Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence

H Wang, T Fu, Y Du, W Gao, K Huang, Z Liu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being increasingly integrated into scientific discovery to augment
and accelerate research, hel** scientists to generate hypotheses, design experiments …

Inductive biases for deep learning of higher-level cognition

A Goyal, Y Bengio - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A fascinating hypothesis is that human and animal intelligence could be explained by a few
principles (rather than an encyclopaedic list of heuristics). If that hypothesis was correct, we …

Gflownet foundations

Y Bengio, S Lahlou, T Deleu, EJ Hu, M Tiwari… - The Journal of Machine …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a
diverse set of candidates in an active learning context, with a training objective that makes …

Let the flows tell: Solving graph combinatorial problems with gflownets

D Zhang, H Dai, N Malkin… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Combinatorial optimization (CO) problems are often NP-hard and thus out of reach for exact
algorithms, making them a tempting domain to apply machine learning methods. The highly …

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 …

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 …

Improved off-policy training of diffusion samplers

M Sendera, M Kim, S Mittal, P Lemos… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of training diffusion models to sample from a distribution with a given
unnormalized density or energy function. We benchmark several diffusion-structured …

Learning gflownets from partial episodes for improved convergence and stability

K Madan, J Rector-Brooks… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms for training a sequential
sampler of discrete objects under an unnormalized target density and have been …

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 …

GFlowNet-EM for learning compositional latent variable models

EJ Hu, N Malkin, M Jain, KE Everett… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Latent variable models (LVMs) with discrete compositional latents are an important but
challenging setting due to a combinatorially large number of possible configurations of the …