Title
Ensuring Rapid Mixing and Low Bias for Asynchronous Gibbs Sampling.
Abstract
Gibbs sampling is a Markov chain Monte Carlo technique commonly used for estimating marginal distributions. To speed up Gibbs sampling, there has recently been interest in parallelizing it by executing asynchronously. While empirical results suggest that many models can be efficiently sampled asynchronously, traditional Markov chain analysis does not apply to the asynchronous case, and thus asynchronous Gibbs sampling is poorly understood. In this paper, we derive a better understanding of the two main challenges of asynchronous Gibbs: bias and mixing time. We show experimentally that our theoretical results match practical outcomes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.24963/ijcai.2017/672
IJCAI
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
48
1938-7288
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.55
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christopher De Sa160.55
Kunle Olukotun24532373.50
Ré Christopher33422192.34