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5 papers

cs.LG2026

MolCrystalFlow: Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction via Flow Matching

Cheng Zeng, Harry W. Sullivan, Thomas Egg +8

Molecular crystal structure prediction represents a grand challenge in computational chemistry due to large sizes of constituent molecules and complex intra- and intermolecular int…

cs.LG2026

Data-efficient and Interpretable Inverse Materials Design using a Disentangled Variational Autoencoder

Cheng Zeng, Zulqarnain Khan, Nathan L. Post

Inverse materials design has proven successful in accelerating novel material discovery. Many inverse materials design methods use unsupervised learning where a latent space is lea…

stat.ME2025

Bridged Posterior: Optimization, Profile Likelihood and a New Approach to Generalized Bayes

Cheng Zeng, Eleni Dilma, Jason Xu +1

Optimization is widely used in statistics, and often efficiently delivers point estimates on useful spaces involving structural constraints or combinatorial structure. To quantify…

stat.ME2025

Normalizing Flow to Augmented Posterior: Conditional Density Estimation with Interpretable Dimension Reduction for High Dimensional Data

Cheng Zeng, George Michailidis, Hitoshi Iyatomi +1

The conditional density characterizes the distribution of a response variable given other predictor , and plays a key role in many statistical tasks, including classificatio…

stat.ME2025

Gradient-bridged Posterior: Bayesian Inference for Models with Implicit Functions

Cheng Zeng, Yaozhi Yang, Jason Xu +1

Many statistical problems include model parameters that are defined as the solutions to optimization sub-problems. These include classical approaches such as profile likelihood as…