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Generative bootstrap processes
Abstract
We study generative bootstrap processes obtained by resampling from fitted generative distributions. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for their conditional weak convergence to the P-Brownian bridge, formulated in terms of finite-dimensional conditional weak convergence and conditional asymptotic equicontinuity. We further provide general sufficient conditions and a Giné-Zinn-type characterization relating this convergence to the P-Donsker property. As applications, we verify these conditions for prominent classes of generative models, including triangular normalizing flows, flow matching, score-based diffusion models, and Wasserstein generative adversarial networks.
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BibTeX
@misc{lin2026generative,
title = {{Generative bootstrap processes}},
author = {Ziming Lin and Fang Han},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.13471},
eprint = {2609.13471},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13471},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Generative bootstrap processes
AU - Ziming Lin
AU - Fang Han
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/11
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.13471
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13471
AB - We study generative bootstrap processes obtained by resampling from fitted generative distributions. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for their conditional weak convergence to the P-Brownian bridge, formulated in terms of finite-dimensional conditional weak convergence and conditional asymptotic equicontinuity. We further provide general sufficient conditions and a Giné-Zinn-type characterization relating this convergence to the P-Donsker property. As applications, we verify these conditions for prominent classes of generative models, including triangular normalizing flows, flow matching, score-based diffusion models, and Wasserstein generative adversarial networks.
ER -