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Giulio Franzese

9 accepted papers

2026

Relative Entropy Estimation in Function Space: Theory and Applications to Trajectory Inference

ICML 2026poster

Trajectory Inference (TI) seeks to reconstruct latent dynamical processes from snapshot data, which consist of independent samples from time-indexed marginals of an underlying stochastic system. In applications such as single-cell genomics, destructive measurements preclude direct observation of tra…

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2025

Information Theoretic Text-to-Image Alignment

ICLR 2025poster

Diffusion models for Text-to-Image (T2I) conditional generation have recently achieved tremendous success. Yet, aligning these models with user’s intentions still involves a laborious trial-and-error process, and this challenging alignment problem has attracted considerable attention from the resear…

2025

Learning to Match Unpaired Data with Minimum Entropy Coupling

ICML 2025poster

Multimodal data is a precious asset enabling a variety of downstream tasks in machine learning. However, real-world data collected across different modalities is often not paired, which is a significant challenge to learn a joint distribution. A prominent approach to address the modality coupling pr…

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2024

MINDE: Mutual Information Neural Diffusion Estimation

ICLR 2024poster

In this work we present a new method for the estimation of Mutual Information (MI) between random variables. Our approach is based on an original interpretation of the Girsanov theorem, which allows us to use score-based diffusion models to estimate the KL divergence between two densities as a diffe…

2023

Continuous-Time Functional Diffusion Processes

NeurIPS 2023poster

We introduce Functional Diffusion Processes (FDPs), which generalize score-based diffusion models to infinite-dimensional function spaces. FDPs require a new mathematical framework to describe the forward and backward dynamics, and several extensions to derive practical training objectives. These in…

2023

One-Line-of-Code Data Mollification Improves Optimization of Likelihood-based Generative Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

Generative Models (GMs) have attracted considerable attention due to their tremendous success in various domains, such as computer vision where they are capable to generate impressive realistic-looking images. Likelihood-based GMs are attractive due to the possibility to generate new data by a singl…

2022

Revisiting the Effects of Stochasticity for Hamiltonian Samplers

ICML 2022spotlight

We revisit the theoretical properties of Hamiltonian stochastic differential equations (SDES) for Bayesian posterior sampling, and we study the two types of errors that arise from numerical SDE simulation: the discretization error and the error due to noisy gradient estimates in the context of data…

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