenging due to non-Gaussian distributions and computational limitations.
method Integrates normalizing flows to construct a latent linear state-space model with efficient density estimation and sampling.
result Demonstrates superior accuracy and efficiency in numerical experiments.

Proposes TgNN-LD to improve neural network effectiveness and efficiency.

problem Limits in maintaining tradeoff between data and domain knowledge.
method Converts loss function to constrained form with PDEs, ECs, and EK as constraints, incorporating Lagrangian variables for equitable tradeoff.
result Improves prediction accuracy and conserves resources.

Frugal Flows learn complex data and infer marginal causal effects.

problem Challenges in estimating marginal causal effects from complex data.
method Frugal Flows use normalizing flows to flexibly learn data and infer causal quantities.
result Frugal Flows can generate synthetic data that closely matches real-world data and exactly parameterize causal quantities.

Improved KL bounds and Wasserstein guarantees for diffusion flow matching under minimal conditions.

problem Theoretical convergence properties of Brownian motion based diffusion flow matching.
method Refined analysis under Kullback-Leibler and 2-Wasserstein distances.
result State-of-the-art scaling in KL convergence bounds under minimal conditions.