MA-SBI: Misspecification-Aware Simulation-Based Inference via Side-Channel Guidance

arXiv:2606.16923 · cs.AI, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-06-15 · Read on arXiv

Arunkumar V, Manoranjan Gandhudi, Gangadharan G. R., Arun Prakash, S. Senthilkumar

cs.AI, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-06-15

Comments: 23 pages, 9 figures, 12 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 73× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Benchmark — 35× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Simulation-Based Inference — 16× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mutual Information — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Diffusion Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Flow Matching — 3× in this paper · explained in 22 episodes
• Hyperparameters — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Conformal Prediction — 2× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Covariate Shift — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Graceful Degradation — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Sample Efficiency — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformers — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Weight Decay — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Augmentation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Exchangeability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generator — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Inductive Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Neural Posterior Estimation (NPE) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• On the Simple-Likelihood-Complex-Posterior — 1× in this paper
• Overfitting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sufficiency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Time Series Forecasting — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
• Flow Matching Calibration for Simulation-Based Inference under Model Misspecification

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