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Main Authors: Chang, Jinyuan, Ding, Zhao, Jiao, Yuling, Li, Ruoxuan, Yang, Jerry Zhijian
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01460
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author Chang, Jinyuan
Ding, Zhao
Jiao, Yuling
Li, Ruoxuan
Yang, Jerry Zhijian
author_facet Chang, Jinyuan
Ding, Zhao
Jiao, Yuling
Li, Ruoxuan
Yang, Jerry Zhijian
contents We introduce an ordinary differential equation (ODE) based deep generative method for learning conditional distributions, named Conditional Föllmer Flow. Starting from a standard Gaussian distribution, the proposed flow could approximate the target conditional distribution very well when the time is close to 1. For effective implementation, we discretize the flow with Euler's method where we estimate the velocity field nonparametrically using a deep neural network. Furthermore, we also establish the convergence result for the Wasserstein-2 distance between the distribution of the learned samples and the target conditional distribution, providing the first comprehensive end-to-end error analysis for conditional distribution learning via ODE flow. Our numerical experiments showcase its effectiveness across a range of scenarios, from standard nonparametric conditional density estimation problems to more intricate challenges involving image data, illustrating its superiority over various existing conditional density estimation methods.
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spellingShingle Deep conditional distribution learning via conditional Föllmer flow
Chang, Jinyuan
Ding, Zhao
Jiao, Yuling
Li, Ruoxuan
Yang, Jerry Zhijian
Machine Learning
We introduce an ordinary differential equation (ODE) based deep generative method for learning conditional distributions, named Conditional Föllmer Flow. Starting from a standard Gaussian distribution, the proposed flow could approximate the target conditional distribution very well when the time is close to 1. For effective implementation, we discretize the flow with Euler's method where we estimate the velocity field nonparametrically using a deep neural network. Furthermore, we also establish the convergence result for the Wasserstein-2 distance between the distribution of the learned samples and the target conditional distribution, providing the first comprehensive end-to-end error analysis for conditional distribution learning via ODE flow. Our numerical experiments showcase its effectiveness across a range of scenarios, from standard nonparametric conditional density estimation problems to more intricate challenges involving image data, illustrating its superiority over various existing conditional density estimation methods.
title Deep conditional distribution learning via conditional Föllmer flow
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01460