arXiv:2605. 18931v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Heavy-tailed distributions are prevalent in performance evaluation, network traffic, and risk modeling.
By Abdelhakim Ziani, Andras Horvath, Paolo Ballarini
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:2605. 27991v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gradient-flow optimization is usually viewed as an algorithmic procedure for minimizing empirical loss, with training duration selected by validation or heuristic early-stopping rules.
By Minhao Yao, Ruoyu Wang, Xihong Lin, Lin Liu, Zhonghua Liu
arXiv:2605. 12951v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose Coreset-Induced Conditional Velocity Flow Matching (CCVFM), a generative model that augments hierarchical rectified flow with a data-informed source distribution.
By Xiao Wang, Zihua She, Jianxi Su
arXiv:2607. 10810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep generative models are increasingly used as simulators for downstream decision-making under data scarcity, but in risk-sensitive applications their usefulness depends on rare adverse scenarios rather than typical samples.
By Shuning Zhao, Patrick Wong, Leran Zhang, Xiaolin Hu
arXiv:2509. 09371v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) protects statistical learning against distributional shifts by optimizing the worst-case performance over a set of perturbed distributions.
By Zitao Wang, Nian Si, Molei Liu
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:2607. 04738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing population dynamics is a central problem in the physical and data sciences.
By Markus Heinonen, Yair Shenfeld, Ricardo Baptista, Daniel Waxman, Dmitry Batenkov, Tim Cooijmans, Eli Bingham
arXiv:2411. 00214v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Otto's Wasserstein gradient flow of the inclusive (forward) Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence offers a principled framework for analyzing statistical inference algorithms, yet algorithms targeting the exclusive (reverse) KL divergence are rarely studied with such tools.
By Jia-Jie Zhu
arXiv:2608. 06283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the problem of sampling from target distributions whose potentials are simultaneously non-smooth, subject to superlinear gradient growth, and non-convex.
By Iosif Lytras, Nikolaos Makras, Sotirios Sabanis
We study the problem of sampling from target distributions whose potentials are simultaneously non-smooth, subject to superlinear gradient growth, and non-convex. We introduce the Subgradient Tamed Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (SG-TULA), a discretisation of the Langevin diffusion that operates directly on subgradients, without relying on computationally demanding smoothing procedures.
arXiv:2410. 02596v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a novel class of generative models designed to sample from unnormalized distributions and have found applications in various important tasks, attracting great research interest in their training algorithms.
By Rui Hu, Yifan Zhang, Zhuoran Li, Longbo Huang