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Divide the truncated ODE density by its mass inside the prior, estimated with ODE rejection sampling. Skip the estimate for unbounded priors. Warn that the iid log_prob is unnormalized. Reset the cached leakage factor in set_default_x. Accept vector field posteriors in kl_divergence_mc, except for iid x.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughVector-field posterior log probabilities now support leakage correction for bounded priors. The correction is estimated by rejection sampling and cached for the default observation. KL diagnostics accept vector-field posteriors for non-iid observations and reject iid observations. ChangesVector-field posterior normalization and diagnostics
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participant Posterior as VectorFieldPosterior
participant Correction as leakage_correction
participant Rejection as rejection.accept_reject_sample
participant ODE as sample_via_ode
Posterior->>Correction: Request correction for x
Correction->>Rejection: Estimate mass within prior support
Rejection->>ODE: Draw proposal samples
ODE-->>Rejection: Return proposal samples
Rejection-->>Correction: Return estimated correction factor
Correction-->>Posterior: Return or cache correction factor
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- Around line 575-577: Update the value comparison in the is_new_x check to
compare x and default_x on the same device, moving x to default_x.device before
comparing when needed. Preserve the existing identity check and behavior for
absent default_x.
- Around line 580-582: Update NeuralPosterior.__setstate__ to initialize
_leakage_density_correction_factor when it is absent from restored state,
following the existing _check_finite_x compatibility handling. Preserve any
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- Around line 565-573: In the `accept_reject_sample` call used for correction
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| return rejection.accept_reject_sample( | ||
| proposal=self.sample_via_ode, | ||
| accept_reject_fn=lambda theta: within_support(self.prior, theta), | ||
| num_samples=num_rejection_samples, | ||
| show_progress_bars=show_progress_bars, | ||
| sample_for_correction_factor=True, | ||
| max_sampling_batch_size=rejection_sampling_batch_size, | ||
| proposal_sampling_kwargs=ode_kwargs, | ||
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Bound the correction sampler when acceptance is very low.
For a bounded prior that accepts no ODE samples, the new default log_prob() path waits for num_rejection_samples accepted proposals. At the reviewed commit, accept_reject_sample() repeats while samples remain and enforces a limit only when max_sampling_time is set. This call does not set one, so it can wait indefinitely. Set a finite limit and report that the correction could not be estimated. (github.com/ghraw)
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In `@sbi/inference/posteriors/vector_field_posterior.py` around lines 565 - 573,
In the `accept_reject_sample` call used for correction sampling, set a finite
`max_sampling_time` so low acceptance cannot leave sampling unbounded, and
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Not changed here: DirectPosterior and VectorFieldPosterior.sample() use the same rejection loop without a time limit. If we want a limit, it belongs in accept_reject_sample(), in a separate PR.
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@janfb, thanks for the guidance. I confirmed that DirectPosterior.leakage_correction() uses the same loop without a time limit. The shared helper has a time-limit option, but neither correction call sets it. I agree that a general change belongs in accept_reject_sample() in a separate PR. I won’t request a caller-specific change here.
The risk remains in the new default VectorFieldPosterior.log_prob() path, so I’ll leave the finding open for a follow-up.
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Learning: In sbi, `DirectPosterior.leakage_correction()` and `VectorFieldPosterior.leakage_correction()` both call `sbi.samplers.rejection.rejection.accept_reject_sample()` without `max_sampling_time`. For a general rejection-sampling time limit, the maintainer prefers a change to the shared helper in a separate PR rather than a caller-specific limit in `VectorFieldPosterior.leakage_correction()`.
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VectorFieldPosterior.log_prob()(FMPE, NPSE) evaluates the probability flow ODE density and sets it to zero outside the prior support. The ODE density is normalized on R^d, but some of its mass can be outside a bounded prior. This mass was lost, solog_prob()was too low. Example: FMPE with a 2-dBoxUniformprior andx_onear the boundary. The integral ofexp(log_prob)over the box was 0.838.Fix
We divide the truncated density by the mass of the ODE density inside the prior. This is the leakage correction that
DirectPosterioralready uses, with the samenorm_posteriorargument. The mass is the acceptance rate of rejection sampling from the ODE. We sample from the ODE, not the SDE, becauselog_prob()is the ODE density. The sampler uses the same solver settings aslog_prob(). With the fix, the integral in the example is 1.019.ODE sampling is expensive, so we skip it when the prior is unbounded, because the factor is then 1. As in
DirectPosterior, the factor is estimated once at the defaultxand saved.get_nltp()evaluates many differentxand is therefore slower for vector field posteriors with a bounded prior; its docstring now says so.For iid
x, the density combines the single-observation posteriors as p(θ)^(1-n) Π p(θ|x_i). By Bayes' rule, this is correct only up to a constant, so a leakage correction cannot normalize it. We do not correct it.log_prob()now warns for iidx, asMCMCPosteriordoes, and the docstrings and tutorial 19 say so.Now that the density is normalized,
kl_divergence_mc()accepts vector field posteriors. It refuses them for iidx.The PR also fixes a caching bug in
set_default_x(): it did not reset the saved factor.DirectPosteriorandNPE_A_Posteriorthen used the factor of the previous defaultx.Tests
The new test checks that
exp(log_prob)integrates to 1 over a box prior, for FMPE and NPSE. It uses untrained estimators, because the ODE density of any vector field is normalized on R^d. A second test checks the caching.Claude Code was used for this PR.