Summary of Inference Via Interpolation: Contrastive Representations Provably Enable Planning and Inference, by Benjamin Eysenbach et al.
Inference via Interpolation: Contrastive Representations Provably Enable Planning and Inference
by Benjamin Eysenbach, Vivek Myers, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sergey Levine
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Mar 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 paper presents a novel approach to answering probabilistic inference questions about future events and past states given high-dimensional time series data. The authors propose applying a variant of contrastive learning to learn compact, closed-form solutions in terms of representations that encode probability ratios. By extending prior work, they show that the marginal distribution over these representations is Gaussian, enabling efficient inference via matrix inversion. The approach is validated through numerical simulations on tasks up to 46 dimensions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to answer questions about what will happen in the future and how we got there using time series data has been discovered. This is challenging when there are many observations. The key idea is to use a special type of learning called contrastive learning, which helps us learn compact solutions that can be used to make predictions. By building on previous work, the authors show that these learned representations follow a certain pattern, allowing us to make inferences quickly and efficiently. This approach was tested using simulations with up to 46 dimensions. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Inference * Probability * Time series
