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New sampling method accelerates high-accuracy log-concave analysis

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Researchers have developed a new method called reflected proximal dynamics for accelerating high-accuracy sampling from log-concave distributions. This approach combines proximal sampling with exact reflection of auxiliary variables and conditional kinetic motion. Two specific implementations, a flux-resampled underdamped half-turn and a persistent-momentum quarter-turn, achieve a total variation error of \(\\varepsilon\) with significantly fewer oracle queries compared to previous methods, especially when combined with an optimized proximal initialization stage. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Bo Yuan, Wei Guo, Yongxin Chen ·

    Reflected Proximal Dynamics for Accelerated High-Accuracy Log-Concave Sampling

    arXiv:2610.16248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study sampling from $\pi(x)\propto\mathrm{e}^{-V(x)}$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $V$ is $\alpha$-strongly convex and $\beta$-smooth with condition number $\kappa=\beta/\alpha$. For this problem, the proximal sampler preserves the…

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