Sampling using Diffusion Processes
- đ¤ Speaker: Dr Nicolas Macris, EPFL đ Website
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
- đ Venue: MR5, CMS Pavilion A
Abstract
I will discuss a class of diffusion-based algorithms to draw samples from high-dimensional probability distributions given their unnormalized densities. Ideally, the method can transport samples from a Gaussian distribution to a specified target distribution in finite time. The stochastic interpolants framework used to derive a diffusion process, and also involves solving certain Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs. These are solved using the theory of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE) together with machine learning-based methods. Numerical experiments illustrating that the algorithm will also be discussed. This is joint work with Anand Jerry George.
Series This talk is part of the Information Theory Seminar series.
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Dr Nicolas Macris, EPFL 
Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00