Active Slices for Sliced Stein Discrepancy

Authors: Wenbo Gong, Kaibo Zhang, Yingzhen Li, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Experiments on goodness-of-fit tests and model learning show that our approach achieves both improved performance and faster convergence.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Active slice algorithm
Open Source Code No The paper does not explicitly state that the source code for their methodology is made open or provide a link to it.
Open Datasets Yes The 3 GOF test benchmarks, with details in appendix H.1, are: (1) Laplace: p(x) = N(0, I), q(x) = QD d=1 Lap(xd|0, 1/ 2); (2) Multivariate-t: p(x) = N(0, 5 3I), q(x) is a fully factorized multivariate-t with 5 degrees of freedom, 0 mean and scale 1; (3) Diffusion: p(x) = N(0, I), q(x) = N(0, Σ1) where in q(x) the variance of 1st-dim is 0.3 and the rest is I.
Dataset Splits Yes For all methods requiring GO or active slices, we split the 1000 test samples from q into 800 test and 200 training data, where we run GO or active slice method on the training set.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific hardware specifications (e.g., GPU models, CPU types) used for running the experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not specify software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup Yes For all methods requiring GO or active slices, we split the 1000 test samples from q into 800 test and 200 training data, where we run GO or active slice method on the training set. SKSD-g+GO with 1000 training epochs still exhibits a decreasing test power in Laplace and multivariate-t. On the other hand, SKSD-g+KE+GO with 50 training epochs has nearly optimal performance. [...] SKSD-rg+GO runs 50 training epochs with r and gr initialized to I.