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We propose a method for sampling from Gibbs distributions of the form $\pi(x)\propto\exp(-U(x))$ by considering a family $(\pi^{t})_t$ of approximations of the target density which is such that $\pi^{t}$ exhibits favorable properties for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Andreas Habring , Alexander Falk , Martin Zach , Thomas Pock

We present a novel method for drawing samples from Gibbs distributions with densities of the form $\pi(x) \propto \exp(-U(x))$. The method accelerates the unadjusted Langevin algorithm by introducing an inertia term similar to Polyak's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alexander Falk , Andreas Habring , Christoph Griesbacher , Thomas Pock

Diffusion models are state-of-the-art methods in generative modeling when samples from a target probability distribution are available, and can be efficiently sampled, using score matching to estimate score vectors guiding a Langevin…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-21 Omar Chehab , Anna Korba

This paper is concerned with sampling from probability distributions $\pi$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ admitting a density of the form $\pi(x) \propto e^{-U(x)}$, where $U(x)=F(x)+G(Kx)$ with $K$ being a linear operator and $G$ being…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Andreas Habring , Martin Holler , Thomas Pock

We propose and study a new multilevel method for the numerical approximation of a Gibbs distribution $\pi$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, based on (overdamped) Langevin diffusions. This method inspired by \cite{mainPPlangevin} and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Maxime Egéa , Fabien Panloup

In this paper, we accelerate Langevin Monte Carlo sampling from Gibbs measures $\pi\propto \exp(-U)$ by adding a large drift that preserves the invariant measure. For warm-start initial data, we characterize the sharp asymptotic decay rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Yuanyuan Feng , Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu , Xiaoqian Xu

This article is concerned with sampling from Gibbs distributions $\pi(x)\propto e^{-U(x)}$ using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. In particular, we investigate Langevin dynamics in the continuous- and the discrete-time setting for such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Lorenz Fruehwirth , Andreas Habring

In this paper, we study a method to sample from a target distribution $\pi$ over $\mathbb{R}^d$ having a positive density with respect to the Lebesgue measure, known up to a normalisation factor. This method is based on the Euler…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Alain Durmus , Eric Moulines

This paper proposes a novel diffusion-based posterior sampling method within a plug-and-play (PnP) framework. Our approach constructs a probability transport from an easy-to-sample terminal distribution to the target posterior, using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-10 Jinyuan Chang , Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Ruoxuan Li , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Cheng Yuan

The inadequate mixing of conventional Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for multi-modal distributions presents a significant challenge in practical applications such as Bayesian inference and molecular dynamics. Addressing this, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-30 Wenlin Chen , Mingtian Zhang , Brooks Paige , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , David Barber

Drawing from the theory of stochastic differential equations, we introduce a novel sampling method for known distributions and a new algorithm for diffusion generative models with unknown distributions. Our approach is inspired by the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Xicheng Zhang

We propose a new discretization of the mirror-Langevin diffusion and give a crisp proof of its convergence. Our analysis uses relative convexity/smoothness and self-concordance, ideas which originated in convex optimization, together with a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Kwangjun Ahn , Sinho Chewi

Given a noisy linear measurement $y = Ax + \xi$ of a distribution $p(x)$, and a good approximation to the prior $p(x)$, when can we sample from the posterior $p(x \mid y)$? Posterior sampling provides an accurate and fair framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zhiyang Xun , Shivam Gupta , Eric Price

In this paper, we analyse a proximal method based on the idea of forward-backward splitting for sampling from distributions with densities that are not necessarily smooth. In particular, we study the non-asymptotic properties of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Armin Eftekhari , Luis Vargas , Konstantinos Zygalakis

We propose efficient Langevin Monte Carlo algorithms for sampling distributions with nonsmooth convex composite potentials, which is the sum of a continuously differentiable function and a possibly nonsmooth function. We devise such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-12 Tim Tsz-Kit Lau , Han Liu

We propose discrete Langevin proposal (DLP), a simple and scalable gradient-based proposal for sampling complex high-dimensional discrete distributions. In contrast to Gibbs sampling-based methods, DLP is able to update all coordinates in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruqi Zhang , Xingchao Liu , Qiang Liu

Sampling from circular distributions is a fundamental task in directional statistics. A key challenge in acceptance-rejection methods lies in selecting an efficient envelope density, as poor choices can lead to low acceptance rates and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-17 Surojit Biswas , Buddhananda Banerjee

We study posterior sampling for inverse problems in discrete state spaces using discrete diffusion models as generative priors. While continuous diffusion models have become widely used for inverse problems, their discrete counterparts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chaitanya Amballa , Sattwik Basu , Jorge Vančo Sampedro , Romit Roy Choudhury

Sampling from various kinds of distributions is an issue of paramount importance in statistics since it is often the key ingredient for constructing estimators, test procedures or confidence intervals. In many situations, the exact sampling…

Computation · Statistics 2016-12-06 Arnak S. Dalalyan

Denoising diffusion models have driven significant progress in the field of Bayesian inverse problems. Recent approaches use pre-trained diffusion models as priors to solve a wide range of such problems, only leveraging inference-time…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-06 Yazid Janati , Badr Moufad , Mehdi Abou El Qassime , Alain Durmus , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson
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