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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Simplifying Optimal Transport through Schatten-$p$ Regularization Tyler Maunu Action editor: Ju Sun openreview.net/forum?id=DIawkTG5VH #regularization #transport #sparse
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The Diffusion Process as a Correlation Machine: Linear Denoising Insights Dana Weitzner, Mauricio Delbracio, Peyman Milanfar, Raja Giryes Action editor: Arno Solin openreview.net/forum?id=FGDJOc27rt #denoising #denoisers #denoiser
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Mesh-Informed Neural Operator : A Transformer Generative Approach Yaozhong Shi, Zachary E Ross, Domniki Asimaki, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli Action editor: Andriy Mnih openreview.net/forum?id=K8qAuRfv0G #generative #mesh #functional
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Improved seeding strategies for k-means and k-GMM Guillaume Carrière, Frederic Cazals Action editor: Kejun Huang openreview.net/forum?id=4Ut2YnekhN #seeding #clustering #randomized
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Slicing the Gaussian Mixture Wasserstein Distance Moritz Piening, Robert Beinert Action editor: Makoto Yamada openreview.net/forum?id=yPBtJ4JPwi #wasserstein #generative #minimization
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Yucen Lily Li, Daohan Lu, Polina Kirichenko, Shikai Qiu, Tim G. J. Rudner, C. Bayan Bruss, Andrew Gordon Wilson: Out-of-Distribution Detection Methods Answer the Wrong Questions arxiv.org/abs/2507.01831 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01831 arxiv.org/html/2507.01831
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arxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Sloan Nietert, Ziv Goldfeld Estimation of Stochastic Optimal Transport Maps arxiv.org/abs/2512.09499
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A Comprehensive Survey on Knowledge Distillation Amir M. Mansourian, Rozhan Ahmadi, Masoud Ghafouri et al. Action editor: Changyou Chen openreview.net/forum?id=3cbJzdR78B #distillation #dnns #knowledge
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Survey of Video Diffusion Models: Foundations, Implementations, and Applications Yimu Wang, Xuye Liu, Wei Pang, Li Ma, Shuai Yuan, Paul Debevec, Ning Yu Action editor: Anurag Arnab openreview.net/forum?id=2ODDBObKjH #video #generative #visual
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability Lee Sharkey, Bilal Chughtai, Joshua Batson et al. Action editor: Sarath Chandar openreview.net/forum?id=91H76m9Z94 #interpretability #ai #mechanistic
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Shubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Read last night. Very nice. arxiv.org/abs/2512.01868
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Two Is Better Than One: Aligned Representation Pairs for Anomaly Detection Alain Ryser, Thomas M. Sutter, Alexander Marx, Julia E Vogt Action editor: Shinichi Nakajima openreview.net/forum?id=Bt0zdsnWYc #outliers #anomaly #anomalies
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Jia-Bin Huang @jbhuang0604.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Wondering how DeepSeek v3.2 rivals SOTA models (e.g., GPT5/Gemini 3 pro) while being ~30x cheaper? 🤔 Let's learn how the base model works! We'll focus on attention, the need for KV caching, and key ideas for improving attention (MQA/GQA/MLA/DSA). youtu.be/Y-o545eYjXM
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Label Embedding via Low-Coherence Matrices Jianxin Zhang, Clayton Scott Action editor: Jake C. Snell openreview.net/forum?id=vrcWXcr4On #embedding #classification #label
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CSML IIT Lab @pontilgroup.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🚨 OpenReview might have leaked names, but it won't leak the best hyperparameters, unfortunately! 😅 Tired of the drama? Solve your HPO problems before the ICML deadline with this new monograph by our own Luca Franceschi & Massimiliano Pontil (& colleagues). arxiv.org/abs/2410.22854
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Hyperparameter Optimization in Machine Learning
Hyperparameters are configuration variables controlling the behavior of machine learning algorithms. They are ubiquitous in machine learning and artificial intelligence and the choice of their values ...
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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I'm quite intrigued by possibility theory, so I must say this looks quite exciting! arxiv.org/abs/2511.21223
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Maxitive Donsker-Varadhan Formulation for Possibilistic Variational Inference
Variational inference (VI) is a cornerstone of modern Bayesian learning, enabling approximate inference in complex models that would otherwise be intractable. However, its formulation depends on expec...
