Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Simplifying Optimal Transport through Schatten-$p$ Regularization Tyler Maunu Action editor: Ju Sun openreview.net/forum?id=DIawkTG5VH #regularization #transport #sparse 031
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 23/01/2026The 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 051
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Mesh-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 021
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Improved seeding strategies for k-means and k-GMM Guillaume Carrière, Frederic Cazals Action editor: Kejun Huang openreview.net/forum?id=4Ut2YnekhN #seeding #clustering #randomized 021
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Slicing the Gaussian Mixture Wasserstein Distance Moritz Piening, Robert Beinert Action editor: Makoto Yamada openreview.net/forum?id=yPBtJ4JPwi #wasserstein #generative #minimization 011
Reposted by Michael TranarXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Yucen 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 012
Reposted by Michael Tranarxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Sloan Nietert, Ziv Goldfeld Estimation of Stochastic Optimal Transport Maps arxiv.org/abs/2512.09499 011
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 08/12/2025A 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 011
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Survey 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 021
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability Lee Sharkey, Bilal Chughtai, Joshua Batson et al. Action editor: Sarath Chandar openreview.net/forum?id=91H76m9Z94 #interpretability #ai #mechanistic 021
Reposted by Michael TranShubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Read last night. Very nice. arxiv.org/abs/2512.01868 2214
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Two 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 011
Reposted by Michael TranJia-Bin Huang @jbhuang0604.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Wondering 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 0122
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Label Embedding via Low-Coherence Matrices Jianxin Zhang, Clayton Scott Action editor: Jake C. Snell openreview.net/forum?id=vrcWXcr4On #embedding #classification #label 021
Reposted by Michael TranCSML 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/2410.22854arxiv.orgHyperparameter Optimization in Machine LearningHyperparameters 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 ... 091
Reposted by Michael TranPierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I'm quite intrigued by possibility theory, so I must say this looks quite exciting! arxiv.org/abs/2511.21223arxiv.orgMaxitive Donsker-Varadhan Formulation for Possibilistic Variational InferenceVariational 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... 191
Reposted by Michael TranArXiv 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 011
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 20/11/2025A 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 011
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 19/11/2025A 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 021
Reposted by Michael TranHannes Stark @hannes-stark.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Reading 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... 0122
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Unifying Self-Supervised Clustering and Energy-Based Models Emanuele Sansone, Robin Manhaeve Action editor: Ole Winther openreview.net/forum?id=NW0uKe6IZa #generative #supervised #models 011
Reposted by Michael TranAI x Bio Discovery @aixbiobot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Entangled Schrödinger Bridge Matching][new] Models interacting particle dynamics by entangling velocities via coupled bias forces, improving trajectory simulation for systems with evolving interactions. 001
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Does 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 021
Reposted by Michael Tranlebellig @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 nuancesarxiv.orgThe Principles of Diffusion ModelsThis 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... 13713
Reposted by Michael TranSam Duffield @samduffield.com · 29/08/2025New 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}. 1165
Reposted by Michael Tranarxiv math.NA @arxiv-math-na.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Samuel Duffield, Maxwell Aifer, Denis Melanson, Zach Belateche, Patrick J. Coles Lattice Random Walk Discretisations of Stochastic Differential Equations arxiv.org/abs/2508.20883 021
Reposted by Michael Tranarxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Luca Ambrogioni The Information Dynamics of Generative Diffusion arxiv.org/abs/2508.19897 052
Reposted by Michael TranShubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Great stuff: arxiv.org/abs/2508.18175arxiv.orgAmortized Sampling with Transferable Normalizing FlowsEfficient equilibrium sampling of molecular conformations remains a core challenge in computational chemistry and statistical inference. Classical approaches such as molecular dynamics or Markov chain... 081
Reposted by Michael TranSam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 17/08/2025A random old one: "Kernels and Decision Trees" hackmd.io/@sp-monte-ca... 391
Reposted by Michael TranMaxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2025It’s a thing! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...microsoft.com 142
Reposted by Michael TranTowards Data Science @towardsdatascience.com · 12/08/2025Struggling 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.towardsdatascience.comModel Predictive-Control Basics | Towards Data ScienceA hands-on tutorial with Python and CasADi 021
Reposted by Michael TranarXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Eliot 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 012
Reposted by Michael Tranarxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Francisco Daunas, I\~naki Esnaola, Samir M. Perlaza A Dual Optimization View to Empirical Risk Minimization with f-Divergence Regularization arxiv.org/abs/2508.03314 042
Reposted by Michael TranarXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Sergio 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 021
Reposted by Michael TranarXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Alan Jeffares, Liyuan Liu: An Introduction to Discrete Variational Autoencoders arxiv.org/abs/2505.10344 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.10344 arxiv.org/html/2505.10344 111
Reposted by Michael TranHannes Stark @hannes-stark.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Tomorrow 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... 0193
Reposted by Michael TranarXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Yaxin 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 012
Michael Tran @huytransformer1.bsky.social · 31/07/2025A very nice article from @physrevx.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...journals.aps.orgSpeed-Accuracy Relations for Diffusion Models: Wisdom from Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Optimal TransportAn 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... 0120
Reposted by Michael TranShubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Another very nice paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.02300arxiv.orgDensity Ratio Estimation with Conditional Probability PathsDensity 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... 031
Reposted by Michael TranAndrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I 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...youtube.comIt's Time to Say Goodbye to Hard (equivariance) Constraints - Andrew Gordon WilsonYouTube video by LoG Meetup NYC 0142
Reposted by Michael TranVanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) @vandyvaliant.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Join 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 011
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Ensemble 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 031
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Personalization 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 011
Reposted by Michael TranKempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 18/07/2025New 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 #DiffusionModelsbit.lyThe Hidden Linear Structure in Diffusion Models and its Application in Analytical Teleportation - Kempner InstituteDiffusion 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... 062
Reposted by Michael TranVanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) @vandyvaliant.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Join 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 021
Reposted by Michael TranVanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) @vandyvaliant.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Join 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 021
Reposted by Michael Tranarxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Gianluigi Silvestri, Luca Ambrogioni CoVAE: Consistency Training of Variational Autoencoders arxiv.org/abs/2507.09103 011
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Diffusion Model Predictive Control Guangyao Zhou, Sivaramakrishnan Swaminathan, Rajkumar Vasudeva Raju et al. Action editor: Stephen James openreview.net/forum?id=pvtgffHtJm #planning #reinforcement #learns 011
Reposted by Michael TranarXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Pascanu, 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 011
Reposted by Michael TranTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 17/07/2025New #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 021