arXiv Machine Learning

Diffusion-based Annealed Boltzmann Generators : benefits, pitfalls and hopes

arXiv:2601. 21026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sampling configurations at thermodynamic equilibrium is a central challenge in statistical physics.

arXiv Statistics ML
Sep 4

Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Diffusion Paths

The paper introduces a new Markov chain Monte Carlo method that samples from multimodal distributions by interpolating along the diffusion path of a noising diffusion process, preserving mode weights and improving mixing. It proposes a Metropolis-adjusted diffusion path (MAD-Path) sampler that corrects for bias from approximate score estimates and discretization errors, ensuring the target distribution remains invariant. Experiments on Bayesian posteriors demonstrate that MAD-Path outperforms tempering-based MCMC and unadjusted diffusion samplers in global exploration and accurate mode-weight estimation.

By Han Chen, Sifan Liu, Jun Yang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

Equilibrium Training of Energy-Based Models with Parallel Trajectory Tempering

Energy-Based Models (EBMs) provide an interpretable framework for generative modeling of scientific data, but poor Markov Chain Monte Carlo mixing often limits their reliability. We introduce a training algorithm based on Parallel Trajectory Tempering (PTT), which exploits the continuity of the optimization path to maintain equilibrium sampling throughout learning.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

Training Energy-Based Models with Non-MCMC Samplers and Efficient Temperature Estimation

The paper introduces Langevin simulated bifurcation (LSB), a fast, parallel Boltzmann sampler that matches the accuracy of sequential MCMC methods. It also proposes conditional expectation matching (CEM), an efficient technique for estimating the effective temperature of samples from energy‑based models with conditional independence. Building on these, the authors develop sampler adaptive learning (SAL), which adjusts the model temperature to align with the distribution produced by LSB, enabling efficient training of semi‑restricted Boltzmann machines (SRBMs) and outperforming conventional methods on synthetic spin‑glass datasets.

By Kentaro Kubo, Hayato Goto
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Few-Step Boltzmann Generators via Scalable Likelihood Flow Maps

arXiv:2606. 29110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in flow-based generative modeling has led to models that output high-quality samples while using only a small number of function evaluations.

By RuiKang OuYang, Hanlin Yu, Xinyue Ai, Yutong He, Nicholas M. Boffi, Pradeep Ravikumar, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato, Max Simchowitz, Benjamin Kurt Miller, Omar Chehab