We introduce a novel kernel that models input-dependent couplings across multiple latent processes. The pairwise joint kernel measures covariance along inputs and across different latent signals in a mutually-dependent fashion. A latent correlation Gaussian process (LCGP) model combines these non-stationary latent comp…
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New model captures state-dependent variability in partially observed systems.
problem Structured stochasticity not captured by constant-variance models.
method State-coupled stochastic volatility framework with particle expectation-maximization.
result Model consistently reduces recovery bias under partial observation.
New method linearizes nonlinear coupled oscillators on graphs.
problem Predicting global synchronization in nonlinear coupled oscillators on graphs.
method Latent dynamic filters learned through supervised matrix factorization.
result Latent dynamics filters enable effective prediction of global synchronization.
New algorithm for low-rank optimal transport with improved interpretability and efficiency.
problem Quadratic scaling of optimal transport coupling matrix for massive datasets.
method Factor Relaxation with Latent Coupling (FRLC) algorithm.
result Superior performance on diverse applications including graph clustering and spatial transcriptomics.
We present a coupled Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) method that improves the accuracy and robustness of the probabilistic inferences on represented data. The new method models the dependency between input feature vectors (images) and weighs the outliers with a higher penalty by generalizing the original loss function t…
Paper proposes C-STM for multimodal neuroimaging data classification.
problem Multimodal neuroimaging data fusion for better classification.
method Coupled Support Tensor Machine (C-STM) using latent factors from ACMTF.
result C-STM achieves better classification performance than single-mode classifiers.
Efficiently factorizes coupled matrix tensor data for better accuracy and speed.
problem Poor computation efficiency in existing N-CMTF algorithms.
method Column-wise element selection to prevent frequent gradient updates.
result More accurate and computationally efficient factorization.
Unified framework for coupled tensor completion improves recovery accuracy.
problem Improving recovery accuracy in coupled tensor completion.
method Unified framework using tensor ring (TR) decomposition with shared latent factors and novel optimization model.
result The proposed method achieves superior recovery accuracy on real-world data compared to state-of-the-art methods.
New gradient estimators for discrete variables improve model training.
problem Training models with discrete latent variables is challenging due to high gradient variance.
method Introduced novel gradient estimators based on importance sampling and statistical couplings, extending to categorical variables.
result Proposed gradient estimators outperform previous methods in systematic experiments.
Coupled Flow Matchingstat.ML
CPFM integrates dimensionality reduction and reconstruction with flow networks.
problem Learning coupled continuous flows for data and embeddings.
method Coupled flow matching framework with Gromov-Wasserstein objective and dual-conditional flow network.
result CPFM preserves and recovers residual information in latent space.
We consider the inverse Ising problem, i.e. the inference of network couplings from observed spin trajectories for a model with continuous time Glauber dynamics. By introducing two sets of auxiliary latent random variables we render the likelihood into a form, which allows for simple iterative inference algorithms with…
A new method for conditional sampling using paired Wasserstein Autoencoders.
problem Conditional sampling from complex data distributions.
method Derive a novel loss function for Wasserstein Autoencoders to enable sampling from OT-type couplings.
result Learned cost-optimal transport maps and conditional sampling from an OT-type coupling.
The behaviour of many real-world phenomena can be modelled by nonlinear dynamical systems whereby a latent system state is observed through a filter. We are interested in interacting subsystems of this form, which we model by a set of coupled maps as a synchronous update graph dynamical systems. Specifically, we study …
New normalizing flows in hyperbolic space improve posterior modeling for hierarchical data.
problem Limited flexibility of existing normalizing flows in Euclidean space for hierarchical data.
method Elevated normalizing flows to hyperbolic spaces using coupling transforms and Wrapped Hyperboloid Coupling.
result Improved performance on density estimation and hierarchical graph data.
Multi-domain translation seeks to learn a probabilistic coupling between marginal distributions that reflects the correspondence between different domains. We assume that data from different domains are generated from a shared latent representation based on a structural equation model. Under this assumption, we show th…
C-VAE improves VAE by resolving prior issues and generating better samples.
problem Low-quality samples from VAE due to prior issues.
method Formulates VAE as OT, allows flexible priors, and uses OT formulations.
result C-VAE generates higher quality samples and latent representations.
