no code implementations • 29 Jan 2016 • Samuel Livingstone, Michael Betancourt, Simon Byrne, Mark Girolami
We establish general conditions under which Markov chains produced by the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method will and will not be geometrically ergodic.
3 code implementations • 24 Nov 2014 • M. J. Betancourt, Simon Byrne, Mark Girolami
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo can provide powerful inference in complex statistical problems, but ultimately its performance is sensitive to various tuning parameters.
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