Summary of Improved Off-policy Training Of Diffusion Samplers, by Marcin Sendera et al.
Improved off-policy training of diffusion samplers
by Marcin Sendera, Minsu Kim, Sarthak Mittal, Pablo Lemos, Luca Scimeca, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Alexandre Adam, Yoshua Bengio, Nikolay Malkin
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Feb 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 This paper explores the problem of training diffusion models to sample from a given unnormalized density or energy function. The authors benchmark various methods, including simulation-based variational approaches and off-policy methods (continuous generative flow networks). Their results highlight the relative advantages of existing algorithms while questioning some claims from past work. Additionally, they propose a novel exploration strategy for off-policy methods based on local search in the target space with a replay buffer, which improves sample quality on various target distributions. The authors make their code publicly available as a foundation for future research on diffusion models for amortized inference. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how to train computer programs called diffusion models to generate data that follows a specific pattern or rule. They test different ways to do this, including some new approaches they came up with. The results show which methods work best and what’s still missing. One of the new ideas is a way to explore the possibilities in the target space, which makes the generated samples better. You can find their code online for others to use and build upon. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Inference
