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Warped geometric information on the optimisation of Euclidean functions
Marcelo Hartmann, Bernardo Williams, Hanlin Yu +3
We consider the fundamental task of optimising a real-valued function defined in a potentially high-dimensional Euclidean space, such as the loss function in many machine-learning…
Controlling Moments with Kernel Stein Discrepancies
Heishiro Kanagawa, Alessandro Barp, Arthur Gretton +1
Kernel Stein discrepancies (KSDs) measure the quality of a distributional approximation and can be computed even when the target density has an intractable normalizing constant. No…
Targeted Separation and Convergence with Kernel Discrepancies
Alessandro Barp, Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel, Mark Girolami +1
Maximum mean discrepancies (MMDs) like the kernel Stein discrepancy (KSD) have grown central to a wide range of applications, including hypothesis testing, sampler selection, distr…
Geometric Methods for Sampling, Optimisation, Inference and Adaptive Agents
Alessandro Barp, Lancelot Da Costa, Guilherme França +4
In this chapter, we identify fundamental geometric structures that underlie the problems of sampling, optimisation, inference and adaptive decision-making. Based on this identifica…