TY - GEN N2 - We propose a new sampling method, the thermostat-assisted continuously-tempered Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, for Bayesian learning on large datasets and multimodal distributions. It simulates the Nosé-Hoover dynamics of a continuously-tempered Hamiltonian system built on the distribution of interest. A significant advantage of this method is that it is not only able to efficiently draw representative i.i.d. samples when the distribution contains multiple isolated modes, but capable of adaptively neutralising the noise arising from mini-batches and maintaining accurate sampling. While the properties of this method have been studied using synthetic distributions, experiments on three real datasets also demonstrated the gain of performance over several strong baselines with various types of neural networks plunged in. ID - discovery10079536 UR - https://papers.nips.cc/paper/8266-thermostat-assisted-continuously-tempered-hamiltonian-monte-carlo-for-bayesian-learning PB - Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, Inc. SN - 1049-5258 CY - Montreal, Canada T3 - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems A1 - Luo, R A1 - Wang, J A1 - Yang, Y A1 - Zhu, Z A1 - Wang, J TI - Thermostat-assisted continuously-tempered Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Bayesian learning Y1 - 2018/12/08/ AV - public EP - 10 N1 - This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. ER -