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Laplacian Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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Abstract

We proposed a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) method with Laplace kinetic energy, and demonstrate the connection between slice sampling and proposed HMC method in one-dimensional cases. Based on this connection, one can perform slice sampling using a numerical integrator in an HMC fashion. We provide theoretical analysis on the performance of such sampler in several univariate cases. Furthermore, the proposed approach extends the standard HMC by enabling sampling from discrete distributions. We compared our method with standard HMC on both synthetic and real data, and discuss its limitations and potential improvements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2016, Proceedings
EditorsJilles Giuseppe, Niels Landwehr, Giuseppe Manco, Paolo Frasconi
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages98-114
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783319461274
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event15th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2016 - Riva del Garda, Italy
Duration: Sep 19 2016Sep 23 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9851 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRiva del Garda
Period09/19/1609/23/16

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