Explicit convergence bounds for Metropolis Markov chains: isoperimetry, spectral gaps and profiles

11/16/2022
by   Christophe Andrieu, et al.
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We derive the first explicit bounds for the spectral gap of a random walk Metropolis algorithm on R^d for any value of the proposal variance, which when scaled appropriately recovers the correct d^-1 dependence on dimension for suitably regular invariant distributions. We also obtain explicit bounds on the L^2-mixing time for a broad class of models. In obtaining these results, we refine the use of isoperimetric profile inequalities to obtain conductance profile bounds, which also enable the derivation of explicit bounds in a much broader class of models. We also obtain similar results for the preconditioned Crank–Nicolson Markov chain, obtaining dimension-independent bounds under suitable assumptions.

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