arXiv:2606. 04307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian models with finite symmetry - mixture models with exchangeable components, structural identification with closely-spaced modes - define posteriors that are invariant under a group of label permutations, creating redundant multimodality that degrades MCMC convergence diagnostics.
By Jun Hu
arXiv:2610.01034v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Bayesian inference increasingly uses informative but implicit priors represented only by samples, such as historical ensembles, simulator outputs, an...
By Hoang Phuc Hau Luu, Marcelo Hartmann, Zhongjian Wang
arXiv:2605. 15407v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider amortized Bayesian inference for nonlinear inverse problems using only samples from the joint distribution of parameters and observations, including problems with unknown functions in a Banach space.
By Ricardo Baptista, Hojjat Kaveh, Andrew M. Stuart
arXiv:2607. 03809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normalising flows provide a powerful variational family for approximate inference, yet individual architectures often fail to generalise across heterogeneous posterior geometries.
By Benjamin Wiriyapong, Oktay Karakus, Can Eyupoglu, Kirill Sidorov
arXiv:2512. 04954v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a novel technique for amortized posterior estimation using Normalizing Flows trained with likelihood-weighted importance sampling.
By Rajneil Baruah
arXiv:2608. 01793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified anomaly detection requires modeling highly heterogeneous normal data without access to anomalous samples.
By Camile Lendering, Erkut Akdag, Joaqu\'in Figueira, Egor Bondarev
The paper introduces a new Markov chain Monte Carlo method that samples from multimodal distributions by interpolating along the diffusion path of a noising diffusion process, preserving mode weights and improving mixing. It proposes a Metropolis-adjusted diffusion path (MAD-Path) sampler that corrects for bias from approximate score estimates and discretization errors, ensuring the target distribution remains invariant. Experiments on Bayesian posteriors demonstrate that MAD-Path outperforms tempering-based MCMC and unadjusted diffusion samplers in global exploration and accurate mode-weight estimation.
By Han Chen, Sifan Liu, Jun Yang
The paper introduces a learning-based approach to replace the MCMC step in split-Gibbs diffusion posterior sampling. By reformulating both Gibbs updates as Gaussian denoising problems, the method uses ODE diffusion for the prior step with a pretrained denoiser and a lightweight deep-unfolded network for the likelihood step. Experiments on nonlinear phase retrieval show that this alternative reduces likelihood-update cost while maintaining effectiveness compared to MCMC-based split Gibbs.
By Yi Zhang, Rui Guo, Mengchu Xu, Zhaofeng Liu, Yonina C. Eldar
arXiv:2606. 01078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transport MCMC trains a normalizing flow to precondition Metropolis--Hastings proposals, achieving high empirical efficiency on challenging posteriors; yet no prior work produces a numerically non-vacuous, rigorous spectral-gap bound for such samplers.
By Jun Hu
arXiv:2609.00773v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: High-dimensional clustering is challenging when component distributions are both heavy-tailed and directionally asymmetric. We propose a deep skew-$t...
By Jinran Wu, You-Gan Wang, Geoffrey J. McLachlan
arXiv:2605. 24795v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study stochastic density control between Gaussian-mixture endpoint distributions under Brownian prior dynamics.
By Siddhartha Ganguly, George Rapakoulias, Panagiotis Tsiotras
arXiv:2606. 26424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory forecasting for autonomous driving has advanced rapidly, yet representative models often produce uninformative posteriors over forecast modes, causing problems for mode pruning.
By Qiyuan Wu, Katie Z Luo, Bharath Hariharan, Wei-Lun Chao, Mark Campbell