This paper shows how to approximate any log-concave distribution using well-conditioned affine coupling flows.
problem Understanding the representational power of affine coupling flows for log-concave distributions.
method Leveraging connections between affine coupling architectures, Langevin dynamics, and Hénon maps to prove log-concave approximation.
result Any log-concave distribution can be approximated using well-conditioned affine-coupling flows.
Unbiased gradient estimation improves VAE performance.
problem Training VAEs via maximum likelihood is difficult due to intractable integrals.
method Introduced unbiased estimators of the log-likelihood gradient using coupled Markov chains.
result Unbiased estimators lead to better predictive performance in VAEs.
How can we correlate neural activity in the human brain as it responds to words, with behavioral data expressed as answers to questions about these same words? In short, we want to find latent variables, that explain both the brain activity, as well as the behavioral responses. We show that this is an instance of the C…
Improved VAE models avoid posterior collapse in text modeling.
problem Posterior collapse in VAEs leads to poor data manifold parameterization.
method Coupled-VAE couples a VAE with a deterministic autoencoder to improve encoder and decoder parameterizations.
result Coupled-VAE consistently improves results in probability estimation and latent space richness.
We propose a set of convex low rank inducing norms for a coupled matrices and tensors (hereafter coupled tensors), which shares information between matrices and tensors through common modes. More specifically, we propose a mixture of the overlapped trace norm and the latent norms with the matrix trace norm, and then, w…
We outline new approaches to incorporate ideas from deep learning into wave-based least-squares imaging. The aim, and main contribution of this work, is the combination of handcrafted constraints with deep convolutional neural networks, as a way to harness their remarkable ease of generating natural images. The mathema…
Generative Adversarial networks (GANs) have obtained remarkable success in many unsupervised learning tasks and unarguably, clustering is an important unsupervised learning problem. While one can potentially exploit the latent-space back-projection in GANs to cluster, we demonstrate that the cluster structure is not re…
New model learns multimodal data better than DAGs.
problem Complex multimodal data not well captured by DAGs.
method Latent partial causal model with two latent coupled variables.
result Identifiability result shows representations correspond to latent variables.
We propose a probabilistic model to infer supervised latent variables in the Hamming space from observed data. Our model allows simultaneous inference of the number of binary latent variables, and their values. The latent variables preserve neighbourhood structure of the data in a sense that objects in the same semanti…
The paper predicts responses on out-of-sample nodes using latent positions on unknown curves.
problem Predicting responses on out-of-sample nodes with latent positions on unknown curves.
method Manifold learning and graph embedding technique using latent positions.
result Convergence guarantees for predicting responses on out-of-sample nodes.
Decomposing market impact into diffusive components
problem Market impact scaling
method Decomposing impact into realized and counterfactual returns
result Implication of square-root law in information-neutral regime
Proposes a non-parametric method for deep discrete latent variable models.
problem Learning sparse discrete latent representations in deep models.
method Iterative algorithm with Beta-Bernoulli process prior and local data scaling.
result Improves sparsity and scalability of deep discrete latent variable models.
A new framework for robust and coherent counterfactual transports.
problem Estimating joint distributions over counterfactual outcomes in personalized decision-making and treatment risk assessment.
method Counterfactual cocycles that use algebraic structure to provide coherence and identifiability guarantees, bridging the gap between bijective SCMs and OT methods.
result Counterfactual cocycles provide state-of-the-art performance and noise-robustness across synthetic benchmarks and a real-world study.
Sparse variational approximations allow for principled and scalable inference in Gaussian Process (GP) models. In settings where several GPs are part of the generative model, theses GPs are a posteriori coupled. For many applications such as regression where predictive accuracy is the quantity of interest, this couplin…
Introduces a probabilistic framework for dimension reduction methods.
problem Lack of clear probabilistic foundations for popular DR methods.
method A unifying statistical framework based on the coupling of hidden graphs using cross entropy.
result Existing DR methods suffer from a statistical deficiency that affects performance.
We propose an extension of the canonical polyadic (CP) tensor model where one of the latent factors is allowed to vary through data slices in a constrained way. The components of the latent factors, which we want to retrieve from data, can vary from one slice to another up to a diffeomorphism. We suppose that the diffe…
Model predicts trading strategies based on latent demand and price impact.
problem Predicting strategic trading behavior of investors with private targets.
method Equilibrium model of dynamic trading, learning, and pricing by strategic investors.
result Trading strategies are a combination of target following, liquidity provision, and front-running based on latent demand and price pressure.
