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most citedNo Trick, No Treat: Pursuits and Challenges Towards Simulation-free Training of Neural Samplers

2 citations · 2 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

stat.ML2026

Controlling Dependence in Implicit Generative Models via Spread Mutual Information

Jiahao Yu, Song Liu, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato +1

Mutual information (MI) provides an objective for suppressing or encouraging statistical dependence in implicit generative models. However, direct MI evaluation is challenging in i…

stat.ML2026

Bridging Stochastic Flow Maps and Boltzmann Generators with Normalizing Flows

Louis Grenioux, RuiKang OuYang, Luhuan Wu

Generating independent, equilibrium samples of molecular systems at scale remains a central obstacle in computational statistical mechanics. Boltzmann Generators address this by pa…

cs.LG2026

Few-Step Boltzmann Generators via Scalable Likelihood Flow Maps

RuiKang OuYang, Hanlin Yu, Xinyue Ai +7

Recent progress in flow-based generative modeling has led to models that output high-quality samples while using only a small number of function evaluations. However, at present, t…

cs.LG2026

Learning Energy-Based Models from Stochastic Interpolants using Spatiotemporal Differences

Hanlin Yu, RuiKang OuYang, Partha Kaushik +3

Learning an energy-based model from data samples is a central problem in machine learning. Many recent and popular methods, such as denoising score matching for training energy-bas…

stat.ML2026

Stochastic Interpolants in Hilbert Spaces

James Boran Yu, RuiKang OuYang, Julien Horwood +1

Although diffusion models have successfully extended to function-valued data, stochastic interpolants -- which offer a flexible way to bridge arbitrary distributions -- remain limi…

stat.ML2026

A Diffusive Classification Loss for Learning Energy-based Generative Models

RuiKang OuYang, Louis Grenioux, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Score-based generative models have recently achieved remarkable success. While they are usually parameterized by the score, an alternative way is to use a series of time-dependent…

cs.LG2025

Progressive Tempering Sampler with Diffusion

Severi Rissanen, RuiKang OuYang, Jiajun He +4

Recent research has focused on designing neural samplers that amortize the process of sampling from unnormalized densities. However, despite significant advancements, they still fa…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

No Trick, No Treat: Pursuits and Challenges Towards Simulation-free Training of Neural Samplers

Jiajun He, Yuanqi Du, Francisco Vargas +5

We consider the sampling problem, where the aim is to draw samples from a distribution whose density is known only up to a normalization constant. Recent breakthroughs in generativ…

cs.LG2024

BNEM: A Boltzmann Sampler Based on Bootstrapped Noised Energy Matching

RuiKang OuYang, Bo Qiang, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Developing an efficient sampler capable of generating independent and identically distributed (IID) samples from a Boltzmann distribution is a crucial challenge in scientific resea…

cs.LG2024

L2G2G: a Scalable Local-to-Global Network Embedding with Graph Autoencoders

Ruikang Ouyang, Andrew Elliott, Stratis Limnios +2

For analysing real-world networks, graph representation learning is a popular tool. These methods, such as a graph autoencoder (GAE), typically rely on low-dimensional representati…