17 papers
A Gradient Flow Perspective on Minimum MMD Estimation
Sophia Seulkee Kang, Louis Sharrock, Xiaoyuan Cheng +2
Minimum maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) estimation has emerged as a robust and likelihood-free alternative to maximum likelihood estimation for parameter estimation. Yet, despite it…
Thinned Mean Field Langevin Dynamics
Zonghao Chen, Heishiro Kanagawa, François-Xavier Briol +2
Several important learning tasks can be formulated as minimizing an entropy-regularized objective over an appropriate space of probability distributions. Mean-field Langevin dynami…
Conservative neural posterior estimation via distributionally robust training
William Laplante, Yuga Hikida, Charita Dellaporta +2
Simulation-based inference with neural posterior estimation (NPE) often yields overconfident and unreliable posteriors under limited simulation budgets. To address this, we propose…
A computationally-tractable measure of global sensitivity for sampling-based Bayesian inference
Arina Odnoblyudova, Charita Dellaporta, François-Xavier Briol
Bayesian inference can often be sensitive to the choice of hyperparameters of the prior or likelihood, yet defining and quantifying this sensitivity in a principled and computation…
Stationary MMD Points
Zonghao Chen, Toni Karvonen, Heishiro Kanagawa +2
Approximation of a target probability distribution using a finite set of points is a problem of fundamental importance in numerical integration. Several authors have proposed to se…
Amortised and provably-robust simulation-based inference
Ayush Bharti, Charita Dellaporta, Yuga Hikida +1
Complex simulator-based models are now routinely used to perform inference across the sciences and engineering, but existing inference methods are often unable to account for outli…