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Unifying Orthogonal Monte Carlo Methods

ICML 2019 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Variational and generative sampling · approach: Importance sampling and quadrature · 19 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Add multiple independent Rademacher diagonal blocks to Hadamard-Rademacher matrices (Hadamard-MultiRademacher) (ablation)Hadamard-Rademacher random matrices · MMD on sphere, dimensionality 16squared MMD vs FLOPsHelped
Use Kac's random walk with C=2 d log d Givens rotations instead of i.i.d. sampling for RBF kernel directionsrandom Fourier feature kernel approximation · Gaussian kernel pointwise approximationempirical MSEHelped
Use Hadamard-Rademacher matrices with few Givens rotations (single block) for MMD samplingHadamard-Rademacher · MMD on sphere, dimensionality 16squared MMDHurt
Use approximate OMC methods (Kac, HMD, HD, SGP, BFLY) instead of i.i.d. samplingGaussian kernel pointwise and matrix approximation · boston, cpu, wine, parkinsonMSE and normalized Frobenius errorHelped
Use Kac's random walk for RL policy gradient estimation instead of i.i.d.Minitaur quadruped locomotion policy search · Minitaur simulatorlearning of walking behaviourHelped
Use Hadamard-MultiRademacher and Kac's random walk for gradient estimation in Swimmer RLSwimmer OpenAI Gym policy search · Swimmerlearning curves (reward)Helped

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