Geometric ergodicity of the bouncy particle sampler

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Abstract: The Bouncy Particle Sampler (BPS) is a Monte Carlo Markov Chain algorithm to sample from a target density known up to a multiplicative constant. This method is based on a kinetic piecewise deterministic Markov process for which the target measure is invariant. This paper deals with theoretical properties of BPS. First, we establish geometric ergodicity of the associated semi-group under weaker conditions than in [10] both on the target distribution and the velocity probability distribution. This result is based on a new coupling of the process which gives a quantitative minorization condition and yields more insights on the convergence. In addition, we study on a toy model the dependency of the convergence rates on the dimension of the state space. Finally, we apply our results to the analysis of simulated annealing algorithms based on BPS.



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