arXiv:2409. 08469v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We provide finite-particle convergence rates for the Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) algorithm in the Kernelized Stein Discrepancy ($\mathsf{KSD}$) and Wasserstein-2 metrics.
By Sayan Banerjee, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Promit Ghosal
arXiv:2508. 01392v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gibbs measures, such as Coulomb gases, are popular in modelling systems of interacting particles.
By Martin Rouault, R\'emi Bardenet, Myl\`ene Ma\"ida
arXiv:2604. 24196v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A drifting model is a one-step generator trained by moving each sample along a field of kernel-weighted attraction toward data samples and repulsion between model samples; training halts once this field vanishes.
By HakGeun Lee, Hyonho Chun
Particle-based variational inference (ParVI) methods approximate an intractable target distribution by evolving an ensemble of interacting samples. Existing approaches rely predominantly on kernel-based repulsion (e.
arXiv:2606. 25265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Particle-based variational inference (ParVI) methods approximate an intractable target distribution by evolving an ensemble of interacting samples.
By Vincent Pacelli, Akash Ratheesh, Evangelos Theodorou
arXiv:2607. 06696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weighted empirical measures on compact manifolds arise in importance sampling, particle approximations, posterior summaries, quadrature, and representation learning.
By Kisung You
Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are a natural tool for post-hoc conditioning of pretrained generative models, but in many applications the mutation kernels used by the particle system are biased approximations of an ideal Feynman--Kac flow. This paper develops a non-asymptotic error analysis for such SMC samplers.
arXiv:2607. 10930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models often represent signals as dense grids of amplitudes, blurring sharp transients that are crucial for the correctness of physical signals.
By Eli Bar-Yosef, Amir Averbuch, Eli Turkel
arXiv:2505. 07124v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study inverse problems where an unknown potential is observed only through samples from the measure it induces by a convex variational principle.
By Francisco Andrade, Gabriel Peyr\'e, Clarice Poon
arXiv:2605. 27478v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Schr\"odinger bridges for time series (SBTS) generate synthetic paths by projecting, in relative entropy, a Brownian reference onto the path laws that match the joint distribution of the data on the observation grid.
By Gabriele Bocchi
arXiv:2606. 18071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Score-based diffusion models typically use Brownian perturbations, which provide tractable reverse-time dynamics but impose memoryless noising.
By Yusen Jia, Bingyan Han
arXiv:2510. 22778v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a free-probabilistic framework for denoising diffusion, in which the data is a self-adjoint operator and its law a spectral distribution.
By Swagatam Das