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Kinetic Interacting Particle Langevin Monte Carlo

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

Reflected Anchored Langevin Algorithms

The paper introduces Reflected Anchored Langevin Dynamics (RALD), a reflected diffusion that can converge to non‑differentiable target distributions on constrained domains. By employing a smooth anchored reference potential and scaling the drift and noise covariance with a state‑dependent factor, the authors derive an Euler‑Maruyama discretization with projection, yielding the Reflected Anchored Langevin Monte Carlo (RALMC) algorithm. Explicit convergence bounds and iteration complexity in the 2‑Wasserstein distance are proven, and numerical experiments confirm the theoretical predictions and empirical performance.

By Changwei Tu, Xiaoyu Wang, Yingli Wang, Xicheng Zhang, Lingjiong Zhu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Improved Analysis for Hessian-free High-resolution Monte Carlo Sampling

The paper introduces Hessian-free high-resolution (HFHR) dynamics, an extension of underdamped Langevin dynamics that incorporates reversible position diffusion for sampling in machine learning. It provides an explicit quantitative contraction rate under a position Poincaré inequality, weighted Hessian and Laplacian bounds, and a compact Sobolev embedding, even when the potential is non‑convex. For the HFHR Monte Carlo algorithm, a path‑space Girsanov argument yields a non‑asymptotic convergence bound and an explicit iteration complexity in total variation distance, improving on previous HFHR results and demonstrating benefits of a positive diffusion parameter through numerical experiments.

By Wujun Lv, Xiaoyu Wang, Yingli Wang, Lingjiong Zhu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Randomized Midpoint Method for Log-Concave Sampling under Constraints

arXiv:2405. 15379v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we study the problem of sampling from log-concave distributions supported on convex and compact sets, with a particular focus on the randomized midpoint discretization of both overdamped and kinetic Langevin diffusions in constrained domains.

By Yifeng Yu, Shijie Zhang, Lu Yu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 6

The Tamed Subgradient Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm beyond Convexity

We study the problem of sampling from target distributions whose potentials are simultaneously non-smooth, subject to superlinear gradient growth, and non-convex. We introduce the Subgradient Tamed Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (SG-TULA), a discretisation of the Langevin diffusion that operates directly on subgradients, without relying on computationally demanding smoothing procedures.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

Kinetic Langevin Meets Split Gibbs: Accelerated Posterior Sampling for Imaging Inverse Problems with Diffusion Priors

The paper introduces RED-KLwSGS, a new posterior sampling method for Bayesian imaging inverse problems that combines exact Gaussian updates for the data variable with underdamped (kinetic) Langevin diffusion for the auxiliary variable, driven by a one‑shot denoising score. It achieves the same per‑iteration cost as existing Langevin‑within‑SGS samplers while providing non‑asymptotic Wasserstein‑2 convergence guarantees for strongly log‑concave priors. A further variant, Joint-RED-KLwSGS, applies kinetic Langevin diffusion to both variables, and experiments using denoising diffusion probabilistic models on FFHQ and ImageNet demonstrate faster convergence and high‑quality image reconstruction.

By Dai Hai Nguyen, Duc Dung Nguyen