Summary of Preferential Normalizing Flows, by Petrus Mikkola et al.
Preferential Normalizing Flows
by Petrus Mikkola, Luigi Acerbi, Arto Klami
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The introduced method allows for the elicitation of high-dimensional probability distributions from experts via noisy judgments, which is crucial for various applications like prior elicitation and reward modeling. By framing preferential questions as comparing or ranking alternatives, this approach enables the construction of arbitrarily flexible densities. However, the estimation of these flows faces challenges related to collapsing or diverging probability mass. To overcome this issue, a novel functional prior for the flow is proposed, rooted in decision-theoretic arguments. The efficacy of this method is demonstrated through empirical evaluations on simulated experts, including the prior belief of a general-purpose large language model over a real-world dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary We can think of this paper as trying to figure out what an expert really thinks about something. This expert might not be very clear or consistent in their thoughts, which makes it hard to understand what they believe. The authors came up with a new way to ask the expert questions that helps them get a clearer idea of what the expert believes. They also developed a special formula to make sure the answers are correct and don’t go off track. This method can be used for many applications, such as understanding how people think about certain things or creating systems that learn from feedback. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Large language model » Probability
