arXiv Machine Learning By Hongkai Zheng, Austin Wang, Zihui Wu, Zhengyu Huang, Ricardo Baptista, Yisong Yue

Blade: A Derivative-free Bayesian Inversion Method using Diffusion Priors

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arXiv:2510. 10968v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Derivative-free Bayesian inversion arises in science and engineering applications, particularly when forward model is costly or infeasible to differentiate through.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

PosteriorBench: From Point Estimates to Posterior Matching in Evaluating Generative Inverse Solvers

PosteriorBench is a new benchmark that evaluates how well generative inverse solvers recover full posterior distributions rather than just a single reconstruction. It tests four physics-based inverse problems—Darcy flow inversion, Poisson source recovery, carbon capture and storage, and light transport material inference—using high-fidelity reference posteriors generated by rejection sampling and MCMC. The benchmark employs five metrics (posterior-mean error, posterior-standard-deviation error, maximum mean discrepancy, sliced Wasserstein distance, and radially averaged power-spectrum error) to assess pointwise accuracy, uncertainty, distributional alignment, and global frequency fidelity, revealing significant distribution-matching gaps in current solvers and highlighting the importance of neural operators, guidance weights, and generation noise for posterior-variance calibration.

By Jiachen Yao, Zi-Siang Hsu, Xi Deng, Aditi Gupta, Xin Ju, Sally M Benson, Gege Wen, Anima Anandkumar