Sequential Neural Score Estimation: Likelihood-Free Inference with Conditional Score Based Diffusion Models
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| author | Sharrock, Louis Simons, Jack Liu, Song Beaumont, Mark |
| author_facet | Sharrock, Louis Simons, Jack Liu, Song Beaumont, Mark |
| contents | We introduce Sequential Neural Posterior Score Estimation (SNPSE), a score-based method for Bayesian inference in simulator-based models. Our method, inspired by the remarkable success of score-based methods in generative modelling, leverages conditional score-based diffusion models to generate samples from the posterior distribution of interest. The model is trained using an objective function which directly estimates the score of the posterior. We embed the model into a sequential training procedure, which guides simulations using the current approximation of the posterior at the observation of interest, thereby reducing the simulation cost. We also introduce several alternative sequential approaches, and discuss their relative merits. We then validate our method, as well as its amortised, non-sequential, variant on several numerical examples, demonstrating comparable or superior performance to existing state-of-the-art methods such as Sequential Neural Posterior Estimation (SNPE). |
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| spellingShingle | Sequential Neural Score Estimation: Likelihood-Free Inference with Conditional Score Based Diffusion Models Sharrock, Louis Simons, Jack Liu, Song Beaumont, Mark Machine Learning We introduce Sequential Neural Posterior Score Estimation (SNPSE), a score-based method for Bayesian inference in simulator-based models. Our method, inspired by the remarkable success of score-based methods in generative modelling, leverages conditional score-based diffusion models to generate samples from the posterior distribution of interest. The model is trained using an objective function which directly estimates the score of the posterior. We embed the model into a sequential training procedure, which guides simulations using the current approximation of the posterior at the observation of interest, thereby reducing the simulation cost. We also introduce several alternative sequential approaches, and discuss their relative merits. We then validate our method, as well as its amortised, non-sequential, variant on several numerical examples, demonstrating comparable or superior performance to existing state-of-the-art methods such as Sequential Neural Posterior Estimation (SNPE). |
| title | Sequential Neural Score Estimation: Likelihood-Free Inference with Conditional Score Based Diffusion Models |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.04872 |