Andrieu, Christophe

Ridgway, James

Whiteley, Nick

Motivated by the task of computing normalizing constants and importance sampling in high dimensions, we study the dimension dependence of fluctuations for additive functionals of time-inhomogeneous Langevin-type diffusions on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. The main results are nonasymptotic variance and bias bounds, and a central limit theorem in the $d\to\infty$ regime. We demonstrate that a temporal discretization inherits the fluctuation properties of the underlying diffusion, which are controlled at a computational cost growing at most polynomially with $d$. The key steps include establishing Poincar\'e inequalities for time-marginal distributions of the diffusion and nonasymptotic bounds on deviation from Gaussianity in a martingale central limit theorem

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Sampling normalizing constants in high dimensions using inhomogeneous diffusions

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Sampling normalizing constants in high dimensions using inhomogeneous diffusions

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