stat.MLOct 14, 2025

Learning Latent Energy-Based Models via Interacting Particle Langevin Dynamics

Authors: Joanna Marks, Tim Y. J. Wang, O. Deniz Akyildiz

Organizations: Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London

Abstract

We develop interacting particle algorithms for learning latent variable models with energy-based priors. To do so, we leverage recent developments in particle-based methods for solving maximum marginal likelihood estimation (MMLE) problems. Specifically, we provide a continuous-time framework for learning latent energy-based models, by defining stochastic differential equations (SDEs) that provably solve the MMLE problem. We obtain a practical algorithm as a discretisation of these SDEs and provide theoretical guarantees for the convergence of the proposed algorithm. Finally, we empirically validate the effectiveness of our method on synthetic and image datasets and demonstrate that using a particle based approach offers significant improvement in computational efficiency.

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