4 papers
Implicit Variational Rejection Sampling
Jian Xu, Shigui Li, Wei Chen +6
Variational Inference (VI) is a fundamental inference technique in Bayesian machine learning for approximating complex posterior distributions. Traditional VI often relies on the m…
A Minimum Variance Path Principle for Accurate and Stable Score-Based Density Ratio Estimation
Wei Chen, Jiacheng Li, Shigui Li +4
Score-based methods are powerful across machine learning, but they face a paradox: theoretically path-independent, yet practically path-dependent. We resolve this by proving that p…
Diffusion Secant Alignment for Score-Based Density Ratio Estimation
Wei Chen, Shigui Li, Jiacheng Li +6
Estimating density ratios has become increasingly important with the recent rise of score-based and diffusion-inspired methods. However, current tangent-based approaches rely on a…
Dequantified Diffusion-Schr{ö}dinger Bridge for Density Ratio Estimation
Wei Chen, Shigui Li, Jiacheng Li +3
Density ratio estimation is fundamental to tasks involving -divergences, yet existing methods often fail under significantly different distributions or inadequately overlapping…