Rare Events via Cross-Entropy Population Monte Carlo

10/12/2021
by   Caleb Miller, et al.
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We present a Cross-Entropy based population Monte Carlo algorithm. This methods stands apart from previous work in that we are not optimizing a mixture distribution. Instead, we leverage deterministic mixture weights and optimize the distributions individually through a reinterpretation of the typical derivation of the cross-entropy method. Demonstrations on numerical examples show that the algorithm can outperform existing resampling population Monte Carlo methods, especially for higher-dimensional problems.

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