Coupling and convergence for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

DOI10.1214/19-AAP1528MaRDI QIDQ2657908

Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Andreas Eberle, Raphael Zimmer

Publication date: 18 March 2021

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00452

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain Monte Carlogeometric integrationconvergence to equilibriumhybrid Monte CarlocouplingHamiltonian Monte Carlometropolis-Hastings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods in Markov chains (60J22) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10)

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Uses Software

• NUTS
• PRMLT

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