arxiv: 2605.10654 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-11 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

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Active Learning for Gaussian Process Regression Under Self-Induced Boltzmann Weights

Jixiang Qing , Henry Moss , Matthias Sachs

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keywords active learningGaussian process regressionBoltzmann distributionpotential energy surfacesacquisition functionsThompson samplingcomputational chemistrydrug discovery

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A Gaussian process acquisition function learns functions under self-induced Boltzmann weights without estimating the partition function.

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The paper develops an active learning approach for an unknown function whose prediction error is measured under a Boltzmann distribution that the function itself defines. Such self-induced weighting occurs in potential energy surface modeling for chemistry, where the distribution is both unknown and has an intractable partition function. AB-SID-iVAR is introduced as a Gaussian process acquisition function that approximates the target distribution in closed form. The method comes with a guarantee that prediction error vanishes with high probability under mild conditions, plus a stronger average-case bound. Experiments show gains over baselines on synthetic data and real chemistry and drug discovery problems.

Core claim

We propose AB-SID-iVAR, a Gaussian Process-based acquisition function that approximates the intractable Bayesian target distribution in closed form while avoiding partition function estimation, and is applicable to both discrete and continuous input domains. Despite the unknown target, under mild conditions, we establish that the terminal prediction error vanishes with high probability, and provide a tighter average-case guarantee.

What carries the argument

AB-SID-iVAR, a Gaussian Process-based acquisition function that approximates the intractable Bayesian target distribution in closed form while avoiding partition function estimation

Load-bearing premise

The mild conditions required for the vanishing prediction error guarantee must hold, and the closed-form approximation to the Bayesian target must be sufficiently accurate.

What would settle it

Observe whether the prediction error under the self-induced Boltzmann distribution reaches near zero after a finite number of queries on a real potential energy surface task, or if it plateaus at a positive value.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.10654 by Henry Moss, Jixiang Qing, Matthias Sachs.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Comparison of active learning methods on the (continuous input) Gramacy 2D function [Gramacy and Lee, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Weighted MSE convergence on synthetic benchmarks across dimensions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Weighted MSE convergence on four PES fitting tasks of increasing dimensionality: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Active learning for molecular property prediction on GuacaMol scoring functions (Median 1, Median 2). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Acquisition function comparison on a 2D GP prior. We use Monte Carlo with 1024 samples (MC-SID, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Weighted MSE convergence on synthetic benchmarks with discrete input domains across dimensions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Ablation study comparing surrogate forms, acquisition strategies, and constraint sets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Sensitivity of SMC particle size N ∈ {250d, 500d, 1000d, 1500d} on GP prior functions across d ∈ {2, 4, 6, 8}. Top: weighted MSE convergence; curves overlap across particle counts. Bottom: per-iteration MCMC time, scaling linearly with N. D.8 Sensitivity Analysis of λ and b We investigate sensitivity to the temperature parameter λ and bias function b(x) on functions drawn from a 2 dimensional GP prior acro… view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Sensitivity analysis of temperature [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_10.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Pairwise comparison of predicted GP posterior mean [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_11.png] view at source ↗

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We consider the active learning problem where the goal is to learn an unknown function with low prediction error under an unknown Boltzmann distribution induced by the function itself. This self-induced weighting arises naturally in problems such as potential energy surface (PES) modeling in computational chemistry, yet poses unique challenges as the target distribution is unknown and its partition function is intractable. We propose \texttt{AB-SID-iVAR}, a Gaussian Process-based acquisition function that approximates the intractable Bayesian target distribution in closed form while avoiding partition function estimation, and is applicable to both discrete and continuous input domains. We also analyze a Thompson sampling alternative (\texttt{TS-SID-iVAR}) as a higher variance Monte Carlo variant. Despite the unknown target, under mild conditions, we establish that the terminal prediction error vanishes with high probability, and provide a tighter average-case guarantee. We demonstrate consistent improvements over existing approaches in this setting on synthetic benchmarks and real-world PES modeling and drug discovery tasks.

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AB-SID-iVAR gives a closed-form acquisition function for GP active learning under self-induced Boltzmann weights, but the high-probability vanishing error claim depends on mild conditions whose realism and the approximation's accuracy are not quantified.

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The paper introduces AB-SID-iVAR, a Gaussian process acquisition function for active learning when the target distribution is a Boltzmann weight induced by the unknown function itself. This setup appears in potential energy surface modeling and drug discovery, so the problem is real rather than contrived. The main technical move is a closed-form approximation to the intractable Bayesian target that skips partition function estimation and works on both discrete and continuous domains. They also analyze a Thompson sampling version as a higher-variance alternative. Experiments on synthetic cases plus real PES and drug tasks show better sample efficiency than standard baselines. The theory asserts that under mild conditions the terminal prediction error vanishes with high probability and supplies a tighter average-case bound. That combination of a new acquisition function plus consistency results is the actual novelty here. The soft spot is exactly where the stress test points: the mild conditions are not stated explicitly, and there is no visible bound on how much the closed-form approximation can deviate from the true f-dependent target while the posterior is still diffuse. If the approximation error does not contract fast enough, the active learning loop could select suboptimal points and the vanishing guarantee would not hold. The abstract gives no quantitative control on this, so the central claim rests on an unverified assumption about approximation quality. This work is for researchers who already use GPs for weighted regression in chemistry or materials science and need better sample efficiency under self-induced distributions. A reader looking for practical acquisition functions in that niche will find usable ideas and some empirical support. It is grounded enough, with both a new method and a consistency argument, to deserve a serious referee even though the conditions and approximation error need tighter analysis in review. I would send it out for peer review.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper addresses active learning for Gaussian process regression when the target distribution is a self-induced Boltzmann weight depending on the unknown function itself (as in PES modeling). It proposes AB-SID-iVAR, a closed-form GP acquisition function that approximates the intractable Bayesian target without estimating the partition function Z, together with a Thompson-sampling variant TS-SID-iVAR. Under unspecified mild conditions the authors prove that terminal prediction error vanishes with high probability and supply a tighter average-case bound; empirical results on synthetic benchmarks and real PES/drug-discovery tasks show consistent gains over baselines.

