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Poster

On Scalable Testing of Samplers

Yash Pote · Kuldeep S Meel

Hall J (level 1) #827

Keywords: [ constraints ] [ Sampling ] [ distribution testing ]


Abstract: In this paper we study the problem of testing of constrained samplers over high-dimensional distributions with (ε,η,δ) guarantees. Samplers are increasingly used in a wide range of safety-critical ML applications, and hence the testing problem has gained importance. For n-dimensional distributions, the existing state-of-the-art algorithm, Barbarik2, has a worst case query complexity of exponential in n and hence is not ideal for use in practice. Our primary contribution is an exponentially faster algorithm, Barbarik3, that has a query complexity linear in n and hence can easily scale to larger instances. We demonstrate our claim by implementing our algorithm and then comparing it against Barbarik2. Our experiments on the samplers wUnigen3 and wSTS, find that Barbarik3 requires 10× fewer samples for wUnigen3 and 450× fewer samples for wSTS as compared to Barbarik2.

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