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arxiv: 2301.13706 · v1 · pith:GMPOSM34 · submitted 2023-01-31 · stat.CO

Non-convex sampling for a mixture of locally smooth potentials

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keywords mixturesmoothlocallyalphaconvergencedistributionshessiannon-convex
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the sampling problem through Euler discretization, where the potential function is assumed to be a mixture of locally smooth distributions and weakly dissipative. We introduce $\alpha_{G}$-mixture locally smooth and $\alpha_{H}$-mixture locally Hessian smooth, which are novel and typically satisfied with a mixture of distributions. Under our conditions, we prove the convergence in Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence with the number of iterations to reach $\epsilon$-neighborhood of a target distribution in only polynomial dependence on the dimension. The convergence rate is improved when the potential is $1$-smooth and $\alpha_{H}$-mixture locally Hessian smooth. Our result for the non-strongly convex outside the ball of radius $R$ is obtained by convexifying the non-convex domains. In addition, we provide some nice theoretical properties of $p$-generalized Gaussian smoothing and prove the convergence in the $L_{\beta}$-Wasserstein distance for stochastic gradients in a general setting.

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