arXiv:2609.06905v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We study the problem of sampling from $\mu(\mathrm{d}x)\propto e^{-V(x)}\,\mathrm{d}x$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $V$ is $\alpha$-strongly convex and $...
By Fan Chen, Sinho Chewi, Jianfeng Lu, Matthew S Zhang
arXiv:2512. 24152v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sampling based on score diffusions has led to striking empirical results, and has attracted considerable attention from various research communities.
By M. J. Wainwright
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:2607. 28413v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Let $\mu(d x)\propto e^{-U(x)} d x$ on $\R^d$, where $U$ is $m$-strongly convex and $L$-smooth, and denote by $\kappa=L/m$ the condition number.
By Jianfeng Lu, Yinchen Luo
arXiv:2607. 12902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show the Randomized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RHMC) algorithm has accelerated mixing time guarantees for sampling from log-concave probability distributions.
By Siddharth Mitra, Vishwak Srinivasan, Xiuyuan Wang, Andre Wibisono
arXiv:2609. 12590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate the stochastic-gradient query complexity of sampling smooth strongly log-concave distributions in any fixed Euclidean dimension.
By Weiming Ou, Xiao Wang
We show the Randomized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RHMC) algorithm has accelerated mixing time guarantees for sampling from log-concave probability distributions. RHMC proceeds by repeatedly simulating the continuous-time Hamiltonian dynamics for some random integration times, and resetting the velocity to be an independent Gaussian random variable between each simulation.
arXiv:2608.24527v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We prove the first quantum--classical separation for a sampling problem over a continuous domain. For a class of Gibbs states $p\propto e^{-\beta E}$...
By Enrico Olivucci, Mariia Sobchuk, Sehmimul Hoque, Jeffrey Hnybida, Kyungho W. Kim, Ala Shayeghi, Pooya Ronagh
arXiv:2609.15268v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We revisit Valiant's algorithm (Commun. ACM'84) for learning $n$-variable CNF formulas with clause size $k$ and variable degree $d$ from i.i.d. uniform...
By Weiming Feng, Yixiao Yu, Yiyao Zhang
arXiv:2609. 01999v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a variant of the Thompson Sampling (TS) algorithm, called $\alpha$-TS, for solving stochastic generalized linear bandit problems.
By Prateek Jaiswal, Debdeep Pati, Anirban Bhattacharya, Bani K. Mallick
arXiv:2608. 06656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can one forecaster attain the optimal regret rate for every bounded proper loss and also adapt to every smooth proper loss?
By Pahan Dewasurendra
arXiv:2606. 09191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We prove that $\rho\text{-}\mathrm{NPTS}_{\mathrm{SG}}$, an anchor-free nonparametric Thompson Sampling algorithm for risk-averse bandits, achieves regret matching the instance-dependent lower bound to leading order in $\log n$, establishing it as asymptotically optimal for any continuous risk functional $\rho$ (CVaR, mean-variance, Sharpe ratio, distortion risk measures, and more) on the class of distributions with bounded density and sub-Gaussian tails, including Gaussian arms.
By Joel Q. L. Chang