Goto

Collaborating Authors

 Statistical Learning



730ce0ae730f39e4d77b0f04a8afe4be-Supplemental-Conference.pdf

Neural Information Processing Systems

This paper studies the use of a machine learning-based estimator as a control variate for mitigating the variance of Monte Carlo sampling. Specifically, we seek to uncover the key factors that influence the efficiency of control variates in reducing variance.



Flexible Modeling of Diversity with Strongly Log-Concave Distributions

Neural Information Processing Systems

Wedevelop twofundamental tools needed to apply SLC distributions to learning and inference:sampling and mode finding. For sampling we develop an MCMC sampler and give theoretical mixing time bounds.