📢Join our next talk by Saif Syed: Scalable sampling of multi-modal distributions using sequential Monte Carlo samplers 🗓️ Mar 25 | 9:30am PT • 12:30pm ET • 4:30pm London 📍Zoom us06web.zoom.us/j/82032740738?… 🎬Youtube youtube.com/@MonteCarloSem… 📧Mailinglist groups.google.com/u/0/g/internat…

📢 Upcoming Talk Alert! 🎤 Yuchen Wu (UPenn) 📌 Title: Theoretical Advances in Diffusion Models 🗓️ When: April 1st 8:30 am PT | 11:30 am ET | 4:30 pm London | 5:30 pm Paris | 11:30 pm Beijing 👉 Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/82032740738?… 📅 YouTube: youtube.com/@MonteCarloSem…

MCMC for ranking data!

🎙️ Monte Carlo Online Seminar 📅 Tuesday, April 15, 2025 🕣 8:30am PT | 11:30am ET | 4:30pm London | 5:30pm Paris | 11:30pm Beijing 👩‍🏫 Dootika Vats (IIT Kanpur) 📌 MCMC Importance Sampling via Moreau-Yosida Envelopes 🔗 Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/82032740738?… #Bayesian #MCMC #optimization

Start now!! us06web.zoom.us/j/82032740738?…

Don’t miss our next talk if you like to know more about flow-based generative models!

🎙️ Talk on April 29, 2025: Yuexi Wang (UIUC) "Optimal Transport-Based Generative Models for Bayesian Posterior Sampling" 8:30am PT | 11:30am ET | 4:30pm London | 5:30pm Paris Learn how OT maps enable efficient posterior sampling and new Bayesian inference tools!

highly recommend!

Next Talk!! 📅 Tuesday, May 13, 2025 ⏰ 8:30 am PT | 11:30 am ET | 4:30 pm London | 5:30 pm Paris | 11:30 pm Beijing Speaker: Ning Ning (Texas A&M) Title: “Convergence of Dirichlet forms for MCMC optimal scaling with dependent target distributions on large graphs”

We performed some explicit computations for the training dynamics of gradient descent in what we call the “finite width proportional regime”. The main technical tool is an entrywise state evolution theory for a class of general first order methods developed in a previous work.

Looking forward！

Our first talk on manifold MCMC!

our last seminar of this semester by Alain Durmus!

Starting from last October, we (Monte Carlo Seminar, sites.google.com/view/monte-car…) have been running an online seminar on all aspects of Monte Carlo methods, with about ~30 talks so far. We are currently paused for the summer, expecting to return in September 2025.

In the interim, I wanted to advertise our YouTube channel - youtube.com/@montecarlosem… - which contains recordings for the bulk of our talks so far (sites.google.com/view/monte-car…, sites.google.com/view/monte-car…). I encourage you to catch up and enjoy them over the intervening months!

[3/n] Guanyang Wang on comparison theory Guanyang Wang