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Liang Yan

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4 published item(s)

preprint2026arXiv

Venom: A PyTorch Generative Modeling Toolkit

Modern generative modeling has grown into a broad collection of related but often separately implemented paradigms, including denoising diffusion models, score-based stochastic differential equations, flow matching, variational autoencoders, normalizing flows, adversarial models, and energy-based models. For newcomers, this fragmentation makes it difficult to compare training objectives, inference procedures, sampling algorithms, and conditioning mechanisms within a single coherent codebase. We introduce V ENOM, an educational PyTorch toolkit that implements representative generative modeling families under a unified, MNIST-first interface. V ENOM emphasizes breadth, readability, reproducible entry points, and consistent training and sampling APIs rather than large-scale performance engineering. The package currently includes diffusion and score-based models, flow matching and one-step generators, variational autoencoders, normalizing flows, generative adversarial networks, and energy-based models. It provides separate training and sampling scripts, classifier and classifier-free guidance examples, bilingual tutorial notebooks, and a model-family organization that supports teaching, prototyping, and lightweight benchmarking.

preprint2023arXiv

Failure-informed adaptive sampling for PINNs

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as an effective technique for solving PDEs in a wide range of domains. It is noticed, however, the performance of PINNs can vary dramatically with different sampling procedures. For instance, a fixed set of (prior chosen) training points may fail to capture the effective solution region (especially for problems with singularities). To overcome this issue, we present in this work an adaptive strategy, termed the failure-informed PINNs (FI-PINNs), which is inspired by the viewpoint of reliability analysis. The key idea is to define an effective failure probability based on the residual, and then, with the aim of placing more samples in the failure region, the FI-PINNs employs a failure-informed enrichment technique to adaptively add new collocation points to the training set, such that the numerical accuracy is dramatically improved. In short, similar as adaptive finite element methods, the proposed FI-PINNs adopts the failure probability as the posterior error indicator to generate new training points. We prove rigorous error bounds of FI-PINNs and illustrate its performance through several problems.

preprint2022arXiv

Hyperon physics at BESIII

Using the largest $J/ψ$ and $ψ(3686)$ data samples collected at the BESIII experiment, the hyperon anti-hyperon pairs are generated in their quantum entangle system. The polarization of hyperon has been observed, which makes it possible to measure the decay parameters of hyperon and anti-hyperon precisely. The CP conservation observables have been estimated which is important to test the Standard Model. In the meanwhile, the branching fractions and angular distributions related to hyperon pair production have been measured.

preprint2020arXiv

An adaptive surrogate modeling based on deep neural networks for large-scale Bayesian inverse problems

In Bayesian inverse problems, surrogate models are often constructed to speed up the computational procedure, as the parameter-to-data map can be very expensive to evaluate. However, due to the curse of dimensionality and the nonlinear concentration of the posterior, traditional surrogate approaches (such us the polynomial-based surrogates) are still not feasible for large scale problems. To this end, we present in this work an adaptive multi-fidelity surrogate modeling framework based on deep neural networks (DNNs), motivated by the facts that the DNNs can potentially handle functions with limited regularity and are powerful tools for high dimensional approximations. More precisely, we first construct offline a DNNs-based surrogate according to the prior distribution, and then, this prior-based DNN-surrogate will be adaptively \& locally refined online using only a few high-fidelity simulations. In particular, in the refine procedure, we construct a new shallow neural network that view the previous constructed surrogate as an input variable -- yielding a composite multi-fidelity neural network approach. This makes the online computational procedure rather efficient. Numerical examples are presented to confirm that the proposed approach can obtain accurate posterior information with a limited number of forward simulations.