New method for LVEBMs using saddle-point optimization and Langevin updates.
problem Expressive generative modeling of latent variables with hidden structure.
method Reformulate LVEBM training as a saddle problem, using Langevin updates and gradient flows.
result Proves existence and convergence of the algorithm under standard assumptions, with improved ELBO bounds.
A popular approach for predicting the future of dynamical systems involves mapping them into a lower-dimensional "latent space" where prediction is easier. We show that the information-theoretically optimal approach uses different mappings for present and future, in contrast to state-of-the-art machine-learning approac…
The key idea of variational auto-encoders (VAEs) resembles that of traditional auto-encoder models in which spatial information is supposed to be explicitly encoded in the latent space. However, the latent variables in VAEs are vectors, which can be interpreted as multiple feature maps of size 1x1. Such representations…
Efficiently infers coupled hidden Markov models with noisy discrete observations.
problem Intractable inference for coupled continuous-time Markov chains with discrete observations.
method Latent Interacting Particle Systems, look-ahead functions, twisted Sequential Monte Carlo sampling.
result Demonstrated effectiveness on latent SIRS model and wildfire spread dynamics.
Paper presents a reparameterized DP-DLGMM for clustering.
problem Non-parametric DP priors in DLGMM are hard to couple with variational inference.
method Closed-form updates for DP-DLGMM's variational posterior.
result Model generates realistic samples and performs competitively in semi-supervised settings.
In this paper we address the problem of modeling relational data, which appear in many applications such as social network analysis, recommender systems and bioinformatics. Previous studies either consider latent feature based models but disregarding local structure in the network, or focus exclusively on capturing loc…
New method identifies latent variables with causal dependencies from observed data.
problem Identify latent variables with causal relationships from observed data.
method Linear causal disentanglement via higher-order cumulants, with perfect and soft interventions.
result Recovery of parameters via coupled tensor decomposition and polynomial equations.
Model simulates correlation emergence in two coupled limit order books.
problem Modeling correlation emergence in coupled limit order books.
method Simulated two coupled diffusive limit order books using random walks in the fluid limit, with trader interactions.
result Demonstrated the recovery of an Epps effect from the model.
A new method for state estimation on complex networks.
problem Reconstructing latent dynamics from multivariate time-series on topological cell complexes.
method Topology-aware state space framework derived from stochastic partial differential equations, with state evolution following heat-like topological diffusion.
result The proposed method successfully recovers latent states and topological structures in real-world networks.
Efficiently infers latent SDEs with scalable memory and time costs.
problem Inference of latent SDEs with high time and memory complexity.
method Amortized reparametrization of expectations under linear SDEs, coupled with efficient gradient approximation.
result Achieves similar performance to adjoint sensitivities with fewer model evaluations.
Primal-Dual Wasserstein GANstat.ML
We introduce Primal-Dual Wasserstein GAN, a new learning algorithm for building latent variable models of the data distribution based on the primal and the dual formulations of the optimal transport (OT) problem. We utilize the primal formulation to learn a flexible inference mechanism and to create an optimal approxim…
Paper establishes identifiability and achievability for causal representation learning.
problem Identifying and recovering latent causal models and variables from observational and interventional data.
method Establishes identifiability and achievability using uncoupled interventions and a recovery algorithm.
result Guaranteed perfect recovery of latent causal model and variables under uncoupled interventions.
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…
When is Particle Filtering Efficient for Planning in Partially Observed Linear Dynamical Systems?cs.LG
This paper studies when particle filtering is efficient for planning in partially observed systems.
problem The efficiency of particle filtering for planning in partially observed linear dynamical systems.
method Coupling of ideal and approximate sequences to bound particle complexity.
result Polynomially many particles suffice for stable systems to approximate optimal planning.
Proposes GPLFR for predicting high-dimensional outputs with few data.
problem Predicting high-dimensional outputs from limited data.
method GPLFR combines Gaussian process and linear-Gaussian decoding for high-dimensional prediction.
result GPLFR outperforms existing methods in predicting high-dimensional outputs.