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cs.LG2025

Majority of the Bests: Improving Best-of-N via Bootstrapping

Amin Rakhsha, Kanika Madan, Tianyu Zhang +2

Sampling multiple outputs from a Large Language Model (LLM) and selecting the most frequent (Self-consistency) or highest-scoring (Best-of-N) candidate is a popular approach to ach…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning Generative Flow Networks

Ling Pan, Moksh Jain, Kanika Madan +1

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are amortized samplers that learn stochastic policies to sequentially generate compositional objects from a given unnormalized reward distribut…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Thompson sampling for improved exploration in GFlowNets

Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Kanika Madan, Moksh Jain +5

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are amortized variational inference algorithms that treat sampling from a distribution over compositional objects as a sequential decision-maki…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Learning GFlowNets from partial episodes for improved convergence and stability

Kanika Madan, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Maksym Korablyov +6

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms for training a sequential sampler of discrete objects under an unnormalized target density and have been successfull…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

Fast and Slow Learning of Recurrent Independent Mechanisms

Kanika Madan, Nan Rosemary Ke, Anirudh Goyal +2

Decomposing knowledge into interchangeable pieces promises a generalization advantage when there are changes in distribution. A learning agent interacting with its environment is l…

cs.LG2021★ 40 cited

Accounting for Variance in Machine Learning Benchmarks

Xavier Bouthillier, Pierre Delaunay, Mirko Bronzi +14

Strong empirical evidence that one machine-learning algorithm A outperforms another one B ideally calls for multiple trials optimizing the learning pipeline over sources of variati…