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Michael Kagan

3 accepted papers

2021

Neural Empirical Bayes: Source Distribution Estimation and its Applications to Simulation-Based Inference

AISTATS 2021poster

We revisit g-modeling empirical Bayes in the absence of a tractable likelihood function, as is typical in scientific domains relying on computer simulations. We investigate how the empirical Bayesian can make use of neural density estimators first to use all noise-corrupted observations to estimate…

2020

Black-Box Optimization with Local Generative Surrogates

NeurIPS 2020poster

We propose a novel method for gradient-based optimization of black-box simulators using differentiable local surrogate models. In fields such as physics and engineering, many processes are modeled with non-differentiable simulators with intractable likelihoods. Optimization of these forward models i…

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