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Background<br />

Aim of Talk<br />

<strong>The</strong> Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (<strong>HMC</strong>) <strong>Algorithm</strong><br />

Improving Performance of <strong>HMC</strong> <strong>Algorithm</strong><br />

Numerical Experiments & Results<br />

Investigate Two Approaches<br />

Improving Phase–Space Sampling<br />

Improvement Strategies<br />

Proposal 1: Suppressing r<strong>and</strong>om Walk in Gibbs sampling<br />

Ordered over-relaxation (R. Neal)<br />

Proposal 2: Using a variable step–size for dynamics<br />

Investigate a Runge–Kutta type integrator (simplectic)<br />

M. Alfaki, S. Subbey, <strong>and</strong> D. Haugl<strong>and</strong> <strong>The</strong> Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (<strong>HMC</strong>) <strong>Algorithm</strong>

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