Neural Control Variates with Automatic Integration
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| author | Li, Zilu Yang, Guandao Zhao, Qingqing Deng, Xi Guibas, Leonidas Hariharan, Bharath Wetzstein, Gordon |
| author_facet | Li, Zilu Yang, Guandao Zhao, Qingqing Deng, Xi Guibas, Leonidas Hariharan, Bharath Wetzstein, Gordon |
| contents | This paper presents a method to leverage arbitrary neural network architecture for control variates. Control variates are crucial in reducing the variance of Monte Carlo integration, but they hinge on finding a function that both correlates with the integrand and has a known analytical integral. Traditional approaches rely on heuristics to choose this function, which might not be expressive enough to correlate well with the integrand. Recent research alleviates this issue by modeling the integrands with a learnable parametric model, such as a neural network. However, the challenge remains in creating an expressive parametric model with a known analytical integral. This paper proposes a novel approach to construct learnable parametric control variates functions from arbitrary neural network architectures. Instead of using a network to approximate the integrand directly, we employ the network to approximate the anti-derivative of the integrand. This allows us to use automatic differentiation to create a function whose integration can be constructed by the antiderivative network. We apply our method to solve partial differential equations using the Walk-on-sphere algorithm. Our results indicate that this approach is unbiased and uses various network architectures to achieve lower variance than other control variate methods. |
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| spellingShingle | Neural Control Variates with Automatic Integration Li, Zilu Yang, Guandao Zhao, Qingqing Deng, Xi Guibas, Leonidas Hariharan, Bharath Wetzstein, Gordon Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Graphics Numerical Analysis This paper presents a method to leverage arbitrary neural network architecture for control variates. Control variates are crucial in reducing the variance of Monte Carlo integration, but they hinge on finding a function that both correlates with the integrand and has a known analytical integral. Traditional approaches rely on heuristics to choose this function, which might not be expressive enough to correlate well with the integrand. Recent research alleviates this issue by modeling the integrands with a learnable parametric model, such as a neural network. However, the challenge remains in creating an expressive parametric model with a known analytical integral. This paper proposes a novel approach to construct learnable parametric control variates functions from arbitrary neural network architectures. Instead of using a network to approximate the integrand directly, we employ the network to approximate the anti-derivative of the integrand. This allows us to use automatic differentiation to create a function whose integration can be constructed by the antiderivative network. We apply our method to solve partial differential equations using the Walk-on-sphere algorithm. Our results indicate that this approach is unbiased and uses various network architectures to achieve lower variance than other control variate methods. |
| title | Neural Control Variates with Automatic Integration |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Graphics Numerical Analysis |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15394 |