The paper investigates the mixing time of weighted Dikin walks used for sampling from exponential distributions on polytopes and truncated positive-semidefinite cones. It presents a general total-variation mixing bound under conditions of strong self-concordance, ν-symmetry, and mixed-trace regularity, achieving an “~O(d^2)" bound for polytopes and “~O(d^4)" for truncated PSD cones. A second result introduces a fourth-order bootstrap condition that yields stronger χ^2-divergence guarantees and an improved “~O(d^2)" mixing bound for a scaled Lee–Sidford metric.
arXiv:2607. 13943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inspired by interior-point methods (IPM) for structured convex optimization, Kannan and Narayanan introduced the Dikin walk for sampling uniformly from polytopes in 2009.
arXiv:2608. 25273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We analyze exact-metric, Metropolis-adjusted Dikin walks by keeping the proposal determinant and reverse quadratic form together.
arXiv:2606. 26316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study first-order methods for smooth objectives satisfying the Polyak-\L{}ojasiewicz (PL) condition when gradient samples are generated by an exogenous Markov chain.
arXiv:2606. 24981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study linear TD(0) under Markovian sampling, where data are generated along a single trajectory.
arXiv:2610. 01088v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE) of a Gaussian location mixture maximizes the likelihood over the infinite-dimensional space of mixing distributions.
The paper introduces the concept of local geometric mixing, which focuses on geometric convergence to equilibrium in total variation over a finite number of transitions, thereby capturing rapid local equilibration even when global mixing is slow. It derives local geometric mixing bounds using Dobrushin contraction and applies these results to Diffusion Path Monte Carlo, a Markov chain Monte Carlo method that aligns with the Proximal Sampler. The analysis provides mixing guarantees for both the ideal method and its Metropolis-adjusted implementation, and extends recent spectral gap estimates into mixing time bounds.
Bakhtiari, Lattimore and Szepesvári (COLT 2025) proved that Thompson sampling (TS) has Bayesian regret $\tilde O(d^{5/2}\sqrt n)$ for bandit convex optimisation with convex \emph{monotone} ridge losse...
Local geometric mixing localizes geometric mixing by requiring geometric convergence to equilibrium in total variation only over finitely many transitions. It accommodates local convergence rates and...
arXiv:2310. 09149v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the approximation of probability measures in the Wasserstein-$p$ distance by structured classes of approximators, motivated by applications in imaging, machine learning, and physical measurement under sensor constraints.
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.
arXiv:2610. 31431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA) is widely used for high-dimensional Bayesian inference.
arXiv:2607.06644v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Determinantal point processes (DPPs) have recently emerged as a kernel-based alternative to standard independent sampling for constructing efficien...