2 papers
math.PR2026
Second-order perturbation bounds for Gibbs samplers under strong spatial mixing
Na Lin, Aaron Smith, Yiqiang Q. Zhao
The basic question in perturbation analysis of Markov chains is how small changes in their transition kernels affect their stationary distributions. Classical perturbation bounds t…
math.ST2026
Convergence Rates of Ordering, Testing and Estimation Procedures for Graphons With Fast Boundary Decay Rates
Jeannette Janssen, Na Lin, Aaron Smith
In latent-position random graph models (LPMs), latent vertex positions are sampled from some distribution on a latent space , then edges of an observed grap…