Posterior sampling based on gradient flows of the MMD with negative distance kernel

P Hagemann, J Hertrich, F Altekrüger, R Beinert… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We propose conditional flows of the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) with the negative
distance kernel for posterior sampling and conditional generative modeling. This MMD …

Neural Wasserstein gradient flows for maximum mean discrepancies with Riesz kernels

F Altekrüger, J Hertrich, G Steidl - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11624, 2023 - arxiv.org
Wasserstein gradient flows of maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) functionals with non-
smooth Riesz kernels show a rich structure as singular measures can become absolutely …

Parallelly sliced optimal transport on spheres and on the rotation group

M Quellmalz, L Buecher, G Steidl - Journal of Mathematical Imaging and …, 2024 - Springer
Sliced optimal transport, which is basically a Radon transform followed by one-dimensional
optimal transport, became popular in various applications due to its efficient computation. In …

Importance corrected neural JKO sampling

J Hertrich, R Gruhlke - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20444, 2024 - arxiv.org
In order to sample from an unnormalized probability density function, we propose to
combine continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) with rejection-resampling steps based on …

Wasserstein gradient flows for Moreau envelopes of f-divergences in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces

S Neumayer, V Stein, G Steidl, N Rux - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.04613, 2024 - arxiv.org
Most commonly used $ f $-divergences of measures, eg, the Kullback-Leibler divergence,
are subject to limitations regarding the support of the involved measures. A remedy consists …

Wasserstein steepest descent flows of discrepancies with Riesz kernels

J Hertrich, M Gräf, R Beinert, G Steidl - Journal of Mathematical Analysis …, 2024 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is twofold. Based on the geometric Wasserstein tangent space, we first
introduce Wasserstein steepest descent flows. These are locally absolutely continuous …

Fast kernel summation in high dimensions via slicing and Fourier transforms

J Hertrich - SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 2024 - SIAM
Kernel-based methods are heavily used in machine learning. However, they suffer from
complexity in the number of considered data points. In this paper, we propose an …

A practical guide to statistical distances for evaluating generative models in science

S Bischoff, A Darcher, M Deistler, R Gao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Generative models are invaluable in many fields of science because of their ability to
capture high-dimensional and complicated distributions, such as photo-realistic images …

Wasserstein gradient flows of MMD functionals with distance kernel and Cauchy problems on quantile functions

R Duong, V Stein, R Beinert, J Hertrich… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We give a comprehensive description of Wasserstein gradient flows of maximum mean
discrepancy (MMD) functionals $\mathcal F_\nu:=\text {MMD} _K^ 2 (\cdot,\nu) $ towards …

A practical guide to sample-based statistical distances for evaluating generative models in science

S Bischoff, A Darcher, M Deistler, R Gao… - … on Machine Learning …, 2024 - openreview.net
Generative models are invaluable in many fields of science because of their ability to
capture high-dimensional and complicated distributions, such as photo-realistic images …