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