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Hauptverfasser: Kalaivanan, Adhithyan, Zhao, Zheng, Sjölund, Jens, Lindsten, Fredrik
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05849
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author Kalaivanan, Adhithyan
Zhao, Zheng
Sjölund, Jens
Lindsten, Fredrik
author_facet Kalaivanan, Adhithyan
Zhao, Zheng
Sjölund, Jens
Lindsten, Fredrik
contents Guiding pretrained flow-based generative models for conditional generation or to produce samples with desired target properties enables solving diverse tasks without retraining on paired data. We present ESS-Flow, a gradient-free method that leverages the typically Gaussian prior of the source distribution in flow-based models to perform Bayesian inference directly in the source space using Elliptical Slice Sampling. ESS-Flow only requires forward passes through the generative model and observation process, no gradient or Jacobian computations, and is applicable even when gradients are unreliable or unavailable, such as with simulation-based observations or quantization in the generation or observation process. We demonstrate its effectiveness on designing materials with desired target properties and predicting protein structures from sparse inter-residue distance measurements.
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spellingShingle ESS-Flow: Training-free guidance of flow-based models as inference in source space
Kalaivanan, Adhithyan
Zhao, Zheng
Sjölund, Jens
Lindsten, Fredrik
Machine Learning
Guiding pretrained flow-based generative models for conditional generation or to produce samples with desired target properties enables solving diverse tasks without retraining on paired data. We present ESS-Flow, a gradient-free method that leverages the typically Gaussian prior of the source distribution in flow-based models to perform Bayesian inference directly in the source space using Elliptical Slice Sampling. ESS-Flow only requires forward passes through the generative model and observation process, no gradient or Jacobian computations, and is applicable even when gradients are unreliable or unavailable, such as with simulation-based observations or quantization in the generation or observation process. We demonstrate its effectiveness on designing materials with desired target properties and predicting protein structures from sparse inter-residue distance measurements.
title ESS-Flow: Training-free guidance of flow-based models as inference in source space
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05849