Skip to yearly menu bar Skip to main content


Poster

Deterministic Langevin Monte Carlo with Normalizing Flows for Bayesian Inference

Richard Grumitt · Biwei Dai · Uros Seljak

Hall J (level 1) #1034

Keywords: [ normalizing flows ] [ bayesian inference ] [ Probabilistic Methods ]


Abstract:

We propose a general purpose Bayesian inference algorithm for expensive likelihoods, replacing the stochastic term in the Langevin equation with a deterministic density gradient term. The particle density is evaluated from the current particle positions using a Normalizing Flow (NF), which is differentiable and has good generalization properties in high dimensions. We take advantage of NF preconditioning and NF based Metropolis-Hastings updates for a faster convergence. We show on various examples that the method is competitive against state of the art sampling methods.

Chat is not available.