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Accelerating sampling via asymptotic relaxation enhancing flows

Probability 2026-04-28 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we accelerate Langevin Monte Carlo sampling from Gibbs measures πexp(U)\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 of the relative entropy and introduce asymptotic relaxation enhancing flows: sequences that achieve arbitrarily fast decay. We construct such flows on the torus by scaling cellular flows and pushing them forward via diffeomorphisms, and we extend the construction to the full space using a Lyapunov function method to control behavior at infinity without periodization, obtaining explicit finite energy flows that guarantee arbitrarily fast convergence under natural growth conditions on UU.

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@article{arxiv.2604.23981,
  title  = {Accelerating sampling via asymptotic relaxation enhancing flows},
  author = {Yuanyuan Feng and Lei Li and Jian-Guo Liu and Xiaoqian Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.23981},
  year   = {2026}
}
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