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Energy-InspiredModels: Learningwith Sampler-InducedDistributions

Neural Information Processing Systems

This yields a class ofenergy-inspired models(EIMs) that incorporate learned energyfunctions while stillproviding exactsamples andtractable log-likelihood lower bounds. We describe and evaluate three instantiations of such models based ontruncated rejection sampling, self-normalized importance sampling, and Hamiltonian importance sampling.