Minsu Kim

Outsourced diffusion sampling: Efficient posterior inference in latent spaces of generative models

Any well-behaved generative model over a variable …

2025-02-10

ArXiv (prépublication)

Adaptive teachers for amortized samplers

Sungsoo Ahn

Jinkyoo Park

Nikolay Malkin

Amortized inference is the task of training a parametric model, such as a neural network, to approximate a distribution with a given unnorma… (voir plus)lized density where exact sampling is intractable. When sampling is implemented as a sequential decision-making process, reinforcement learning (RL) methods, such as generative flow networks, can be used to train the sampling policy. Off-policy RL training facilitates the discovery of diverse, high-reward candidates, but existing methods still face challenges in efficient exploration. We propose to use an adaptive training distribution (the Teacher) to guide the training of the primary amortized sampler (the Student) by prioritizing high-loss regions. The Teacher, an auxiliary behavior model, is trained to sample high-error regions of the Student and can generalize across unexplored modes, thereby enhancing mode coverage by providing an efficient training curriculum. We validate the effectiveness of this approach in a synthetic environment designed to present an exploration challenge, two diffusion-based sampling tasks, and four biochemical discovery tasks demonstrating its ability to improve sample efficiency and mode coverage.

2025-01-22

ICLR.cc/2025/Conference (poster)

Ant Colony Sampling with GFlowNets for Combinatorial Optimization

Jiwoo Son

Jinkyoo Park

2025-01-22

aistats.org/AISTATS/2025/Conference (poster)

Learning diverse attacks on large language models for robust red-teaming and safety tuning

Juho Lee

Sung Ju Hwang

Moksh J. Jain

Red-teaming, or identifying prompts that elicit harmful responses, is a critical step in ensuring the safe and responsible deployment of lar… (voir plus)ge language models (LLMs). Developing effective protection against many modes of attack prompts requires discovering diverse attacks. Automated red-teaming typically uses reinforcement learning to fine-tune an attacker language model to generate prompts that elicit undesirable responses from a target LLM, as measured, for example, by an auxiliary toxicity classifier. We show that even with explicit regularization to favor novelty and diversity, existing approaches suffer from mode collapse or fail to generate effective attacks. As a flexible and probabilistically principled alternative, we propose to use GFlowNet fine-tuning, followed by a secondary smoothing phase, to train the attacker model to generate diverse and effective attack prompts. We find that the attacks generated by our method are effective against a wide range of target LLMs, both with and without safety tuning, and transfer well between target LLMs. Finally, we demonstrate that models safety-tuned using a dataset of red-teaming prompts generated by our method are robust to attacks from other RL-based red-teaming approaches.

2025-01-22

ICLR.cc/2025/Conference (poster)

Trajectory Balance with Asynchrony: Decoupling Exploration and Learning for Fast, Scalable LLM Post-Training

Brian R. Bartoldson

Siddarth Venkatraman

James Diffenderfer

Moksh J. Jain

Tal Ben-Nun

Seanie Lee

Minsu Kim

Johan Samir Obando Ceron

Bhavya Kailkhura

2025-01-01

arXiv.org (prépublication)

Trajectory Balance with Asynchrony: Decoupling Exploration and Learning for Fast, Scalable LLM Post-Training

Brian R. Bartoldson

Siddarth Venkatraman

James Diffenderfer

Moksh J. Jain

Tal Ben-Nun

Seanie Lee

Minsu Kim

Johan Samir Obando Ceron

Bhavya Kailkhura

2025-01-01

arXiv.org (prépublication)

Improved Off-policy Reinforcement Learning in Biological Sequence Design

Alex Hern'andez-Garc'ia

Jinkyoo Park

Designing biological sequences with desired properties is a significant challenge due to the combinatorially vast search space and the high … (voir plus)cost of evaluating each candidate sequence. To address these challenges, reinforcement learning (RL) methods, such as GFlowNets, utilize proxy models for rapid reward evaluation and annotated data for policy training. Although these approaches have shown promise in generating diverse and novel sequences, the limited training data relative to the vast search space often leads to the misspecification of proxy for out-of-distribution inputs. We introduce

2024-10-06

ArXiv (prépublication)

Adaptive teachers for amortized samplers

Sungsoo Ahn

Jinkyoo Park

Nikolay Malkin

Amortized inference is the task of training a parametric model, such as a neural network, to approximate a distribution with a given unnorma… (voir plus)lized density where exact sampling is intractable. When sampling is implemented as a sequential decision-making process, reinforcement learning (RL) methods, such as generative flow networks, can be used to train the sampling policy. Off-policy RL training facilitates the discovery of diverse, high-reward candidates, but existing methods still face challenges in efficient exploration. We propose to use an adaptive training distribution (the \teacher) to guide the training of the primary amortized sampler (the \student). The \teacher, an auxiliary behavior model, is trained to sample high-loss regions of the \student and can generalize across unexplored modes, thereby enhancing mode coverage by providing an efficient training curriculum. We validate the effectiveness of this approach in a synthetic environment designed to present an exploration challenge, two diffusion-based sampling tasks, and four biochemical discovery tasks demonstrating its ability to improve sample efficiency and mode coverage. Source code is available at https://github.com/alstn12088/adaptive-teacher.

2024-10-02

ArXiv (prépublication)

Adaptive teachers for amortized samplers

Sungsoo Ahn

Jinkyoo Park

Nikolay Malkin

Amortized inference is the task of training a parametric model, such as a neural network, to approximate a distribution with a given unnorma… (voir plus)lized density where exact sampling is intractable. When sampling is implemented as a sequential decision-making process, reinforcement learning (RL) methods, such as generative flow networks, can be used to train the sampling policy. Off-policy RL training facilitates the discovery of diverse, high-reward candidates, but existing methods still face challenges in efficient exploration. We propose to use an adaptive training distribution (the \teacher) to guide the training of the primary amortized sampler (the \student). The \teacher, an auxiliary behavior model, is trained to sample high-loss regions of the \student and can generalize across unexplored modes, thereby enhancing mode coverage by providing an efficient training curriculum. We validate the effectiveness of this approach in a synthetic environment designed to present an exploration challenge, two diffusion-based sampling tasks, and four biochemical discovery tasks demonstrating its ability to improve sample efficiency and mode coverage. Source code is available at https://github.com/alstn12088/adaptive-teacher.

2024-10-02

ArXiv (prépublication)

Amortizing intractable inference in diffusion models for vision, language, and control

Moksh J. Jain

Diffusion models have emerged as effective distribution estimators in vision, language, and reinforcement learning, but their use as priors … (voir plus)in downstream tasks poses an intractable posterior inference problem. This paper studies amortized sampling of the posterior over data,

2024-09-25

NeurIPS.cc/2024/Conference (poster)

Improved off-policy training of diffusion samplers

We study the problem of training diffusion models to sample from a distribution with a given unnormalized density or energy function. We ben… (voir plus)chmark several diffusion-structured inference methods, including simulation-based variational approaches and off-policy methods (continuous generative flow networks). Our results shed light on the relative advantages of existing algorithms while bringing into question some claims from past work. We also propose a novel exploration strategy for off-policy methods, based on local search in the target space with the use of a replay buffer, and show that it improves the quality of samples on a variety of target distributions. Our code for the sampling methods and benchmarks studied is made public at [this link](https://github.com/GFNOrg/gfn-diffusion) as a base for future work on diffusion models for amortized inference.

2024-09-25

NeurIPS.cc/2024/Conference (poster)