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Gibbs sampling the posterior of neural networks

Piccioli, Giovanni  
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Troiani, Emanuele  
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Zdeborova, Lenka  
March 22, 2024
Journal Of Physics A-Mathematical And Theoretical

In this paper, we study sampling from a posterior derived from a neural network. We propose a new probabilistic model consisting of adding noise at every pre- and post-activation in the network, arguing that the resulting posterior can be sampled using an efficient Gibbs sampler. For small models, the Gibbs sampler attains similar performances as the state-of-the-art Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, such as the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo or the Metropolis adjusted Langevin algorithm, both on real and synthetic data. By framing our analysis in the teacher-student setting, we introduce a thermalization criterion that allows us to detect when an algorithm, when run on data with synthetic labels, fails to sample from the posterior. The criterion is based on the fact that in the teacher-student setting we can initialize an algorithm directly at equilibrium.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/1751-8121/ad2c26
Web of Science ID

WOS:001182052600001

Author(s)
Piccioli, Giovanni  
Troiani, Emanuele  
Zdeborova, Lenka  
Date Issued

2024-03-22

Publisher

Iop Publishing Ltd

Published in
Journal Of Physics A-Mathematical And Theoretical
Volume

57

Issue

12

Article Number

125002

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Mcmc

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Bayesian Learning

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Neural Networks

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Sampling Algorithms

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Mcmc Thermalization

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Statistical Physics

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
SPOC2  
FunderGrant Number

NCCR MARVEL , a National Center of Competence in Research - Swiss National Science Foundation

205602

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April 3, 2024
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