2 papers
stat.ME2026
A variational framework for modal estimation
Tâm LeMinh, Julyan Arbel, Florence Forbes +1
Multivariate mode estimation arises in many statistical problems such as inverse problems, multimodal sampling, and density-based clustering, but becomes challenging in moderate to…
stat.ML2025
Natural Variational Annealing for Multimodal Optimization
Tâm LeMinh, Julyan Arbel, Thomas Möllenhoff +2
We introduce a new multimodal optimization approach called Natural Variational Annealing (NVA) that combines the strengths of three foundational concepts to simultaneously search f…