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Dikin walk mixing time improved to $d^{2.25}$ on polytopes

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Researchers have made progress on the mixing time of Dikin walks on polytopes, a method inspired by interior-point methods for convex optimization. A new paper improves the previous $d^{2.5}$-mixing bound to $d^{2.25}$ for exponential sampling from a polytope. This advancement relies on a higher-order analysis of the Lee--Sidford metric and utilizes techniques such as selective higher-order expansions and Wiener-chaos decompositions. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Yunbum Kook ·

    Beyond the $d^{2.5}$-mixing bound for Dikin walks on polytopes

    arXiv:2607.13943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inspired by interior-point methods (IPM) for structured convex optimization, Kannan and Narayanan introduced the Dikin walk for sampling uniformly from polytopes in 2009. As in IPMs, the Dikin walk is affine-invariant, and its con…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Yunbum Kook ·

    Beyond the $d^{2.5}$-mixing bound for Dikin walks on polytopes

    Inspired by interior-point methods (IPM) for structured convex optimization, Kannan and Narayanan introduced the Dikin walk for sampling uniformly from polytopes in 2009. As in IPMs, the Dikin walk is affine-invariant, and its convergence is governed by the barrier geometry used …

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