Efficient constrained sampling via the mirror-Langevin algorithm

Authors: Kwangjun Ahn, Sinho Chewi

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental We also corroborate our theoretical findings with numerical experiments. We also perform a numerical experiment to compare the practical performance of MLA with PLA. ... we plot the error θk θ 2 in Figure 2, averaged over 10 trials.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Kwangjun Ahn Department of EECS Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 kjahn@mit.edu Sinho Chewi Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 schewi@mit.edu
Pseudocode Yes The mirror-Langevin algorithm (MLA): Xk+1/2 := arg min x Q [ η V (Xk), x + Dφ(x, Xk)] , (MLA:1) Xk+1 := φ (Wη) , where d Wt = 2 [ 2φ (Wt)] 1/2 d Bt , W0 = φ(Xk+1/2) . (MLA:2)
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any explicit statements about releasing source code or links to a code repository for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper uses a synthetically generated dataset: 'we generate 1000 i.i.d. pairs (Xi, Yi) where Xi is sampled uniformly from the ℓ1 ball and Yi is generated from Xi according to (5.1) with θ = θ .'
Dataset Splits No The paper describes generating synthetic data for numerical experiments but does not provide specific details on training, validation, or test dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide any specific hardware details (e.g., GPU/CPU models, memory amounts) used for running its experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not provide specific ancillary software details with version numbers.
Experiment Setup Yes We generate 30 samples using both MLA and PLA (both with step size η = 0.005). At each iteration, we average the samples to obtain an estimate θk for the posterior mean, and we plot the error θk θ 2 in Figure 2, averaged over 10 trials. We implement MLA:2 by performing 10 inner iterations of an Euler-Maruyama discretization.