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Constrained Langevin Algorithms with L-mixing External Random Variables

Machine Learning 2023-01-10 v2 Optimization and Control Probability

Abstract

Langevin algorithms are gradient descent methods augmented with additive noise, and are widely used in Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling, optimization, and machine learning. In recent years, the non-asymptotic analysis of Langevin algorithms for non-convex learning has been extensively explored. For constrained problems with non-convex losses over a compact convex domain with IID data variables, the projected Langevin algorithm achieves a deviation of O(T1/4(logT)1/2)O(T^{-1/4} (\log T)^{1/2}) from its target distribution [27] in 11-Wasserstein distance. In this paper, we obtain a deviation of O(T1/2logT)O(T^{-1/2} \log T) in 11-Wasserstein distance for non-convex losses with LL-mixing data variables and polyhedral constraints (which are not necessarily bounded). This improves on the previous bound for constrained problems and matches the best-known bound for unconstrained problems.

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@article{arxiv.2205.14192,
  title  = {Constrained Langevin Algorithms with L-mixing External Random Variables},
  author = {Yuping Zheng and Andrew Lamperski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14192},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

51 pages. Accepted by NeurIPS 2022. Corrected some errors during the reviewing process

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