English

Non-reversible guided Metropolis kernel

Computation 2021-03-16 v2 Probability

Abstract

We construct a class of non-reversible Metropolis kernels as a multivariate extension of the guided-walk kernel proposed by Gustafson 1998. The main idea of our method is to introduce a projection that maps a state space to a totally ordered group. By using Haar measure, we construct a novel Markov kernel termed Haar-mixture kernel, which is of interest in its own right. This is achieved by inducing a topological structure to the totally ordered group. Our proposed method, the Delta-guided Metropolis--Haar kernel, is constructed by using the Haar-mixture kernel as a proposal kernel. The proposed non-reversible kernel is at least 10 times better than the random-walk Metropolis kernel and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo kernel for the logistic regression and a discretely observed stochastic process in terms of effective sample size per second.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.05584,
  title  = {Non-reversible guided Metropolis kernel},
  author = {Kengo Kamatani and Xiaolin Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05584},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

27 pages, 5 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-23T15:28:47.850Z