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ArXiv math.OC Optimization and Control @optb0t.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🔄 Updated Arxiv Paper Title: Modelling Global Trade with Optimal Transport Authors: Thomas Gaskin, Guven Demirel, Marie-Therese Wolfram, Andrew Duncan Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06554
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A Mixture of Exemplars Approach for Efficient Out-of-Distribution Detection with Foundation Models Evelyn Mannix, Howard Bondell Action editor: Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem openreview.net/forum?id=xpKqnSJtE4 #classifier #detection #classification
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A Unified Approach Towards Active Learning and Out-of-Distribution Detection Sebastian Schmidt, Leonard Schenk, Leo Schwinn, Stephan Günnemann Action editor: Chicheng Zhang openreview.net/forum?id=HL75La10FN #detection #deep #feature
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Hannes Stark @hannes-stark.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Reading group tomorrow: "How to build a consistency model: Learning flow maps via self-distillation" with Nicholas Boffi! arxiv.org/abs/2505.18825 Join us on zoom at 9am PT, 12pm ET, 6pm CET: portal.valencelabs.com/starklyspeak...
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Unifying Self-Supervised Clustering and Energy-Based Models Emanuele Sansone, Robin Manhaeve Action editor: Ole Winther openreview.net/forum?id=NW0uKe6IZa #generative #supervised #models
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AI x Bio Discovery @aixbiobot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Entangled Schrödinger Bridge Matching][new] Models interacting particle dynamics by entangling velocities via coupled bias forces, improving trajectory simulation for systems with evolving interactions.
Entangled Schrödinger Bridge MatchingFigure 1Figure 2Figure 3
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Does equivariance matter at scale? Johann Brehmer, Sönke Behrends, Pim De Haan, Taco Cohen Action editor: Marcus Brubaker openreview.net/forum?id=wilNute8Tn #models #equivariance #equivariant
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lebellig @lebellig.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"The Principles of Diffusion Models" by Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yang Song, Dongjun Kim, Yuki Mitsufuji, Stefano Ermon. arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890 It might not be the easiest intro to diffusion models, but this monograph is an amazing deep dive into the math behind them and all the nuances
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The Principles of Diffusion Models
This monograph presents the core principles that have guided the development of diffusion models, tracing their origins and showing how diverse formulations arise from shared mathematical ideas. Diffu...
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Sam Duffield @samduffield.com · 29/08/2025
New paper on arXiv! And I think it's a good'un 😄 Meet the new Lattice Random Walk (LRW) discretisation for SDEs. It’s radically different from traditional methods like Euler-Maruyama (EM) in that each iteration can only move in discrete steps {-δₓ, 0, δₓ}.
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arxiv math.NA @arxiv-math-na.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Samuel Duffield, Maxwell Aifer, Denis Melanson, Zach Belateche, Patrick J. Coles Lattice Random Walk Discretisations of Stochastic Differential Equations arxiv.org/abs/2508.20883
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arxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Luca Ambrogioni The Information Dynamics of Generative Diffusion arxiv.org/abs/2508.19897
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Shubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Great stuff: arxiv.org/abs/2508.18175
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Amortized Sampling with Transferable Normalizing Flows
Efficient equilibrium sampling of molecular conformations remains a core challenge in computational chemistry and statistical inference. Classical approaches such as molecular dynamics or Markov chain...
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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A random old one: "Kernels and Decision Trees" hackmd.io/@sp-monte-ca...
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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
It’s a thing! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Towards Data Science @towardsdatascience.com · 12/08/2025
Struggling to control a system under noise and uncertainty? Willem Esterhuizen's new article dives into Model Predictive Control (MPC), a powerful feedback loop that uses a model to anticipate and correct system behavior. Learn how to handle hard constraints and disturbances.
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Model Predictive-Control Basics | Towards Data Science
A hands-on tutorial with Python and CasADi
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Eliot Beyler (SIERRA), Francis Bach (SIERRA): Convergence of Deterministic and Stochastic Diffusion-Model Samplers: A Simple Analysis in Wasserstein Distance arxiv.org/abs/2508.03210 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03210 arxiv.org/html/2508.03210
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arxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Francisco Daunas, I\~naki Esnaola, Samir M. Perlaza A Dual Optimization View to Empirical Risk Minimization with f-Divergence Regularization arxiv.org/abs/2508.03314
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Sergio Calvo-Ordonez, Matthieu Meunier, Alvaro Cartea, Christoph Reisinger, Yarin Gal, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato: Weighted Conditional Flow Matching arxiv.org/abs/2507.22270 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22270 arxiv.org/html/2507.22270
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Alan Jeffares, Liyuan Liu: An Introduction to Discrete Variational Autoencoders arxiv.org/abs/2505.10344 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.10344 arxiv.org/html/2505.10344
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Hannes Stark @hannes-stark.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Tomorrow we discuss diffusion models for sampling unnormalized densities "Adjoint Sampling: Highly Scalable Diffusion Samplers via Adjoint Matching" arxiv.org/abs/2504.11713 Join us on zoom at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 6pm CEST: portal.valencelabs.com/starklyspeak...
