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Source Distribution Estimation by Posterior Averaging

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 2, 2026 · UTC

Simulation-based science often requires a distribution over simulator parameters whose push-forward reproduces a set of real observations: this is the source distribution estimation (SDE) problem. Existing methods fit the source against a likelihood surrogate trained once from a fixed proposal prior. Their objective is therefore stated only in terms of the surrogate instead of the true simulator, which may fail for inaccurate areas in parameter space where the surrogate was never trained. We instead solve SDE by expectation maximization: an E-step trains an amortized posterior on fresh simulat

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