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stat.ME2012★ 30 cited
Improving the Asymptotic Performance of Markov Chain Monte-Carlo by Inserting Vortices
Yi Sun, Faustino Gomez, Juergen Schmidhuber
We present a new way of converting a reversible finite Markov chain into a non-reversible one, with a theoretical guarantee that the asymptotic variance of the MCMC estimator based…
cs.AI2012★ 3 cited
Efficient Natural Evolution Strategies
Yi Sun, Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul +1
Efficient Natural Evolution Strategies (eNES) is a novel alternative to conventional evolutionary algorithms, using the natural gradient to adapt the mutation distribution. Unlike…