Reversibility of elliptical slice sampling revisited
Abstract
We extend elliptical slice sampling, a Markov chain transition kernel suggested in Murray, Adams and MacKay 2010, to infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces and discuss its well-definedness. We point to a regularity requirement, provide an alternative proof of the desirable reversibility property and show that it induces a positive semi-definite Markov operator. Crucial within the proof of the formerly mentioned results is the analysis of a shrinkage Markov chain that may be interesting on its own.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2301.02426
- Bibcode:
- 2023arXiv230102426H
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Statistics Theory;
- Computer Science - Machine Learning;
- Statistics - Computation;
- Statistics - Machine Learning;
- 65C40;
- 60J22;
- 65C05
- E-Print:
- 25 pages