Amortized Simulation-Based Inference in Generalized Bayes via Neural Posterior Estimation
Generalized Bayesian Inference (GBI) tempers a loss with a temperature $β> 0$ to mitigate overconfidence and improve robustness under model misspecification, but existing GBI methods typically rely on costly MCMC or SDE-based samplers and must be re-run for each new dataset and each $β$ value. We give the first fully amortized variational approximation for the tempered posterior family by training a single data- and $β$-conditioned neural posterior estimator that enables sampling in a single forward pass, without simulator calls or inference-time MCMC. We introduce two complementary training routes: one synthesizes off-manifold samples from the tempered joint distribution, and the other reweights a fixed base dataset using self-normalized importance sampling (SNIS). We show that the SNIS-weighted objective provides a consistent forward-KL fit to the tempered posterior with finite weight variance. Across four standard simulation-based inference benchmarks, including the chaotic Lorenz-96 system, our $β$-amortized estimator achieves competitive posterior approximations, in standard two-sample metrics, matching non-amortized MCMC-based power-posterior samplers over a wide range of temperatures.
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