Towards Unifying Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Slice Sampling

Authors: Yizhe Zhang, Xiangyu Wang, Changyou Chen, Ricardo Henao, Kai Fan, Lawrence Carin

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Our theoretical results are validated with synthetic data and real-world applications. and In the experiments, we validate our theory on both synthetic data and with real-world problems, including Bayesian Logistic Regression (BLR) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA), for which we compare the mixing performance of our approach with that of standard HMC and slice sampling.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Duke University Durham, NC, 27708 {yz196,xw56,changyou.chen, ricardo.henao, kf96 , lcarin} @duke.edu
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: MG-HMC with HJE and Algorithm 2: MG-SS
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide an explicit statement about releasing its source code for the described methodology, nor does it include any links to code repositories.
Open Datasets Yes We evaluate our methods on 6 real-world datasets from the UCI repository [20]: German credit (G), Australian credit (A), Pima Indian (P), Heart (H), Ripley (R) and Caravan (C) [21].
Dataset Splits No The paper mentions 'Prediction accuracies estimated via cross-validation' but does not provide specific details on the train/validation/test dataset splits, such as percentages or sample counts.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific hardware details such as GPU or CPU models, or memory specifications used for running its experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not provide specific software dependencies with version numbers, such as library names and their corresponding versions.
Experiment Setup Yes Each method is run for 30,000 iterations with 10,000 burn-in samples. The number of leap-frog steps is set to be uniformly drawn from (100 l, 100 + l) with l = 20, as suggested by [16]. and Other experimental settings (m and ) are provided in the Appendix.