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Exact-density normalizing flows — Examples
1 · Prerequisites
- Areas of Elementary Plane Figures
- Binary Operations, Monoids, Groups and Subgroups
- Compactness
- Compactness in Metric Spaces
- Completeness, Completion, and Uniform Continuity
- Construction of the Natural Numbers
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Cauchy Sequences
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Dedekind Cuts
- Continuity, IVT, EVT, and Uniform Continuity
- Countability and Uncountability
- Determinants of Matrices over a Commutative Ring
- Exact-density normalizing flows
- Filters and Ultrafilters
- Finite Counting, Factorials and Binomial Coefficients
- Foundations of the Real Numbers for Analysis
- Fubini and Change of Variables
- Gaussian Elimination, Elementary Matrices and Reduced Row Echelon Form
- Group Actions, Orbits, Stabilisers and Cayley's Theorem
- Lebesgue Measure on Euclidean Space
- Limits of Real Functions
- limsup, liminf, and Subsequential Limits
- Linear Independence, Bases and Dimension
- Linear Transformations, Rank-Nullity and Quotient Spaces
- Matrices, the Matrix of a Linear Map, and Change of Basis
- Measurable Functions and Simple Approximation
- Measures and Their Basic Properties
- Metric Spaces
- Monotone Functions, Discontinuities, and Continuity Sets
- Monotone Sequences, Bolzano-Weierstrass, and Cauchy Completeness
- Order, Zorn's Lemma, and the Axiom of Choice
- Outer Measure and the Caratheodory Extension Theorem
- Pointwise Extended-Real Function Products
- Polynomial Rings, the Division Algorithm and Roots
- Product Measures and the Fubini Tonelli Theorems
- Properties of the Integral and the Working FTC
- Relations, Functions, and Quotients
- Rings, Subrings, Integral Domains and Fields
- Rⁿ as a Normed Space; Vector-Valued Functions
- Roots, Rational Powers, and Classical Inequalities
- Sequences and Limits
- Series: Convergence and the Nonnegative Tests
- Sigma Algebras and Borel Sets
- Subspaces, Products, and Quotients
- Suprema and Infima
- Symmetric Groups, Cycle Decomposition and the Sign Homomorphism
- The Derivative and the Mean Value Theorems
- The Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems
- The Lebesgue Integral and the Convergence Theorems
- The Riemann Integral in Rᵐ and Jordan Content
- The Riemann Integral: Definition and Integrability
- The Topology of Euclidean Space
- The Total Derivative in ℝᵐ → ℝⁿ
- The ZFC Axioms and the Basic Set Constructions
- Topological Spaces and Continuity
- Topology of ℝ
- Vector Spaces, Linear Subspaces, Span and Direct Sums
2 · Logical flowchart
3 · Definitions, theorems and proofs
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4 · Examples, counterexamples and false statements
A unit-scale affine coupling has a triangular Jacobian
Example
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and let be a Lebesgue probability density on . Define the unit-scale affine coupling by It is a global diffeomorphism with inverse . Its Jacobian matrix is lower triangular, The transformed model has density . The first coordinate is unchanged and the second is shifted by the first.
Example references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice and a Lebesgue probability density on .
The Axiom of Countable Choice, written , asserts that every sequence of nonempty sets has a choice function. The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
A map is totally differentiable at every point with continuous derivative matrix; a global diffeomorphism has a inverse, and a flow transports its base measure by . A normalizing flow and its base density
Under Countable Choice, a diffeomorphism transforms density by . A diffeomorphic flow has the inverse-Jacobian density
The Jacobian matrix records the total derivative in standard coordinates, and the Jacobian determinant is its determinant. The Jacobian matrix of partial derivatives and the gradient in the scalar-valued case, The Jacobian determinant of a square-dimensional map is the determinant of its Jacobian matrix
The determinant of a lower triangular matrix is the product of its diagonal entries. The determinant of a triangular matrix is the product of its diagonal entries
Verification
Given: The objects and hypotheses in the Example.
Define . Direct substitution gives and . Both maps are linear, so their first-order remainders vanish and their derivative matrices are constant; by [F1] they are . Thus they are inverse bijections and is a global diffeomorphism.
The linear map has matrix , which is its Jacobian matrix by [F3]. It is lower triangular, so [F4] gives determinant . Its inverse has Jacobian matrix , also lower triangular with determinant .
Apply [F2] to the base density and the inverse from step 1.1. Step 1.2 gives , so the transformed density version is .
A full-dimensional flow cannot represent a line-supported law exactly
Example
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice. Let be the probability measure on with density relative to one-dimensional Lebesgue measure, let be , and define a measure on Borel sets by This probability measure is concentrated on the line segment and satisfies . It is not the output of any normalizing flow whose base measure has a Lebesgue density.
Example references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, the interval probability measure , the continuous embedding , and its image measure .
The Axiom of Countable Choice, written , asserts that every sequence of nonempty sets has a choice function. The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
A nonnegative measurable density defines a measure by . The measure with density relative to
A flow from a Lebesgue density through a global diffeomorphism has density . A diffeomorphic flow has the inverse-Jacobian density
A continuous map has Borel preimages of Borel sets. A continuous map has Borel preimages of Borel sets
Every closed box in is Borel and Lebesgue measurable; its measure is , so has one-dimensional Lebesgue measure . A box in with parameters is Lebesgue measurable of measure , whichever of its faces are included
A rectangle with a degenerate side is Lebesgue null under Countable Choice. A box with a degenerate side is Lebesgue null, and so is every coordinate hyperplane in
A nonnegative measurable density integrates to zero over a measurable null set. A nonnegative integral over a null set vanishes
A normalizing flow is a finite composition of global diffeomorphisms between open equal-dimensional Euclidean domains; its output measure is obtained by taking preimages under the flow. A normalizing flow and its base density
Verification
Given: Countable Choice, the image measure of under , and an arbitrary normalizing flow with Lebesgue base density.
The function is continuous, so [F3] makes Borel for every Borel . For pairwise disjoint Borel sets , their preimages are pairwise disjoint and ; countable additivity of therefore makes a measure. By [F1] and [F4], , whence and .
The set is a closed box, hence Borel by [F4]. Its second side is degenerate, so [F5] gives .
By [F7] and [F2], the flow output has a nonnegative Lebesgue density on . Applying [F1] and [F6] to the null set gives .
The target measure satisfies by step 1.1, whereas every such flow output satisfies by step 1.3. Therefore , so no full-dimensional flow in the stated class represents this target law exactly.