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On the Pseudo-Mixing of Kac's Walk
Natesh S. Pillai, Aaron Smith, Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Motivated by a conjecture of Vaikuntanathan and Zamir, we study the pseudo-mixing of Kac's walk on : whether short trajectories are indistinguishable from Haar meas…
Consistency of Spectral Seriation
Amine Natik, Aaron Smith
Consider a random graph of size constructed according to a \textit{graphon} as follows. First embed vertices $V = \{v_1, v_2, \ldots…
Rapid Convergence of Informed Importance Tempering
Quan Zhou, Aaron Smith
Informed Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have been proposed as scalable solutions to Bayesian posterior computation on high-dimensional discrete state spaces, but theoretic…
Existence of matching priors on compact spaces
Haosui Duanmu, Daniel M. Roy, Aaron Smith
A matching prior at level is a prior such that an associated credible set is also a confidence set. We study the existence of matching priors for general families…
Nonstandard Representation of the Dirichlet Form
Robert M. Anderson, Haosui Duanmu, Aaron Smith
The Dirichlet form is a generalization of the Laplacian, heavily used in the study of many diffusion-like processes. In this paper we present a nonstandard representation theorem f…
No Free Lunch for Approximate MCMC
James E. Johndrow, Natesh S. Pillai, Aaron Smith
It is widely known that the performance of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) can degrade quickly when targeting computationally expensive posterior distributions, such as when the sa…