Improved off-policy training of diffusion samplers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05098v4
• Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:56:11 GMT
• Title: Improved off-policy training of diffusion samplers
• Authors: Marcin Sendera, Minsu Kim, Sarthak Mittal, Pablo Lemos, Luca Scimeca, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Alexandre Adam, Yoshua Bengio, Nikolay Malkin,
• Abstract summary: We study the problem of training diffusion models to sample from a distribution with an unnormalized density or energy function. We benchmark several diffusion-structured inference methods, including simulation-based variational approaches and off-policy methods. Our results shed light on the relative advantages of existing algorithms while bringing into question some claims from past work.
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• Abstract: We study the problem of training diffusion models to sample from a distribution with a given unnormalized density or energy function. We benchmark several diffusion-structured inference methods, including simulation-based variational approaches and off-policy methods (continuous generative flow networks). Our results shed light on the relative advantages of existing algorithms while bringing into question some claims from past work. We also propose a novel exploration strategy for off-policy methods, based on local search in the target space with the use of a replay buffer, and show that it improves the quality of samples on a variety of target distributions. Our code for the sampling methods and benchmarks studied is made public at https://github.com/GFNOrg/gfn-diffusion as a base for future work on diffusion models for amortized inference.

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