Efficiently implements polar slice sampling for high-dimensional distributions.
problem Sampling from difficult-to-implement distributions in high dimensions.
method Separates directional and radial components for efficient implementation.
result Outperforms related methods in various settings.
Nested Slice Sampling accelerates Nested Sampling for GPU acceleration.
problem Challenging inference for complex, multimodal targets.
method Vectorized Nested Slice Sampling using Hit-and-Run Slice Sampling.
result NSS maintains accurate evidence estimates and high-quality posterior samples, robust on multimodal problems.
A new slicing method speeds up sliced Wasserstein estimation.
problem Efficiently estimating sliced Wasserstein distance.
method Random-Path Projecting Direction (RPD) for fast sampling.
result RPSW and IWRPSW show favorable performance in training generative models.
Extended elliptical slice sampling for infinite-dimensional spaces, proving reversibility.
problem Proving reversibility of elliptical slice sampling in infinite-dimensional spaces.
method Extended elliptical slice sampling to infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces, providing an alternative proof of reversibility.
result The approach yields a positive semi-definite Markov operator, proving reversibility.
Elliptical slice sampling converges geometrically, providing reliable sampling for Bayesian learning.
problem Sampling from posterior distributions in Bayesian learning.
method Elliptical slice sampling, geometric ergodicity.
result Elliptical slice sampling yields geometric convergence guarantees under weak regularity assumptions.
Slice Sampling has emerged as a powerful Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm that adapts to the characteristics of the target distribution with minimal hand-tuning. However, Slice Sampling's performance is highly sensitive to the user-specified initial length scale hyperparameter and the method generally struggles with …
A new slicing method reduces computational cost for cross-domain alignment.
problem High computational cost in solving Gromov-Wasserstein distance.
method Relation-Aware Projecting Direction (RAPD) and Relation-Aware Slicing Distribution (RASD).
result RASGW distance reduces computational cost and improves alignment accuracy.
A new algorithm speeds up elliptical slice sampling for truncated multivariate normals.
problem Efficiently sampling from truncated multivariate normal distributions with linear constraints.
method Adapting elliptical slice sampling to linearly truncated multivariate normals, with an algorithm for ellipse-polytope intersection in O(m log m) time.
result The algorithm enhances numerical stability, speeds up running time, and is easy to parallelize.
This work investigates the properties of Gaussian-smoothed sliced divergences for comparing distributions.
problem Comparing probability distributions while preserving privacy.
method Investigates the theoretical properties of Gaussian-smoothed sliced Wasserstein distance and generalized versions.
result Gaussian smoothed sliced Wasserstein distance converges with a rate of \(O(n^{-1/2})\).
We unify slice sampling and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling, demonstrating their connection via the Hamiltonian-Jacobi equation from Hamiltonian mechanics. This insight enables extension of HMC and slice sampling to a broader family of samplers, called Monomial Gamma Samplers (MGS). We provide a theoretical anal…
We propose an exact slice sampler for Hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP) and its associated mixture models (Teh et al., 2006). Although there are existing MCMC algorithms for sampling from the HDP, a slice sampler has been missing from the literature. Slice sampling is well-known for its desirable properties includin…
A new method for comparing image probability measures using convolution operators.
problem Efficiently comparing images using conventional sliced Wasserstein methods.
method Proposed convolution sliced Wasserstein (CSW) methods with stride, dilation, and non-linear activation.
result CSW demonstrates favorable performance over conventional sliced Wasserstein in image comparison and deep generative modeling.
The paper explores statistical and topological properties of sliced probability divergences.
problem Understanding the topological, statistical, and computational consequences of slicing divergences.
method Deriving theoretical properties of sliced probability divergences, including metric axioms preservation and weak continuity.
result Sliced divergences share similar topological properties and have stable sample complexity.
Proposes a new distance metric for multi-marginal optimal transport.
problem Computational scalability in multi-marginal optimal transport.
method Random one-dimensional projections to construct sliced multi-marginal Wasserstein distance.
result Sliced multi-marginal Wasserstein distance is a metric with dimension-free sample complexity.
Generative adversarial nets (GANs) and variational auto-encoders have significantly improved our distribution modeling capabilities, showing promise for dataset augmentation, image-to-image translation and feature learning. However, to model high-dimensional distributions, sequential training and stacked architectures …
Study efficient iterative method for distribution matching using sliced optimal transport.
problem Efficiently match distributions using sliced optimal transport.
method Slice-matching scheme based on sliced optimal transport, with quantitative non-asymptotic rates derived.
result Derive quantitative non-asymptotic rates for convergence to target distribution.
