arXiv Machine Learning By Yufei Wu, Shanqing Gao, Andreas Voss, Francis Tuerlinckx

Divide-and-Conquer: Towards Generalizable Amortized Bayesian Inference for the Drift Diffusion Model

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arXiv:2608. 03566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The drift diffusion model (DDM) is a cornerstone of cognitive decision-making research.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Improved off-policy training of diffusion samplers

The paper investigates training diffusion models to sample from distributions defined by unnormalized densities or energy functions. It benchmarks various diffusion-structured inference techniques, including simulation-based variational methods and off-policy approaches such as continuous generative flow networks, highlighting their relative strengths and challenging some prior claims. Additionally, the authors introduce a new exploration strategy for off-policy methods that employs local search in the target space with a replay buffer, demonstrating improved sample quality across multiple target distributions.

By Marcin Sendera, Minsu Kim, Sarthak Mittal, Pablo Lemos, Luca Scimeca, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Alexandre Adam, Yoshua Bengio, Esmeralda S. Whitammer