A dimension-independent bound on the Wasserstein contraction rate of a geodesic random walk on the sphere

DOI10.1214/24-ecp631MaRDI QIDQ6654856

Thilo D. Stier, Philip Schär

Publication date: 20 December 2024

Published in: Electronic Communications in Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain Monte Carlo methodsslice samplinggeodesic random walkWasserstein contraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05)

Cites Work

• Ricci curvature of Markov chains on metric spaces
• Rapid mixing of geodesic walks on manifolds with positive curvature
• The polar slice sampler
• Markov Chains
• Wasserstein contraction and spectral gap of slice sampling revisited
• Dimension-independent spectral gap of polar slice sampling

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