Probabilistic inference with GFlowNets - Bibliography

Bibliography

This page is designed to contain a bibliography collection of scientific literature related to GFlowNets. The page is still work in progress though, so the current content is likely to miss important references and is not well organised yet. If you have suggestions to add to the list, please do get in touch.


Flow network based generative models for non-iterative diverse candidate generation. Emmanuel Bengio, Moksh Jain, Maksym Korablyov, Doina Precup, Yoshua Bengio. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2021. paper core theory loss

Trajectory balance: Improved credit assignment in GFlowNets. Nikolay Malkin, Moksh Jain, Emmanuel Bengio, Chen Sun, Yoshua Bengio. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2022. paper core theory methods loss

GFlowNet Foundations. Yoshua Bengio, Salem Lahlou, Tristan Deleu, Edward J. Hu, Mo Tiwari, Emmanuel Bengio. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). 2023. paper core theory loss

Learning GFlowNets from partial episodes for improved convergence and stability. Kanika Madan, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Maksym Korablyov, Emmanuel Bengio, Moksh Jain, Andrei Nica, Tom Bosc, Yoshua Bengio, Nikolay Malkin. International Conference on Machine Learning. 2023. paper core theory loss

Generative flow networks: theory and applications to structure learning. Tristan Deleu. PhD thesis. 2025. paper theory applications

Better training of GFlowNets with local credit and incomplete trajectories. Ling Pan, Nikolay Malkin, Dinghuai Zhang, Yoshua Bengio. International Conference on Machine Learning. 2023. paper theory methods loss

Learning energy decompositions for partial inference of GFlowNets. Hyosoon Jang, Minsu Kim, Sungsoo Ahn. arXiv:2310.03301. 2023. paper theory methods loss

Action abstractions for amortized sampling. Oussama Boussif, Léna Néhale Ezzine, Joseph D Viviano, Michał Koziarski, Moksh Jain, Nikolay Malkin, Emmanuel Bengio, Rim Assouel, Yoshua Bengio. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). 2025. paper methods

Learning decision trees as amortized structure inference. Mohammed Mahfoud, Ghait Boukachab, Michał Koziarski, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Stefan Bauer, Yoshua Bengio, Nikolay Malkin. arXiv:2503.06985. 2025. paper applications theory

Improved off-policy reinforcement learning in biological sequence design. Hyeonah Kim, Minsu Kim, Taeyoung Yun, Sanghyeok Choi, Emmanuel Bengio, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Jinkyoo Park. arXiv:2410.04461. 2024. paper methods

Multi-Fidelity Active Learning with GFlowNets. Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Nikita Saxena, Moksh Jain, Cheng-Hao Liu, Yoshua Bengio. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). 2024. paper activelearning applications

Crystal-GFN: sampling crystals with desirable properties and constraints. Mila AI4Science, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Alexandre Duval, Alexandra Volokhova, Yoshua Bengio, Divya Sharma, Pierre Luc Carrier, Yasmine Benabed, Michał Koziarski, Victor Schmidt. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Workshop on Accelerated Materials Design (AI4Mat). 2023. paper applications

Towards equilibrium molecular conformation generation with GFlowNets. Alexandra Volokhova, Michał Koziarski, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Cheng-Hao Liu, Santiago Miret, Pablo Lemos, Luca Thiede, Zichao Yan, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Yoshua Bengio. Digital Discovery, Royal Society of Chemistry. 2023. paper applications

GFlowNets for AI-driven scientific discovery. Moksh Jain, Tristan Deleu, Jason Hartford, Cheng-Hao Liu, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Yoshua Bengio. Digital Discovery, Royal Society of Chemistry. 2023. paper review

A theory of continuous generative flow networks. Salem Lahlou, Tristan Deleu, Pablo Lemos, Dinghuai Zhang, Alexandra Volokhova, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Léna Néhale Ezzine, Yoshua Bengio, Nikolay Malkin. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2023. paper theory methods

Multi-Objective GFlowNets. Moksh Jain, Sharath Chandra Raparthy, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Yoshua Bengio, Santiago Miret, Emmanuel Bengio. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2023. paper theory methods applications

Biological sequence design with GFlowNets. Moksh Jain, Emmanuel Bengio, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Chanakya Ekbote, Jie Fu, Tianyu Zhang, Micheal Kilgour, Dinghuai Zhang, Lena Simine, Payel Das, Yoshua Bengio. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2023. paper methods applications activelearning

Robust Scheduling with GFlowNets. David W. Zhang, Corrado Rainone, Markus Peschl, Roberto Bondesan. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). 2023. paper loss applications