BNEM: A Boltzmann Sampler Based on Bootstrapped Noised Energy Matching

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Main Authors: OuYang, RuiKang, Qiang, Bo, Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel
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Published: 2024
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author OuYang, RuiKang
Qiang, Bo
Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel
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Qiang, Bo
Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel
contents Developing an efficient sampler capable of generating independent and identically distributed (IID) samples from a Boltzmann distribution is a crucial challenge in scientific research, e.g. molecular dynamics. In this work, we intend to learn neural samplers given energy functions instead of data sampled from the Boltzmann distribution. By learning the energies of the noised data, we propose a diffusion-based sampler, Noised Energy Matching, which theoretically has lower variance and more complexity compared to related works. Furthermore, a novel bootstrapping technique is applied to NEM to balance between bias and variance. We evaluate NEM and BNEM on a 2-dimensional 40 Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and a 4-particle double-well potential (DW-4). The experimental results demonstrate that BNEM can achieve state-of-the-art performance while being more robust.
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spellingShingle BNEM: A Boltzmann Sampler Based on Bootstrapped Noised Energy Matching
OuYang, RuiKang
Qiang, Bo
Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation
Developing an efficient sampler capable of generating independent and identically distributed (IID) samples from a Boltzmann distribution is a crucial challenge in scientific research, e.g. molecular dynamics. In this work, we intend to learn neural samplers given energy functions instead of data sampled from the Boltzmann distribution. By learning the energies of the noised data, we propose a diffusion-based sampler, Noised Energy Matching, which theoretically has lower variance and more complexity compared to related works. Furthermore, a novel bootstrapping technique is applied to NEM to balance between bias and variance. We evaluate NEM and BNEM on a 2-dimensional 40 Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and a 4-particle double-well potential (DW-4). The experimental results demonstrate that BNEM can achieve state-of-the-art performance while being more robust.
title BNEM: A Boltzmann Sampler Based on Bootstrapped Noised Energy Matching
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09787