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48 results for log-concave Langevin dynamics

New method uses higher-order Langevin dynamics for efficient parallel sampling.

problem Efficient parallel sampling from high-dimensional log-concave distributions.
method Combines higher-order Langevin dynamics with blockwise Lagrange polynomial interpolation.
result Reduces the number of parallel points required for a target accuracy.

Enhances SGLD for log-concave posteriors with asynchronous computation.

problem Sampling log-concave posterior distributions efficiently.
method Integrates asynchronous computation into SGLD with delayed gradients.
result Convergence in measure is not significantly affected by delayed gradient information.

Poisson Midpoint Method improves Langevin Dynamics for diffusion models.

problem Slow convergence of LMC in diffusion models requiring many small steps.
method Poisson Midpoint Method approximates LMC with larger steps, proving quadratic speed up.
result Poisson Midpoint Method maintains quality of DDPM with fewer calls.

Improved Langevin algorithms with prior diffusion achieve dimension-independent convergence for non-log-concave distributions.

problem Understanding the dimension dependency of computational complexity in high-dimensional sampling.
method Investigation of prior diffusion technique for log-Sobolev inequality target distributions.
result Modified Langevin algorithm achieves dimension-independent KL divergence convergence.

New Langevin algorithms improve sampling efficiency in high dimensions.

problem Sampling from log-concave and smooth distributions in high dimensions.
method Combining splitting and accurate integration methods for PP-th order Langevin dynamics.
result LMC algorithms converge faster with better dimension dependence as PP increases.

Improved KLMC for sampling under various conditions.

problem Stable simulation of kinetic Langevin dynamics under different parameters.
method Revisited synchronous Wasserstein coupling analysis with stochastic exponential Euler discretization.
result Exponential integrator can simulate kinetic Langevin dynamics in the overdamped regime with proper time acceleration.

New method approximates sampling from smooth potential distributions using a vanishing penalty.

problem Sampling from smooth potential distributions on high-dimensional spaces.
method Penalized Langevin dynamics (PLD) with vanishing penalty.
result Established upper bound on Wasserstein-2 distance for PLD approximation.

The paper studies how quickly samples from Langevin dynamics become independent.

problem Understanding the dependence between samples along Langevin dynamics and related algorithms.
method Measures dependence via ΦΦ-mutual information and proves strong data processing inequalities.
result The ΦΦ-mutual information between samples decreases exponentially to zero.

Paper proposes new Langevin samplers for sampling from log-concave distributions with superlinear gradient growth.

problem Sampling from log-concave distributions with superlinear gradient growth.
method Proposes two novel discretizations of kinetic Langevin SDEs, showing contractivity and log-Sobolev inequality.
result Establishes non-asymptotic bounds in 2-Wasserstein distance between sampled distributions and target measures.

Study on Wasserstein distance for numerical approximations of stochastic differential equations.

problem Estimating the Wasserstein distance between stochastic differential equation distributions and their numerical approximations.
method Unified framework for analyzing different integrators and a novel splitting method for underdamped Langevin dynamics.
result A novel splitting method for underdamped Langevin dynamics with optimal complexity.

A new framework RTK accelerates diffusion inference by breaking down the process into fewer, more efficient subproblems.

problem Efficiently generating data from trained diffusion models using discretized reverse SDEs or ODEs.
method Developed a general RTK framework that decomposes the diffusion process into fewer, more balanced subproblems, using MALA and ULD for sampling.
result The RTK-MALA and RTK-ULD algorithms achieve faster convergence rates and lower error compared to existing methods.

As an important Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD) algorithm has achieved great success in Bayesian learning and posterior sampling. However, SGLD typically suffers from slow convergence rate due to its large variance caused by the stochastic gradient. In order to allev…

2019-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

FA-LD algorithm improves uncertainty quantification and mean predictions in federated learning.

problem Uncertainty quantification and mean predictions in federated learning with distributed clients.
method FA-LD algorithm for strongly log-concave distributions with non-i.i.d data, considering general models.
result The FA-LD algorithm provides theoretical guarantees for convergence and optimal noise injection.

The paper analyzes convergence rates of Langevin dynamics and Proximal Sampler using ΦΦ-divergence.

problem Analyzing convergence rates of Langevin dynamics and Proximal Sampler.
method Extending mixing time analyses to ΦΦ-divergence, using strong data processing inequalities.
result Convergence of ΦΦ-divergence to 0 exponentially fast along Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm and Proximal Sampler.

Study improves sampling from non-log-concave distributions using Fisher information.

problem Sampling from non-log-concave distributions with high Fisher information guarantees.
method Proximal sampler with RGO implementation, leveraging log-concave sampling results.
result Improved complexity guarantee in relative Fisher information for non-log-concave sampling.

This paper optimizes Bayesian estimation for log-concave models using Langevin Monte-Carlo.

problem Optimizing Bayesian estimators for log-concave models with Langevin Monte-Carlo.
method Quantitative statistical bounds and numerical approximation of Gibbs measures.
result Established optimal numerical strategy and its cost for Bayesian posterior mean approximation.

