Jonathan Niles-Weed

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20172026

most citedSharp Convergence Rates for Empirical Optimal Transport with Smooth Costs

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math.PR2026

Nearly sharp comparison results for sliced and max-sliced Wasserstein distances

Jonathan Niles-Weed, Jacob Shkrob

We prove new comparison results between the Wasserstein distance and its sliced and max-sliced counterparts. First, we show that the Hölder exponent~ $\frac{2}{d + 2}$ obtained by Bob…

stat.CO2026

Delocalization of bias in unadjusted Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and underdamped Langevin

Yifan Chen, Xiaoou Cheng, Jonathan Niles-Weed +1

Unadjusted samplers such as unadjusted Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and underdamped Langevin are well-known to be biased. Metropolis--Hastings adjustment has been conventionally incorpo…