cs.LGOct 29, 2026

Numerical Integration on Bounded Domains via Learned Reflected Diffusions

Authors: Kirill Korolev, Artur Goldman, Timofei Gritsaev, Tigran Ramazyan, Nikita Morozov

Organizations: HSE University · ETH Zürich, ETH AI Center · Constructor University

Abstract

We study high-dimensional integration on bounded convex domains. Given a non-negative integrand rr, the goal is to estimate Z=∫Dr(x) dxZ=\int_{D}r(x)\,\mathrm dx on D⊂RdD\subset\mathbb R^d. Standard Quasi-Monte Carlo does not adapt its evaluation points to the integrand, while effective importance sampling requires a proposal that captures its concentration. Learned diffusion samplers can supply such a proposal, but existing methods are formulated on Rd\mathbb R^d and do not respect the domain constraint x∈Dx\in D. We instead build the proposal from reflected dynamics that stay in DD by construction. A reflected diffusion progressively transforms the target distribution toward the uniform distribution on DD, and a neural score model is trained to reverse this process. A change-of-measure formula for reflected diffusions yields a training objective without additional boundary terms and an unbiased importance-sampling estimator of ZZ. For non-smooth integrands, where reparameterization gradients may be undefined or uninformative, we derive a REINFORCE estimator of the training gradient using Gaussian proposal densities before reflection, without evaluating reflected transition densities or differentiating rr. We evaluate on numerous synthetic targets and real-world problems, demonstrating strong performance of the proposed method, as well as favorable scaling with the dimension of the problem and the number of points used for the Monte Carlo estimate.

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