4 papers
Free energy Estimation on Any State Space
Jiajun He, Zijing Ou, Francisco Vargas +4
Free energy estimation is a fundamental yet challenging problem, from physics to statistics. Classical approaches rely on thermodynamic transformations, ranging from direct estimat…
Iterative Importance Fine-tuning of Diffusion Models
Alexander Denker, Shreyas Padhy, Francisco Vargas +1
Diffusion models are an important tool for generative modelling, serving as effective priors in applications such as imaging and protein design. A key challenge in applying diffusi…
FEAT: Free energy Estimators with Adaptive Transport
Jiajun He, Yuanqi Du, Francisco Vargas +4
We present Free energy Estimators with Adaptive Transport (FEAT), a novel framework for free energy estimation -- a critical challenge across scientific domains. FEAT leverages lea…
No Trick, No Treat: Pursuits and Challenges Towards Simulation-free Training of Neural Samplers
Jiajun He, Yuanqi Du, Francisco Vargas +5
We consider the sampling problem, where the aim is to draw samples from a distribution whose density is known only up to a normalization constant. Recent breakthroughs in generativ…