Slice Sampling with Adaptive Multivariate Steps: The Shrinking-Rank Method

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2010-11-22

arxiv.org/abs/1011.4722v1

Proceedings of the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings, Section on Statistical Computing, pages 3890-3896

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The shrinking rank method is a variation of slice sampling that is efficient at sampling from multivariate distributions with highly correlated parameters. It requires that the gradient of the log-density be computable. At each individual step, it approximates the current slice with a Gaussian occupying a shrinking-dimension subspace. The dimension of the approximation is shrunk orthogonally to the gradient at rejected proposals, since the gradients at points outside the current slice tend to point towards the slice. This causes the proposal distribution to converge rapidly to an estimate of the longest axis of the slice, resulting in states that are less correlated than those generated by related methods. After describing the method, we compare it to two other methods on several distributions and obtain favorable results.

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