Proposes an energy-based sliced Wasserstein distance for improved probability measure comparison.
problem Inefficiencies and limitations in existing sliced Wasserstein distance approaches.
method Introduces an energy-based slicing distribution for better performance and stability.
result Demonstrates superior performance of the EBSW distance in various applications.
CB-SLICE identifies concept-based error slices in deep learning models.
problem Systematic errors in deep learning models on specific groups.
method Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) and concept representations.
result CB-SLICE outperforms state-of-the-art methods in error slice identification.
A new approach simplifies Sliced-Wasserstein distances to improve learning performance.
problem The concentration of measure phenomenon makes random projections uninformative in high dimensions.
method Propose rescaling the 1D Wasserstein distance to make all slices equally informative.
result The classical Sliced-Wasserstein, properly configured, can match or surpass complex variants.
A new method for estimating SW from streaming data.
problem Estimating Wasserstein distance from sample streams.
method Introducing a streaming estimator of the 1DW and applying it to all projections.
result Stream-SW achieves more accurate approximation of SW than random subsampling.
The application of standard sufficient dimension reduction methods for reducing the dimension space of predictors without losing regression information requires inverting the covariance matrix of the predictors. This has posed a number of challenges especially when analyzing high-dimensional data sets in which the numb…
Gradient-guided nested sampling improves posterior inference efficiency.
problem Efficiently sampling from complex posterior distributions.
method Gradient-guided nested sampling combining differentiable programming, Hamiltonian slice sampling, clustering, mode separation, dynamic nested sampling, and parallelization.
result Significantly faster mode discovery and more accurate partition function estimates.
The Gaussian process (GP) is a popular way to specify dependencies between random variables in a probabilistic model. In the Bayesian framework the covariance structure can be specified using unknown hyperparameters. Integrating over these hyperparameters considers different possible explanations for the data when maki…
Empower efficient representation of distributions through moment-preserving methods.
problem Representing high-dimensional probability measures efficiently and accurately.
method Empower efficient representation of distributions through moment-preserving methods.
result Empowers efficient and accurate representation of high-dimensional probability measures.
A permutation-based SW test achieves minimax-optimal power for two-sample testing.
problem Nonparametric two-sample testing using the sliced Wasserstein distance.
method Proposes a permutation-based SW test and analyzes its performance.
result Achieves minimax separation rate n−1/2 over multinomial and bounded-support alternatives. Proposes an online method for high-dimensional streaming data.
problem Increasing variable dimensions with sample size in online kernel sliced inverse regression.
method Introduces approximate linear dependence condition and dictionary variable sets to address the problem. Transforms into online generalized eigen-decomposition problem and uses stochastic optimization for updates.
result Achieves close performance to batch processing kernel sliced inverse regression.
Sharp bounds for max-sliced Wasserstein distances derived for empirical distributions.
problem Estimating the expected max-sliced Wasserstein distance between a probability measure and its empirical distribution.
method Banach space version and operator norm approach for upper bounds.
result Upper bounds for max-sliced Wasserstein distances are essentially matching and sharp up to a log factor.
In this paper we discuss a class of AutoEncoder based generative models based on one dimensional sliced approach. The idea is based on the reduction of the discrimination between samples to one-dimensional case. Our experiments show that methods can be divided into two groups. First consists of methods which are a modi…
New hyperbolic sliced-Wasserstein distances derived for efficient comparison.
problem Efficient comparison of distributions in hyperbolic spaces.
method Projections on geodesics or horospheres to derive novel sliced-Wasserstein distances.
result Novel hyperbolic sliced-Wasserstein distances are more computationally efficient.
New method estimates SW distance using CDFs for scalable data parallelism.
problem Estimating SW distance efficiently for large datasets.
method Estimators based on CDFs of projected measures, avoiding sorting.
result Efficient estimation for large datasets and federated learning.
Improves MCMC performance with adaptive affine transformations.
problem Improving the performance of Markov Chain Monte Carlo samplers.
method Adaptive learning of bijective affine transformations during sampling.
result Adaptive affine transformations improve the quality of samples at low computational cost.
