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Sampling with Riemannian Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Vissarion Fisikopoulos edited this page Mar 9, 2022 · 1 revision

Overview

Implement sampling with Riemannian Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RiHMC). The method is described in [1] and there is MATLAB code available on github.

References:

[1] Kook et al - Sampling with Riemannian Hamiltonian Monte Carlo in a Constrained Space https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.01908.pdf

Details of your coding project

The goal of this project is to make RiHMC available in volesti. Current implementation of RiHMC includes MATLAB routines as well as C++ code.

Difficulty: Hard

Skills

  • Required: C++, MATLAB, Probability theory, Basic applied math background
  • Preferred: Experience with mathematical software is a plus

Expected impact

The projects will provide GeomScale with a new practical high-dimensional sampler.

Mentors

  • Apostolos Chalkis <tolis.chal at gmail.com> is an expert in statistical software, computational geometry, and optimization, and has previous GSoC student experience (2018 & 2019) and mentoring experience with GeomScale (2020 & 2021).

  • Vissarion Fisikopoulos <vissarion.fisikopoulos at gmail.com> is an international expert in mathematical software, computational geometry, and optimization, and has previous GSOC mentoring experience with Boost C++ libraries (2016-2017) and the R-project (2017).

  • Marios Papachristou < papachristoumarios at gmail.com > is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. His primary research interests lie within the field of Data Science. He has previous experience in GSoC 2018 and 2020 as a student under Org. FOSS and GeomScale. He was GSoC mentor in GSoC 2019.

Students, please contact the mentors after completing at least one of the tests below.

Tests

Students, please do one or more of the following tests before contacting the mentors.

Solutions of tests

Students, please post a link to your test results here.

  • EXAMPLE STUDENT 1 NAME, LINK TO GITHUB PROFILE, LINK TO TEST RESULTS.