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URL:https://inpa.lbl.gov/event/inpa-seminar-speaker-tbd-7/
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SUMMARY:INPA Seminar Speaker: Jakob Robnik (UC Berkeley)-Title: Feasible MCMC in high-dimensional parameter spaces
DESCRIPTION:Date: May 22\, 2026 \nTime: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm \nLocation: Sessler Conference Room – 50A-5132 [Hybrid and In-Person] \nSpeaker: Jakob Robnik (UC Berkeley) \nTitle: Feasible MCMC in high-dimensional parameter spaces \nAbstract: Statistical inference increasingly takes place in high-dimensional parameter spaces (thousands to billions of parameters) and is commonly the computational bottleneck of scientific workflows. To make this task scalable\, we have developed Microcanonical Langevin Monte Carlo (MCLMC)\, the first out-of-the-box MCMC algorithm without Metropolis adjustment. Avoiding the adjustment yields superior scaling with the problem’s dimensionality\, while still maintaining error guarantees. MCLMC outperforms current state-of-the-art samplers\, such as the No-U-Turn Sampler (NUTS)\, across all the problems we considered. For example\, for cosmological field-level inference from galaxy surveys with 2 million parameters\, MCLMC inference takes 4 hours while NUTS needs more than 3 days for the same accuracy and computational resources. The gains continue to grow as the dimensionality increases. This kind of improvement can lead to scientific breakthroughs\, for example\, by enabling optimal information extraction or by enabling the study of solid-state systems of unprecedented size. In the talk\, I will give intuition for how scalable MCMC must be in high dimensions\, and then introduce MCLMC. I will show practical applications to benchmarks\, lattice field theories\, cosmological field-level inference\, and Bayesian neural networks. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 \nMeeting ID: 950 1669 6011 \nPasscode: 247722
URL:https://inpa.lbl.gov/event/inpa-seminar-speaker-tbd-8/
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SUMMARY:INPA Seminar Speaker: TBD
DESCRIPTION:Date: May 29\, 2026 \nTime: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm \nLocation: Sessler Conference Room – 50A-5132 [Hybrid and In-Person] \nSpeaker: TBD \nTitle: TBD \nAbstract: TBD \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 \nMeeting ID: 950 1669 6011 \nPasscode: 247722
URL:https://inpa.lbl.gov/event/inpa-seminar-speaker-tbd-9/
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SUMMARY:INPA Seminar Speaker: TBD-Title: TBD
DESCRIPTION:Date: June 5\, 2026 \nTime: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm \nLocation: Sessler Conference Room – 50A-5132 [Hybrid and In-Person] \nSpeaker: TBD \nTitle: TBD \nAbstract: TBD \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 \nMeeting ID: 950 1669 6011 \nPasscode: 247722
URL:https://inpa.lbl.gov/event/inpa-seminar-speaker-tbd-title-tbd-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260612T120000
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SUMMARY:INPA Seminar Speaker: TBD- Title: TBD
DESCRIPTION:Date: June 12\, 2026 \nTime: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm \nLocation: Sessler Conference Room – 50A-5132 [Hybrid and In-Person] \nSpeaker: TBD \nTitle: TBD \nAbstract: TBD \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 \nMeeting ID: 950 1669 6011 \nPasscode: 247722
URL:https://inpa.lbl.gov/event/inpa-seminar-speaker-tbd-title-tbd-4/
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