Summary of On Divergence Measures For Training Gflownets, by Tiago Da Silva et al.
On Divergence Measures for Training GFlowNets
by Tiago da Silva, Eliezer de Souza da Silva, Diego Mesquita
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 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 Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are amortized inference models designed to sample from unnormalized distributions over composable objects. These models have applications in generative modeling, including tasks in causal discovery, NLP, and drug discovery. Traditionally, GFlowNets training seeks to minimize the expected log-squared difference between a proposal (forward policy) and target (backward policy) distribution, enforcing certain flow-matching conditions. However, directly attempting standard Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence minimization can lead to biased and high-variance estimators. This paper reviews four divergence measures (Renyi-’s, Tsallis-’s, reverse and forward KL’s) and designs statistically efficient estimators for their stochastic gradients in the context of training GFlowNets. The authors verify that properly minimizing these divergences yields a provably correct and empirically effective training scheme, often leading to faster convergence than previously proposed optimization methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper talks about a type of machine learning model called Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets). These models help create new data that follows certain patterns. They can be used in many fields like discovering causes of things, understanding human language, and finding new medicines. The way we train these models is important to get good results. The paper looks at different ways to measure how close our model is to the real thing and designs a better way to do this training. This makes the model work faster and better than before. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Inference * Machine learning * Nlp * Optimization
