Stochastic adaptation of importance sampler

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2007-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/0712.1342v1

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11 pages, minor changes

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Improving efficiency of importance sampler is at the center of research in Monte Carlo methods. While adaptive approach is usually difficult within the Markov Chain Monte Carlo framework, the counterpart in importance sampling can be justified and validated easily. We propose an iterative adaptation method for learning the proposal distribution of an importance sampler based on stochastic approximation. The stochastic approximation method can recruit general iterative optimization techniques like the minorization-maximization algorithm. The effectiveness of the approach in optimizing the Kullback divergence between the proposal distribution and the target is demonstrated using several simple examples.

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