Neural Inverse Transform Sampler

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11172v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:28:29 GMT
• Title: Neural Inverse Transform Sampler
• Authors: Henry Li, Yuval Kluger
• Abstract summary: We show that when modeling conditional densities with a neural network, $Z$ can be exactly and efficiently computed. We introduce the textbfNeural Inverse Transform Sampler (NITS), a novel deep learning framework for modeling and sampling from general, multidimensional, compactly-supported probability densities.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Any explicit functional representation $f$ of a density is hampered by two main obstacles when we wish to use it as a generative model: designing $f$ so that sampling is fast, and estimating $Z = \int f$ so that $Z^{-1}f$ integrates to 1. This becomes increasingly complicated as $f$ itself becomes complicated. In this paper, we show that when modeling one-dimensional conditional densities with a neural network, $Z$ can be exactly and efficiently computed by letting the network represent the cumulative distribution function of a target density, and applying a generalized fundamental theorem of calculus. We also derive a fast algorithm for sampling from the resulting representation by the inverse transform method. By extending these principles to higher dimensions, we introduce the \textbf{Neural Inverse Transform Sampler (NITS)}, a novel deep learning framework for modeling and sampling from general, multidimensional, compactly-supported probability densities. NITS is a highly expressive density estimator that boasts end-to-end differentiability, fast sampling, and exact and cheap likelihood evaluation. We demonstrate the applicability of NITS by applying it to realistic, high-dimensional density estimation tasks: likelihood-based generative modeling on the CIFAR-10 dataset, and density estimation on the UCI suite of benchmark datasets, where NITS produces compelling results rivaling or surpassing the state of the art.

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