Localized Schrödinger Bridge Sampler

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Hauptverfasser: Gottwald, Georg A., Reich, Sebastian
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author Gottwald, Georg A.
Reich, Sebastian
author_facet Gottwald, Georg A.
Reich, Sebastian
contents We consider the problem of sampling from an unknown distribution for which only a sufficiently large number of training samples are available. In this paper, we build on previous work combining Schrödinger bridges and plug & play Langevin samplers. A key bottleneck of these approaches is the exponential dependence of the required training samples on the dimension, $d$, of the ambient state space. We propose a localization strategy which exploits conditional independence of conditional expectation values. Localization thus replaces a single high-dimensional Schrödinger bridge problem by $d$ low-dimensional Schrödinger bridge problems over the available training samples. In this context, a connection to multi-head self attention transformer architectures is established. As for the original Schrödinger bridge sampling approach, the localized sampler is stable and geometric ergodic. The sampler also naturally extends to conditional sampling and to Bayesian inference. We demonstrate the performance of our proposed scheme through experiments on a high-dimensional Gaussian problem, on a temporal stochastic process, and on a stochastic subgrid-scale parametrization conditional sampling problem. We also extend the idea of localization to plug & play Langevin samplers using kernel-based denoising in combination with Tweedie's formula.
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spellingShingle Localized Schrödinger Bridge Sampler
Gottwald, Georg A.
Reich, Sebastian
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Computation
60H10, 62F15, 62F30, 65C05, 65C40
We consider the problem of sampling from an unknown distribution for which only a sufficiently large number of training samples are available. In this paper, we build on previous work combining Schrödinger bridges and plug & play Langevin samplers. A key bottleneck of these approaches is the exponential dependence of the required training samples on the dimension, $d$, of the ambient state space. We propose a localization strategy which exploits conditional independence of conditional expectation values. Localization thus replaces a single high-dimensional Schrödinger bridge problem by $d$ low-dimensional Schrödinger bridge problems over the available training samples. In this context, a connection to multi-head self attention transformer architectures is established. As for the original Schrödinger bridge sampling approach, the localized sampler is stable and geometric ergodic. The sampler also naturally extends to conditional sampling and to Bayesian inference. We demonstrate the performance of our proposed scheme through experiments on a high-dimensional Gaussian problem, on a temporal stochastic process, and on a stochastic subgrid-scale parametrization conditional sampling problem. We also extend the idea of localization to plug & play Langevin samplers using kernel-based denoising in combination with Tweedie's formula.
title Localized Schrödinger Bridge Sampler
topic Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Computation
60H10, 62F15, 62F30, 65C05, 65C40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07968