GradInf: Gradient Estimation as Probabilistic Inference
GradInf:作为概率推理的梯度估计
机构 * Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh USA ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge USA ; Chalmers University of Technology \& University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden ; Yale University New Haven USA ; Carnegie Mellon University ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Chalmers University of Technology \& University of Gothenburg ; Yale University
AI总结 研究针对概率程序梯度估计难题,提出梯度推理新方法,通过形式规约将其转化为概率推理问题,借助耦合和因式分解操作设计梯度估计器,介绍GradInf系统,经案例研究验证其能表达并构建高性能梯度估计器。
Journal ref Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 10, PLDI, Article 243 (June 2026)