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most citedUses and Abuses of the Cross-Entropy Loss: Case Studies in Modern Deep Learning

55 citations · 209 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

cs.LG2026

Improved Confidence Estimates for Black-Box Large Language Models

Sokhna Diarra Mbacke, Mouloud Belbahri, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for the safe deployment of large language models (LLMs). Existing methods, from verbalized confidence to ones requiring multiple genera…

cs.LG2026

Conf-Gen: Conformal Uncertainty Quantification for Generative Models

Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem, Kevin Zhang, Wei Cui +2

Conformal prediction (CP) and its extension, conformal risk control (CRC), are established frameworks for quantifying uncertainty in supervised machine learning through formal guar…

cs.LG2025

On Convolutions, Intrinsic Dimension, and Diffusion Models

Kin Kwan Leung, Rasa Hosseinzadeh, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem

The manifold hypothesis asserts that data of interest in high-dimensional ambient spaces, such as image data, lies on unknown low-dimensional submanifolds. Diffusion models (DMs) -…

cs.LG2025

Textual Bayes: Quantifying Prompt Uncertainty in LLM-Based Systems

Brendan Leigh Ross, Noël Vouitsis, Atiyeh Ashari Ghomi +8

Although large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly capable of solving challenging real-world tasks, accurately quantifying their uncertainty remains a critical open pr…

cs.LG2025

Last Layer Empirical Bayes

Valentin Villecroze, Yixin Wang, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem

The task of quantifying the inherent uncertainty associated with neural network predictions is a key challenge in artificial intelligence. Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) and deep…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Deep Ensembles Secretly Perform Empirical Bayes

Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem, Valentin Villecroze, Yixin Wang

Quantifying uncertainty in neural networks is a highly relevant problem which is essential to many applications. The two predominant paradigms to tackle this task are Bayesian neur…

cs.LG2024

Inconsistencies In Consistency Models: Better ODE Solving Does Not Imply Better Samples

Noël Vouitsis, Rasa Hosseinzadeh, Brendan Leigh Ross +4

Although diffusion models can generate remarkably high-quality samples, they are intrinsically bottlenecked by their expensive iterative sampling procedure. Consistency models (CMs…

stat.ML2024★ 1 cited

A Geometric Framework for Understanding Memorization in Generative Models

Brendan Leigh Ross, Hamidreza Kamkari, Tongzi Wu +5

As deep generative models have progressed, recent work has shown them to be capable of memorizing and reproducing training datapoints when deployed. These findings call into questi…

physics.ins-det2024★ 8 cited

CaloChallenge 2022: A Community Challenge for Fast Calorimeter Simulation

Claudius Krause, Michele Faucci Giannelli, Gregor Kasieczka +66

We present the results of the "Fast Calorimeter Simulation Challenge 2022" - the CaloChallenge. We study state-of-the-art generative models on four calorimeter shower datasets of i…

cs.LG2024

A Geometric View of Data Complexity: Efficient Local Intrinsic Dimension Estimation with Diffusion Models

Hamidreza Kamkari, Brendan Leigh Ross, Rasa Hosseinzadeh +2

High-dimensional data commonly lies on low-dimensional submanifolds, and estimating the local intrinsic dimension (LID) of a datum -- i.e. the dimension of the submanifold it belon…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Deep Generative Models through the Lens of the Manifold Hypothesis: A Survey and New Connections

Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem, Brendan Leigh Ross, Rasa Hosseinzadeh +2

In recent years there has been increased interest in understanding the interplay between deep generative models (DGMs) and the manifold hypothesis. Research in this area focuses on…

cs.LG2024

A Geometric Explanation of the Likelihood OOD Detection Paradox

Hamidreza Kamkari, Brendan Leigh Ross, Jesse C. Cresswell +3

Likelihood-based deep generative models (DGMs) commonly exhibit a puzzling behaviour: when trained on a relatively complex dataset, they assign higher likelihood values to out-of-d…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Data-Efficient Multimodal Fusion on a Single GPU

Noël Vouitsis, Zhaoyan Liu, Satya Krishna Gorti +5

The goal of multimodal alignment is to learn a single latent space that is shared between multimodal inputs. The most powerful models in this space have been trained using massive…

cs.LG2023★ 21 cited

Exposing flaws of generative model evaluation metrics and their unfair treatment of diffusion models

George Stein, Jesse C. Cresswell, Rasa Hosseinzadeh +7

We systematically study a wide variety of generative models spanning semantically-diverse image datasets to understand and improve the feature extractors and metrics used to evalua…

cs.LG2023

TR0N: Translator Networks for 0-Shot Plug-and-Play Conditional Generation

Zhaoyan Liu, Noel Vouitsis, Satya Krishna Gorti +2

We propose TR0N, a highly general framework to turn pre-trained unconditional generative models, such as GANs and VAEs, into conditional models. The conditioning can be highly arbi…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Denoising Deep Generative Models

Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem, Brendan Leigh Ross, Luhuan Wu +3

Likelihood-based deep generative models have recently been shown to exhibit pathological behaviour under the manifold hypothesis as a consequence of using high-dimensional densitie…

hep-ph2022★ 36 cited

CaloMan: Fast generation of calorimeter showers with density estimation on learned manifolds

Jesse C. Cresswell, Brendan Leigh Ross, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem +3

Precision measurements and new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider require efficient simulations of particle propagation and interactions within the detectors. The most c…

cs.LG2022

Relating Regularization and Generalization through the Intrinsic Dimension of Activations

Bradley C. A. Brown, Jordan Juravsky, Anthony L. Caterini +1

Given a pair of models with similar training set performance, it is natural to assume that the model that possesses simpler internal representations would exhibit better generaliza…

stat.ML2022★ 6 cited

Verifying the Union of Manifolds Hypothesis for Image Data

Bradley C. A. Brown, Anthony L. Caterini, Brendan Leigh Ross +2

Deep learning has had tremendous success at learning low-dimensional representations of high-dimensional data. This success would be impossible if there was no hidden low-dimension…

stat.ML2022

Neural Implicit Manifold Learning for Topology-Aware Density Estimation

Brendan Leigh Ross, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem, Anthony L. Caterini +1

Natural data observed in is often constrained to an -dimensional manifold , where . This work focuses on the task of building theoretically pr…

stat.ML2022

On the Normalizing Constant of the Continuous Categorical Distribution

Elliott Gordon-Rodriguez, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem, Andres Potapczynski +1

Probability distributions supported on the simplex enjoy a wide range of applications across statistics and machine learning. Recently, a novel family of such distributions has bee…

stat.ML2022★ 1 cited

Diagnosing and Fixing Manifold Overfitting in Deep Generative Models

Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem, Brendan Leigh Ross, Jesse C. Cresswell +1

Likelihood-based, or explicit, deep generative models use neural networks to construct flexible high-dimensional densities. This formulation directly contradicts the manifold hypot…

cs.LG2022

Bayesian Nonparametrics for Offline Skill Discovery

Valentin Villecroze, Harry J. Braviner, Panteha Naderian +2

Skills or low-level policies in reinforcement learning are temporally extended actions that can speed up learning and enable complex behaviours. Recent work in offline reinforcemen…

stat.ML2021

Entropic Issues in Likelihood-Based OOD Detection

Anthony L. Caterini, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem

Deep generative models trained by maximum likelihood remain very popular methods for reasoning about data probabilistically. However, it has been observed that they can assign high…