arXiv Machine Learning

A proximal gradient algorithm for composite log-concave sampling

arXiv:2605. 12461v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose an algorithm to sample from composite log-concave distributions over $\mathbb{R}^d$, i.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Poisson-Corrector Complexity Bounds for Moreau--Yosida Unadjusted Langevin Sampling

arXiv:2609. 12594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the classical Moreau--Yosida unadjusted Langevin algorithm (MYULA) for $\pi(\,\mathrm{d} x)\propto e^{-f(x)-g(x)}\,\mathrm{d} x$, where $f\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ is $m$-strongly convex with $L_f$-Lipschitz gradient and $g:\mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}$ is convex and globally $G$-Lipschitz.

By Yuchen Xin, Zhihua Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Smoothed Picard Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

arXiv:2609.06906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a new low-accuracy sampler, called \emph{smoothed Picard Hamiltonian Monte Carlo}, which combines Gaussian smoothing, Picard iteration, an...

By Fan Chen, Sinho Chewi, Jianfeng Lu, Matthew S Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

How fast can you find a good hypothesis?

arXiv:2509. 03734v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the hypothesis selection problem, we are given sample and query access to finite set of candidate distributions (hypotheses), $\mathcal{H} = \{H_1, \ldots, H_n\}$, and samples from an unknown distribution $P$, both over a domain $\mathcal{X}$.

By Anders Aamand, Maryam Aliakbarpour, Justin Y. Chen, Sandeep Silwal