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cs.LG2017★ 8 cited
Beyond Log-concavity: Provable Guarantees for Sampling Multi-modal Distributions using Simulated Tempering Langevin Monte Carlo
Rong Ge, Holden Lee, Andrej Risteski
A key task in Bayesian statistics is sampling from distributions that are only specified up to a partition function (i.e., constant of proportionality). However, without any assump…
cs.LG2017★ 42 cited
On the ability of neural nets to express distributions
Holden Lee, Rong Ge, Tengyu Ma +2
Deep neural nets have caused a revolution in many classification tasks. A related ongoing revolution -- also theoretically not understood -- concerns their ability to serve as gene…