Search Results - "Kuntz, Juan"
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The divide-and-conquer sequential Monte Carlo algorithm: Theoretical properties and limit theorems
Published in The Annals of applied probability (01-02-2024)“…We provide a comprehensive characterisation of the theoretical properties of the divide-and-conquer sequential Monte Carlo (DaC-SMC) algorithm. We firmly…”
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Product-form estimators: exploiting independence to scale up Monte Carlo
Published in Statistics and computing (15-02-2022)“…We introduce a class of Monte Carlo estimators that aim to overcome the rapid growth of variance with dimension often observed for standard estimators by…”
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Non-stationary phase of the MALA algorithm
Published in Stochastic partial differential equations : analysis and computations (2018)“…The Metropolis-Adjusted Langevin Algorithm (MALA) is a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method which creates a Markov chain reversible with respect to a given target…”
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Markov chains revisited
Published 07-01-2020“…A rigorous and largely self-contained account of (a) the bread-and-butter concepts and techniques in Markov chain theory and (b) the long-term behaviour of…”
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Error bounds for particle gradient descent, and extensions of the log-Sobolev and Talagrand inequalities
Published 04-03-2024“…We prove non-asymptotic error bounds for particle gradient descent (PGD)~(Kuntz et al., 2023), a recently introduced algorithm for maximum likelihood…”
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Momentum Particle Maximum Likelihood
Published 12-12-2023“…Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of latent variable models is often recast as the minimization of a free energy functional over an extended space of…”
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Particle algorithms for maximum likelihood training of latent variable models
Published 27-04-2022“…(Neal and Hinton, 1998) recast maximum likelihood estimation of any given latent variable model as the minimization of a free energy functional $F$, and the EM…”
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The divide-and-conquer sequential Monte Carlo algorithm: theoretical properties and limit theorems
Published 29-10-2021“…We provide a comprehensive characterisation of the theoretical properties of the divide-and-conquer sequential Monte Carlo (DaC-SMC) algorithm. We firmly…”
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Product-form estimators: exploiting independence to scale up Monte Carlo
Published 23-02-2021“…We introduce a class of Monte Carlo estimators that aim to overcome the rapid growth of variance with dimension often observed for standard estimators by…”
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Stationary distributions of continuous-time Markov chains: a review of theory and truncation-based approximations
Published 12-09-2019“…Computing the stationary distributions of a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) involves solving a set of linear equations. In most cases of interest, the…”
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Approximations of countably-infinite linear programs over bounded measure spaces
Published 08-10-2018“…We study a class of countably-infinite-dimensional linear programs (CILPs) whose feasible sets are bounded subsets of appropriately defined spaces of measures…”
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Rigorous bounds on the stationary distributions of the chemical master equation via mathematical programming
Published 25-06-2019“…J. Chem. Phys. 151, 034109 (2019) The stochastic dynamics of biochemical networks are usually modelled with the chemical master equation (CME). The stationary…”
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The exit time finite state projection scheme: bounding exit distributions and occupation measures of continuous-time Markov chains
Published 25-01-2019“…SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2019) 41:A748-A769 We introduce the exit time finite state projection (ETFSP) scheme, a truncation-based method that…”
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Deterministic approximation schemes with computable errors for the distributions of markov chains
Published 01-01-2017“…This thesis is a monograph on Markov chains and deterministic approximation schemes that enable the quantitative analysis thereof. We present schemes that…”
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Bounding stationary averages of polynomial diffusions via semidefinite programming
Published 03-06-2016“…SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 38(6), 3891-3920 (2016) We introduce an algorithm based on semidefinite programming that yields increasing (resp. decreasing) sequences…”
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