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The article presents a novel variational calculus to analyze the stability and the propagation of chaos properties of nonlinear and interacting diffusions. This differential methodology combines gradient flow estimates with backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Marc Arnaudon , Pierre Del Moral

We propose a novel diffusion map particle system (DMPS) for generative modeling, based on diffusion maps and Laplacian-adjusted Wasserstein gradient descent (LAWGD). Diffusion maps are used to approximate the generator of the corresponding…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-19 Fengyi Li , Youssef Marzouk

Machine learning algorithms typically assume that training and test examples are drawn from the same distribution. However, distribution shift is a common problem in real-world applications and can cause models to perform dramatically worse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Huaxiu Yao , Yu Wang , Sai Li , Linjun Zhang , Weixin Liang , James Zou , Chelsea Finn

We consider distributed estimation of the inverse covariance matrix, also called the concentration or precision matrix, in Gaussian graphical models. Traditional centralized estimation often requires global inference of the covariance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Zhaoshi Meng , Dennis Wei , Ami Wiesel , Alfred O. Hero

Metropolis algorithms are classical tools for sampling from target distributions, with broad applications in statistics and scientific computing. Their convergence speed is governed by the spectral gap of the associated Markov operator.…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Shuigen Liu , Xin T. Tong

The Langevin sampling method relies on an accurate score matching while the existing massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) Langevin detection involves an inevitable singular value decomposition (SVD) to calculate the posterior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Lanxin He , Zheng Wang , Yongming Huang

In recent years, various interacting particle samplers have been developed to sample from complex target distributions, such as those found in Bayesian inverse problems. These samplers are motivated by the mean-field limit perspective and…

Computation · Statistics 2023-12-22 Björn Sprungk , Simon Weissmann , Jakob Zech

We consider the convergence of kinetic Langevin dynamics to its ergodic invariant measure, which is Gibbs distribution. Instead of the standard setup where the friction coefficient is a constant scalar, we investigate position-dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Keunwoo Lim , Molei Tao

Along with the recent advances in scalable Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, sampling techniques that are based on Langevin diffusions have started receiving increasing attention. These so called Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC) methods are based…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-14 Umut Şimşekli

The estimation of the diffusion matrix $\Sigma$ of a high-dimensional, possibly time-changed L\'evy process is studied, based on discrete observations of the process with a fixed distance. A low-rank condition is imposed on $\Sigma$.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Denis Belomestny , Mathias Trabs

We show the relation between processes which are modeled by a Langevin equation with multiplicative noise and infinite ergodic theory. We concentrate on a spatially dependent diffusion coefficient that behaves as ${D(x)}\sim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 N. Leibovich , E. Barkai

The Augmented Lagrangian Alternating Direction Inexact Newton (ALADIN) method is a cutting-edge distributed optimization algorithm known for its superior numerical performance. It relies on each agent transmitting information to a central…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Xu Du , Xiaohua Zhou , Shijie Zhu

The diffusion behavior of particles moving in complex heterogeneous environment is a very topical issue. We characterize particle's trajectory via an underdamped Langevin system driven by a Gaussian white noise with a time dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yao Chen , Xudong Wang

This paper presents a new accelerated proximal Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology to perform Bayesian inference in imaging inverse problems with an underlying convex geometry. The proposed strategy takes the form of a stochastic relaxed…

A well-known first-order method for sampling from log-concave probability distributions is the Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA). This work proposes a new annealing step-size schedule for ULA, which allows to prove new convergence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Paul Rolland , Armin Eftekhari , Ali Kavis , Volkan Cevher

In this paper we introduce and analyse Langevin samplers that consist of perturbations of the standard underdamped Langevin dynamics. The perturbed dynamics is such that its invariant measure is the same as that of the unperturbed dynamics.…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-06 A. B. Duncan , N. Nuesken , G. A. Pavliotis

Diffusion in nonhomogeneous media is described by a dynamical process driven by a general Levy noise and subordinated to a random time; the subordinator depends on the position. This problem is approximated by a multiplicative process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tomasz Srokowski

In this paper, we study the problem of sampling from a given probability density function that is known to be smooth and strongly log-concave. We analyze several methods of approximate sampling based on discretizations of the (highly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Arnak S. Dalalyan , Avetik G. Karagulyan

We introduce a novel diffusion-based spectral algorithm to tackle regression analysis on high-dimensional data, particularly data embedded within lower-dimensional manifolds. Traditional spectral algorithms often fall short in such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-21 Weichun Xia , Jiaxin Jiang , Lei Shi

The unadjusted Langevin algorithm is commonly used to sample probability distributions in extremely high-dimensional settings. However, existing analyses of the algorithm for strongly log-concave distributions suggest that, as the dimension…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-05 Yifan Chen , Xiaoou Cheng , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Jonathan Weare
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