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Hamiltonian Monte Carlo has proven a remarkable empirical success, but only recently have we begun to develop a rigorous understanding of why it performs so well on difficult problems and how it is best applied in practice. Unfortunately,…
The port-Hamiltonian approach presents an energy-based modeling of dynamical systems with energy-conservative and energy-dissipative parts as well as an interconnection over the so-called ports. In this paper, we apply an operator splitting…
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