Positive Curvature and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Christof Seiler ⋅ Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo ⋅ Susan Holmes
2014 Poster
Abstract
The Jacobi metric introduced in mathematical physics can be used to analyze Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC). In a geometrical setting, each step of HMC corresponds to a geodesic on a Riemannian manifold with a Jacobi metric. Our calculation of the sectional curvature of this HMC manifold allows us to see that it is positive in cases such as sampling from a high dimensional multivariate Gaussian. We show that positive curvature can be used to prove theoretical concentration results for HMC Markov chains.
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