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Symmetry Guarantees Statistic Recovery in Variational Inference

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Two new papers explore how symmetries in target distributions can guarantee the recovery of certain statistics during variational inference, even when the chosen variational family is misspecified. The research provides a general theory for symmetry-induced statistic recovery, unifying existing results and extending them to new settings like distributions on the sphere. These findings offer insights into the fundamental mechanisms of variational inference and provide guidelines for selecting variational families and parameters to ensure accurate approximation of target properties. AI

IMPACT Provides theoretical guarantees for variational inference, potentially improving the reliability of statistical recovery in complex models.

RANK_REASON Two academic papers published on arXiv detailing theoretical advancements in variational inference.

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Symmetry Guarantees Statistic Recovery in Variational Inference

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Antonio Vergari ·

    Even More Guarantees for Variational Inference in the Presence of Symmetries

    When approximating an intractable density via variational inference (VI) the variational family is typically chosen as a simple parametric family that very likely does not contain the target. This raises the question: Under which conditions can we recover characteristics of the t…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Mark van der Wilk ·

    Symmetry Guarantees Statistic Recovery in Variational Inference

    Variational inference (VI) is a central tool in modern machine learning, used to approximate an intractable target density by optimising over a tractable family of distributions. As the variational family cannot typically represent the target exactly, guarantees on the quality of…

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