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In-and-Out: Algorithmic Diffusion for Sampling Convex Bodies
Yunbum Kook · Santosh Vempala · Matthew Zhang
West Ballroom A-D #6803
Abstract:
We present a new random walk for uniformly sampling high-dimensional convex bodies. It achieves state-of-the-art runtime complexity with stronger guarantees on the output than previously known, namely in Rényi divergence (which implies TV, $\mathcal{W}_2$, KL, $\chi^2$). The proof departs from known approaches for polytime algorithms for the problem - we utilize a stochastic diffusion perspective to show contraction to the target distribution with the rate of convergence determined by functional isoperimetric constants of the stationary density.
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