Geometric variational inference

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10470v1
• Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 17:18:50 GMT
• Title: Geometric variational inference
• Authors: Philipp Frank, Reimar Leike, and Torsten A. En{\ss}lin
• Abstract summary: Variational Inference (VI) or Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) techniques are used to go beyond point estimates. This work proposes geometric Variational Inference (geoVI), a method based on Riemannian geometry and the Fisher information metric. The distribution, expressed in the coordinate system induced by the transformation, takes a particularly simple form that allows for an accurate variational approximation.
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• Abstract: Efficiently accessing the information contained in non-linear and high dimensional probability distributions remains a core challenge in modern statistics. Traditionally, estimators that go beyond point estimates are either categorized as Variational Inference (VI) or Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) techniques. While MCMC methods that utilize the geometric properties of continuous probability distributions to increase their efficiency have been proposed, VI methods rarely use the geometry. This work aims to fill this gap and proposes geometric Variational Inference (geoVI), a method based on Riemannian geometry and the Fisher information metric. It is used to construct a coordinate transformation that relates the Riemannian manifold associated with the metric to Euclidean space. The distribution, expressed in the coordinate system induced by the transformation, takes a particularly simple form that allows for an accurate variational approximation by a normal distribution. Furthermore, the algorithmic structure allows for an efficient implementation of geoVI which is demonstrated on multiple examples, ranging from low-dimensional illustrative ones to non-linear, hierarchical Bayesian inverse problems in thousands of dimensions.

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