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Autores principales: Wang, Xuesong, Zhao, He, Bonilla, Edwin V.
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Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15991
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author Wang, Xuesong
Zhao, He
Bonilla, Edwin V.
author_facet Wang, Xuesong
Zhao, He
Bonilla, Edwin V.
contents Neural Processes (NPs) are deep probabilistic models that represent stochastic processes by conditioning their prior distributions on a set of context points. Despite their advantages in uncertainty estimation for complex distributions, NPs enforce parameterization coupling between the conditional prior model and the posterior model. We show that this coupling amounts to prior misspecification and revisit the NP objective to address this issue. More specifically, we propose Rényi Neural Processes (RNP), a method that replaces the standard KL divergence with the Rényi divergence, dampening the effects of the misspecified prior during posterior updates. We validate our approach across multiple benchmarks including regression and image inpainting tasks, and show significant performance improvements of RNPs in real-world problems. Our extensive experiments show consistently better log-likelihoods over state-of-the-art NP models.
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spellingShingle Rényi Neural Processes
Wang, Xuesong
Zhao, He
Bonilla, Edwin V.
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neural Processes (NPs) are deep probabilistic models that represent stochastic processes by conditioning their prior distributions on a set of context points. Despite their advantages in uncertainty estimation for complex distributions, NPs enforce parameterization coupling between the conditional prior model and the posterior model. We show that this coupling amounts to prior misspecification and revisit the NP objective to address this issue. More specifically, we propose Rényi Neural Processes (RNP), a method that replaces the standard KL divergence with the Rényi divergence, dampening the effects of the misspecified prior during posterior updates. We validate our approach across multiple benchmarks including regression and image inpainting tasks, and show significant performance improvements of RNPs in real-world problems. Our extensive experiments show consistently better log-likelihoods over state-of-the-art NP models.
title Rényi Neural Processes
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15991