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Record W1990908957 · doi:10.1081/stm-120004467

The polar slice sampler

2002· article· en· W1990908957 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueStochastic Models · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMathematics
TopicMarkov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMathematicsPolarDimension (graph theory)Markov chain Monte CarloConvergence (economics)Monte Carlo methodTotal variationMarkov chainAlgorithmAsymmetryPoint (geometry)CombinatoricsApplied mathematicsMathematical analysisGeometryStatistics

Abstract

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This paper investigates the polar slice sampler, a particular type of the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm known as the slice sampler. This algorithm is shown to have convergence properties which under some circumstances are essentially independent of the dimension of the problem. For log-concave densities, the algorithm probably converges (from an appropriate starting point) to within 0.01 of stationarity in total variation distance in a number of iterations given as a computable function of the spherical asymmetry of the density. In particular, for spherically symmetric log-concave densities, in arbitrary dimension, with an appropriate starting point, we prove that the algorithm converges in, at most, 525 iterations. Simulations are done which confirm the polar slice sampler's excellent performance.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.878
Threshold uncertainty score0.439

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.174
GPT teacher head0.333
Teacher spread0.159 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it