Adaptively Optimised Adaptive Importance Samplers

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Auteurs principaux: Perello, Carlos A. C. C., Akyildiz, Ömer Deniz
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author Perello, Carlos A. C. C.
Akyildiz, Ömer Deniz
author_facet Perello, Carlos A. C. C.
Akyildiz, Ömer Deniz
contents We introduce a new class of adaptive importance samplers leveraging adaptive optimisation tools, which we term AdaOAIS. We build on Optimised Adaptive Importance Samplers (OAIS), a class of techniques that adapt proposals to improve the mean-squared error of the importance sampling estimators by parameterising the proposal and optimising the $χ^2$-divergence between the target and the proposal. We show that a naive implementation of OAIS using stochastic gradient descent may lead to unstable estimators despite its convergence guarantees. To remedy this shortcoming, we instead propose to use adaptive optimisers (such as AdaGrad and Adam) to improve the stability of the OAIS. We provide convergence results for AdaOAIS in a similar manner to OAIS. We also provide empirical demonstration on a variety of examples and show that AdaOAIS lead to stable importance sampling estimators in practice.
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spellingShingle Adaptively Optimised Adaptive Importance Samplers
Perello, Carlos A. C. C.
Akyildiz, Ömer Deniz
Computation
Methodology
Machine Learning
We introduce a new class of adaptive importance samplers leveraging adaptive optimisation tools, which we term AdaOAIS. We build on Optimised Adaptive Importance Samplers (OAIS), a class of techniques that adapt proposals to improve the mean-squared error of the importance sampling estimators by parameterising the proposal and optimising the $χ^2$-divergence between the target and the proposal. We show that a naive implementation of OAIS using stochastic gradient descent may lead to unstable estimators despite its convergence guarantees. To remedy this shortcoming, we instead propose to use adaptive optimisers (such as AdaGrad and Adam) to improve the stability of the OAIS. We provide convergence results for AdaOAIS in a similar manner to OAIS. We also provide empirical demonstration on a variety of examples and show that AdaOAIS lead to stable importance sampling estimators in practice.
title Adaptively Optimised Adaptive Importance Samplers
topic Computation
Methodology
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09341