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Maximillian Nickel

4 accepted papers

2022

Matching Normalizing Flows and Probability Paths on Manifolds

ICML 2022spotlight

Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs) are a class of generative models that transform a prior distribution to a model distribution by solving an ordinary differential equation (ODE). We propose to train CNFs on manifolds by minimizing probability path divergence (PPD), a novel family of divergences be…

Cited by 46SourcePDFScholar
2021

CURI: A Benchmark for Productive Concept Learning Under Uncertainty

ICML 2021spotlight

Humans can learn and reason under substantial uncertainty in a space of infinitely many compositional, productive concepts. For example, if a scene with two blue spheres qualifies as “daxy,” one can reason that the underlying concept may require scenes to have “only blue spheres” or “only spheres” o…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2018

Learning Continuous Hierarchies in the Lorentz Model of Hyperbolic Geometry

ICML 2018oral

We are concerned with the discovery of hierarchical relationships from large-scale unstructured similarity scores. For this purpose, we study different models of hyperbolic space and find that learning embeddings in the Lorentz model is substantially more efficient than in the Poincar{é}-ball model.…