AI & ML
Two-Sample Testing via Generative Processes
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arXiv:2610.08277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deciding whether two samples come from the same distribution is a classical problem in statistics, and generative transport offers a new way to approach it. We build a stochastic interpolant directly between the two samples and observe that, for a symmetric schedule, its law is invariant under the time reflection $t \mapsto 1-t$ whenever the two distributions coincide. We therefore test whether the marginals at times t and 1-t agree by computing their Jensen--Shannon divergence. Both marginals are explicit mixtures over all cross-pairs of observations, so nothing is learned, and permutation calibration gives an exact finite-sample level. For Gaussian noise, this divergence equals a time integral that pairs the reflection defects of the velocity field and of the score, so the test compares transport dynamics rather than endpoints alone. With a narrow-plus-broad noise design, the test attains the minimax separation rate n^{-2s/(4s+d)} over bounded, compactly supported densities whose difference has Sobolev smoothness s > 3d/4, with no lower bound on the densities. Fusing a dyadic grid of noise scales through their permutation ranks, without sample splitting, preserves exact level and adapts to unknown s at an iterated-logarithmic cost. Empirically, the test matches or outperforms state-of-the-art kernel two-sample tests.
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