Abstract:Likelihood-free inference (LFI) enables system identification in complex tasks via black-box modelling, abstracting nonlinearity and stochasticity, and infers a domain distribution for adapting agents to parametric deployment conditions. LFI assumes an arbitrary support for sampling, which remains fixed as the initial generic prior is refined to increasingly descriptive posteriors. Misspecified support can therefore yield suboptimal yet overconfident posteriors. We address this issue by using the posterior of an inference step to guide the adaptation of the support using three illustrative heuristics: EDGE, MODE, and CENTRE. Each heuristic interprets the updated belief and enables support adaptation alongside posterior inference. For illustrative purposes, we first study misspecified support in LFI and evaluate the utility of our heuristics using stochastic dynamical benchmarks. We then evaluate posterior-driven heuristic support adaptation for parameter inference and policy learning in a dynamic deformable linear object (DLO) manipulation task. Inference results in a finer length and stiffness classification for a parametric set of DLOs. When the resulting posteriors are used as domain distributions for sim-based policy learning, they lead to more robust object-centric agent performance.
From: Georgios Kamaras [view email]
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