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AI agents write programs for density estimation, outperforming existing methods

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Researchers have introduced Agentic Distributional Regression (ADR), a novel method for estimating conditional densities using language-model agents. These agents write programs that output the estimated conditional distribution for each covariate value, drawing from a library of probability distributions. ADR has demonstrated superior performance in simulation studies and on real-world datasets, even outperforming methods trained on data collected after the agents' training period, particularly when utilizing Claude Opus 5.5. AI

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AI agents write programs for density estimation, outperforming existing methods

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Lorenzo Tedesco (University of Bergamo) ·

    Agentic Distributional Regression: Conditional Density Estimation through Agent-Written Programs

    arXiv:2610.37611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper we propose a method for estimating conditional densities from an iid sample using a language-model agent. The agent writes the estimator as a short program that, for each covariate value, returns the estimated condit…

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