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Generalized Score Matching for Parameter Estimation on Convex Domains

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 10, 2026 · UTC

Maximum likelihood (ML) estimation is a principled and statistically efficient approach for learning probabilistic models. However, for unnormalized models, ML estimation requires evaluating the partition function and differentiating through it, which may not always be tractable. Score matching provides a practically viable alternative that circumvents this obstacle by fitting the score in a way that eliminates dependence on the normalizing constant. We derive the generalized score matching objective on a convex subset of $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ constructively starting from Minimum Probability Flow (

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