Geometric convergence of elliptical slice sampling

Authors: Viacheslav Natarovskii, Daniel Rudolf, Björn Sprungk

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental We illustrate our result for Gaussian posteriors as they appear in Gaussian process regression, as well as in a setting of a multi-modal distribution. Remarkably, our numerical experiments indicate a dimension-independent performance of elliptical slice sampling even in situations where our ergodicity result does not apply.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg-August Universit at G ottingen, G ottingen, Germany 2Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universit at Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany.
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Elliptical Slice Sampler
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide concrete access to source code for the methodology described.
Open Datasets No The paper discusses 'Gaussian process regression' and 'logistic regression' with data, but does not provide specific access information (link, DOI, citation) for any publicly available dataset used in its experiments.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not provide specific dataset split information (exact percentages, sample counts, citations to predefined splits, or detailed splitting methodology) needed to reproduce the data partitioning.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific hardware details (exact GPU/CPU models, processor types, or memory amounts) used for running its experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not provide specific ancillary software details, such as library names with version numbers, needed to replicate the experiment.
Experiment Setup Yes For each algorithm we set the initial state to be 0 Rd and compute the ESS for f(x) := log(1 + x ), n0 := 105 and n := 106. Both Metropolis algorithms (the RWM and the p CN Metropolis) were tuned to an averaged acceptance probability of approximately 0.25.