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Hessian corrections to the Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Algorithm

Computation 2015-07-24 v1 Methodology

Abstract

A natural method for the introduction of second-order derivatives of the log likelihood into MCMC algorithms is introduced, based on Taylor expansion of the Langevin equation followed by exact solution of the truncated system.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1507.06336,
  title  = {Hessian corrections to the Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Algorithm},
  author = {Thomas House},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.06336},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures

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