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Convergence Rates of Attractive-Repulsive MCMC Algorithms

Probability 2021-09-03 v3

Abstract

We consider MCMC algorithms for certain particle systems which include both attractive and repulsive forces, making their convergence analysis challenging. We prove that a version of these algorithms on a bounded state space is uniformly ergodic with an explicit quantitative convergence rate. We also prove that a version on an unbounded state-space is still geometrically ergodic, and then use the method of shift-coupling to obtain an explicit quantitative bound on its convergence rate.

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@article{arxiv.2012.04786,
  title  = {Convergence Rates of Attractive-Repulsive MCMC Algorithms},
  author = {Yu Hang Jiang and Tong Liu and Zhiya Lou and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and Shanshan Shangguan and Fei Wang and Zixuan Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.04786},
  year   = {2021}
}

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26 pages, 2 figures

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