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Optimal dimension dependence of the Metropolis-Adjusted Langevin Algorithm
Sinho Chewi, Chen Lu, Kwangjun Ahn +3
Conventional wisdom in the sampling literature, backed by a popular diffusion scaling limit, suggests that the mixing time of the Metropolis-Adjusted Langevin Algorithm (MALA) scal…
Contextual Stochastic Block Model: Sharp Thresholds and Contiguity
Chen Lu, Subhabrata Sen
We study community detection in the contextual stochastic block model arXiv:1807.09596 [cs.SI], arXiv:1607.02675 [stat.ME]. In arXiv:1807.09596 [cs.SI], the second author studied t…
SVGD as a kernelized Wasserstein gradient flow of the chi-squared divergence
Sinho Chewi, Thibaut Le Gouic, Chen Lu +2
Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD), a popular sampling algorithm, is often described as the kernelized gradient flow for the Kullback-Leibler divergence in the geometry of o…
Exponential ergodicity of mirror-Langevin diffusions
Sinho Chewi, Thibaut Le Gouic, Chen Lu +3
Motivated by the problem of sampling from ill-conditioned log-concave distributions, we give a clean non-asymptotic convergence analysis of mirror-Langevin diffusions as introduced…