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Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Energy Conserving Subsampling
Univ New South Wales, Australia; ARC Ctr Excellence Math and Stat Frontiers ACEMS, Australia.
ARC Ctr Excellence Math and Stat Frontiers ACEMS, Australia; Univ Technol Sydney, Australia.
Univ New South Wales, Australia; ARC Ctr Excellence Math and Stat Frontiers ACEMS, Australia.
ARC Ctr Excellence Math and Stat Frontiers ACEMS, Australia; Univ Sydney, Australia.
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2019 (English)In: Journal of machine learning research, ISSN 1532-4435, E-ISSN 1533-7928, Vol. 20, article id 1Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) samples efficiently from high-dimensional posterior distributions with proposed parameter draws obtained by iterating on a discretized version of the Hamiltonian dynamics. The iterations make HMC computationally costly, especially in problems with large data sets, since it is necessary to compute posterior densities and their derivatives with respect to the parameters. Naively computing the Hamiltonian dynamics on a subset of the data causes HMC to lose its key ability to generate distant parameter proposals with high acceptance probability. The key insight in our article is that efficient subsampling HMC for the parameters is possible if both the dynamics and the acceptance probability are computed from the same data subsample in each complete HMC iteration. We show that this is possible to do in a principled way in a HMC-within-Gibbs framework where the subsample is updated using a pseudo marginal MH step and the parameters are then updated using an HMC step, based on the current subsample. We show that our subsampling methods are fast and compare favorably to two popular sampling algorithms that use gradient estimates from data subsampling. We also explore the current limitations of subsampling HMC algorithms by varying the quality of the variance reducing control variates used in the estimators of the posterior density and its gradients.

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MIT Press, 2019. Vol. 20, article id 1
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Bayesian inference; Big Data; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Estimated likelihood; Stochastic gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo; Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics
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Probability Theory and Statistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-159295ISI: 000476621700001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-159295DiVA, id: diva2:1340870
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Funding Agencies|Australian Research Council Center of Excellence grant [CE140100049]; Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research [RIT 15-0097]

Available from: 2019-08-06 Created: 2019-08-06 Last updated: 2019-11-14Bibliographically approved

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