Probabilistic Circuits (PCs) are generative models that support exact inference and, unlike deep neural networks, admit an exact and tractable measure of loss-surface curvature: the trace of the Hessian of the log-likelihood. Recent work regularizes this trace globally to bias learning toward flatter, better generalizing optima.
arXiv:2608. 12869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probabilistic Circuits (PCs) are generative models that support exact inference and, unlike deep neural networks, admit an exact and tractable measure of loss-surface curvature: the trace of the Hessian of the log-likelihood.
By Hrithik Suresh, Sahil Sidheekh, Shelar Parth Vijay, Yasir Z, Sriraam Natarajan, Narayanan Chatapuram Krishnan
arXiv:2603. 23016v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tabular data is more challenging to generate than text and images, due to its heterogeneous features and much lower sample sizes.
By Davide Scassola, Dylan Ponsford, Adri\'an Javaloy, Sebastiano Saccani, Luca Bortolussi, Henry Gouk, Antonio Vergari
arXiv:2602. 07875v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generating tabular data under conditions is critical to applications requiring precise control over the generative process.
By Aditya Shankar, Yuandou Wang, Rihan Hai, Lydia Y. Chen
The article surveys recent progress in tractable probabilistic generative modeling, with a focus on Probabilistic Circuits (PCs). It offers a unified view of the trade‑offs between expressivity and tractability, outlining design principles, algorithmic extensions, and a taxonomy of the field. The review also covers deep and hybrid PCs that integrate ideas from deep neural models, and highlights challenges and open questions for future research.
By Sahil Sidheekh, Sriraam Natarajan
arXiv:2509. 03758v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a data-driven interpolation framework for reconstructing real-valued functions on smooth manifolds from scattered pointwise observations.
By Alvaro Almeida Gomez
arXiv:2608. 03967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have emerged as a flexible framework for amortised inference over discrete and mixed discrete-continuous objects, requiring only an unnormalised target density specified through a reward.
By Yordan Raykov, Rodrigo Veiga
The paper introduces a new method for perturbing data distributions in a way that respects equality constraints, allowing generative models to better handle constrained data. By adjusting the distribution while preserving the manifold geometry, the approach ensures support matches the ambient space dimension. Experiments with diffusion models and normalizing flows demonstrate improved data recovery and stable sampling across several tasks.
By Katherine Keegan, Lars Ruthotto
The paper introduces Variational Bayesian Flow Network (VBFN), a graph generation model that lifts Bayesian updates to a joint Gaussian belief family with structured precisions, enabling coupled node and edge updates in a single fusion step. By constructing sample‑agnostic sparse precisions from a representation‑induced dependency graph, VBFN avoids label leakage while enforcing node‑edge consistency. Experiments on synthetic and molecular graph datasets show that VBFN improves fidelity and diversity over baseline methods.
By Yida Xiong, Jiameng Chen, Xiuwen Gong, Jia Wu, Shirui Pan, Wenbin Hu
arXiv:2606. 14334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional datasets often concentrate near low-dimensional structures, but estimating their geometry from samples typically relies on graphs and kernels that scale poorly with dataset size and dimension.
By Jacob Bamberger, Adam Gosztolai, Pierre Vandergheynst, Michael Bronstein, Iolo Jones
arXiv:2605. 16451v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Macro placement is a pivotal stage in VLSI physical design, fundamentally determining the overall chip performance.
By Jongho Yoon, Jinsung Jeon, Seokhyeong Kang
arXiv:2505. 19809v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In many real-world applications of regression, conditional probability estimation, and uncertainty quantification, exploiting symmetries rooted in physics or geometry can dramatically improve generalization and sample efficiency.
By Daniel Ordo\~nez-Apraez, Vladimir Kosti\'c, Alek Fr\"ohlich, Vivien Brandt, Karim Lounici, Massimiliano Pontil