Erratum to: Loop-corrected subleading soft theorem and the celestial stress tensor
Donnay, L Nguyen, K Ruzziconi, R Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2024 issue 2 116 (16 Feb 2024)
Conserved currents in the Palatini formulation of general relativity
Barnich, G Mao, P Ruzziconi, R 171 (18 Aug 2020)
Bridging Carrollian and celestial holography
Donnay, L Fiorucci, A Herfray, Y Ruzziconi, R Physical Review D volume 107 issue 12 126027 (15 Jun 2023)
Superboost transitions, refraction memory and super-Lorentz charge algebra
Compère, G Fiorucci, A Ruzziconi, R Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2018 issue 11 200 (30 Nov 2018)
The Λ-BMS4 group of dS4 and new boundary conditions for AdS4
Compère, G Fiorucci, A Ruzziconi, R Classical and Quantum Gravity volume 36 issue 19 195017 (10 Oct 2019)
BMS current algebra in the context of the Newman–Penrose formalism
Barnich, G Mao, P Ruzziconi, R Classical and Quantum Gravity volume 37 issue 9 095010 (07 May 2020)
BMS flux algebra in celestial holography
Donnay, L Ruzziconi, R Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2021 issue 11 40 (08 Nov 2021)
Geometric action for extended Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group in four dimensions
Barnich, G Nguyen, K Ruzziconi, R Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2022 issue 12 154 (27 Dec 2022)
Holographic Lorentz and Carroll frames
Campoleoni, A Ciambelli, L Delfante, A Marteau, C Petropoulos, P Ruzziconi, R Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2022 issue 12 7 (01 Dec 2022)
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Conditioning Diffusions Using Malliavin Calculus

Dr Jakiw Pidstrigach
(Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Abstract

In stochastic optimal control and conditional generative modelling, a central computational task is to modify a reference diffusion process to maximise a given terminal-time reward. Most existing methods require this reward to be differentiable, using gradients to steer the diffusion towards favourable outcomes. However, in many practical settings, like diffusion bridges, the reward is singular, taking an infinite value if the target is hit and zero otherwise. We introduce a novel framework, based on Malliavin calculus and path-space integration by parts, that enables the development of methods robust to such singular rewards. This allows our approach to handle a broad range of applications, including classification, diffusion bridges, and conditioning without the need for artificial observational noise. We demonstrate that our approach offers stable and reliable training, outperforming existing techniques. 

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