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most citedStochastic mirror descent for nonparametric adaptive importance sampling

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math.OC2026

Importance Sampling Optimization with Laplace Principle

Radu-Alexandru Dragomir, François Portier, Victor Priser

Grid search and random search are widely used techniques for hyperparameter tuning in machine learning, especially when gradient information is unavailable. In these methods, a fin…

math.OC2025

Consensus-Based Optimization Beyond Finite-Time Analysis

Pascal Bianchi, Radu-Alexandru Dragomir, Victor Priser

We analyze a zeroth-order particle algorithm for the global optimization of a non-convex function, focusing on a variant of Consensus-Based Optimization (CBO) with small but fixed…

math.ST2024★ 1 cited

Stochastic mirror descent for nonparametric adaptive importance sampling

Pascal Bianchi, Bernard Delyon, Victor Priser +1

This paper addresses the problem of approximating an unknown probability distribution with density -- which can only be evaluated up to an unknown scaling factor -- with the he…

cs.LG2024

Long-time asymptotics of noisy SVGD outside the population limit

Victor Priser, Pascal Bianchi, Adil Salim

Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) is a widely used sampling algorithm that has been successfully applied in several areas of Machine Learning. SVGD operates by iteratively…

math.PR2024

Long run convergence of discrete-time interacting particle systems of the McKean-Vlasov type

Pascal Bianchi, Walid Hachem, Victor Priser

We consider a discrete-time system of n coupled random vectors, a.k.a. interacting particles. The dynamics involve a vanishing step size, some random centered perturbations, and a…