New autoencoder improves latent space learning by optimizing sliced Gromov-Wasserstein discrepancies.
problem Improving inner discrepancy between prior and posterior distributions in autoencoders.
method Proposed spherical sliced fused Gromov Wasserstein (SSFG) and variants (MSSFG, PSSFG) to find important directions.
result New autoencoders achieve favorable performance in latent manifold learning, image generation, and reconstruction.
SGE-Kriging reduces high-dimensional surrogate modelling costs.
problem High-dimensional function approximation for expensive models.
method Splitting training data into slices, using sliced likelihood function, and learning hyper-parameters from sensitivity indices.
result SGE-Kriging achieves comparable accuracy to standard GE-Kriging but with lower training costs.
Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is a popular method for approximate inference in generative models with intractable but easy-to-sample likelihood. It constructs an approximate posterior distribution by finding parameters for which the simulated data are close to the observations in terms of summary statistics. T…
A new method steers Gaussian distributions with minimal effort.
problem Steering high-dimensional Gaussian distributions efficiently.
method Sliced feedback controller using one-dimensional projections and averaging.
result The method steers Gaussian distributions to targets efficiently.
A new spherical Sliced-Wasserstein distance for data on spheres.
problem Defining Wasserstein distance on manifolds, especially spheres.
method Closed-form solutions of the Wasserstein distance on the circle and a new spherical Radon transform.
result A novel spherical Sliced-Wasserstein (SW) discrepancy for data on spheres.
SINF models transform arbitrary PDFs to target PDFs using 1D slices.
problem Transforming arbitrary probability distributions to target distributions efficiently.
method Iterative Optimal Transport of 1D slices, maximizing Wasserstein distance.
result SINF models generate high-quality samples and competitive density estimates.
Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW) and its variant, Max Sliced-Wasserstein distance (Max-SW), have been used widely in the recent years due to their fast computation and scalability even when the probability measures lie in a very high dimensional space. However, SW requires many unnecessary projection samples to approxi…
This paper improves normalizing flows by combining MLE and sliced-Wasserstein distance for better data fidelity.
problem Normalizing flows struggle with generating realistic data and detecting out-of-distribution data.
method Proposes a hybrid objective function combining MLE and sliced-Wasserstein distance.
result Shows better generative abilities and lower likelihood of out-of-distribution data.
New method for summarizing Bayesian mixture models using sliced Wasserstein distances.
problem Estimating the mixing measure in nonparametric Bayesian mixture models.
method Decision-theoretic approach using sliced Wasserstein distances for Gaussian mixtures.
result Effective estimation of the mixing measure and mixture density.
Study on r−shake slice knots and proves 0-shake slice knots are slice.
problem Understanding and characterizing r−shake slice knots. method Exploring the relation to corks and proving slice properties.
result Proves 0-shake slice knots are slice.
Proves certain knots are slice without shaking.
problem Identifying slice knots without using traditional methods.
method Direct proof for 0−shake slice knots. result Proves 0−shake slice knots are slice. Wasserstein distances are increasingly used in a wide variety of applications in machine learning. Sliced Wasserstein distances form an important subclass which may be estimated efficiently through one-dimensional sorting operations. In this paper, we propose a new variant of sliced Wasserstein distance, study the use …
We consider supervised dimension reduction problems, namely to identify a low dimensional projection of the predictors $\-x$ which can retain the statistical relationship between $\-x$ and the response variable y. We follow the idea of the sliced inverse regression (SIR) and the sliced average variance estimation (SA…
In this paper we study generative modeling via autoencoders while using the elegant geometric properties of the optimal transport (OT) problem and the Wasserstein distances. We introduce Sliced-Wasserstein Autoencoders (SWAE), which are generative models that enable one to shape the distribution of the latent space int…
New algorithm improves inference for flexible models with infinite latent features.
problem Inference for models with infinite latent features is computationally challenging and limiting.
method Adaptive slice sampling for posterior inference with general completely random measures.
result Higher effective sample size and predictive performance compared to existing methods.
Proves a special knot type is slice.
problem Characterizing slice knots.
method Proof by contradiction and algebraic topology.
result 0-shake slice knots are indeed slice.
Motivated by the growing popularity of variants of the Wasserstein distance in statistics and machine learning, we study statistical inference for the Sliced Wasserstein distance--an easily computable variant of the Wasserstein distance. Specifically, we construct confidence intervals for the Sliced Wasserstein distanc…