arXiv Statistics ML

Characterizing Heterogeneous Rates in Finite Mixture Estimation via Partial Optimal Transport

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Dendrograms of Mixing Measures for Softmax-Gated Gaussian Mixture of Experts: Consistency Without Model Sweeps

arXiv:2510. 12744v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a unified statistical framework for softmax-gated Gaussian mixture of experts (SGMoE) that addresses three long-standing obstacles in parameter estimation and model selection: (i) non-identifiability of gating parameters up to common translations, (ii) intrinsic gate-expert interactions that induce coupled differential relations in the likelihood, and (iii) the tight numerator-denominator coupling in the softmax-induced conditional density.

By Do Tien Hai, Trung Nguyen Mai, TrungTin Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Binh T. Nguyen, Christopher Drovandi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Robustness and Structure Preservation in Flow-Based Generative Models via Wasserstein Path-Space Divergences

arXiv:2410. 01244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a novel Wasserstein-1 ($W_1$) path-space divergence for stochastic and deterministic dynamics and establish a Wasserstein Uncertainty Propagation (WUP) theorem that bounds the $W_1$ distance between terminal distributions by the proposed divergence, equivalently characterized by a weighted $L^2$ discrepancy between the underlying drifts and the $W_1$ distance between their initial measures.

By Ziyu Chen, Markos A. Katsoulakis, Benjamin J. Zhang
arXiv Statistics ML
Sep 2

Deep Skew-t Mixture Models

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 Machine Learning
Sep 10

The EM-algorithm and the Method of Moments in Softmax Mixture Models

arXiv:2409. 09903v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Softmax Mixture Models (SMMs) are discrete $K$-component mixture models for the probabilities of selecting one of $p$ candidate feature vectors $X_1,\ldots,X_p\in\mathbb{R}^L$ in heterogeneous populations and are widely used in econometrics and scientific applications.

By Xin Bing, Florentina Bunea, Jonathan Niles-Weed, Marten Wegkamp