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48 results for stochastic matching

Closed-form flow matching yields similar performance to stochastic version, improving model performance.

problem Understanding why flow matching models generalize well.
method Empirical analysis and comparison of stochastic and closed-form flow matching losses.
result Closed-form flow matching can improve model performance.

A new method for stochastic optimal control improves accuracy over existing techniques.

problem Improving the accuracy of stochastic optimal control for noisy systems.
method Stochastic Optimal Control Matching (SOCM) using Iterative Diffusion Optimization (IDO) with path-wise reparameterization trick.
result SOCM achieves lower error than existing techniques for three out of four control problems, sometimes by an order of magnitude.

Study asset price bubbles using random matching and stochastic factors.

problem Understanding and modeling asset price bubbles through investor contagion.
method Developed a stochastic model of liquidity-based asset price bubbles using random matching mechanism.
result Derived conditions for arbitrage-free financial market models.

SDE Matching eliminates simulation for training Latent SDEs, achieving similar performance.

problem Training Latent SDEs with adjoint sensitivity methods is computationally expensive and limited.
method SDE Matching, inspired by Score- and Flow Matching, eliminates simulation for training Latent SDEs.
result SDE Matching achieves performance comparable to adjoint sensitivity methods while reducing computational complexity.

A scalable algorithm for sampling and fine-tuning models using Tilt Matching.

problem Efficient sampling and fine-tuning of generative models.
method Tilt Matching, arising from a dynamical equation, minimizes variance and inherits regularity from stochastic interpolants.
result Empirically verified to be efficient and highly scalable, providing state-of-the-art results.

Efficient algorithm for matching graphs with community structure.

problem Graph matching between correlated stochastic block models with constant correlation.
method Partition trees rooted from each vertex, comparing edge statistics to different communities.
result First low-order polynomial-time algorithm achieving exact matching with high probability in dense graphs.

New error bounds for flow matching methods using deterministic sampling.

problem Improving the accuracy of flow matching methods for generating probability distributions.
method Derived error bounds for flow matching methods under deterministic sampling conditions.
result Presented error bounds for flow matching methods using L2L^2 loss and regularity conditions.

The paper establishes bounds for score-matching in causal discovery and generative modeling.

problem Estimating causal relationships from data.
method Training a deep neural network to estimate the score function and applying it to causal discovery.
result Bounds on the error rate of causal discovery methods using score-matching.

Adjoint Matching improves flow and diffusion models with reward fine-tuning.

problem Improving generative models with reward fine-tuning.
method Casting reward fine-tuning as stochastic optimal control (SOC) and enforcing a specific noise schedule.
result Adjoint Matching outperforms existing SOC algorithms.

Efficient algorithm for graph matching in correlated stochastic block models.

problem Graph matching in correlated stochastic block models with balanced communities.
method Extends previous work on centered subgraph counts to handle estimation errors and edge correlation.
result First efficient algorithm for graph matching in the logarithmic average degree regime, matching all but a vanishing fraction of vertices with high probability.

iDEM generates samples from Boltzmann densities without data.

problem Generating statistically independent samples from unnormalized distributions.
method Iterative algorithm using energy and gradient for diffusion-based sampler training.
result iDEM achieves state-of-the-art performance and trains faster than existing methods.

Graph matching in noisy environments with Markovian errors.

problem Graph matching under time-dependent Markovian noise.
method Introduced edgelighter error model and analyzed graph matching thresholds.
result Graph matching thresholds and mixing times are of order Θ(n2logn)Θ(n^2\log n) for Erdős-Rényi graphs, and O(nαlogn)O(n^α\log n) for Stochastic Block Model graphs.

A new method approximates option pricing in stochastic interest rate markets.

problem Approximating option pricing in markets with stochastic interest rates.
method Gaussian moment matching technique applied to a conditional Black \& Scholes formula.
result The method performs remarkably well, even compared to other techniques.

Greedy algorithm performs well in online matching despite non-i.i.d. connections.

problem Online matching in sparse random graphs with fixed degree distributions.
method Approximating stochastic processes with partial differential equations.
result GREEDY algorithm can outperform RANKING in certain configurations.

3MSBM learns smooth trajectories from multiple snapshots.

problem Capturing long-range temporal dependencies in complex systems.
method Lifts dynamics to phase space, generalizes stochastic bridges to multi-marginal conditional problems, learns transport maps preserving intermediate marginals.
result Significantly improves convergence and scalability in capturing complex dynamics.

