Gendice: Generalized offline estimation of stationary values

R Zhang, B Dai, L Li, D Schuurmans - arxiv preprint arxiv:2002.09072, 2020 - arxiv.org
An important problem that arises in reinforcement learning and Monte Carlo methods is
estimating quantities defined by the stationary distribution of a Markov chain. In many real …

Feature quantization improves gan training

Y Zhao, C Li, P Yu, J Gao, C Chen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2004.02088, 2020 - arxiv.org
The instability in GAN training has been a long-standing problem despite remarkable
research efforts. We identify that instability issues stem from difficulties of performing feature …

Multi-fidelity physics-informed generative adversarial network for solving partial differential equations

M Taghizadeh, MA Nabian… - … of Computing and …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
We propose a novel method for solving partial differential equations using multi-fidelity
physics-informed generative adversarial networks. Our approach incorporates physics …

Batch stationary distribution estimation

J Wen, B Dai, L Li, D Schuurmans - arxiv preprint arxiv:2003.00722, 2020 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of approximating the stationary distribution of an ergodic Markov
chain given a set of sampled transitions. Classical simulation-based approaches assume …

Least th-Order and Rényi Generative Adversarial Networks

H Bhatia, W Paul, F Alajaji, B Gharesifard… - Neural …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
We investigate the use of parameterized families of information-theoretic measures to
generalize the loss functions of generative adversarial networks (GANs) with the objective of …

Output-weighted sampling for multi-armed bandits with extreme payoffs

Y Yang, A Blanchard, T Sapsis… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present a new type of acquisition function for online decision-making in multi-armed and
contextual bandit problems with extreme payoffs. Specifically, we model the payoff function …

Variational annealing of GANs: A Langevin perspective

C Tao, S Dai, L Chen, K Bai, J Chen… - International …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
The generative adversarial network (GAN) has received considerable attention recently as a
model for data synthesis, without an explicit specification of a likelihood function. There has …

Expected information maximization: Using the i-projection for mixture density estimation

P Becker, O Arenz, G Neumann - arxiv preprint arxiv:2001.08682, 2020 - arxiv.org
Modelling highly multi-modal data is a challenging problem in machine learning. Most
algorithms are based on maximizing the likelihood, which corresponds to the M (oment) …

Bridging maximum likelihood and adversarial learning via α-divergence

M Zhao, Y Cong, S Dai, L Carin - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2020 - aaai.org
Maximum likelihood (ML) and adversarial learning are two popular approaches for training
generative models, and from many perspectives these techniques are complementary. ML …

Sales Application Program at Palinggihan Restaurant in Kuningan

AS Wijaya - Journal of Business Social and Technology, 2021 - bustechno.polteksci.ac.id
The culinary business has good prospects and is one of the growing business opportunities
today, ranging from traditional food traders with the term street vendors, buffets to modern …