README.md

PFG: Preconditioned Functional Gradient Flow

This repository contains the codes for Particle-based Variational Inference with Preconditioned Functional Gradient Flow
by Hanze Dong, Xi Wang, Yong Lin, Tong Zhang.

Docs can be found in https://hendrydong.github.io/PFG.

Setup

Our code works with the following environment.

notebook

torch

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Data preparation

In our experiments, the data are placed at ./data.

UCI datasets are downloaded from https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.php.

For your own data, you can refer to the format of UCI data and establish corresponding dataloader.

Sampling tasks

In this repo, we have several examples to demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm.

Ill-conditioned Gaussian distribution

For ill-conditioned Gaussian distribution, we show that the preconditioning matters in the sampling algorithm, which accelerate the convergence significantly.

cd examples
ipython notebook ill_Gaussian.ipynb

Gaussian Mixture Model

For Gaussian Mixture Model, the function class of our model is more powerful than kernel function class, due to the non-linearity included.

cd examples
ipython notebook Gaussian_mixture_10.ipynb

Bayesian Logistic Regression

For Bayesian Logistic regression, we provide demo for sonar dataset, which is already included in ./data.

cd examples
python bayesian_logistic_regression.py --hdim 32 --inner_iter 5 --num_particles 200

Bayesian Neural Networks

For Bayesian Neural Networks, we provide a demo for boston_housing dataset.

cd examples
python bayesian_nn.py --hdim 32 --inner_iter 1 --num_particles 200

Contact

If you meet any problem in this repo, please describe them and contact:

Hanze Dong: A (AT) B, where A=hdongaj, B=ust.hk.