Implement logabsdetjac for Inverse{<:TruncatedBijector} for better numerical stability

Project.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "Bijectors"
 uuid = "76274a88-744f-5084-9051-94815aaf08c4"
-version = "0.15.2"
+version = "0.15.3"
 
 [deps]
 ArgCheck = "dce04be8-c92d-5529-be00-80e4d2c0e197"

src/bijectors/truncated.jl

@@ -68,6 +68,28 @@ end
 
 with_logabsdet_jacobian(b::TruncatedBijector, x) = transform(b, x), logabsdetjac(b, x)
 
+function truncated_inv_logabsdetjac(y, a, b)
+    y, a, b = promote(y, a, b)
+    lowerbounded, upperbounded = isfinite(a), isfinite(b)
+    if lowerbounded && upperbounded
+        abs_y = abs(y)
+        return log(b - a) - abs_y - 2 * LogExpFunctions.log1pexp(-abs_y)
+    elseif lowerbounded || upperbounded
+        return y
+    else
+        return zero(y)
+    end
+end
+
+function logabsdetjac(ib::Inverse{<:TruncatedBijector}, y)
+    a, b = ib.orig.lb, ib.orig.ub
+    return sum(truncated_inv_logabsdetjac.(y, a, b))
+end
+
+function with_logabsdet_jacobian(ib::Inverse{<:TruncatedBijector}, y)
+    return transform(ib, y), logabsdetjac(ib, y)
+end
+
 # It's only monotonically decreasing if it's only upper-bounded.
 # In the multivariate case, we can only say something reasonable if entries are monotonic.
 function is_monotonically_increasing(b::TruncatedBijector)

test/bijectors/ordered.jl

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ end
 
     @testset "correctness" begin
         num_samples = 10_000
-        num_adapts = 1_000
+        num_adapts = 5_000
         @testset "k = $k" for k in [2, 3, 5]
             @testset "$(typeof(dist))" for dist in [
                 # Unconstrained

test/interface.jl

@@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ contains(predicate::Function, b::Stacked) = any(contains.(predicate, b.bs))
                 logabsdetjac(inverse(b), y) atol = 1e-6
         end
     end
+
+    @testset "logabsdetjac numerical stability: Bijectors.jl#325" begin
+        d = Uniform(-1, 1)
+        b = bijector(d)
+        y = 80
+        # x needs higher precision to be calculated correctly, otherwise
+        # logpdf_with_trans returns -Inf
+        d_big = Uniform(big(-1.0), big(1.0))
+        b_big = bijector(d_big)
+        x_big = inverse(b_big)(big(y))
+        @test logpdf(d_big, x_big) + logabsdetjacinv(b, y) ≈
+            logpdf_with_trans(d_big, x_big, true) atol = 1e-14
+        @test logpdf(d_big, x_big) - logabsdetjac(b, x_big) ≈
+            logpdf_with_trans(d_big, x_big, true) atol = 1e-14
+    end
 end
 
 @testset "Truncated" begin