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The computational equivalence between approximate counting and sampling is well established for polynomial-time algorithms. The most efficient general reduction from counting to sampling is achieved via simulated annealing, where the…

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Large-scale deep learning models contribute to significant performance improvements on varieties of downstream tasks. Current data and model parallelism approaches utilize model replication and partition techniques to support the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Youhe Jiang , Fangcheng Fu , Xupeng Miao , Xiaonan Nie , Bin Cui

Diffusion models, which convert noise into new data instances by learning to reverse a diffusion process, have become a cornerstone in contemporary generative modeling. In this work, we develop non-asymptotic convergence theory for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gen Li , Yuting Wei , Yuejie Chi , Yuxin Chen

A landmark result of non-smooth convex optimization is that gradient descent is an optimal algorithm whenever the number of computed gradients is smaller than the dimension $d$. In this paper we study the extension of this result to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Sébastien Bubeck , Qijia Jiang , Yin Tat Lee , Yuanzhi Li , Aaron Sidford

Understanding the complexity of sampling from a strongly log-concave and log-smooth distribution $\pi$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ to high accuracy is a fundamental problem, both from a practical and theoretical standpoint. In practice, high-accuracy…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Jason M. Altschuler , Sinho Chewi

Sampling from multiple distributions so as to maximize overlap has been studied by statisticians since the 1950s. Since the 2000s, such correlated sampling from the probability simplex has been a powerful building block in disparate areas…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Joseph , Naor , Nitya Raju , Abhishek Shetty , Aravind Srinivasan , Renata Valieva , David Wajc

In diffusion models, samples are generated through an iterative refinement process, requiring hundreds of sequential model evaluations. Several recent methods have introduced approximations (fewer discretization steps or distillation) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Nikil Roashan Selvam , Amil Merchant , Stefano Ermon

We study the question of whether parallelization in the exploration of the feasible set can be used to speed up convex optimization, in the local oracle model of computation. We show that the answer is negative for both deterministic and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Jelena Diakonikolas , Cristóbal Guzmán

Coupled cluster theory is a vital cornerstone of electronic structure theory and is being applied to ever-larger systems. Stochastic approaches to quantum chemistry have grown in importance and offer compelling advantages over traditional…

This paper presents an algorithm for sampling random variables that allows to separation of the sampling process into subproblems by dividing the sample space into overlapping parts. The subproblems can be solved independently of each other…

Computation · Statistics 2016-01-26 Jonas Hallgren , Timo Koski

In this paper, we consider an approach to the parallelizing of the algorithms realizing the modified probability changigng method with adaptation and partial rollback procedure for constrained pseudo-Boolean optimization problems. Existing…

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This paper introduces a novel K-means clustering algorithm, an advancement on the conventional Big-means methodology. The proposed method efficiently integrates parallel processing, stochastic sampling, and competitive optimization to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Rustam Mussabayev , Ravil Mussabayev

Approximate Thompson sampling with Langevin Monte Carlo broadens its reach from Gaussian posterior sampling to encompass more general smooth posteriors. However, it still encounters scalability issues in high-dimensional problems when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-24 Haoyang Zheng , Wei Deng , Christian Moya , Guang Lin

The computational complexity of simultaneous inference methods in high-dimensional linear regression models quickly increases with the number variables. This paper proposes a computationally efficient method based on the Moore-Penrose…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Tom Boot , Didier Nibbering

Large-scale deep learning models contribute to significant performance improvements on varieties of downstream tasks. Current data and model parallelism approaches utilize model replication and partition techniques to support the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Youhe Jiang , Fangcheng Fu , Xupeng Miao , Xiaonan Nie , Bin Cui

A conditional sampling oracle for a probability distribution D returns samples from the conditional distribution of D restricted to a specified subset of the domain. A recent line of work (Chakraborty et al. 2013 and Cannone et al. 2014)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Themistoklis Gouleakis , Christos Tzamos , Manolis Zampetakis

This paper investigates the use of stratified sampling as a variance reduction technique for approximating integrals over large dimensional spaces. The accuracy of this method critically depends on the choice of the space partition, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Pierre Etoré , Gersende Fort , Benjamin Jourdain , Eric Moulines

Data reduction is a fundamental challenge of modern technology, where classical statistical methods are not applicable because of computational limitations. We consider multiple linear regression for an extraordinarily large number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-30 Torsten Glemser , Rainer Schwabe

We introduce Adjoint Sampling, a highly scalable and efficient algorithm for learning diffusion processes that sample from unnormalized densities, or energy functions. It is the first on-policy approach that allows significantly more…

Diffusion models are powerful generative models but suffer from slow sampling, often taking 1000 sequential denoising steps for one sample. As a result, considerable efforts have been directed toward reducing the number of denoising steps,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Andy Shih , Suneel Belkhale , Stefano Ermon , Dorsa Sadigh , Nima Anari