On Contrastive Learning for Likelihood-free Inference
Jul 12, 2020
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Conor Durkan
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Likelihood-free methods perform parameter inference in stochastic simulator models where evaluating the likelihood is intractable but sampling synthetic data is possible. One class of methods for this likelihood-free problem uses a classifier to distinguish between pairs of parameter-observation samples generated using the simulator and samples drawn from some reference distribution, implicitly learning a density ratio proportional to the likelihood. Another popular class of methods proposes to fit a conditional distribution to the parameter posterior directly, and a particular recent variant allows for the use of flexible neural density estimators for this task. In this work, we show that both of these approaches can be unified under a general contrastive learning scheme, and clarify how they should be run and compared.Likelihood-free methods perform parameter inference in stochastic simulator models where evaluating the likelihood is intractable but sampling synthetic data is possible. One class of methods for this likelihood-free problem uses a classifier to distinguish between pairs of parameter-observation samples generated using the simulator and samples drawn from some reference distribution, implicitly learning a density ratio proportional to the likelihood. Another popular class of methods proposes to…
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