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most citedLower bounds on the rate of convergence for accept-reject-based Markov chains in Wasserstein and total variation distances

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math.PR2026

Markov Chain CLTs: Resolving Open Problems

Austin Brown, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Quan Zhou

Markov chain central limit theorems (CLTs) and their associated variances are very important for implementing Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms among other applications. Häggströ…

math.ST2026

Hyper-V uniform ergodicity of Markov chains

Austin Brown, Kshitij Khare

We develop a new uniform drift condition and local minorization that implies a stronger weighted form of uniform ergodicity for Markov chains we call hyper-V uniform ergodicity. Th…

math.ST2024

Upper and lower bounds on the subgeometric convergence of adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo

Austin Brown, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

We investigate lower bounds on the subgeometric convergence of adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo under any adaptation strategy. In particular, we prove general lower bounds in tota…

math.ST2024★ 1 cited

Weak convergence of adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo

Austin Brown, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

This article develops general conditions for weak convergence of adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo processes and is shown to imply a weak law of large numbers for bounded Lipschitz…

math.ST2024

A non-asymptotic error analysis for parallel Monte Carlo estimation from many short Markov chains

Austin Brown

Single-chain Markov chain Monte Carlo simulates realizations from a Markov chain to estimate expectations with the empirical average. The single-chain simulation is generally of co…

stat.CO2023

Estimating MCMC convergence rates using common random number simulation

Sabrina Sixta, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Austin Brown

This paper presents how to use common random number (CRN) simulation to evaluate Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) convergence to stationarity. We provide an upper bound on the Wasse…

math.ST2022★ 2 cited

Lower bounds on the rate of convergence for accept-reject-based Markov chains in Wasserstein and total variation distances

Austin Brown, Galin L. Jones

To avoid poor empirical performance in Metropolis-Hastings and other accept-reject-based algorithms practitioners often tune them by trial and error. Lower bounds on the convergenc…

math.ST2022

Geometric ergodicity of Gibbs samplers for Bayesian error-in-variable regression

Austin Brown

Multivariate Bayesian error-in-variable (EIV) linear regression is considered to account for additional additive Gaussian error in the features and response. A 3-variable determini…

math.ST2021

Exact Convergence Analysis for Metropolis-Hastings Independence Samplers in Wasserstein Distances

Austin Brown, Galin L. Jones

Under mild assumptions, we show the exact convergence rate in total variation is also exact in weaker Wasserstein distances for the Metropolis-Hastings independence sampler. We dev…