Particle-based Bayesian inference methods by sampling from a partition-free target (posterior) distribution, e.g., Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD), have attracted significant attention. We propose a path-guided particle-based sampling~(PGPS) method based on a novel Log-weighted Shrinkage (LwS) density path linking an initial distribution to the target distribution. We propose to utilize a Neural network to learn a vector field motivated by the Fokker-Planck equation of the designed density path. Particles, initiated from the initial distribution, evolve according to the ordinary differential equation defined by the vector field. The distribution of these particles is guided along a density path from the initial distribution to the target distribution. The proposed LwS density path allows for an efficient search of modes of the target distribution while canonical methods fail. We theoretically analyze the Wasserstein distance of the distribution of the PGPS-generated samples and the target distribution due to approximation and discretization errors. Practically, the proposed PGPS-LwS method demonstrates higher Bayesian inference accuracy and better calibration ability in experiments conducted on both synthetic and real-world Bayesian learning tasks, compared to baselines, such as SVGD and Langevin dynamics, etc.
Improving Gradient-guided Nested Sampling for Posterior Inference
Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute(米拉-魁北克人工智能研究所);Université de Montréal(蒙特利尔大学);Ciela Institute(谢拉研究所);CCA – Flatiron Institute(计算天体物理学中心-弗拉蒂伦研究所);Cavendish Laboratory(卡文迪什实验室);Kavli Institute for Cosmology(卡夫利宇宙学研究所);Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学冈维尔与凯斯学院);Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)(加拿大高等研究院)
Fast and Robust Likelihood-Guided Diffusion Posterior Sampling with Amortized Variational Inference
Institute of Foundation Models, MBZUAI(基础模型研究所,MBZUAI);Huawei Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research Center, Paris, France(华为拉格朗日数学与计算研究中心,法国巴黎);Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI, Chair of the ML Department, EPITA, Laboratoire Recherche de l'EPITA(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学,机器学习系主任,EPITA,EPITA研究实验室)
Entropy-Guided Sampling of Flat Modes in Discrete Spaces
Department of Computer Science, College of Science & College of Engineering, Purdue University(计算机科学系、科学与工程学院、普渡大学);Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University(生物统计学与生物信息学系、杜克大学医学学院、杜克大学)
DPM-Solver++: Fast Solver for Guided Sampling of Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Tech., Institute for AI, BNRist Center, THBI Lab(计算机科学与技术系,人工智能研究院,BNRist中心,THBI实验室);Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China(清华大学-博世联合机器学习中心,清华大学,北京,100084中国);Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China(北京人工智能学院,中国人民大学);Beijing Key Laboratory of Big Data Management and Analysis Methods, Beijing, China(北京大数据管理与分析方法重点实验室,北京,中国)
Ten Words Only Still Help: Improving Black-Box AI-Generated Text Detection via Proxy-Guided Efficient Re-Sampling
Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院智能信息处理重点实验室);Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学)
Logical Specifications-guided Dynamic Task Sampling for Reinforcement Learning Agents
Tufts University(塔夫茨大学);University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校);Georgia Tech Research Institute(佐治亚理工学院研究所);University of Colorado Boulder(科罗拉多大学博尔德分校)
Theoretical Guarantees for SMC-Guided Diffusion Sampling
Sorbonne Université and Université Paris Cité, CNRS, LPSM(索邦大学和巴黎大学,法国国家科学研究中心,巴黎高等师范学院);Center for Statistics and Images, Mines Paris, PSL University(统计与图像中心,巴黎 Mines,PSL 大学);CREST, ENSAE Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris(CREST,ENSAE 巴黎,巴黎理工学院)
UPCMR: A Universal Prompt-guided Model for Random Sampling Cardiac MRI Reconstruction
Leiden University Medical Center(莱顿大学医学中心);Cardiologs;Philips(飞利浦);Eindhoven University of Technology(埃因霍温理工大学);Philips Innovative Technologies(飞利浦创新技术)
Enhancing Adversarial Transferability by Balancing Exploration and Exploitation with Gradient-Guided Sampling
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China(深圳大学计算机科学与软件工程学院);Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), Shenzhen, China(广东省人工智能与数字经济发展实验室(深圳));Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Shenzhen University, China(广东省智能信息处理省级重点实验室);School of Computer Science, University of Exeter, U.K.(埃克塞特大学计算机科学学院);Department of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University, China(大鹏大学计算与信息技术系);Computer Vision Institute, School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, China(人工智能学院计算机视觉研究所)
Mitigating Tail Narrowing in LLM Self-Improvement via Socratic-Guided Sampling
School of Computer Science, Fudan University(复旦大学计算机科学学院);Meituan(美团);Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University(复旦大学现代语言与语言学研究所);Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University(复旦大学智能信息处理重点实验室);Macau University of Science and Technology(澳门科技大学)
Generative Oversampling for Imbalanced Data via Majority-Guided VAE
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);Huawei Technologies(华为技术有限公司);Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳));Peng Cheng Lab(鹏城实验室)
Physical-State-Guided Diffusion Sampling for Full-Waveform Inversion
School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学数学科学学院);CMA-Shanghai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学CMA-上海);School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University(兰州大学数学与统计学院)
Gradient-Guided Furthest Point Sampling for Robust Training Set Selection
Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning(柏林学习与数据基础研究院);Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Toronto, ON, Canada(化学物理理论组,化学系,多伦多大学圣乔治校区,多伦多,ON,加拿大);Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Toronto, ON, Canada(材料科学与工程系,多伦多大学圣乔治校区,多伦多,ON,加拿大);Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, ON, Canada(人工智能研究所,多伦多,ON,加拿大);Department of Physics, University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Toronto, ON, Canada(物理系,多伦多大学圣乔治校区,多伦多,ON,加拿大);Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada(加速联盟,多伦多大学,多伦多,ON,加拿大)
Random Sampling for Diffusion-based Adversarial Purification
Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学);The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学);Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳));The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学)
Direct Preference Optimization-Enhanced Multi-Guided Diffusion Model for Traffic Scenario Generation
Pohang University of Science and Technology(浦项科技大学);School of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology(浦项科技大学电气工程学院);NAVER LABS(NAVER实验室)
F$^3$low: Frame-to-Frame Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics with SE(3) Guided Flow Matching
Mila - Québec AI Institute(米拉-魁北克人工智能研究所);Université de Montréal(蒙特利尔大学);Microsoft Research AI4Science(微软研究院AI4科学部门);Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine(上海交通大学医学院);HEC Montréal(蒙特利尔高等商学院);Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)(加拿大高级研究院)
AdapSNE: Adaptive Fireworks-Optimized and Entropy-Guided Dataset Sampling for Edge DNN Training
School of Software Engineering(软件工程学院);School of Computer Science and Technology(计算机科学与技术学院);the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学第一附属医院);National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence(人机混合增强智能国家重点实验室);National Engineering Research Center for Visual Information and Applications(视觉信息与应用国家工程研究中心);Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics(人工智能与机器人研究院)
OD-Gear: Online Decomposition and Group Sampling for Expert-Guided Adversarial Routing in Scalable Capacitated Vehicle Routing
School of Information Science(信息科学学院);Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Computation, Department of CSE, SUSTech, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China(脑启发智能计算广东省重点实验室、计算机科学与工程系、南方科技大学、深圳518055,中华人民共和国)