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20152026
most citedCaloMan: Fast generation of calorimeter showers with density estimation on learned manifolds

36 citations · 128 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.LG2026

TabDPT-Turbo: Efficient In-Context Learning for Tabular Prediction

Rasa Hosseinzadeh, Alex Labach, Zexin Xue +3

Tabular foundation models, driven by in-context learning, have rapidly grown in quality and popularity. However, recent approaches with either cell-based architectures or retrieval…

cs.LG2026

Understanding the Surprising Generalization Properties of Tabular Foundation Models

Nour Shaheen, Junwei Ma, Alex Labach +3

Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) increasingly rely on in-context learning, where a model receives labelled examples at inference time and predicts labels for new inputs without upd…

cs.LG2026

Training Fair Tabular Foundation Models

Patrik Kenfack, Jesse C. Cresswell, Anthony L. Caterini +2

Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) have emerged as leading methods for tabular predictive tasks, leveraging in-context learning to predict on new data without task-specific training.…

cs.LG2026

Agentic Monte Carlo: Simulating Reinforcement Learning for Black-Box Agents

Dae Yon Hwang, Raunaq Suri, Valentin Villecroze +4

LLM agents operate in two distinct regimes: open-weight agents amenable to reinforcement learning (RL) and black-box agents whose behaviour must be controlled purely at test time.…

cs.LG2025

Generalization Can Emerge in Tabular Foundation Models From a Single Table

Junwei Ma, Nour Shaheen, Alex Labach +4

Deep tabular modelling increasingly relies on in-context learning where, during inference, a model receives a set of pairs as context and predicts labels for new inputs wit…

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★ 4 cited

TabDPT: Scaling Tabular Foundation Models on Real Data

Junwei Ma, Valentin Thomas, Rasa Hosseinzadeh +7

Tabular data is one of the most ubiquitous sources of information worldwide, spanning a wide variety of domains. This inherent heterogeneity has slowed the development of Tabular F…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

TabPFGen -- Tabular Data Generation with TabPFN

Junwei Ma, Apoorv Dankar, George Stein +2

Advances in deep generative modelling have not translated well to tabular data. We argue that this is caused by a mismatch in structure between popular generative models and discri…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Retrieval & Fine-Tuning for In-Context Tabular Models

Valentin Thomas, Junwei Ma, Rasa Hosseinzadeh +4

Tabular data is a pervasive modality spanning a wide range of domains, and the inherent diversity poses a considerable challenge for deep learning. Recent advancements using transf…

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.LG2024

In-Context Data Distillation with TabPFN

Junwei Ma, Valentin Thomas, Guangwei Yu +1

Foundation models have revolutionized tasks in computer vision and natural language processing. However, in the realm of tabular data, tree-based models like XGBoost continue to do…

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★ 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★ 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…

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…

stat.ML2021★ 2 cited

Rectangular Flows for Manifold Learning

Anthony L. Caterini, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem, Geoff Pleiss +1

Normalizing flows are invertible neural networks with tractable change-of-volume terms, which allow optimization of their parameters to be efficiently performed via maximum likelih…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

C-Learning: Horizon-Aware Cumulative Accessibility Estimation

Panteha Naderian, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem, Harry J. Braviner +4

Multi-goal reaching is an important problem in reinforcement learning needed to achieve algorithmic generalization. Despite recent advances in this field, current algorithms suffer…

stat.ML2020★ 5 cited

Variational Inference with Continuously-Indexed Normalizing Flows

Anthony Caterini, Rob Cornish, Dino Sejdinovic +1

Continuously-indexed flows (CIFs) have recently achieved improvements over baseline normalizing flows on a variety of density estimation tasks. CIFs do not possess a closed-form ma…

physics.ao-ph2019★ 1 cited

Detecting anthropogenic cloud perturbations with deep learning

Duncan Watson-Parris, Samuel Sutherland, Matthew Christensen +3

One of the most pressing questions in climate science is that of the effect of anthropogenic aerosol on the Earth's energy balance. Aerosols provide the `seeds' on which cloud drop…