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Lazar Atanackovic

7 accepted papers

2026

A Call to Lagrangian Action: Learning Population Mechanics from Temporal Snapshots

ICML 2026spotlight

The population dynamics of molecules, cells, and organisms are governed by a number of unknown internal and external forces. In the last decade, population dynamics have predominately been modeled with Wasserstein gradient flows. However, since gradient flows minimize free energy, they fail to captu…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Curly Flow Matching for Learning Non-gradient Field Dynamics

NeurIPS 2025poster

Modeling the transport dynamics of natural processes from population-level observations is a ubiquitous problem in the natural sciences. Such models rely on key assumptions about the underlying process in order to enable faithful learning of governing dynamics that mimic the actual system behavior.…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Meta Flow Matching: Integrating Vector Fields on the Wasserstein Manifold

ICLR 2025poster

Numerous biological and physical processes can be modeled as systems of interacting entities evolving continuously over time, e.g. the dynamics of communicating cells or physical particles. Learning the dynamics of such systems is essential for predicting the temporal evolution of populations across…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2025

The Superposition of Diffusion Models Using the Itô Density Estimator

ICLR 2025spotlight

The Cambrian explosion of easily accessible pre-trained diffusion models suggests a demand for methods that combine multiple different pre-trained diffusion models without incurring the significant computational burden of re-training a larger combined model. In this paper, we cast the problem of com…

2024

A Computational Framework for Solving Wasserstein Lagrangian Flows

ICML 2024poster

The dynamical formulation of the optimal transport can be extended through various choices of the underlying geometry (*kinetic energy*), and the regularization of density paths (*potential energy*). These combinations yield different variational problems (*Lagrangians*), encompassing many variation…

2024

Simulation-Free Schrödinger Bridges via Score and Flow Matching

AISTATS 2024poster

We present simulation-free score and flow matching ([SF]$^2$M), a simulation-free objective for inferring stochastic dynamics given unpaired samples drawn from arbitrary source and target distributions. Our method generalizes both the score-matching loss used in the training of diffusion models and…

2023

DynGFN: Towards Bayesian Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks with GFlowNets

NeurIPS 2023poster

One of the grand challenges of cell biology is inferring the gene regulatory network (GRN) which describes interactions between genes and their products that control gene expression and cellular function. We can treat this as a causal discovery problem but with two non-standard challenges: (1) regul…