PosteriorBench: From Point Estimates to Posterior Matching in Evaluating Generative Inverse Solvers
Generative models are increasingly used to solve scientific inverse problems, but existing evaluations still focus primarily on whether a method can produce a single plausible reconstruction. This is insufficient for ill-posed problems, where multiple solutions may be consistent with the same sparse or noisy observations. In these settings, a method can achieve strong pointwise accuracy while still failing to capture the true posterior through mode collapse, overconfident uncertainty, or averaging incompatible solutions. We introduce PosteriorBench, a benchmark for evaluating the distributional accuracy of generative inverse solvers. PosteriorBench evaluates four physics-based inverse pro...
| Authors | Jiachen Yao, Zi-Siang Hsu, Xi Deng et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 17 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 17 September 2026 |
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