Trajectory balance: Improved credit assignment in GFlowNets

arXiv:2201.13259 · cs.LG, stat.ML · Submitted 2022-01-31 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, stat.ML

Submitted: 2022-01-31

Updated: 2026-08-28

Code: https://github.com/GFNOrg/gflownet

Terminology

• Flow Matching — 18× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Action Space — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reinforcement Learning — 10× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generalization — 9× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Actor — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Credit assignment — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reward Function — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Machine Learning — 6× in this paper
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Objective Function — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Q-learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Learning Representations — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anti-Microbial Peptide — 1× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mode Collapse — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Score Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• GFlowNet Foundations
• Soft Actor-Critic for Discrete Action Settings
• Learning GFlowNets from partial episodes for improved convergence and stability
• GFlowNets and variational inference
• Deep Reinforcement Learning and the Deadly Triad
• Unifying Generative Models with GFlowNets and Beyond

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