arXiv:2601. 07944v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Since the turn of the century, approximate Bayesian inference has steadily evolved as new computational techniques have been incorporated to handle increasingly complex, large-scale predictive problems.
By Roy Shivam Ram Shreshtth, Arnab Hazra, Gourab Mukherjee
arXiv:2512. 22999v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider problems of parameter estimation where design variables can be actively optimized to maximize information gain.
By Niels Bracher, Lars K\"uhmichel, Desi R. Ivanova, Xavier Intes, Paul-Christian B\"urkner, Stefan T. Radev
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
arXiv:2608. 08644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the problem of sampling compositional and discrete objects from a given unnormalized posterior distribution.
By Tiago da Silva, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Salem Lahlou
arXiv:2504. 01894v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a bifidelity method for uncertainty quantification of parameter estimates in complex systems, leveraging generative models trained to sample the target conditional distribution.
By Caroline Tatsuoka, Minglei Yang, Dongbin Xiu, Guannan Zhang
arXiv:2609.39525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Casting Bayesian inference as a neural network optimization problem targeting an amortized posterior is attractive, as it extends to otherwise intracta...
By Hans Olischl\"ager, Svenja Jedhoff, \v{S}imon Kucharsk\'y, Aayush Mishra, Stefan T. Radev, Paul B\"urkner