Friday, 4. July 2025 5:00 pm Generative Neural Networks for the Sciences
Prof. Dr. Ullrich Köthe, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg
Generative modelling with normalizing flows has worked well in scientific applications like simulation-based inference. However, the peculiar design makes it difficult to incorporate prior knowledge (such as laws of physics or chemistry) into their architecture. Free-form flows eliminate this restriction by means of a new training algorithm. Manifold free-form flows elegantly exploit these opportunities in the case when we know that the data reside on a manifold. The talk will explain the underlying theory and present experimental evidence for the promising behavior of the new approach.
