arXiv Machine Learning

Variational Consensus Monte Carlo for Bayesian Mixture

arXiv:2606. 19643v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivated by the privacy, sensitivity and sharing limitations of health data, we present a comprehensive pipeline for inference of Bayesian mixture models within a federated learning setting, i.

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 AI
Jul 1

TDGT: A Tabular Data Generation Toolkit supporting adaptive GPU-accelerated Bayesian mixture models, diffusion-based models, and latent-space generative modeling

arXiv:2606. 31268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing demand for privacy-preserving data sharing has positioned synthetic data generation as a critical component of responsible AI workflows.

By Vasileios C. Pezoulas, Nikolaos S. Tachos, Eleni Georga, Kostas Marias, Manolis Tsiknakis, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Federated Soft Clustering via Generalized Total Variation Minimization

The paper introduces federated soft clustering for devices in a federated learning network, each fitting a personalized Gaussian mixture model. It proposes Generalized Total Variation Minimization (GTVMin) to couple local maximum likelihood problems via a graph regularizer that penalizes discrepancies between connected nodes’ models. Three discrepancy measures are compared: a squared Euclidean distance requiring component matching, a Monte‑Carlo approximated Kullback‑Leibler divergence, and a closed‑form maximum mean discrepancy; all are optimized with synchronous projected gradient updates, with a convergence guarantee for the smooth MMD instance.

By Shamsiiat Abdurakhmanova, Alexander Jung