A test for comparing networks using stochastic block models.

problem Determining if two network datasets come from the same model.
method Adopting stochastic block models, the study introduces an efficient algorithm to match estimated network parameters and develops a powerful test.
result The test is consistent and asymptotically follows a chi-squared distribution.

Paper solves k-sparse parity problem with sign SGD, matching SQ lower bound.

problem Solving k-sparse parity problems efficiently.
method Sign stochastic gradient descent on neural networks.
result Matches Statistical Query lower bound for solving k-sparse parity problems.

We present a parallelized bijective graph matching algorithm that leverages seeds and is designed to match very large graphs. Our algorithm combines spectral graph embedding with existing state-of-the-art seeded graph matching procedures. We justify our approach by proving that modestly correlated, large stochastic blo…

2013-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Adaptive algorithms minimize regret in matching markets with contextual arm preferences.

problem Minimizing regret in matching markets with context-dependent player utilities.
method Developed adaptive algorithms for stochastic and adversarial contexts, providing upper and lower bounds.
result Achieved sublinear regret bounds for both stochastic and adversarial contexts.

The paper proposes multicalibration to improve matching in graphs with imperfect predictors.

problem Finding the best matching in graphs with imperfect predictors.
method Introduces multicalibration as a fairness notion to ensure unbiasedness on protected sets of contexts.
result Constructing a multicalibrated predictor that outperforms standard optimal rules in matching algorithms.

TFM trains Neural SDEs without backpropagation, improving clinical time series modeling.

problem Modeling irregularly sampled time series in medicine.
method Trajectory Flow Matching (TFM) using flow matching for generative modeling.
result TFM improves performance on clinical time series datasets.

A machine learning framework predicts self-induced stochastic resonance in neurons.

problem Predicting coherent oscillations in slow-fast excitable systems driven by noise.
method Physics-informed machine learning with a Noise-Augmented State Predictor architecture and Kramers' escape theory constraints.
result Trained PINN accurately predicts spike-train coherence on noise intensity, excitability, and timescale separation.

New inequalities for unbounded functions improve denoising score matching.

problem Statistical error bounds for denoising score matching with unbounded objective functions.
method Derive new concentration inequalities using McDiarmid's inequality and Rademacher complexity bounds.
result Improved statistical error bounds for denoising score matching.

GMMNs model cross-sectional dependence for better option pricing and simulation.

problem Modeling cross-sectional dependence between stochastic processes.
method Generative moment matching networks (GMMNs) for geometric Brownian motions and ARMA-GARCH models.
result GMMNs produce dependent quasi-random samples with variance reduction.

FM4PDE learns PDE solutions from sparse data.

problem Reconstructing PDE solutions from limited observations.
method Flow-matching generative framework that learns PDE coefficients and solutions.
result Error guarantees for guided procedures, including deterministic and stochastic samplers.

New algorithm finds approximate stationary points in non-convex optimization.

problem Finding approximate stationary points in non-convex stochastic optimization.
method Design of an algorithm using O(ε3)O(ε^{-3}) stochastic gradient and Hessian-vector products.
result Optimal rate of O(ε3)O(ε^{-3}) for finding εε-approximate stationary points, matching lower bounds.

RL and DTSOC for final quadratic hedging performance studied.

problem Optimal hedging of European call options with and without transaction costs.
method Reinforcement Learning and Deep Trajectory-based Stochastic Optimal Control.
result RL and DTSOC perform similarly to variance-optimal hedging in various market models.

In this paper, we study the information-theoretic limits of community detection in the symmetric two-community stochastic block model, with intra-community and inter-community edge probabilities an\frac{a}{n} and bn\frac{b}{n} respectively. We consider the sparse setting, in which aa and bb do not scale with nn, and…

2016-02-02abs ↗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.

Large learning rates prevent memorization in denoising score matching.

problem Memorization of training data in diffusion-based generative models.
method Investigating the role of large learning rates in the small-noise regime, proving that they prevent convergence to the empirical optimal score.
result Large learning rates prevent memorization by making it impossible for the learned score to be arbitrarily close to the empirical optimal score.

Develops a deterministic method to approximate NSDEs for better uncertainty quantification.

problem Computational infeasibility of obtaining well-calibrated uncertainty from NSDEs.
method Bidimensional moment matching algorithm for approximating NSDE transition kernel.
result Deterministic approximation improves uncertainty calibration and prediction accuracy.