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Yaxin Ma, Benjamin Colburn, Jose C. Principe: A Simple and Effective Method for Uncertainty Quantification and OOD Detection arxiv.org/abs/2508.00754 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00754 arxiv.org/html/2508.00754
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Michael Tran @huytransformer1.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A very nice article from @physrevx.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
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Speed-Accuracy Relations for Diffusion Models: Wisdom from Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Optimal Transport
An analysis that draws on nonequilibrium thermodynamics shows that thermodynamic dissipation limits data quality in diffusion models and that optimal transport dynamics yields more accurate generation...
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Shubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Another very nice paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.02300
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Density Ratio Estimation with Conditional Probability Paths
Density ratio estimation in high dimensions can be reframed as integrating a certain quantity, the time score, over probability paths which interpolate between the two densities. In practice, the time...
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Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I had a great time presenting "It's Time to Say Goodbye to Hard Constraints" at the Flatiron Institute. In this talk, I describe a philosophy for model construction in machine learning. Video now online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxuN...
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It's Time to Say Goodbye to Hard (equivariance) Constraints - Andrew Gordon Wilson
YouTube video by LoG Meetup NYC
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Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) @vandyvaliant.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Join Dr. Lianrui Zuo, Postdoctoral Researcher in ECE at VU and AI Scholar with VALIANT, at AI Summer School! 🌟 He'll be presenting "The Shape of Data in Noise: Diffusion Models as a Programmable Prior" Registration ends on July 31st. Register here: buff.ly/4fyVotP
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Ensemble Kalman Diffusion Guidance: A Derivative-free Method for Inverse Problems Hongkai Zheng, Wenda Chu, Austin Wang et al. Action editor: Valentin De Bortoli openreview.net/forum?id=XPEEsKneKs #diffusion #kalman #inverse
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Personalization of Large Language Models: A Survey Zhehao Zhang, Ryan A. Rossi, Branislav Kveton et al. Action editor: Sarath Chandar openreview.net/forum?id=tf6A9EYMo6 #personalization #personalized #formalization
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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
New in the #DeeperLearningBlog: #KempnerInstitute researchers @binxuwang.bsky.social and John J. Vastola explain their work uncovering the linear Gaussian structure in diffusion models and the potential to use it to enhance performance. bit.ly/4lCauDv #AI #DiffusionModels
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The Hidden Linear Structure in Diffusion Models and its Application in Analytical Teleportation - Kempner Institute
Diffusion models are powerful generative frameworks that iteratively denoise white noise into structured data via learned score functions. Through theory and experiments, we demonstrate that these sco...
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Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) @vandyvaliant.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Join Dr. Daniel Moyer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, at AI Summer School! 🌟 He'll be presenting "Second Steps in Neural Networks" Space is limited. Registration ends on July 31st. Register here: buff.ly/x4pyQDo
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Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) @vandyvaliant.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Join Dr. Soheil Kolouri, Assistant Professor of CS and ECE at Vanderbilt University, at AI Summer School! 🌟 He'll be presenting "A Crash Course on Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Distances" Registration ends on July 31st. Register here: buff.ly/4fyVotP
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arxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Gianluigi Silvestri, Luca Ambrogioni CoVAE: Consistency Training of Variational Autoencoders arxiv.org/abs/2507.09103
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Diffusion Model Predictive Control Guangyao Zhou, Sivaramakrishnan Swaminathan, Rajkumar Vasudeva Raju et al. Action editor: Stephen James openreview.net/forum?id=pvtgffHtJm #planning #reinforcement #learns
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Pascanu, Lyle, Modoranu, Borras, Alistarh, Velickovic, Chandar, De, Martens: Optimizers Qualitatively Alter Solutions And We Should Leverage This arxiv.org/abs/2507.12224 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12224 arxiv.org/html/2507.12224
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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
New #Featured Certification: The Geometry of Phase Transitions in Diffusion Models: Tubular Neighbourhoods and Singularities Manato Yaguchi, Kotaro Sakamoto, Ryosuke Sakamoto et al. openreview.net/forum?id=ahVFKFLYk2 #diffusion #models #phase
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