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Learning Rate Free Bayesian Inference in Constrained Domains

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Forthcoming
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>21/09/2023
<mark>Journal</mark>Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
Volume37
Publication StatusAccepted/In press
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We introduce a suite of new particle-based algorithms for sampling on constrained domains which are entirely learning rate free. Our approach leverages coin betting ideas from convex optimisation, and the viewpoint of constrained sampling as a mirrored optimisation problem on the space of probability measures. Based on this viewpoint, we also introduce a unifying framework for several existing constrained sampling algorithms, including mirrored Langevin dynamics and mirrored Stein variational gradient descent. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithms on a range of numerical examples, including sampling from targets on the simplex, sampling with fairness constraints, and constrained sampling problems in post-selection inference. Our results indicate that our algorithms achieve competitive performance with existing constrained sampling methods, without the need to tune any hyperparameters.