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Statistical Estimation of the Poincar{e} constant and Application to Sampling Multimodal Distributions

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 نشر من قبل Loucas Pillaud-Vivien
 تاريخ النشر 2019
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Poincar{e} inequalities are ubiquitous in probability and analysis and have various applications in statistics (concentration of measure, rate of convergence of Markov chains). The Poincar{e} constant, for which the inequality is tight, is related to the typical convergence rate of diffusions to their equilibrium measure. In this paper, we show both theoretically and experimentally that, given sufficiently many samples of a measure, we can estimate its Poincar{e} constant. As a by-product of the estimation of the Poincar{e} constant, we derive an algorithm that captures a low dimensional representation of the data by finding directions which are difficult to sample. These directions are of crucial importance for sampling or in fields like molecular dynamics, where they are called reaction coordinates. Their knowledge can leverage, with a simple conditioning step, computational bottlenecks by using importance sampling techniques.



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