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SVGD mean-field convergence rates quantified in new paper

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Researchers have established quantitative local convergence rates for the mean-field limit of Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD). This deterministic particle method is used for sampling from probability measures by leveraging score functions. The new findings provide explicit polynomial convergence rates in L2-norm, dependent on dimensionality and kernel/target regularity, and are supported by numerical experiments. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Xavier Fernández-Real ·

    Quantitative Local Convergence of Mean-Field Stein Variational Gradient Flow

    Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) is a deterministic interacting-particle method for sampling from a target probability measure given access to its score function. In the mean-field and continuous-time limit, it is known that the flow converges weakly toward the target, b…

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