arXiv:2606. 16257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sampling from high-dimensional, non-log-concave distributions with unnormalized densities is a fundamental challenge in machine learning, particularly when the exact gradient of the potential is unavailable and must be approximated via stochastic gradients that exhibit high variance under a fixed budget of gradient computations per iteration.
By M. Berk Sahin, Ahmet Ege Tanriverdi, Behzad Sharif, Abolfazl Hashemi
arXiv:2607. 26562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study optimization under performative prediction, where deploying a model affects the future data distribution.
By Hiroki Hamaguchi, Yuya Hikima, Hiroshi Sawada, Akiko Takeda
arXiv:2607. 03871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Minimum maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) estimation has emerged as a robust and likelihood-free alternative to maximum likelihood estimation for parameter estimation.
By Sophia Seulkee Kang, Louis Sharrock, Xiaoyuan Cheng, Fran\c{c}ois-Xavier Briol, Zonghao Chen
arXiv:2506. 06542v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of likelihood maximization when the likelihood function is intractable but model simulations are readily available.
By Sherman Khoo, Yakun Wang, Song Liu, Mark Beaumont
arXiv:2602. 02877v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper studies optimization for a family of problems termed $\textbf{compositional entropic risk minimization}$, in which each data's loss is formulated as a Log-Expectation-Exponential (Log-E-Exp) function.
By Xiyuan Wei, Linli Zhou, Bokun Wang, Chih-Jen Lin, Tianbao Yang
arXiv:2608. 13793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning (ML) has become an indispensable part of modern engineering design workflows.
By Tyler R. Johnson, Kian Ben-Jacob, Christopher P. Muller, Ramin Bostanabad
arXiv:2606. 31915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While conformal prediction provides a general framework for uncertainty quantification in predictive inference, its application is often limited by computational cost.
By Jiachen Cong, Jingbo Liu
arXiv:2604. 07635v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This research considers a scalable inference for spatial data modeled through Gaussian intrinsic conditional autoregressive (ICAR) structures.
By Debjoy Thakur
arXiv:2111. 10722v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a novel deterministic sampling method, EVI-MMD, to approximate a target distribution $\rho^*$ by minimizing the kernel discrepancy, also known as the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD).
By Yindong Chen, Yiwei Wang, Lulu Kang, Chun Liu
arXiv:2410. 02628v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning conditional distributions $\pi^*(\cdot|x)$ is a central problem in machine learning, which is typically approached via supervised methods with paired data $(x,y) \sim \pi^*$.
By Mikhail Persiianov, Arip Asadulaev, Nikita Andreev, Nikita Starodubcev, Dmitry Baranchuk, Anastasis Kratsios, Evgeny Burnaev, Alexander Korotin
arXiv:2607. 07888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies distributed sketching for ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, an approach that distributes small sketches of a large data set over multiple machines to separately construct OLS estimators and average them.
By Luyuan Yang, Brayden Garner, Shayan Shafaei, Chao Lan
arXiv:2508. 21022v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Subsampled natural gradient descent (SNG) has been used to enable high-precision scientific machine learning, but standard analyses based on stochastic preconditioning fail to provide insight into realistic small-sample settings.
By Gil Goldshlager, Jiang Hu, Lin Lin