ULA estimates covariance of log-concave distributions efficiently.

problem Estimating covariance matrices of log-concave distributions efficiently.
method Unadjusted Langevin algorithm (ULA) for sampling and covariance estimation.
result Sample complexity of single-chain ULA is smaller than that of parallel ULA by a logarithmic factor.

New sampling algorithms for complex distributions without log-concavity.

problem Efficient sampling from complex, high-dimensional distributions.
method Randomized splitting Langevin Monte Carlo (RSLMC) algorithm.
result Uniform-in-time error bounds for RSLMC and RLMC algorithms.

This paper resolves the Langevin Algorithm's mixing time for log-concave distributions.

problem Resolving the mixing time of the Langevin Algorithm for log-concave sampling.
method Introducing Privacy Amplification by Iteration to analyze Rényi divergence and Optimal Transport smoothing.
result Optimal mixing bounds for the Langevin Algorithm in log-concave sampling settings.

Study improves sampling from complex distributions using annealed Langevin Monte Carlo.

problem Sampling from non-log-concave and multimodal distributions.
method Annealed Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm with theoretical guarantees.
result Oracle complexity of O(dβ²A²/ε⁶) for achieving ε² accuracy in Kullback-Leibler divergence.

SGLD proves geometric ergodicity via reflection coupling for nonconvex log-concave distributions.

problem Proving geometric ergodicity of SGLD in nonconvex, log-concave settings.
method Reflection coupling technique to handle SGLD's time discretization and minibatch issues.
result SGLD has an invariant distribution and geometric ergodicity in W1W_1 distance.

A new sampling method reduces computational cost for high-dimensional log-concave distributions.

problem High computational cost of ULMC in high dimensions.
method Random Coordinate ULMC (RC-ULMC) selects a single coordinate per iteration.
result RC-ULMC is cheaper than classical ULMC, especially in highly skewed and high-dimensional problems.

This paper shows how to approximate any log-concave distribution using well-conditioned affine coupling flows.

problem Understanding the representational power of affine coupling flows for log-concave distributions.
method Leveraging connections between affine coupling architectures, Langevin dynamics, and Hénon maps to prove log-concave approximation.
result Any log-concave distribution can be approximated using well-conditioned affine-coupling flows.

We consider the problem of sampling from a strongly log-concave density in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, and prove a non-asymptotic upper bound on the mixing time of the Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA). The method draws samples by simulating a Markov chain obtained from the discretization of an appropriate Langevin dif…

2018-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper tackles sampling from Gibbs measures with constrained support, providing a sampling guarantee.

problem Sampling from Gibbs measures with constrained support, especially in the pre-asymptotic regime.
method Analyzing the spectral gap of Langevin dynamics to provide a non-asymptotic sampling guarantee.
result The low-temperature Gibbs distribution concentrates on a neighborhood of its mode in the pre-asymptotic regime.

New method accelerates Bayesian imaging using Langevin sampling.

problem Bayesian inference in imaging inverse problems with convex geometry.
method Stochastic relaxed proximal-point iteration targeting posterior distribution.
result Accelerated convergence for κκ-strongly log-concave targets.

Paper analyzes complexity of PSGLA for sampling log-concave distributions.

problem Sampling from log-concave distributions with composite potentials.
method Uses primal-dual interpretation and duality gap to analyze PSGLA complexity.
result Complexity of PSGLA is O(1/ε2)O(1/\varepsilon^2) for strongly convex potentials.

New method improves sampling for weakly log-concave posteriors.

problem Sampling from weakly log-concave posterior distributions.
method Stochastic Langevin Monte Carlo with over-damped diffusion.
result Simulation horizon is (dlog(n)2)(1+r)2(d \log(n)^2)^{(1+r)^2} with Poisson subsampling.

For sampling from a log-concave density, we study implicit integrators resulting from θθ-method discretization of the overdamped Langevin diffusion stochastic differential equation. Theoretical and algorithmic properties of the resulting sampling methods for θ[0,1] θ\in [0,1] and a range of step sizes are established. Ou…

2019-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances LMC for log-concave sampling, reducing computational cost.

problem High computational cost of LMC for high-dimensional problems.
method Random coordinate descent (RCD) combined with variance reduction techniques (SAGA, SVRG).
result Achieves computational cost reduction compared to classical LMC, same number of iterations as LMC.

We propose a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm based on third-order Langevin dynamics for sampling from distributions with log-concave and smooth densities. The higher-order dynamics allow for more flexible discretization schemes, and we develop a specific method that combines splitting with more accurate integ…

2019-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

New sampling method guarantees approximate first-order stationary points for non-convex functions.

problem Sampling from non-log-concave densities with non-convex potential functions.
method Averaged Langevin Monte Carlo with complexity analysis.
result Langevin Monte Carlo outputs a sample with ε-relative Fisher information after O(L²d²/ε²) iterations.