A theory of continuous generative flow networks

S Lahlou, T Deleu, P Lemos, D Zhang… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are amortized variational inference algorithms that
are trained to sample from unnormalized target distributions over compositional objects. A …

GFlowNets and variational inference

N Malkin, S Lahlou, T Deleu, X Ji, E Hu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper builds bridges between two families of probabilistic algorithms:(hierarchical)
variational inference (VI), which is typically used to model distributions over continuous …

Generative flow networks as entropy-regularized rl

D Tiapkin, N Morozov, A Naumov… - International …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
The recently proposed generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a method of training a
policy to sample compositional discrete objects with probabilities proportional to a given …

Better training of gflownets with local credit and incomplete trajectories

L Pan, N Malkin, D Zhang… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Generative Flow Networks or GFlowNets are related to Monte-Carlo Markov chain
methods (as they sample from a distribution specified by an energy function), reinforcement …

Compositional sculpting of iterative generative processes

T Garipov, S De Peuter, G Yang… - Advances in neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
High training costs of generative models and the need to fine-tune them for specific tasks
have created a strong interest in model reuse and composition. A key challenge in …

Stochastic generative flow networks

L Pan, D Zhang, M Jain, L Huang… - Uncertainty in Artificial …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Generative Flow Networks (or GFlowNets for short) are a family of probabilistic
agents that learn to sample complex combinatorial structures through the lens of “inference …

Trajectory balance: Improved credit assignment in gflownets

N Malkin, M Jain, E Bengio, C Sun… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a method for learning a stochastic policy for
generating compositional objects, such as graphs or strings, from a given unnormalized …

Unifying generative models with GFlowNets and beyond

D Zhang, RTQ Chen, N Malkin, Y Bengio - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.02606, 2022 - arxiv.org
There are many frameworks for deep generative modeling, each often presented with their
own specific training algorithms and inference methods. Here, we demonstrate the …

Generative flow networks for discrete probabilistic modeling

D Zhang, N Malkin, Z Liu, A Volokhova… - International …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We present energy-based generative flow networks (EB-GFN), a novel probabilistic
modeling algorithm for high-dimensional discrete data. Building upon the theory of …

Residual flows for invertible generative modeling

RTQ Chen, J Behrmann… - Advances in Neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Flow-based generative models parameterize probability distributions through an invertible
transformation and can be trained by maximum likelihood. Invertible residual networks …