动态SBI实现无需轮次的高效模拟推断,大幅降低计算成本。
Dynamic SBI: Round-free Sequential Simulation-Based Inference with Adaptive Datasets
- 用自适应数据集异步并行模拟与训练,取代传统轮次迭代。
- 在天体物理任务中保持精度,模拟效率提升显著。
- 适合高维复杂模型的快速推断,尤其适用于大样本场景。
基于模拟的推断(SBI)正成为解决复杂科学推断问题的新范式。通过深度神经网络的强大表征能力,SBI可提取对参数最敏感的模拟特征。序列SBI方法通过迭代引导模拟过程,聚焦于参数空间中最有信息量的区域,通常采用模拟与网络训练交替进行的多轮算法结构。该策略在高维、高精度的物理问题中表现优异,尤其适用于数据量增长和模型精度提升的场景。本文提出动态SBI,将序列方法的核心思想以无轮次、异步、高度并行的方式实现。其核心是一个在推断过程中持续演化的自适应数据集,逐步逼近目标观测值。模拟与训练并行进行:训练好的网络既用于筛选与数据不兼容的模拟,也用于生成更优的新模拟。相比传统轮次方法,该异步结构显著降低了模拟开销和训练负担。我们在两个挑战性天体物理任务上验证了该框架:刻画随机引力波背景和分析强引力透镜系统。结果表明,动态SBI在保持推断性能的同时,大幅提升了模拟与训练效率。本工作提出了一种灵活高效的新型序列SBI范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Simulation-based inference (SBI) is emerging as a new statistical paradigm for addressing complex scientific inference problems. By leveraging the representational power of deep neural networks, SBI can extract the most informative simulation features for the parameters of interest. Sequential SBI methods extend this approach by iteratively steering the simulation process towards the most relevant regions of parameter space. This is typically implemented through an algorithmic structure, in which simulation and network training alternate over multiple rounds. This strategy is particularly well suited for high-precision inference in high-dimensional settings, which are commonplace in physics applications with growing data volumes and increasing model fidelity. Here, we introduce dynamic SBI, which implements the core ideas of sequential methods in a round-free, asynchronous, and highly parallelisable manner. At its core is an adaptive dataset that is iteratively transformed during inference to resemble the target observation. Simulation and training proceed in parallel: trained networks are used both to filter out simulations incompatible with the data and to propose new, more promising ones. Compared to round-based sequential methods, this asynchronous structure can significantly reduce simulation costs and training overhead. We demonstrate that dynamic SBI achieves significant improvements in simulation and training efficiency while maintaining inference performance. We further validate our framework on two challenging astrophysical inference tasks: characterising the stochastic gravitational wave background and analysing strong gravitational lensing systems. Overall, this work presents a flexible and efficient new paradigm for sequential SBI.
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