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Sampling for Bayesian Mixture Models: MCMC with Polynomial-Time Mixing
Wenlong Mou, Nhat Ho, Martin J. Wainwright +2
We study the problem of sampling from the power posterior distribution in Bayesian Gaussian mixture models, a robust version of the classical posterior. This power posterior is kno…
An Efficient Sampling Algorithm for Non-smooth Composite Potentials
Wenlong Mou, Nicolas Flammarion, Martin J. Wainwright +1
We consider the problem of sampling from a density of the form , where is a smooth and strongly convex func…
A Diffusion Process Perspective on Posterior Contraction Rates for Parameters
Wenlong Mou, Nhat Ho, Martin J. Wainwright +2
We analyze the posterior contraction rates of parameters in Bayesian models via the Langevin diffusion process, in particular by controlling moments of the stochastic process and t…
High-Order Langevin Diffusion Yields an Accelerated MCMC Algorithm
Wenlong Mou, Yi-An Ma, Martin J. Wainwright +2
We propose a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm based on third-order Langevin dynamics for sampling from distributions with log-concave and smooth densities. The higher-orde…
Improved Bounds for Discretization of Langevin Diffusions: Near-Optimal Rates without Convexity
Wenlong Mou, Nicolas Flammarion, Martin J. Wainwright +1
We present an improved analysis of the Euler-Maruyama discretization of the Langevin diffusion. Our analysis does not require global contractivity, and yields polynomial dependence…