Significance. If the closed-form approximation remains sufficiently faithful to the true f-dependent target throughout the active-learning loop and the mild conditions can be verified in practice, the work would be significant for domains where the sampling distribution is induced by the unknown function. The avoidance of partition-function estimation and the provision of both high-probability and average-case consistency results are notable strengths; the empirical validation on chemistry-relevant tasks further supports potential utility.

major comments (2)

[Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (theoretical analysis): the central guarantee that 'the terminal prediction error vanishes with high probability' under 'mild conditions' is load-bearing for the contribution, yet the abstract and the statement of the theorem provide neither an explicit list of those conditions nor a quantitative bound on the approximation error between the closed-form AB-SID-iVAR target and the true self-induced posterior. Without such a bound it is unclear whether the approximation error contracts at a rate compatible with the GP consistency argument when the posterior is still diffuse.
[§3.2] §3.2 (definition of AB-SID-iVAR): the claim that the acquisition function 'approximates the intractable Bayesian target distribution in closed form while avoiding partition function estimation' requires a precise statement of the approximation (e.g., which moments or variational family are used) and a proof that the resulting acquisition remains sufficiently close to the true expected information gain for the consistency result to carry through.

minor comments (2)

[§2] Notation for the self-induced Boltzmann weight and the induced measure should be introduced once and used consistently; several passages switch between p(f) and the normalized weight without explicit re-definition.
[§5] Figure captions for the PES and drug-discovery experiments should state the number of independent runs, the precise definition of 'prediction error', and whether error bars represent standard deviation or standard error.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful and constructive review. The comments correctly identify areas where the theoretical presentation can be strengthened for clarity. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate explicit conditions, bounds, and proofs as detailed in our responses.

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Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (theoretical analysis): the central guarantee that 'the terminal prediction error vanishes with high probability' under 'mild conditions' is load-bearing for the contribution, yet the abstract and the statement of the theorem provide neither an explicit list of those conditions nor a quantitative bound on the approximation error between the closed-form AB-SID-iVAR target and the true self-induced posterior. Without such a bound it is unclear whether the approximation error contracts at a rate compatible with the GP consistency argument when the posterior is still diffuse.

Authors: We agree that the mild conditions should be stated explicitly and that a quantitative bound on the approximation error is needed to fully support the consistency claim. In the revised version we will list the conditions explicitly in the abstract and in the theorem statement of §4 (compact input domain, continuous kernel with bounded variance, and Lipschitz continuity of the target function). We will also add a supporting lemma bounding the pointwise difference between the AB-SID-iVAR acquisition and the true self-induced expected information gain by a term proportional to the maximum posterior standard deviation; this term contracts as the GP posterior concentrates, ensuring compatibility with the high-probability vanishing-error argument even while the posterior remains diffuse early in the loop. revision: yes
Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (definition of AB-SID-iVAR): the claim that the acquisition function 'approximates the intractable Bayesian target distribution in closed form while avoiding partition function estimation' requires a precise statement of the approximation (e.g., which moments or variational family are used) and a proof that the resulting acquisition remains sufficiently close to the true expected information gain for the consistency result to carry through.

Authors: We will revise §3.2 to give a precise definition: AB-SID-iVAR replaces the intractable self-induced Boltzmann weights with a moment-matched Gaussian approximation constructed from the current GP posterior mean and variance at each candidate point, thereby avoiding any estimation of the partition function Z. We will add a proposition proving that the resulting acquisition differs from the true expected information gain by an error controlled by the GP posterior variance; under the mild conditions already used for consistency, this error is small enough that the high-probability terminal-error guarantee continues to hold. The proof will be placed immediately after the definition in §3.2 and referenced in §4. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: novel closed-form approximation and consistency result are independently derived

full rationale

The paper defines a new acquisition function AB-SID-iVAR that constructs a closed-form approximation to the self-induced Boltzmann target without using partition functions, then separately states a consistency theorem that the terminal GP error vanishes whp under mild conditions. Neither the approximation nor the guarantee is obtained by fitting a parameter to data and relabeling it a prediction, nor by self-citation that reduces the central claim to an unverified prior result of the same authors. The derivation chain therefore remains self-contained against external GP theory and active-learning benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Review performed on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated in the provided text.

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