Source Distribution Estimation by Posterior Averaging

arXiv:2609.02622 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-02

Terminology

• Consistency — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Simulation-based Inference — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Source Distribution Estimation — 5× in this paper
• Posterior Averaging — 4× in this paper
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Simulation-Based Empirical Bayes — 3× in this paper
• Neural Empirical Bayes — 2× in this paper
• Normalizing Flow — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alternation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Neural Posterior Estimator — 1× in this paper
• Normalizing Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Simulation-Based Empirical Bayes
• Neural Empirical Bayes: Source Distribution Estimation and its Applications to Simulation-Based Inference

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